You Might Want to Change Some of These PC Settings

https://tinyurl.com/ra3ytw8

Arizona Water Problems

As long as our water is FREE, foreign interests and mega-farms will continue to "steal" it for their use.  We need more government regulations - not less.  No wonder Saudi Arabia grows its crops here.












Click here - https://tinyurl.com/ulhks6s

You Should Start Planning for This One

Next total solar eclipse in the US.

https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024

Some Information About Travel -

https://tinyurl.com/w8dpybs

Nine Secrets I Never Knew About Airports Until I Worked at LAX

From dead bodies in the security line to a cobra in a Pringles can, you wouldn’t believe the crazy things that happen at America’s busiest airport of origin.

By Brandon Presser

November 21, 2019, 11:10 PM MST

From Bloomberg Business Week

This Kind of Related to Our Dry Heat

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/12/20/black-velvet-canadian-whiskey-most-popular-liquor-iowa/2703486001/

What????

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmzgd/the-best-optical-illusion-of-the-year-will-mess-with-your-head

Here's a Weather Site from Channel 3

A Science App I Enjoy

Hey, I've been using a free app called Newsfusion Science News to keep up with the must-know science-related news and it's been working great! You might want to try it :)  
http://go.newsfusion.com/science-news/download

Some Great Photos

https://vis.sciencemag.org/photosof2019/

I'd Add Flagstaff to this List

https://tinyurl.com/v4d66j7

 

An Interesting Chart

Books, Books, Books

The New York Times' list of books for 2019 - https://nyti.ms/37CqKhY

Google Map Tricks

https://tinyurl.com/vbong58

Revised Age of Meteor Crator in Australia

Click here to read all about it!!!   http://bit.ly/2DaiVlP

Beware of Fake Windows 10 Update!!!

Read this --- https://tinyurl.com/re7jcu9

Last Night's Show

A short clip from the video --

Are You a Foodie?

I think I've mentioned this before, but a great way to discover some new places to eat is to read Mouth by Southwest.  They also publish an email of some of their latest news.  Great site!

 https://mouthbysouthwest.com/

Wow! The Rain We've Had This Week!

Yesterday was Beautiful on British Columbia

Jack Reacher Fans Read This

Yesterday I received, from Amazon, Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel - "Blue Moon."  356 pages of PURE Jack Reacher.  Mr. Child has written one of the best Reacher stories - a real page turner.  Sadly and happily, I just finished the story.  If you're a follower of Jack, you must read this one.

Full disclosure - I paid for the book myself - the Author did not compensate me for this review.

Healthy Diet Means a Healthy Planet - Study

https://tinyurl.com/yyfxxuzl

Animation Showing Earth's History

https://tinyurl.com/y2jz7qzr

Somewhere, Dogs are Having FUN!

https://tinyurl.com/y4fwjpvn

Canada's Relocation Policy

Canada: lights to go out on tiny remote island as locals agree to resettle

 

 

Less Water - More Plastic Bottles

I've decided to change the scope of this blog a little.  I'm very concerned with the affects of Climate Change and the destruction of our planet's resources.  So, from time to time I'll include posts of things like that.  Here's one now ---

https://tinyurl.com/y6syzdb8

Moving to Android?

Heaven forbid but you might WANT to move from iPhone to Android.  Here's site that will help you move all your data from one to the other.

https://tinyurl.com/yyy5kcsz

Enjoy

Cold!

It's 70º here today.  Looking forward to an overnight low tomorrow in the mid 40s.  Finally a day without the AC.

Post-Sunset

Do You Have on iPhone or iPad?

You need to know more about ios 13 - https://tinyurl.com/y3tgjpct

What a little rain will do ---

It makes all the trees and plants GREEN!  There are lots of purple flowers, too.

Good Chrome Feature

It works!  Take a look here for a quick way to stop videos from playing in your Chrome browser tabs.

https://apple.news/A2Ushl1LKR0e9tCzzuSWBbg 

A BEAUTIFUL Day!

Just had to take a picture of this day --

Shortcuts

Are you an iPhone user?  Do you use the new "shortcuts" feature?  If you don't, you might want to try it, and to help you out is this huge list of already created shortcuts.  Enjoy!


https://tinyurl.com/y67fgssy

A Little Bit of Rain This Morning!

September 6 Sunset

74° this morning!!!

Two Kinds of HOT!

I like both of these taste hots.  Learn a little bit more about them.

https://vitals.lifehacker.com/why-wasabi-heat-feels-different-from-chili-pepper-heat-1838044817?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=lifehacker_copy&utm_campaign=top

This Morning's Photos

Rain! Wherefore Art Thou?

Rain has been forecasted for days.  Here's what we get.  Blue skies, puffy clouds, and hot breezes.

Stop Spammers from Infecting Your Calendar

https://app.getpocket.com/read/2714325840

Houston ... We Have a Leak!

A new spring discovered in the middle of the street at Arizona and Oklahoma.  Stay tuned for possible water shut-off.

Today's Storm

Looks like a good one nearby -

Here's what we got -

Doesn't look like anything else on the radar, but it's early.

Pix of the New Dog Park

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ysyn3S8qWaT2mZwj6

Looks Like the Nonsoon May Be Over?

We did receive .10" of rain from this "storm".

Amazon Fires are Destructive, but ...........

https://tinyurl.com/yym9u25x

Whoa! It's Christmas in the Valley

We did a little shopping at the At Home Store today and found this!  I believe that's the earliest I've seen Christmas decorations.  Four months before Christmas day!!!!

Your Phone Could Save Your Life!

https://tinyurl.com/y53vgrul

A Gold Star to You if You Can Read the Entire Article

https://www.livescience.com/hubble-constant-discrepancy-explained.html

Angel's Landing - My Most Impressive Hike

Zoom in on this picture to see the trail heading to the top.  Wow!  I guess I was too busy holding on to appreciate the horror!  Great view from the top!

