Cedar Fever strikes

Posted on January 15, 2022 | Comments Off on Cedar Fever strikes

Been sneezing and nose-blowing all day thanks to high winds and cedar (actually juniper) pollen in the air. Being drawn into the condo by the heating system, just not as much as you get outdoors.

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Rule 5: Abigail Ratchford

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Posted on January 11, 2022 in Plus-sized models, Rule 5

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Stale cookie recovery

Posted on January 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Stale cookie recovery

A tip from my mother-in-law in spirit: Put a slice of bread in the cookie box and wait a day or two. The stale cookies leach the water from the bread to soften them up. The bread goes stiff as a board but you can just throw it away.

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Interstellar love

Posted on January 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Interstellar love

A killer flicker, despite being almost eight years old, which probably helped make Uvalde boy Matthew David McConaughey the star he became. It seems to be a science fiction tale (with really good graphics) but actually is fully about the oldest and best of human emotions: love.

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Ice slows windmills

Posted on January 10, 2022 | Comments Off on Ice slows windmills

“While ice can form over the entire span of the blade, much more ice is found near the tips. After one 30-hour icing event, we found ice as much as a foot thick. Despite the high wind, the ice-heavy turbines rotated much slower and even shut down. The turbines produced only 20% of their normal power over that period.”

Which means relying on windmills for electric heat in the winter is a fool’s errand. And Austin Energy relies for almost half its total electricity production on windmills. Ensuring customer outages when it’s cold.

Via The Conversation

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Rule 5: Dayami Padron

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Posted on January 8, 2022 in Plus-sized models, Rule 5

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Lyin’ Biden’s energy hikes

Posted on January 6, 2022 | Comments Off on Lyin’ Biden’s energy hikes

“A gallon of gasoline costs $1.29 more today than it did this time last year. The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that this winter Americans will be paying 30% more for natural gas, 43% more for heating oil, 6% more for electricity, and 54% more for propane to heat their homes than they did last winter – and even more if the weather is colder than normal. Higher energy costs have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations, including minority and low- and fixed-income households. These costs are essentially a regressive tax on the poor.”

What happens when you cut back supply by closing pipelines and federal lands to drilling.

Via Real Clear Energy

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