Shellpot Creek is only just getting started today. If Tropical Storm Nicole drops the 2 to 4 inches expected then this creek will rise higher.The rain will be good to flush out the creek anyway. We just don't need a flood of the backyard like earlier in the summer....
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a new survey of religious knowledge on Tuesday. From the summary:"Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the...
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Before today's rain, the Shellpot Creek has been so low due to the lack of rain that it has contracted down to flowing through a few inch wide cleft in the rocks on the stream bed in the middle of the picture below.Here is the cleft:The width is about 3.25 inches:The depth is 2 inches, the ruler I used goes to 16 inches on the right side and 14 inches is just visible below.I realized that such a controlled situation would allow me to measure the...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Mental Floss has a quiz to name the ten largest cities in Pennsylvania in 5 minutes. No choices you just have to type them in. I only got 8, though the quiz declares that anything over 6 would be considered a win. The stats when I took it said that of 1542 people took it with an average score of 53%.As a former Pennsylvanian who is from the Philadelphia area but went to Pittsburgh for college, I should have gotten all ten. I have been to the...
Monday, 6 September 2010
I am not sure what species these caterpillars are, but they seem to love eating the petals on the lone sunflower out in the front garden.I think the sunflower is a second or third generation of seeds from flowers from earlier seeds we planted a few years ago. usually the groundhog snips them off before they get to gr...
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