Ditto... Also Canada Geese, and lots of other critters.... Not good eating but I remember once seeing a website that collected photos of "Road Kill Pizza" - sometimes even identified...

I also went to a motorcycle rally once that among other things was offering "Friday night Road Kill Stew - Contributions wanted, but no Fido (Put him in a Fedex Box, addressed to the address on his dog tags...)"

Being a twisted sort, I decided to contribute... I was then hugely frustrated in that I couldn't spot any good donations almost all the 150 or so mile way there, until I hit the jackpot about 10 miles from the campsite, namely a 'clean hit' porcupine! I had to stop and pick it up (note - riding gloves are NOT quill proof!) and bungie it to the back rack... I pulled in, and said that if I brought it in, someone else had to clean it.... Was the cause of much amusement all weekend. Someone else finally ended up throwing it on the campfire, which was NOT a good idea - porcupine quills are a sort of hair, and they have a lot of them..... However it was still good for amusement when strangers came by and we told them that lunch was on the fire and offered to share....

WheelyFixed

Boring weather.

Gray until 2PM

then some sun until sunset.

Barely above 70F

with lows around 62F

No wind

Some critter got my one large tomato

Moth Balls have been applied

The remnants of Hurricane Helene blew through here last night. They said winds of 50 mph were probably estimated a bit high, but they were all of that here and more. I thought the trees were coming down. One, a dead apple not near the house, did. Some limbs were shed, but not a bad cleanup. Not nearly so bad as the derecho that blew through here July 2023 and caused all sorts of damage. Amazingly, the power stayed on, which is highly unusual. We didn't get a whole lot of rain, maybe an inch here, or a bit more. It's hard to tell, it's been so dry here, but there were no mud puddles this morning. It's still dank and overcast, though, but temps have been in the lower 70's.

Paolo wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:35 pm The remnants of Hurricane Helene blew through here last night. They said winds of 50 mph were probably estimated a bit high, but they were all of that here and more. I thought the trees were coming down. One, a dead apple not near the house, did. Some limbs were shed, but not a bad cleanup. Not nearly so bad as the derecho that blew through here July 2023 and caused all sorts of damage. Amazingly, the power stayed on, which is highly unusual. We didn't get a whole lot of rain, maybe an inch here, or a bit more. It's hard to tell, it's been so dry here, but there were no mud puddles this morning. It's still dank and overcast, though, but temps have been in the lower 70's.

I made the mistake of being in North Carolina when it blew through. Fortunately, it passed by just far enough away that it was a bad storm where I was at and not the disaster it was further west. We didn't get the road washouts, or the flooding. When I came back north, DAMN were those rivers full. I lived in North Carolina for about 12 years and there was one river I always wondered why the bridge on Interstate 85 was so high over it. When driving back, I was GLAD the interstate was so high over it, as the water was just under the bridge.

The interstate (I-40) I drove on to get here when I moved back here again from the west coast in 2015 is GONE. Now interstate traffic has to go south into Atlanta or North up into Virginia. There is no interstate access to North or South Carolina from the west, I-26 and I-40 have whole sections washed away. There are many other roads from the west over those hills, but I do not know their condition, and none of them can handle the load of the interstates.

Fog from late night to 2 PM - - + or -

No salt, ocean smell

My asthmatic history doesn't like

fog for many decades.

Corona del Mar, a few miles south of me

along Pacific Coast Highway, had one

of the most acid fog events recorded,

yet has no industry.

In the old days when fog carried the scent

of the ocean, fog was a time of easy breathing.

Best Guess: pollution swirls in from harbor industry

Temperatures remain as previously reported.

Spent last couple of days in Nevada. 104 in Vegas and aspen are turning golden high up in the Toyabe Mts.

A couple weeks ago we had a hurricane go by us a little to the south, it dumped 30 to 40 inches in spots. we got about 35" I still have mud in the yard.

Expecting Milton to come through in the next 24 hours. Hopefully wind damage and flooding wont be too bad. Cat 3 landfall hoped for rather than Cat 4+.

bigballs (imported) wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 1:23 am Expecting Milton to come through in the next 24 hours. Hopefully wind damage and flooding wont be too bad. Cat 3 landfall hoped for rather than Cat 4+.

Please

Keep updating experiences

as you can.

Southern Coast California

remains cool & boring weather.

And fog events too through the night[

Our summer slammed shut with rain, hail and mountain snow. Hunker down Ern, we're sending it on down the line. Supposed to skowly climb back to 80 by end of next week.