Here is something different. I have a pin oak tree in my front yard that has been raised from an acorn. This is a cluster of acorns on that tree that have some kind of disease. My son Steven and I were looking at several clusters like this so he took this picture. Nice shot Steve. He had just come off the roof of my house and I had given him his mom’s camera to...
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Number Please?
This is the USB modem I purchased about 5 months before the lightning strike. It was plugged into a rear USB port and had the phone line connected. All I use it for is an occasional FAX as phone modems are so obsolete, they are not installed in computers any longer. It was still hot to the touch hours after the strike. The circled areas are the burned components . The component board sets on...
Continue reading...The Big Boom!
This is not about how the universe was created. It is about how some matter was destroyed, converted to energy so to speak. A good (true) story for the 4th of July. You have read about the many disasters Gloria and I have been through in the last several years. You know, “The Great Crash” and then there was “A House Fire (Almost)”. My sprained ankle hardly counts except it has taken a month to...
Continue reading...Spring Is “Growing” Closer
North Texas is getting dressed for spring. The weather hasn’t settled yet as far as temperature. I am seeing 45 Degree F. swings on some days. It will be 35 at night and hit 80 in very early afternoon. Some of the flowering trees have figured that winter is over as some Bradford Pears are in full bloom. Many species of non flowering trees have their early new leaves greeting the sunlight. Officially there are...
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