51* and raining.

Mr. C, I agree with you on not "talking" politics on here but it becomes hard to hold back when THEY burn our Flag, shout "death to America" all in the name of FREE speech. Try that over there.

WW, you do have the browns dialed in. Will past the info on to my nephew. He is just about "counting" the days.

IFF, I tried to watch the OT in the Rangers game, fell asleep between the 1st and 2nd OT, I had had a long day.

As I mentioned to IFF, long day yesterday. We got on the road just after 3am. Got south of Newburgh and tuned in WABC to get a traffic report, they were reporting 40+ minute delay on the GWB but the accident must have gotten cleared and we were actually a little early for the wife's appointments. Because of my ankle I stayed in the car and "people" watched. We will get the results of blood work and the CAT scan sometime today. About 10 years ago (when this all started) we had came across a very good diner in Englewood NJ. We stopped there for lunch. It is being run by the daughter of the woman who ran it back then. Very good food and VERY nice family.

I got to "drive" the CRV and can say I am very pleased. We got just over 39mpg going down and just under that coming home but we were running the AC for awhile.

Not much planned for today, catch up on things around here. Have a good day and be safe....h2l

              Good morning ER's,
                         It's 47* and raining here on my hill
                         Wally............What a beautiful day to get on the trike and go for some ice cream.
                         Bud..............That's the way to go, be prepared for any weather. I'm glad you caught some Gills. How was the boat launch?
                         Eddie............Is it a computer problem or a server problem?
                         Steve............Well said.
                         Yesterday I got a last minute request to go pressure wash a dock and stain it. It was one I did two years ago on Trout Lake. I got it pressure washed
               but now I have to wait for a dry day to stain, it looks like next Wednesday or Thursday.
                         I'm back to therapy this morning, we'll see how it goes.
                         I hope everyone has a good Wednesday either at work or out. Stay Safe and Healthy.

               IW

Thunderstorms

 Good evening sunshine and a high of 75 today forecast calling for showers on Wednesday morning and a high temperature of 81 degrees tomorrow.

Ice Wanderer as others have posted may the new medication help with the pain in your shoulder due to arthritis.  May you see an increase over time in the shoulders range of motion. The administration of Vassar College invited students to be present at the upcoming Trustee-Investor Responsibility meeting. Also going to establish a group of facility and students to purpose curricular innovations around topics of Peace- Conflict studies and for Middle East Studies. The article on my newspaper's website is from the Poughkeepsie Journal newspaper author/reporter Mickie Hayes wrote the article. I believe the Poughkeepsie Journal and my daily newspaper Times Herald Record are both connected to the USA Today news network. I will leave a link below for you and others who maybe interest can find/read news story.
Eddie sorry to hear you are having computer problems have you by chance make any recent changes to or installed new programs. if so they may not be communicating with your internet service provider properly. this is just my humble opinion I think many of the students do not support a terrorist group/terrorism but are upset with the actions taken by Israel against people living in the Gaza strip in general. Since this conflict started back in October there have been actions taken by both Hamas and Israel which have heightened/the tension between these two groups just like in previous conflicts/wars since the creation of country of Israel after World War Two. Colleges in difficult place as most encourage freedom of speech and open thinking so it becomes a balance of what is acceptable under the rules colleges may have in place regarding student and faculty behavior. Once again my humble opinion also today's students have so many sources to find news stories where during the Vietnam War protests of the 1960-70's you had a much smaller number of print.Radio and Television news choices and much of the news about the war was censored before being released to the public. I believe Vietnam was the first war in united states history where news correspondents with embedded with combat troops and you received live footage at times which I'm sure the U.s Military and government did not want public to see some of the things happening. We also need to remember today's college students are the grandchildren of the Vietnam protestor and have heard their grandparents stories plus learn about the war in school social studies/history classes.

I respect everyone's viewpoints and realize they may differ from mine . Hence why we avoid politics and some other topics on this thread.

Wallyworld I agree with your words once things turn violent or disturb the normal daily activities at a college there is a problem and protestor should expect to face repercussions for their actions. Also what is considered hate speech or actions which may violate certain laws. I hope you had a good ride today.

Hunts2long may your ankle be feeling better. A safe journey to-from NYC wished for the two of  you .

I hope we can discuss current events peacefully and keep this thread form being locked down.

here is a link to my local newspaper's website once on the home page scroll down it to find the Vassar college story.  I believe people without a subscription can see a limited number of stories before being blocked for a certain period of time.    https://www.recordonline.com

    Steve

 

Over the last two centuries, lakes around the world, including those in Maine, have seen decreases in the duration of winter ice cover. The easiest way to quantify the duration of ice cover on a lake is to record the first day each year in the spring where the lake is free of ice. This day is referred to as the lake’s ice-out day for that year. There exist large amounts of historical ice-out data. There are eight Maine lakes with consistent ice-out records that extend back from before 1880 to the present day.

This project is a painted grid, with each column representing a different lake, and each row representing a year, with the grid moving forward in time from top to bottom. Each point on the grid has been assigned one of seven colors, according to the ice-out day for that year, when compared to the average pre-1900 ice-out day for that lake. Darker red colors represent years with earlier thaws, and darker blue colors represent years with later thaws, creating a visual gradient from blue to red, with white representing middling values. Years with no data are marked in black. While many people who interact with lake ice in the winter, such as ice fisherman, may be familiar with year-by-year ups and downs, this project aims to fully represent the long-term changes to lake ice in Maine.

Data Sources:

https://me.water.usgs.gov/reports/OFR02-34.pdf

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/water_activities/boating/ice_out_dates.shtml