PF Random Thoughts

My dog likes going for rides, but he doesn't like to climb into a vehicle, so I really have to coax him to get him to put his front feet up on the seat, then I boost his back-end up onto the seat. Maybe something about enclosed places, and almost 5 months of imprisonment in an animal shelter...

Went to see "Fiddler on the Roof" this afternoon. Great show! Sad, though.

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears.

This is quickly turning into a worst-case, nightmare scenario. Get this: 90% of the life in the Gulf of Mexico has its origins in the Louisiana wetlands – the areas now contaminated or in the greatest jeopardy. BP may have literally killed the entire Gulf.

We can only hope that containment efforts will be sufficient to save the most critical wetlands. The top kill and junk shots have failed to stop the leak. We now believe conservatively, that 15,000 barrels, or about 600,000 gallons of crude oil are leaking every day. This is about day 37, making this the biggest oil spill in US history. And with something like 23 million gallons of oil sitting in the gulf, and no hope of actually stopping the leak until August, hurricane season starts in a few days. The tidal surge from a hurricane, along with atomized oil in sea spray, could create an environmental disaster of a scale never even imagined before in this context. We can only hope that the gulf doesn’t take any direct hits from a major storm. Unfortunately, the water temps in the Caribbean and off the NW coast of Africa – the hurricane nursery – are warmer than normal. NOAA predicts that storm activity will he higher than normal. They have forecasts seven major hurricanes for that region.

This is truly shaping up as the ultimate nightmare scenario. And just to add icing to the cake: The Gulf Coast region constitutes the world’s 29th largest economy.

Now, I am truly afraid for the future of the Gulf.

hard to kill after removal? Cant you just eat it?

Tick, tick, tick... Is time against us? I removed an embedded deer tick from my wife's back last week, and an American dog tick and a brown dog tick from my dog this week.

BTW, brown dog ticks are VERY hard-shelled and hard to kill after removal.

OMG how awful! We just got the fleas in our house under moderate control I think....

When I was visiting Jamaica there were some VERRRY hard shelled ticks on the dogs. They killed them with hammers! It was really a sight! I think the dogs got the ticks from being around the goats or cows or something.