Scarlet Pimpernel

Unfortunately, seems all we get is a triple facepalm!!

Haha! Reminds me of the old generic products years ago, packaged in white with black lettering. You'd get things labeled like "Beer" and such. I even as a joke got someone a generic postcard...and yup, it was all white with the word "Postcard" written on it!!

Oh, I mistakenly thought that was a garnish!

I don't know, but PSU might be fringed. Then end up with some serious cicada banding only to have more than everyone else!

I was here for the Brood X emergence in 2004. It was interesting, actually...maybe a bit annoying an noisy, but at the same time kind of cool to be honest. That May was very warm and I think they actually emerged and then disappeared more quickly, peaking around Memorial Day weekend. They definitely got all over the place. I recall playing in a softball game out in Virginia in the league I play on, having to practically swat the damned things away while in the outfield! Here's a photo I got at the time (very low res digital camera back then, LOL!), of a cicada emerging from its shell. I always found it neat how they come out white with black "eyebrows", before they dry and harden into the normal black color with the clear-orange wings.

I say contour it in micrometers around I-95 and southeast, gradually transitioning that to meters as you get far enough north and west of there. But don't put a scale on it. That way, it will give the illusion that I-95 was in the jackpot zone this year!

Very cute!!

I think it got re-directed to @psuhoffman's yard.

That model always shows too much mid-level warming.

I have a much less diplomatic way to put it!!

That top image looks like a fart-lighting contest gone awry!!

Does that thing shoot sleet pellets?? Or salt?? Might come in handy... Ahhh, the Panic Room catalog. A fine addition to each room, next to the room service menu! I think I've seen you as one of the 3rd party sellers on Amazon, someone named "Lord High Executioner"? I was looking for snow blowers at the time.

LOL! I have heard that cardinals can be quite aggressive and actually "attack" an image or reflection of themselves, thinking it's another bird!!

Oh yeah...we'll get lots of robins once spring gets going (haven't seen a lot yet)! I've seen the lawn just totally covered by them before. Looks either like one of those "happy birthday" gags where someone litters your yard with those pink flamingoes (only with robins)...or something out of Hitchcock's "Birds"!

I have seen orioles a couple or so times around, where I'm at. Plenty of cardinals (cool and very stunning birds!)...in fact I've been hearing more cardinals sing lately. Haven't seen many blue jays at all, but used to see a lot of them in northeast Ohio when I lived there.

Did you diligently measure before the mix/change over, and clear your salt board? That's the correct method. I only need 2.5" more salt to pass 30" for the year! Maybe we can get one more brining event in March...

I sense the Reaper is running out of space in the Panic Room and may need to resort to makeshift outdoor portables by the end of this upcoming week!

Oh, hi there Ron Paul!!

I don't know...won't feel totally confident until the JMA comes on board.

Sneaky warm layer right at the surface! LOL!

I agree...Peets is some good coffee! Their Holiday blend is good too, if you ever had that during the season.

Word on the ICON yet for later next week? If there's anything worthwhile still.

@psuhoffman fringed by the top of that drawing, though.

Wait. So you mean it was Beethoven who won the battle of New Orleans?? I'm so confused! Was that before or after Andrew Jackson wrote his 9th symphony?

That's awesome, man! Congrats! Especially given how cold it was. And cool you're on Strava...I use that for my bike riding, though haven't done much of that in the past couple of months, LOL! I knew a couple of people who did marathons, hard core runners. I could never do that distance, certainly not my age right now. But years ago when I was in Atlanta, I did participate in the 10K Peachtree Road Race a few years (held on July 4 every year), which was actually fun!