Alas, the sample images don’t show scales. If they had scales, soil type, average dates of first killing frost in fall, etc. that’d be handy.
One fun fact I can add to the conversation:
The green that you see in in the UP (Upper Penninsula) and the mitten of Michigan, plus the edging along Lake Superior, Michigan, and Erie are all rivers that feed into the Great Lakes, not rivers that run into oceans. So for example most of Minnesota and Wisconsin, and virtually all of Illinois and Indiana, feed into the Mississippi River going down to the Louisiana Delta into the Gulf of Mexico, but then there are some rivers that go the opposite direction to feed into the largest inland fresh water system in the world instead. Michigan really is the Great Lake State!
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Thanks! I rather like it, myself.
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I’m always happy to see someone shine a light on Barney Miller.
I’m a better person because of many characters on this show.
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Oh gawd, YES!!! I love this show so much. And from what real police workers say, it’s closer to reality than other cop shows.
I grew up watching it, and had crushes on almost every character; and the ones I didn’t crush on, I wished they were related to me.
Addendum: And from what I’ve read about Danny Arnold, I believe he would not be someone I’d want as an opposing force.
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Crinoids, Jimbicrinus Bostocki. Early Permian, ~280 million years old.
From around here:
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Now I feel as though I should read some of Mr. West’s works.
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Gad.
Have you read any of Bill Fitzhugh’s novels? They are extremely funny and a bit in the same vein (ha ha). Pest Control and The Organ Grinders are among his first books.
He’s added sequels to his first novels, which I haven’t read though.
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Nope, only Fitzhugh I’ve read is Louise.
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I remember loving Pest Control, but it’s been quite a few years since I read it. I didn’t know there was a sequel.
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Me neither, till today. The originals were all great, though.
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The word “tornado” has an interesting etymology. From:
Alteration (probably influenced by Spanish tornado, turned , past participle of tornar, to turn ) of Early Modern English ternado, violent thunderstorm, hurricane from Spanish tronada, thunderstorm , from tronar, to thunder , from Latin tonāre; see (s)tenə- in Indo-European roots.
A lot of very similar words seem to go into it–in particular tornar and tronar. Thus a turning thunderstorm.
From:
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And a tornillo is a screw.
Wow, language is interesting!
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A spinning bull!
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I’m not a fan of flavored coffee, but I give him points for experimenting.
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Yuck!
I don’t like sludge in my liquids, so dunking is out for me. Plus, I can’t eat doughnuts anymore anyhow. No biggie.
I like flavored coffee, especially adding butter flavoring extract to hazelnut or Mackinac Island fudge grounds prior to brewing; if I want it sweet, I put a scoop of ice cream, if I have it, into the cup before having the coffee drip-brew into the cup.
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