Hot, Fire and etc.

Hola People of Earth!  How are things in your respective climates?  Much of the world appears to be hotter than hot at present.  The heat dome that is centered over Mexico and stretching north in to Texas and Oklahoma is expected to last until July.  Meanwhile in Spokane, our spell of cool rainy days has ended and we are back in the upper 70's with sunshine.  The PNW is about the only pleasant place in the continental US at present.  There is a river of hot water that stretches from Africa up to Iceland, which will be bad for marine life.  Some of this is El Nino, some is climate change.  What has the climate scientists' hair on fire is how hot the oceans are.  Read this for an in depth article on what's causing all of this.

In Tucson, fire season has started.  See the E in front of "E. Sunrise Dr"?  That's where the condo we stayed in for two months is.  Crews are working to contain a 55-acre wildfire northeast of Tucson, near the Bighorn Fire burn scar on Tuesday. In an update officials confirmed the Ventana Fire was 25% contained.  There are many closed trail heads, including the dreaded Iris Dewhurst trail, that we hiked a lot last winter.  They're trying to keep it in the burn scar, and not allow it to burn into vegetated areas.

Yesterday the republicans voted to censure Representative Adam Schiff.  It was due to his work on the first impeachment of the orange slime mold, and his efforts with the Mueller report.  Prior to the vote, he said this.”To my Republican colleagues who introduced this resolution, I thank you.  You honor me with your enmity. You flatter me with this falsehood. You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers and I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy and I am grateful." Pretty cool take down of the forces of stupid.

Today we rode to the lake.  It was a pleasant ride.  There were very few people on the trail.  Someone official has put oil down on the unpaved road that goes to the boat ramp.  They were nice and skipped the section where the bike path crosses the road.  Here is a random photo along the way.

The tomato plant put out tomatoes, then it got cold, and they're just sitting there, not getting ripe, not doing anything.  It's aggravating.

It appears that the submersible carrying the billionaires down to great depths to view the sunken wreck of the Titanic has been crushed.  There is a debris field on the ocean floor near by.  The conspiracy nuts are already blaming the administration, the Coast Guard, anybody except the company that made the thing.   Who sends people down in a tube with 96 hours of air, steering via game console controller, and absolutely no emergency equipment?  There was no testing, crush depth was never determined, none of that good stuff that the Navy would do.  Yes, it's sad that five people have died, but this rush to make it the fault of someone else is just abhorrent. 

Welp, I have nothing else to say, no funny twitter memes or cute animal photos, so I guess I will end here.