This and That

[nnuut]

This Global Warming is killing me!:laugh:

 

[nnuut]

Say goodbye to summer! Snow comes a month early with SEVEN states due to drop into freezing conditions over the next week thanks to another Polar Vortex

• Snow could hit Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan
• Forecasters believe the early temperature drop is due to a polar vortex
• Significant 'chill in the air' expected over Great Lakes region

By Mail Online Reporter
Published: 16:53 EST, 6 September 2014 | Updated: 11:22 EST, 7 September 2014

Read more: Snow comes a month early this year for northern US | Mail Online

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[alevin]

One person's cold and snow, another person's continuing threat of wildfire. crud, I get best of both worlds this fall. Just had a fire on the low ridge right above my house and street this past week. winds were pushing it on past at about 40 mph, kept it from backing downhill into houses. fire trucks that showed up first, had to call for reinforcements as soon as they got there. Ugh. And I'll be travelling into and through that snowycold country in about 3-4 weeks from now. Yuuuuuummmy! At least I'm getting some good high 80s-low 90s precipless weather to finish winterizing the yard and garden, before that cold snowy zone captures my fire-centric part of the country.

 

[konakathy]

Go out and witness the last Supermoon/Harvest Moon of 2014 tonight. Give thanks and praise that we can.

The Last Summer 'Supermoon' Of 2014 Is Also A Harvest Moon

Love this sweet and simple song.

 

[nnuut]

To many clouds tonight, can't see the moon!

 

[konakathy]

To many clouds tonight, can't see the moon!

Improvise! Moon yourself in the bathroom mirror. :laugh: :toung: (jk)

 

[nnuut]

I've been MOONED!!
I haven't checked out my backside in years, wonder if it's still there?:laugh:

 

[konakathy]

I've been MOONED!!
I haven't checked out my backside in years, wonder if it's still there?:laugh:View attachment 30182

:laugh: Take a selfie with your tsp mug and title it, "the dark side of the moon."

 

[nnuut]

:laugh: Take a selfie with your tsp mug and title it, "the dark side of the moon."

You wouldn't want to see that!

 

[konakathy]

Re: figuring it out

I took this picture outside of my condo looking east towards Mauna Kea. I wish I had gone outside earlier to take a picture when there was more light. I think I could have gotten a more defined picture of the moon rise over Mauna Kea.

 

[nnuut]

Re: figuring it out

Cool shot but SPOOKY, where are the Werewolves?

 

[WorkFE]

Harvest Moon last night was awesome. Taking a photo did not even cross my mind, sorry.

 

[konakathy]

I'm going to have find this moonshine. This is going to be a hit at my HS reunion next week. Better than Boone's Farm Apple Wine we use to chug. Ugh!

Hawaiian Moonshine Exists, And It's So Good It's Been Outlawed Twice

 

[Buster]

Does the USPS give or demand from you guys random drug tests?

 

[konakathy]

Does the USPS give or demand from you guys random drug tests?

Nah ! We're either high or loaded all the time so why bother. :laugh: :laugh:

 

[Buster]

Nah ! We're either high or loaded all the time so why bother. :laugh: :laugh:

Point I was getting to..Some of that fore mentioned Shine and a little puff on some Maui-Wowwi would be awesome. Off duty of course

 

[konakathy]

Point I was getting to..Some of that fore mentioned Shine and a little puff on some Maui-Wowwi would be awesome. Off duty of course

I'm on vacation now for 3 weeks.... your suggestion is under consideration.

 

[Buster]

I'm on vacation now for 3 weeks.... your suggestion is under consideration.

Platonically speaking..I wish I could join you..
Enjoy your time off....

 

[Buster]

Re: figuring it out

The President

It takes a special kind of tree to have a nickname like that
Not every tree has a nickname, but 'The President' has earned it.
This giant sequoia stands at 247 feet tall, and is estimated to be
over 3,200 years old. Imagine, this tree was already 1200 years old
when Jesus walked the earth.

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[nnuut]

Re: figuring it out

Been there also touched this one when I was a kid.
The General Sherman Tree

General Sherman Tree at the north end of Giant Forest.
National Park Service/Rick Cain

The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park is the largest (by volume) tree in the world.
Computing the volume of a standing tree is the practical equivalent of calculating the volume of an irregular cone. For purposes of volume comparison, only the trunk of a giant sequoia is measured, including the restored volume of basal fire scars. Using these accepted standards and actual field measurements taken in 1975, the volume of the Sherman Tree was calculated to be slightly over 52,500 cubic feet (1,486.6 cubic meters).

	Meters
Height above Base
Circumference at Ground
Maximum Diameter at Base
Diameter 60' (18.3 m) above base
Diameter 180' (54.9 m) above base
Diameter of Largest Branch
Height of First Large Branch above the Base
Average Crown Spread

[TH="align: center"] Feet [/TH]

[TD="align: right"]274.9[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]83.8[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]102.6[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]31.1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]36.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]11.1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]17.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5.3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]14.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4.3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]6.8[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2.1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]130.0[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]39.6[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]106.5[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]32.5[/TD]

Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Sequoia and Kings Canyon
National Parks
To Find the Biggest Tree
(2002)
,
and was revised in
December 2012 by National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey staff.
The Largest Giant Sequoias by Trunk Volume
http://www.nps.gov/seki/naturescience/upload/FINAL-30-Largest-Sequoias.pdf