We had a wonderfully restful day hanging out with our good friends Linda and David.. They’re up visiting from Endicott with their 14 year old dog Eliza.
Linda and Diane grew up together and have been friends forever. they even drove us to our wedding 26 years ago… Having friends in town is an excuse to really slow down and hang out.. We started the morning late with a walk on the river shore.. .
-The river was flowing like it was march and the ice on the shore had that spring like crystal tinkle as you stepped on it.
David an i then headed off by ourselves.. One stop was the book sale at the library,. Saw half the town there.l as well as a bunch of books that i think used to be mine.. .
Then we went to see friend chris’s sculpture and rock garden
Freom there we headed down town for a walk though burlington…
Were all sitting around now in a food coma trying to get the energy to go up to bed…
What a strange day in terrestrial history… ! Today the world was inhaling a bit to make sure that asteroid 2012da14 eased by us when another smaller but better aimed projectile skidded into the earths atmosphere over the ural mountains in russia. In sure the two events are linked… But still.. Its a lot to take in for a single day.
2012da14 was big enough news.. At about the size of an apartment building, it was big enough to o some serious mischief to our planet should it have hit… And almost hit it did. It came within 17,200 miles of the earths surface.. Hats a hairs breadth in astronomical terms.. Consider that the earth is only about 8000 miles across.. Hats only two earth diameters distance from the surface of our planet. To put that in further prospective.. Thats about 1/10 th the way to the moon… Whew !
But the ruck that hit russia was even bigger news to me.. I just read that aver a 1000 folks were injured .. Though none seriously i hear… When this chunk of rock streaked through the sky at 33,000 mph. Early this morning. There are some amazing photos on the Internet of the contrail left as the air behind it cooled. It brought to mind the famous tanguska event .. Where another asteroid. Entered the atmosphere over russia in June of 1908 and exploded in the air….. The blast leveled trees in an area more than 800 square miles.
To this day, some fringe science lovers attribute that blast to an experiment gone horribly wrong (or wonderfully right) by nikola tesla.. At the time tesla was working on his never completed giant tesla coil at wardencliff long island…
Todays events really remind us that we live in a wonderfully dynamic and unpredictable universe…
Thats all the reason i need to go get a second helping of chocolate cake from the fridge…
Happy valentines day everyone.. I know is commercial… But im a sucker for this holiday.. Breakfast included heart shaped waffles with nutella..
Flowers and chocolate cake..we had so many sweets at breakfast that we actually saved the cake for later…
Gabe presented me with a whole bag of reeses peanut butter cups this morning and i had to practice extreme self denial o keep fro eating the whole bag whole woking today.. W
With its sweet beginning the rest of the day was pretty good.. Not much to report… Just was able to think well all ay…
Tonight diane and i headed to Echo for their Febrewary event.. All about beer..l 220 folks drinking a bunch of different kinds of german beer..
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Yikes those are lousy pictures… At least the beer was good…
Ok folks… Hope you are with your valentine tonight…
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Hey… Wait violets aren’t blue
So much for poetry
