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When Trump first came onto the political stage I didn't like him, but it wasn't long before I realized that this guy is emotionally unhinged. I knew he was capable of this behavior of incitement. He is very dangerous when he doesn't get what he wants. I can't believe he was voted into office in the first place. At least now, he's destroyed his path to a presidential run in 2024. The GOP use to say that character matters in deciding on a candidate for the presidency. They threw that out the windo…

Quote from max.patch: “Quote from roadrunner: “I think we're all just freaking out a little too much in this country. ” Freaking out? No...it's been the exact opposite. The laissez-faire approach to the virus taken by many -- with predictable results -- has put us in the horrific position we are in right now. ” Like I said above, the whole world is experiencing this thing and there are many protests over the lockdowns, not just here, but around the world. I'm not sure what else the govts could h…

I think we're all just freaking out a little too much in this country. This virus has just become too political and people actually think we have it exceptionally bad in this country, but that's just not true. Look at the numbers in this link. If you compare Cases per 100k and Deaths per 100k, there are countries doing worse off than us. Just look at global news around the world, there are protests all over the place due to all the new lockdown measures govts are trying to enact. But then you go…

Of all the NATO countries, while in the navy, I've been to, Italy seemed very close to being a 3rd world country. Don't mean to bad talk Italy, but it was one of those countries where we were surrounded by kids asking/begging for money and much of the infrastructure was pretty bad looking. I know they're a fairly advanced country, but there are parts that seemed to be left behind.

I've been cycling for over 30 years, at one point I had a 50-mile round trip to work and back. However, I've never had any luck in my cycling legs converting over to hiking legs. The only thing that works for me is weightlifting combined with running; btw, I live in Florida, so there's no hills to hike in, but we do have some high bridges I can do running repeats across. I do see running and hiking (in the mountains) as a very similar activity, WRT bio-mechanics. Running is much similar to hikin…

I have a city-issued 96-gallon trash can that is too big for our very small amount of trash, especially since I compost everything and most everything else is put in the recycling bin. Therefore, I use the "trash" receptacle to store various things for the yard and I also noticed that as the temperature cools, nocturnal frogs sleep in there in the day and hibernate in there when it gets really cold. Today I noticed that a frog ate a lizard and you can see the tail sticking out of its mouth and a…

I've had a few rats in the gardens lately, but I had faith I'd soon see the snakes move in. Now I have a Black Rat snake in the yard; hopefully more move in. appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/13310/appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/13311/

I don't see overcrowding as too much of an issue, rather it's the people leaving trash and garbage and that's going to happen if they're all out there at once or if the crowds are time-released. Sad

Quote from max.patch: “Quote from IMScotty: “I vote in person, always have. For the primary I was in and out in 5 minutes. If the local government runs things right, I do not see what the fuss is. ” Our primaries were a clusterfark. Hours of waiting in line. In a pandemic. With no social distancing. The counties blamed the state. The state blamed the counties. I'm voting at the kitchen table tomorrow, and dropping my ballot off at one of collection centers set up around the county (there's one j…

I'm filling out my sample ballot and I hear on the News about a concern supporters have over the 1/2-cent sales tax on the ballot. So I look into this "concern", only to find out that the issue is the placement of the question on the ballot. Since it's on page 2, they think most voters won't see it. To some extent they're probably right, given the apparent stupidity of voters in general. I'm just sick of hearing about how someone needs to hold the hands of the voters and lead them to the ballot …

My local news station ran a story on how important it is to shut off your lights at night for the safety of migrating birds, since we're in the Fall migration season. After considering all the city lights all around me, I just don't think this was I need to turn off my two flimsy lights. news4jax.com/news/local/2020/1…ht-can-save-a-birds-life/

That owl story reminds me of an incident during one of my bike tours, where I stopped off the Blue Ridge Parkway to camp overnight. I set up my tent around dusk time, being tired from a full day's ride in the mountains; I soon crawled in my tent and not more than a 1/2-hour later there was a godawful sound of what sounded like a lady being ax murdered coming from directly above me. It's hard to describe the feeling that washed over me -- it completely paralyzed me. I'm not sure how long it laste…

I had four banana plants produce this year, I gave one bunch away to a neighbor and just dehydrated this bunch of Bananas from a single banana plant. Two more plants to harvest, hopefully no more plants produce this year. It's a lot of work... appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/13124/appalachiantrailcafe.net/index.php/Attachment/13125/

Quote from Traffic Jam: “Rode my daughter’s hybrid today, 12 miles on the greenway. The weather was gorgeous, low 70’s, and I had a lot of fun. I’ve been riding that bike quite a bit but can’t get used to the dang gears...the levers on the right work the opposite as the levers on the left and my brain can’t get it right, especially when having to make a quick adjustment on a hill. Twice, I screwed it up and had to jump off and walk up the hill. Oh well. Capped off the beautiful day relaxing in m…

Quote from odd man out: “Quote from LIhikers: “and how is the average person going to know if something is actually tin. And what about tin plating or some mixture of metals that might contain some tin. They need to keep it simple enough for the average person. ” Nobody recycles tin these days. Metal is galvanized with zinc. I am certain they were not concerned with tin. It was about separating steel and aluminum (but failing). However, I've heard there are health concerns with both types of lin…

Quote from LIhikers: “where I live the town has a pretty extensive recycling program. Of course I don't know what happens to stuff once the town has it. At least plastic can be reused and made into new products. Metal on the other hand I take to a place that pays you for your scrap metal. I came home with a whole $3.08 for a car load of metal. Anything is better than nothing. ” I've looked into this a little and I've come to the conclusion that much of the plastics don't get recycled for various…

Plastics are so useful, just imagine going on a plastic-free hike; however, it infuriates me to no end how irresponsible people are with disposal of their plastics.

It's been a fairly hot summer on the cloudless days, thankfully we had a fair amount of rain. Lately, I've been noticing that sunrise has been later and later, but the sun still felt hot, until just last week when we had another round of rains, followed by just cloudy days -- the cloudy days probably a result of Hurricanes Marco & Laura. Now the sun is starting to pop out to reheat the earth, but I've noticed that its power is somewhat subdued, thanks to its less direct rays. Fall is coming I gu…

Quote from odd man out: “The idea that the lack of regional biodiversity in food crops creates the potential for devastation by plant pathogens was established by the collapse of the coffee industry in Sri Lanka. At the beginning of the 1800s the British established coffee plantations in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). By mid century, the island was one of the top 3 coffee producing countries and the British were big coffee drinkers. But in the 1860s a rust fungus wiped out all the coffee trees on the …

Quote from IMScotty: “Roadrunner, that is so great. I did not know people grew bananas in Florida. What cultivar is that? I know that the Cavendish banana are now threatened by the Panama disease that wiped out the Gros Michel cultivar. I have long wanted to try a Gros Michel because they were suppose to be the best tasting banana, but I have never seen one for sale up here in New England. Maybe someday? ” I'm not sure of the cultivar, because I got it from a neighbor that was moving; she kept i…