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This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News
\n. . . from John, awaiting Nancy\u2019s draft of her week\u2019s news.<\/p>\n

Item #1: The Christmas Tree<\/span>
\nNestled between the intersections of two local roads in the Belhaven neighborhood of Jackson, Miss. is a Christmas tree. After growing tired of waiting for repairs to a street, an unknown resident placed the decorative tree inside a small pothole.\"\"
\nThe festive holiday decoration had a sign that said: \u201cMerry Christmas Belhaven. From our sinkhole to yours.\u201d The sign was no longer there on Monday afternoon but the tree was lit up like, well a Christmas tree, to help drivers see the road hazard.<\/p>\n

Item #2: U. S. Coast Guard duties<\/span>
\nA turtle has been rescued after finding itself
\n tangled in drugs . . . literally.
\nThe sailors found the loggerhead turtle in the Pacific Ocean last month, trapped in the middle of 26 bales of cocaine.
\nThe bales, that contained over 800 kilograms of the drug, were strung together with rope which was tangled up with the turtle’s neck and limbs. \"\"<\/p>\n

Cut the ropes, please<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

IMAGE SOURCE: Skyenimals for kids<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Colored arrows in blue circles move to other pictures.
\nAt the top, click on \u2018BROWSE\u2019 to search for other animals.
\nThey also combine animals, such as a horse+giraffe.
\nThe ‘Home page’ is upper-left as Skyenimals.<\/p>\n

\"\"Item #3: Proof we don\u2019t get out much<\/span>
\nThe image of the red faucet floating over a pool appeared on the internet this week. I thought \u2018isn\u2019t that clever<\/em>\u2019.
\nIt seems half the people in the world have seen one of these and a whole bunch of people own one. You can too.<\/p>\n

Pictures at this site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

One for your yard?<\/strong><\/a>
\nThey are even sold via Amazon – – – Who knew?<\/p>\n

Item #4: Snow cancels Snow Day<\/span>
\nSix Flags Great Adventures in Ocean County, NJ, planned a “Snow Day\u2019 last Saturday. Then it snowed. The park closed instead.
\nThis place is mid-way between NYC and Philly, 120 feet in elevation, and just 20 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
\nDevelopers had to carve out a section of the very northern Pine Barrens<\/strong><\/a>.
\n The upside is that all the riff-raff<\/strong><\/a> go there to spend money, and leave the plants and animals alone.<\/p>\n

Item #5: A right to be upset<\/span>
\nWhen people build houses and otherwise intrude on wild things, one should not be surprised when some of them get belligerent.\"\"This appears to be from a small point of land between Lafayette Bay and Echo Bay, about 16.5 miles southwest of Minneapolis.
\nCoordinates are: 44.924694, -93.582278
\nProbably a really neat place before West Point Ave, houses, and boats arrived.<\/p>\n

Item #6: Walk the dog, meet technical climbers <\/span>
\nJust west of Seattle and Puget Sound is the Kitsap Peninsula(KP). It is almost an island, and would be, were it not for 3,500 yards of rock rubble left by melting glacial ice about 13,000 years ago. On the west side of KP is the Hood Canal, a melt-water discharge passage that carried water north into the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean.\"\" After the continental glaciers melted, Hood Canal became a flooded valley open to Ocean tides. And that\u2019s important.
\nThis past Tuesday, about 4:20 PM the tide was in (or high) at the time a young woman (Leilani) took her Great Pyrenees (Sage) for walk. Sage went down a steep embankment, couldn\u2019t scramble back up, and Leilani went down to rescue her\/him.
\nHad the tide been out, Leilani and Sage could have walked the beach to a spot about 500 yards northeast to an easy slope and up toward home. But Mother Nature, conspiring for the past 15,000 years had not cooperated, required that the lady and her dog needed rescued.
\nFirst, the firefighters from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue arrived and they enlisted the Regional Technical Team to hoist the woman and her dog up the embankment.
\nLeilani was more cooperative than Sage, but they were eventually reunited at the top of the cliff. I note Sage seems better fed than the Lady.<\/p>\n

And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.
\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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