You're a veteran?
Aren't we all, those of us who came of age in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Me, I'm a draft dodger, as are most of my Navy shipmates. For us, the choice between brown mud and gray painted steel was easy. I imagined myself taxiing an F-4 up to the starboard catapult, the Navy imagined me in a P2V, boring ten-hour-long holes in the sky. I'm not complaining, I came to love that airplane, low and slow, just like me.
We were called and we went, most of us, and we came back and carried on with our lives. We thought we were being tested but not. The test is today with nobody shooting at us. I want what we had, I don't want to Make America Gray Ash. You make a paradise out of the cinders, I can't. I'm just an ordinary guy.
I just got done putting the urethane on the wood of my wife's new pottery cabinet so that is "finished." The cabinet, itself, is still in parts so it is not "completed." As to the old wife and old me, we're complete.
They have no interest in the horse(s), they're doing macro-photography of the bark.
Those of you who think that nuclear electricity generation might save us, haven't been paying attention. Both Fukushima and Chernobyl are disasters of unknowable magnitude because the human hubris that built them can't figure out how to see what's in them now that both are violently radioactive wreckage. Everything is best guess. I suspect that there isn't enough money in the entire world to fix either one of them. Japan's fault is plate-tectonic and its tsunamis will be washing Fukushima across its countryside for millennia.
Has nobody matured beyond grade school?
My last scan was 3 or 4 years ago, slides were sent in plastic pages and were put back in order (some were stereo pairs).
My biggest complaint was that scancafe did nothing to clean dust off the slides.
Nancysc wrote: "What? Where was a click bait image?"
Well, I hadn't followed the posted url, I just knew. When I did follow the link, I did NOT find "click bait images," I found clickbait command buttons - click, click, click, pay, pay, pay, same, same,same. Somebody made a coupla mils offa me.
Follow the money.
Click bait! Somebody's making money from people's cupidity.
This may be apocryphal, a former army medic told me that maggots can tell the difference between living and dead flesh and will only eat the dead. "Sterile" maggots (whatever that means!) were put into gangrenous wounds during the Great War to clean out the dead flesh and save the soldier. Because dead flesh has no working nerves, the wounded man would never feel them.
That makes good sense but it's a dimly remembered story that I have never bothered to check.
NPR, PBS, NYTimes, WaPo, Atlantic
Classic click-bait! Somebody's makin' some money!
Operative word in this story - cheap!
The red plant - are the color elements flowers or leaves? I've not seen anything like it in the Sonoran Desert.