A massive thanks to the anonymous 260 Euros donation. Wow this helps a lot! Many many thanks! tromsite.com/donate/
EDIT: then amount was refunded. Probably someone wanted to donate some 5 Euros a week/month for a period of time via Liberapay and they made a mistake and sent all of the money at once. We appreciate the help in any case! And we are trying to be as transparent about these donations as possible, thus the update.
It's not an occupation, it's not an apartheid system, it's the only democracy in the region fighting to defend western values. It's their right to defend themselves.
The Alberta government tried to claim the electric utilities had asked for their idiotic and harmful moratorium on renewable energy, but the reverse was true. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-renewablโฆ
The CEO Mark Law who pushed back has now been forced out.
Before this moratorium which was followed by severe restrictions on solar and wind, Alberta was leading the country in renewable energy.
The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus some changes and improvements. Theme Switcher 3.0 !!! Our Theme Switcher is now complete! 18 styles x 9 unique accent colors for each of them.
Shucks! Some deer slipped into our yard a day or so ago and ate the pretty calibrachoa and sweet alyssums in my urns. The deer repellent must have lost its punch. ๐ฅHere's how the urns looked about a month ago. I guess it's time now to get some mums.
In early August Glenn and I drove up to Indy to enjoy the Indiana State Fair and attend a concert by Hard Day's Night. This was a celebration of the 60th anniversary of a concert given by The Beatles at the same state fairgrounds back in 1964. Our concert was lots of fun and the band sounded authentic. I believe they followed the same playlist as the original concert. Lots of Boomers grooving to the sounds!
We enjoyed spending this past Saturday in Indy with Natalie chilling at a coffee shop, grabbing calzones for dinner and then watching the Indianapolis Indians, a Triple A club of the Pittsburgh Pirates, at Victory Field. Seger joined us at the ballpark. When we arrived, the Indians and the Louisville Bats were completing a game postponed from the night before because of weather. After the Indians won it in extra innings 7-6(?), that night's game was played. Unfortunately, the Indians seems "played out" as they didn't score a single run in the second game and lost 1-6(?).
A few weeks ago Glenn and I drove to the Driftless region of Wisconsin to spend a weekend with Nathan, who had driven over from Minneapolis. On Saturday we kayaked, hiked and picnicked at Governor Dodge State Park and on Sunday we toured Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin East. (Sorry, I only have photos from Saturday.)
Glenn buying sweet corn from a farm stand (with some help from the farmer's cat).
@Cobie I logged in as you and found that the last 2 photos had the wrong permission setting. They were visible only to you ("private"), so I made them visible to everyone ("public").
If governments would include LASIK surgeries in their national health system, we would see a lot of reduction in wasted plastic, glass, and fuel consumed because millions and millions of people would not need to wear glasses. The procedure would be fast and kinda automated.
VegFest (vegan and animal rights lifestyle, tables, food, and speakers) and the Peace and Unity Festival (tables, song, poems, dance from different ethnic groups and supporters of migrants). The latter was forced to shutdown in the middle of the original event back in June when the community league called police claiming that their Palestinian and non-Zionist Jewish contributers were "hate speech". Outrageous but got little notice. This time in a different community hall it went without incident. Some very moving performers.
#Lebanon: The Israeli enemy carried a wave of air strikes targeting the outskirts of a number of villages in the western sector (Tyre district), especially Zebqin forest
And the outskirts of: - Majdal Zun - Al-Jbeen - Sheheen - Alma al-Shaab - Hamoul - Wadi Hassan - Naqoura
Dirk
in reply to Cobie • •Did you keep score like Dad taught us, with a pencil ad a program?