RPCookin
Executive Chef
Anyone else have some interesting things that they see on the way to buy groceries? We commonly see pronghorn antelope grazing in the pastures along with cattle.
We live an a very rural area. Lots of farming.
Recently we had some significant storms that resulted in some minor tornadoes. My trek to the grocery story last Tuesday saw trees down and loads and loads of people working with chain saws to clean up the damage.
Today was still some of the vision of tree clean up, along with managing the damage of homes that were, literally, flattened by large oak trees.
Along with the storm recovery, the fields of corn are awash with the golden sway of the tassels on the stalks of corn. Soy beans are filling out and the tobacco is getting bigger and bigger. Some of the tobacco has been damaged because of the heavy rains we've had in recent weeks.
I can't imagine being a farmer and I soooooooooo truly appreciate all their hard work.
https://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/article_acd7117c-8529-11e8-848c-db1203677306.htmlThe Lambert’s Point Deperming Station is run by Naval Station Norfolk. Through a complicated combination of heavy labor and electrical engineering, teams work to make ships as magnetically invisible as possible. The station is only one of a few in the world, and is the only station that can reduce magnetic signatures for aircraft carriers.
“It’s like a stealth thing,” said Mike Johnson, a suspenders-wearing, white-bearded veteran of the station who collaborates with his counterparts on the West Coast as well as stations in other countries in Europe.
The military has been deperming ships at Lambert’s Point since the early 1940s. It became a process to defend against the Germans who, at the beginning of World War II, developed a trigger for mines that was sensitive to the magnetic field of a passing ship.
Living in this small city, I don't normally see wildlife, either. Cities and towns also have interesting sights, though. There must be something - some unusual architecture or artwork?The grocery store is just a couple of miles through this little town here, so we see nothing of wildlife except some interesting looking teenagers.