Alligatorob's Diary

That kind of walk sounds just perfect to me . You sure do have lots to do around your area . How much longer will the snow last Rob ?
 
Haha, love the Macbeth witch poem. :)

All that walking sounds good to me! The pictures you posted the other day were lovely. The snow makes everything beautiful.
 
It was a good day, I ate well and feel fine.
aiminglow said:
less than 400kcal per witch, made up of two protein courses, and a lot of dubious garnishes.
Verdict - needs more vegetable - and I'm not sure that root of hemlock, digged i'the dark is exactly the best option. How about a nice, green salad instead?
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I think you got it, now who can cook it? Amy? LaMa? Other volunteers? Amy, you are probably right, the salad is a better idea.

Liza and LaMa, the bird refuge is a pretty frozen place this time of year. Many birds are still there, but not very close. Its a huge place, and quite close to the house. Home - Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service They catch the water discharging to the Salt Lake and through a series of levees and dams make extensive mostly freshwater wetlands. Naturally wetlands did exist in the area, but moved up and back as the lake rose and fell. I think I will make an effort to get out there more often, yesterday, on a Sunday I was there a couple of hours and only saw one other person.
Petal001 said:
How much longer will the snow last Rob ?
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Good question, hopefully not too much longer. By March the weather will start to get noticeably warmer, but its not safe to plant the garden until early May. I've seen snow in Utah as late as the end of May, but that's rare.
Emilyrose said:
The snow makes everything beautiful.
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Yes, I agree, if just wasn't so damned cold.

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1016 on the Muslim calendar was about 1607 on our Gregorian calendar, and that was the year of the great Bristol Channel floods in which the sea rose up flooding the coastal UK, the worst such flooding known in recorded history. An estimated 200 square miles of farm land was inundated and 2,000 lives lost. Low-lying places in Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and South Wales were underwater. The cause of the flood is uncertain, the most favored explanation seems to be a weather driven storm surge coupled with naturally high tide. There are however scientists that believe it was a tsunami caused by an earthquake or sub-sea landslide. .
 
alligatorob said:
e bird refuge is a pretty frozen place this time of year. Many birds are still there, but not very close. Its a huge place, and quite close to the house.
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Nice to have those kinds of places close-by...You could probably learn a lot there. Looks like they have quite a few species and a nice website to explain about them. It would be fun to watch it through the changing seasons.
 
Wow! those floods... what a huge social impact there must have been. And it's jumping my mind back to Macbeth, which opens with storms and shipwrecks and unnatural devastation. I know some people think it was written in 1606, but this makes me wonder if it was inspired by the terrible storms and storm-damage.
 
That’s very interesting about the floods Rob . It just goes to show we have these weather blips and strange things happening all through time .
that bird refuge and wetlands look like a most wonderful place to spend some time .
 
The bird refuge looks like it would be a wonderful place, Rob. I'm sure they could do with some more volunteers when you retire.
 
It was a good day, I ate well and feel good.
Emilyrose said:
What year was The Tempest written?
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Petal001 said:
The Tempest was written on or after 1610
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Y'all are sharper Shakespeare scholars than I, but it does seem the 1607 floods could have been on his mind.
Emilyrose said:
Have you made a decision about China?
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Yep, got the tickets yesterday, I leave Feb 6.

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1030 was the year Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders also known as Baldwin the Good was born. Baldwin married Richilde, Countess of Mons at the age of about 20, it was an arranged marriage, apparently under "threat of arms", the medieval version of a shotgun wedding I guess. Richilde was about 12 years his senior, had been married before and already had 2 children. None the less it seems to have worked out, Richilde and Baldwin had 2 children of their own and stayed together until Baldwin's death. Richilde went on to marry again, adding to her titles becoming Countess Hainaut as well as Mons. She lived to the ripe old age (for the time) of about 70.
 
I wonder which of them was being threatened? I wouldn't expect it was a shotgun wedding, more like a chance to forcibly combine two estates/duchies. Hhmmm.. I've just looked her up - not a happy story. :( It was her (second) father-in-law who was doing the forcing, and the Flanders family thus took control of the Mons and Hainaut land - which outraged the king, Henry III, because he didn't have a say in it, and therefore went to battle with the Flanders-Mons-Hainauts. (Further news from this region will have to wait until Rob eats more! :p )

What fun, to be heading off to China, Rob! :) What region? (Be careful in terms of that flu-thing that's going about, the new coronavirus.)
 
Oh glad you decided about China Rob and I hope the business class makes it’s easier . I think you can choose some healthy food options on the flight .
a great idea to volunteer for the bird refuge.
 
Oh congratulations Rob that is so fantastic and well deserved . And you are maintaining a very steady weight loss still which is amazing . If you were in our weighing group you would definitely be winning both slimmer of the year and man of the year .
 
That's so cool about China. I think you made the right decision. You'll be comfortably fitting in that aeroplane seat, getting ready for an adventure. :D And well done on another two pounds down. You're on a roll (but not eating any :p).
 
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