Nippy reminder

Air temperature 30 F, wind near calm, sunny. Park and lawns white with frost. Supposed to warm up again before next May.

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I realize the level of pain and loss and suffering, but my first reaction to those photos of all the boats washed up into neighborhoods is, "That's one damned expensive junkyard."

Beech nuts are falling

Looks like a good crop -- spiny husks strewn on the sidewalk. I assume that any actual nuts in those husks are duds. The professionals will have checked them already.

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Meanwhile, Hurricane Orlene has come ashore on the west coast of Mexico. But that's not important because it is Them rather than Us.