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on Live Blog No Kings March 28 — San Diego County and National Protests: “Thanks everyone for your good thoughts! It was so inspiring to see everyone’s involvement and all the photos from around…” Mar 29, 09:19on ‘Walmart Depot’ Being Considered for Former RiteAid Property in Ocean Beach: “Maybe they could build a drone port on the large flat roof, in order to reduce double-parked van traffic in…” Mar 29, 08:47
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Gorgeous sunset photo, Kathy. This is like the Rag’s own wonderful “social” or society page.
Yep, a dang pretty sunset I must admit. Good picture. I always miss the ocean sunsets I watched for 33 years growing up in OB and MB…and then back to OB before the mountains called. I haven’t smelled the ocean in 13 years…but I have surfed rivers since 2012’s last surf camping trip to the Olympic Peninsula.
The surf contest info was…lacking in reality. I saw it on the OB Hotel surf cam and it was absolutely awful. A contest of calf-to-thigh high windswell slop not that polite 2-3 foot with “loose form” which I guess is a polite way to describe what comes out of the dogs after drinking too much seawater chasing balls at Dog Beach. Honestly, it should have been a skimboard contest!
I can still see the scar where a sting ray barb embedded into the top of my left foot decades ago after kicking out of a wave and hitting the bottom with my feet where one was probably taking a nap. That’s a…50 yr old scar/dent!
And really, what idiot started calling them ‘sting’ rays anyway? They definitely had never stepped on one. Bees sting, rays stab holes into you with wickedly barbed arrowheads!
Again this year in these mountains I did not have the normal Labor Day first frost in these mountains. The way the weather has shifted probably never again will I experience the cold frostiness in my nose this time of year. The apple tree needs a frost!
When I bought this property 21 years ago, hardly anybody had AC. Now (the last ten years) they have become ubiquitous in this county on the Canadian Border because, with temperature having soared the last fifteen years, one cannot function without them. ^This first week of September has been 102, 108, and 103’F but I don’t know what today will be because it isn’t after 4-5pm which has now become the hottest time of day. The thermometer read 100’F at 2pm, though I haven’t been outside since….
I would send a picture of last night’s sunset if I could but beautiful red sunsets with the sun looking like a drop of molten lava hanging in the sky has an entirely different meaning this far north. The smoke from wildfires that are in every direction of the compass from my house just makes me nervous.
So enjoy the cool summer because it’s probably one of the peculararities that goes along with worldwide Climate Destabilization. Just like wildfires, drought, windstorms, downpours, floods etc etc. Normal has just become another word in the Dictionary…
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