That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It – Rolling Stone
Horse gets stuck up in barn’s hayloft in South Carolina
A farm animal with unbridled ambition in South Carolina has given new meaning to the phrase “get off your high horse.”
Horry County Fire Rescue workers say they were called Sunday to a barn in Loris, where a horse somehow managed to leave its stall and climb into a hayloft.
They had to bring in heavy equipment, and large-animal veterinarians helped sedate the horse before it was lowered to the ground on a makeshift platform.
Trump’s EPA is checking off an anti-environment wish list. Here’s who will suffer.
For Americans who value the environment, public land protections and science, the past couple of years have been difficult to take, to say the least. This is no accident, of course, because those values stand in the way of industry profit, and the Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to boost industry profits at the expense of American well-being.
It’s hard to believe that the executive branch would act against the needs and values of everyday Americans and intentionally reduce penalties for those who seek to pollute our air and water. And yet, this is exactly what the current administration is doing. In fact, there has been no effort to hide the anti-environment wish lists behind recent executive actions. To the contrary, federal agencies seem to be competing with one another to be the biggest boosters of big industry.
Venus, Jupiter and the Moon Gather for Thanksgiving Night Sky Feast | Space
This week, Venus and Jupiter are very low in the southwest during the chilly November dusk. When the month began, they were widely separated, by nearly 24 degrees. Your clenched fist held at arm's length measures roughly 10 degrees, so the two brightest planets appeared about two and a half fists apart.
November 26, 2019 Night
Good evening! Partly clear and 42 degrees in Delmar, NY. Calm wind. Temperatures will drop below freezing on after Thanksgiving Dinner around 9 pm. ☃️ Should be dry so no worries about snow and ice.
So I got the Doxycline antibiotics and took the first one tonight. 💊 I’ve not noticed anything yet but I was a bit tired 😴 . I drive to work today after the doctor visit 🚙 and traffic was as bad as usual during rush hour but this time I had didn’t have the bus driver to drive me home while I played on my phone📱. I cooked fish 🐠 for dinner, rode the exercise bike 🚲 and went for my evening walk 🚶.
I was veey glad to see that the printed documentation from my doctor 😷 and the pharmacy 💊had no cold and hard rule against dairy 🐮 while on doxycline – I am pretty sure what the doctor said is just don’t consume a lot of yogurt or milk right around taking the pill – do it with water 💦 and an empty stomach. So I can continue to enjoy God’s beverage 🍵 – milk but I should plan to not take my evening pill around dinner if I’m planning to drink milk. I actually bought a box of ice cream 🍨 from Stewart’s to celebrate. 🎉 I don’t really have much milk with breakfast, maybe a splash in the coffee as I’m not a big cereal eater. ☕ Dairy is the best and a lot of it is made locally from crops 🌾 grown here and fed to cows milked and cared for locally. 🐄 I can also have alcohol in moderation, there is no interaction between that and the antibiotics. I don’t drink much any more but its always nice to have beer at camp. 🍻
Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 36 degrees at 3am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around October 30th. Calm wind. In 2018, we had cloudy skies. It got down to 23 degrees. The record low of 8 occurred back in 1957.
Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 2% illuminated. The moon will rise at 7:56 am. The First Quarter Moon is next Tuesday with rain is likely. The Cold Moon 🌝 is on Wednesday, December 11th. The sun will rise at 6:59 am with the first light at 6:28 am, which is one minute and 9 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 35 minutes of darkness, an increase of one minute and 41 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will rain likely, mainly after 3pm. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a high of 49 degrees at 2pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around November 14th. Light and variable wind becoming south 9 to 14 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. A year ago, we had cloudy skies. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 66 was set in 1896. 4.8 inches of snow fell back in 1940.❄
I should have gone to the library 📚 today and gotten some books to read over the holiday weekend especially up at camp but instead I rode the bike and went for the walk. ☔ I was thinking about going after work – but the library closes at five tomorrow. Then I thought they usually release us early for the holiday weekend 🍗 but with the rain coming I might not want to walk down to the library in the rain.
I really hated that rush hour drive. 🚙 So much traffic getting out of the city at five. Plus while I have a space I could use in the lot at work, it was so tight getting in an out of it with my Big Jacked Up Truck. Highway merging with my truck though was easy. But tomorrow it’s back to taking the bus 🚍. Even if someday I move back out to the country if I work downtown I’m certain to do the Park and Ride alternative to urban driving 🚘. While small cars are easier to drive in the city I’d much rather leave it to the professionals.
The doctor visit cost $25 and the antibiotics $5 thanks to having great health insurance. 🏥 I actually think I owe the Urgent Care place five more bucks but I’m sure they’ll bill me if they screwed up the co-payment. Who knows, medical billing is so complicated. I really feel sorry for those at the clinic who had to pay a lot more than I did. I’m glad the Lyme was diagnosed right away 🐞and I shouldn’t get any sicker. No copay for the Lyme test which wasn’t needed as I have the rash. Only missed three hours of work, which come out of the combined leave pool – no dedicated sick time like when I worked for the state.
