{"id":7675,"date":"2018-08-31T23:24:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2018-08-31T23:24:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:24:51","slug":"this-weeks-not-so-nasty-news-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=7675","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Not So Nasty News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #1: Prince Edward Island &#8211; 15 Piping Plovers are big news <\/span><br \/>\n<em>Charadrius melodus<\/em>  &#8211; &#8211; 2nd part = named for its melodic, plaintive whistle,<br \/>\n1st part = having the same idea as chat or chatter and also charade. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/pei-piping-plovers-national-park-fledged-released-wild-1.4803953\"><strong>New Piping Plovers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Piping_Plover\/id\"><strong>All about birds<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-1-plover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"283\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-1-plover.jpg 573w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-1-plover-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 85vw, 573px\" \/>Locally we have Killdeer, a related bird.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #2: A dog story<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-2-pulses-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7673\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-2-pulses-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-2-pulses.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n This is a story about dogs, but first what&#8217;s a &#8220;pulse&#8221;?<br \/>\nA legume is a plant, or its fruit or seed. The dried seeds are called pulse.  Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils, lupin bean, mesquite, carob, soybeans, and peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>Such things can be fermented.<br \/>\nHere is the dog story:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/beagles-university-of-saskatchewan-retiring-1.4800397\"><strong>Beagles prefer fermented pluses in their chow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #3: An English Springer Spaniel story<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-3-Tia-and-Boomer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"495\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7672\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-3-Tia-and-Boomer.jpg 286w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-3-Tia-and-Boomer-173x300.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/>Tia Vargas of Idaho Falls adopted Boomer into her family after rescuing and carrying the lost and injured dog down Table Rock Trail.  Tia looks like she might weigh 120 pounds soaking wet. Okay, maybe 150 pounds. Boomer, described as a &#8220;pup&#8221; weighs 55 pounds.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t know how high they were but there was snow.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t learn how far she carried the mutt, but miles.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t learn how much the vet bill was.<br \/>\nThere is a Facebook page.<br \/>\nStory and photos at this link:<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/great-outdoors\/2018\/08\/01\/hiker-adopts-injured-dog-carried-down-11000-foot-mountain.html?intcmp=oborg_rdtr&#038;intcmp=ob_article_footer_text\"><strong>Tia, Boomer, Mountain<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #4: Clouds<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-4-clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"405\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7671\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-4-clouds.jpg 864w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-4-clouds-300x141.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-4-clouds-768x360.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/>I was headed home today and 4 miles south of home (we are between the trees and the hills on the right side of the canyon), I stopped to take a photo of these small lens-shaped clouds.<br \/>\nThese are not as well formed as many of mountain peaks are. Mount Rainier is famous for them. These over flatter land are still interesting and form as air rises and sinks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/best-photos-beautiful-lenticular-clouds-around-the-world\"><strong>Lenticular Clouds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">Item #5: A Birthday story<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-5-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-5-cake.jpg 497w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Friday31-5-cake-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 85vw, 497px\" \/><br \/>\nNancy&#8217;s birth is Saturday, September 1st.<br \/>\nHAPPY BIRTHDAY !<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #FF0000;\">And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<br \/>\nJohn <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item #1: Prince Edward Island &#8211; 15 Piping Plovers are big news Charadrius melodus &#8211; &#8211; 2nd part = named for its melodic, plaintive whistle, 1st part = having the same idea as chat or chatter and also charade. New Piping Plovers More information from: All about birdsLocally we have Killdeer, a related bird. Item &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=7675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Week&#8217;s Not So Nasty News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-1ZN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7680,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}