Item #1: Images
It is a stretch to relate the above images to the phrase “penny dreadfuls” {cheap popular serial literature produced during the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom}, but I can imagine a dreadful story about either image. However, Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal used the term to describe the silly, petty, far-fetched, and often nasty claims that dominate the current sounds coming from the ‘swamp’ known as Washington D. C.
I did not know of penny dreadfuls, but found them here: [LINK] .
Item #2: Don’t trust Phil
It has been chilly here, 13°F Friday morning.
Expecting slow warming, meaning still cold, until March 4th or 5th. We will have snow on the ground for quite awhile.
Item #3: ‘Missing Pilot’ flyover
Each weekend, the Wall Street Journal’s James R. Hagerty writes obituaries for a few prominent individuals. This past weekend he wrote of a Navy aviator, Captain Rosemary Mariner. So I searched for a photo of her.
Here she is in front of a A-7 Corsair II, a carrier-capable jet.
We need a word change here, but the US has a ritual called the “missing man formation” – in this case a missing pilot – (sometimes termed flyby or flypast). This is an aerial salute performed as part of a funeral or memorial event. Here is a YouTube video of the flyby over her burial, near Norris, TN. This included 4 planes and 8 female naval aviators.
You might need a tissue.
Item #4: What to call a Crinkly Leaf Cabbage. 
Rosemary, from Jackeys Marsh, a remote hamlet in Tasmania, grew a cabbage large enough for her to hide behind. She helps with running the Forest Walks Lodge. Search on the web if you would like to go and stay there. Search Google Earth with that name and discover why it is claimed to be in “Meander Valley.” The term ‘meandering river’ gets the name from the Büyük Menderes River of southwestern Turkey.
This is an historically ancient region, with it being mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, written about 2,700 years before my birth certificate.
Since the early Greek period (the Late Bronze Age
collapse, in the early 12th century BC), about the lower 25 miles of this valley has been filled in with sediments, now covered with fields and irrigation canals. Food!
Dozens of photos here, including travertine pools.
Oh, being a bit of a geographer, I digressed there. The subject is cabbage of the crinkly type.
Actually, these things have the name “Savoy”, for the region where it is believed to have originated – straddles the Alpine regions of Italy and France.
If you wish to know more: Harvest to Table
Item #5: Ice is in the news
When Nancy began at CWU she taught a class wherein students would write short papers and give a slide-show regarding an aspect of economic geography. One such story was of a Washington company that took barges to Alaska with various things in them. Not wanting to return empty, the company sought out something to bring back. Glacial ice was available – floating in the bay.
At that time the Japanese economy was doing great and the business folks there had lots of cash. They were willing to spend some on booze, with hard, clear, clean, and old glacial ice. So barges came back from Alaska to Puget Sound, ice was cleaned and packed into place-of-origin plastic bags and shipped to Japan.
Now comes this story from the other side of North America. Ice bergs are fetched from the cold water off the coast of Newfoundland, and brought to Port Union.
There, the Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation Link 
creates several styles of vodka.
The water from the melted-bergs is stored until needed. The current action is that of a thief. Someone stole enough of this fine old water to make 150,000 bottles of vodka.
Holy hooch!
Article here: brazen water heist
Ice story downunder
Also in the news is the story of a very large slab of ice about to break off (calving) from the Brunt Ice Shelf; location is the red dot on the right side of the map:
The red dot is larger than the chunk about to detach, but it is claimed to be twice the size of New York City. I’ve no idea how large that is. However, someone thinks it would be great if NYC could break away and float into the Atlantic Ocean.
At this LINK there is information and a dual-photo set with a slider. There is a large white dot in the center and a vertical line. Use your pointer — on the dot — to slide the line left and right, from 1986 to 2019, and notice the crack in the ice. It has been lengthening for many years.
Awhile ago, a British research station was moved off this chunk to a safer location. Google Earth will bring up a map of Halley Research Station, Antarctica.
Item #6: Odd
Thursday afternoon
Our local (airport) weather station just reported the temperature as – well look at the Image. At home, just 5 miles from the airport our reading is 35°F. Their forecast high for today was 33°.
I need to shovel some snow. It is not melting.
And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.
John