{"id":8444,"date":"2019-02-15T21:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T04:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2019-02-15T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T04:07:26","slug":"not-so-nasty-news-february-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=8444","title":{"rendered":"Not so nasty news February 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy’s been very busy with setting up medical appointments, trying to coordinate with CWU regarding passwords and getting revised MS Word and other software reestablished. The last was just fixed at 5 PM today, Friday. I guess we will figure out how to finish last week’s blog, and the one expected out this Sunday. All in due course. John<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Item #1: Images<\/span><\/p>\n

Link to story is here: Cold and dark, until … <\/strong><\/a>\"\"(Darlene Tanner\/Team Tanner Photography) 10 Feb 2019<\/p>\n

Lacombe, Alberta, Canada About 100 miles north of Calgary
\nLight pillars, large beams of light which appear to be reaching up from the Earth, materialize when either natural or artificial light bounces off ice crystals suspended low in the atmosphere.
\nThe ice crystals act like little mirrors.<\/p>\n

Item #2: Le Grande River Music <\/span><\/p>\n

If I knew how to play a piano I’d plan a trip. This is the sort of place I’d visit \u2013 if I traveled.
\nAbout Chisasibi<\/strong><\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Story here: Two pianos coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Young Cree musicians in Chisasibi
\n near the east shore of James Bay will be getting two new pianos to play after videos of them practicing sparked a fund raising campaign.
\nOne of the pianos is funded locally, the 2nd one is being donated; to be shipped from the south shore of Montreal. They don’t say whether this is a road shipment or by air. I suppose such things are of interest only to me.<\/p>\n

Item #3: Stuck<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

This story is a few weeks old, and while from the US, I found it on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. So it is on ABC, but not the ABC seen as American TV. Maybe those who watch network news have seen it.
\nAnyway, an adult male Bald Eagle got his tail feathers wet while he and friends were on semi-frozen Suttons Bay, west side of the lower part of Michigan.<\/p>\n

An ice beast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A Michigan based group called Wings of Wonder (Link: WofW) <\/strong><\/a> arrived to help with the rescue, and later release of the bird.<\/p>\n

Item #4: While at the ABC<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

Each week there are fantastic photos posted from all over Australia. If you go to this link:
\n OZ Photos <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

. . . they have 15 there as I write. This set opens with a parrot.
\nTo the right are small images and links to spectacular photos from prior years. The set takes a few seconds to load.
\nYou’ve got nothing better to do, so have a look.
\nJust above, is a baby Eastern Barred Bandicoot \u2013 a small, nocturnal marsupial.<\/p>\n

Item #5: Good News & Bad News<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

So the good news<\/strong> is our esteemed leaders have figured out a way to keep the government open.
\nThe bad news<\/strong> is our esteemed leaders have figured out a way to keep the government open.<\/p>\n

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

Nancy’s been very busy with setting up medical appointments, trying to coordinate with CWU regarding passwords and getting revised MS Word and other software reestablished. The last was just fixed at 5 PM today, Friday. I guess we will figure out how to finish last week’s blog, and the one expected out this Sunday. All … Continue reading “Not so nasty news February 15”<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-report-by-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-2cc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","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=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}