The Latest Sunset

The day was hot and so is this evening.  But the sunset is beautiful.

Recycling News for The Valley

From this morning's newspaper.

We can’t afford to kick can on recycling 

The recent decision to suspend trash recycling in Surprise is unfortunate and part of a growing trend across the country and Arizona.

For now, Surprise is putting recyclables in its landfill. It is hoping to find a solution and asking residents to continue to separate their trash so that when a solution is found people will still be in the habit of recycling.

This is not an isolated incident. It’s a growing crisis.

The market for recyclables has been upended since China announced it would no longer be accepting most recyclables from the United States.

That’s not just unfortunate. It has created a recycling crisis as a number of cities across the country and in Arizona are scaling back or suspending recycling programs.

This year, recycling has been reduced in some way in cities all over Arizona. Flagstaff no longer accepts certain types of plastics. Sedona Recycles has closed drop-off sites in neighboring communities. Sierra Vista has ended curbside recycling. Nogales is sending most recyclables to the landfill.

Cities and towns across America are also walking back recycling programs. At one point, Philadelphia was incinerating recyclables until public outcry forced them to stop.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Other cities such as Tucson and Chandler have managed to avoid this crisis. Phoenix is looking at options.

Hopefully, other cities bear in mind that the public wants recycling. The goal should be to deal with this problem the right way.

As president of Keep Phoenix Beautiful, one of our many goals is to keep recyclables out of landfills.

Cities across the state need to secure resources and infrastructure to makerecycling possible now and years from now.

Simply put, the best way to protect recycling in Arizona is to make sure cities and towns have reliable supply chains to transport and process paper, plastics, food cans and glass. If we cannot ship the recyclables abroad, we must find local solutions on reuse.

This is not only the responsible thing to do, it is also popular. A recent survey found that 86% of Phoenix voters regularly recycle; 87% feel it is the responsibility of the city to provide

a recycling program; 77% have a favorable view of the recycling program.

Kicking this can down the road is not the answer.

Phoenix and the larger metro area have been recycling for a very long time, and now is not the time to go backward.

We, as citizens and consumers, need to do our part to recycle right by putting the correct things in our curbside bins, which makes the whole process more successful. There is more information on our website, keepphxbeautiful.org.

For those hard-to-recycle items like electronics, clothing, batteries and even golf clubs, Keep Phoenix Beautiful will be starting our new season of “I Recycle Phoenix” event on Oct. 26 at Desert Ridge Shopping Center. This is a free service we provide; no water bill is necessary and you don’t have to be a Phoenix resident.

There have been trends in recycling for years. Keep Phoenix Beautiful will do our part by educating thousands of kids as well as adults every year about recycling and providing recycling services at many of our special events in the Valley of the Sun.

Let’s just keep moving in a positive direction!

Tom Waldeck is president of Keep Phoenix Beautiful, which educates youth on recycling and provides recycling support for large (and small) events like the Rock ’N’ Roll Marathon, Phoenix 10K, Pride Run and many Local First events. Reach him at tom@keepphxbeautiful.org; or on Twitter, @Tom_KPBAZ.

Nice Sunrise for the Hottest Day

Birds and Shed

Throughout the summer we find small triangles of styrofoam after wind storms.  These are foam cutouts placed between the walls of a shed and the roof to keep birds out of the shed.  I'm guessing the inside of a shed is the PERFECT place to build a nest.  During Ti-Build's reconstruction (destruction?) of our park model, these same triangles of foam were placed under our shed roof as well.  The builders promised these pieces of foam would remain in place no matter the wind, because they "know how to install them with glue".    After the first heavy breeze, we found some around our shed.  We knew they couldn't be ours since the builder promised they would be glued in place!  Would you be surprised to know they were from our shed because they did not install them as promised?  We've seen them throughout the park.  Since they are so lightweight, it's impossible to know from whence they came.  We think we have solved the problem at our place.  Maybe you could use this technique if you discover you have the same problem.

This morning we placed the last side of our shed with what you see below.  It's a roll of wire mesh that can be trimmed to size - it should be noted that for some reason, what we cut out as a pattern could not be use for each opening! The sizes vary - at lease in our case.  So after some trimming for each piece, we came up with the solution.  After all the pieces were stapled in place, we placed "trim" over the rough edges.  We hope that a good coat of paint will cause the screen to disappear.  Stay tuned.

Placing Some Large Boulders in the Dog Park

More Bypass News

https://tinyurl.com/y3alyquu

And Then There's This --

https://tinyurl.com/y42wyswm

No Matter Where You Are It Must Be Better Than This!

Trimming Continues

Edge of Stability

I've posted this in the past, but it's so beautiful it's worth seeing again.  Link to it here - https://tinyurl.com/y32dh2c8

Another Thing about Dry Heat

This article was referenced in this morning's Morning Brew.  Use this link to read a different perspective on Climate Change.  Read the entire article for maximum value.

From the article -

The Mess has Started - Trimming of the Palms

This should be a holiday - the Trimming of the Palms. Once finished, we'll be able to clean up with little fear of the futility of it all.  It's too bad that many of you don't get to experience this event!

Time to Get Rid of Science

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/05/ziska-usda-climate-agriculture-trump-1445271?cid=apn

Great Pix on the Res

Found this on reddit yesterday.  The monsoon is gearing up on the Navajo reservation.

Welcome to the new blog. Comments about content are always welcome.

Some pictures of what I guess is the new dog park at the SE corner of the Park.

Here's what the "old" dog park looks like today.

A new installation on Oregon Trail.