Got the replacement battery 🔋 for my radio 📻 in the mail. ✉ Mom ordered it from Amazon for me after I reimbursed her. Came UPS in an enormous box 🎁 that was stuffed way back on the neighbor’s porch. But at least my radio is working and holding a good charge. The old one was all puffed out and I just noticed leaking electrolytes. It was $10 for two batteries – nearly the cost of the radio itself – but now I should be set for a long time. I really like my little shelf top radio at home that I also use for camping. Great reception, digital tuning, records to SD card among other things.
I am pretty sure based on the latest forecast that I will go up to the Adirondacks starting Black Friday bright and early. ⛺ Going to be clear but cold. I’m fine with that. I will hot tent ♨ as I’m staying two nights and there shouldn’t be a lot of snow up north. Going to snow late Sunday into Monday but the latest track of the storm suggests I’ll be home before it starts snowing much. ⛄ We will see. 👀 I can have beer 🍻 and milk at camp which is nice too. That said, Somebody else I know who has had Lyme says doxycline can make you very tired but I don’t know if that’s from the Lyme or the drug. 😴 I had the really tired and sore period with headaches a while back I’m feeling better even before I started the antibiotics.
Stil need to dismantle the gas lantern 🏮 and find where it’s plugged or needs to be replaced. That said I’m seriously considering a rechargeable LED lantern going forward as they’re now quite bright and I wouldn’t have to worry about breaking the glass mantle or hooking up the hoses. The LED lantern could also be brought in the tent then charged on one of the many USB ports in my truck. 🔌
In four weeks on December 24 the sun will be setting at 4:26 pm,🌄 which is one minute and 10 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had mostly cloudy skies with snow showers and temperatures between 36 and 26 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 18 degrees. The record high of 72 degrees was set back in 2015. I remember that day. We had a pretty good rain storm, and I had to work Christmas until 3 pm. On Christmas Day I went out to Brookfield to camp ⛺.
Looking ahead, 7:15 AM Sunrise ⌛️ is in 2 weeks, Christmas Eve 🎅 is in 4 weeks, Boxing Day 🥊 is a month away, New Years Eve 🎆 is in 5 weeks, Coldest Week of the Year 🌬 is in 7 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 8 weeks and 5:30 PM Dusk 🌆 is in 2 months.
Vermont Doubles Down on Wood Burning, with Consequences for Climate and Health | InsideClimate News
In a state where winters are cold, forests abundant and people celebrate self-reliance, wood has also made its way into the Vermont's latest renewable energy planning, billed as a way to cut climate-warming pollution. But is it a clean energy solution?
Wood burning means tradeoffs, though—for air quality, public health and the climate. Wood smoke contains a diverse mix of pollutants that can harm people's health: carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds such as benzene and formaldehyde, and copious amounts of sooty fine particles called black carbon that can penetrate deep into the lungs and cross into the bloodstream. Vermonters already produce about 22 pounds of particulate matter emissions per capita from wood burning each year, by far the highest in the nation. And then there's the climate problem. Living trees absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide and store it, but once trees are cut down and burned, that carbon is released.
I think this analysis misses the point of how relatively clean rural air quality is compared to the big cities. Sure wood smoke pollutes a lot, but it's small compared to industrial sources of air pollution or pollution from tailpipes of automobiles in the cities. In polluted air basins, it makes sense to restrict wood burning, but in rural areas with generally good air quality -- at least compared to the cities -- wood is a renewable source of energy and supports healthy forests, even if it's not a good source of energy for the big cities.
So it’s official that I have Lyme Disease …
So it’s official that I have Lyme Disease 🐞 …
It sounds so scary — and some people who don’t get treated when the disease is either misdiagnosed or goes undetected — it can be scary. But honestly, as we inch closer to 2020, the treatment and recovery for early-detect Lyme Disease is trivial with basic, inexpensive doxycycline antibiotics.
I will be on a dose of doxycycline, twice a day for 21 days — a slightly longer treatment then the default 14-day one, as it’s been about a month since the initial bite, and they don’t want the bacteria, more extensively spread in the body, to mutate before the antibotics have a full chance to kill them off. 💊Antibiotics are pretty amazing products from health science — you take a pill and in a few days you start to feel better and within a couple of weeks it’s like the infection never happened.
Probably the most obnoxious thing is you can’t consume milk or dairy products (e.g. cheese and butter) while taking doxycline and similar antibiotics. Apparently modest amounts of alcohol are permissible but dairy can bind to the antibotics, blocking their uptake. Beer is fine, but not the beverage of the gods – milk. 🐮 I guess only around the time you take the drug, so it’s not a complete ban on drinking milk.
The whole process would have been a lot worse, had I not gotten a bullseye rash, and could be in an out of the doctor’s office in an hour and a half. I didn’t need to be tested for Lyme as the rash is symptomatic — along with myself spotting an removing the tick, there is no question that I have Lyme. 🎯 The doctor inspected the bullseye rash, listened to my symptoms and when I got sick, wrote the script and sent me on the way after handing the receptionist my $25 payment.
It probably would have been quicker, had I an appointment with my regular doctor, but he was moving and closed for three weeks, so I ended up visiting the local urgent care center. 🏥 Not urgent for sure — I waited an hour and fifteen minutes after opening to get in and see the doctor, but it was fine — I had my phone to play with while I waited and watched some Youtube videos.