Subj : Miss.RvrDamBre To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Jul 28 2020 08:11:00 Hi Nancy! NB>> Starting with this message, I'm removing the "Resend" from the NB>> Subject line... should make things a little less confusing... :) BM> OK, thanks -- you know me and updating those subjects! NB> I'm not all that great at updating them either, but avoiding NB> confusion is a good reason to make a little effort... ;) And I thought confusion just helped keep us alert! BM>>> That probably would be a good assessment! The rest of us can come up BM>>> with alternate uses which may or may not via viable -- for some reason BM>>> 'emergency housing' had popped in to my head. Pile around a few HESCO BM>>> barriers like so many Lego blocks; no idea on the roof. NB>>> A very large tarp....? BM>> I was thinking that; how supported didn't immediately come BM>> to mind. Though I'm thinking BIG rooms/areas: gymnasium-sized. BM>> Smaller areas would require shorter roof supports which would be easier BM>> to obtain or create. NB>> Large enough, and one could just fasten it down on the tops of the NB>> barriers.... Maybe some tentpoles judiciously placed.... ;) BM> Tent poles would probably be the best. No real reasoning, just seems BM> to make sense. NB> I'm almost picturing a circus Big Top... ;) That would work! BM>> Locally a lot of crowd-events have been cancelled or BM>> being modified ==> the Bix (foot) race is going virtual; the John Deere BM>> Golf Tournament cancelled until next year. (Both are international BM>> events.) NB>> Our International Jazz Festival was postponed to October... we shall NB>> see if that holds or not.... It's usually held the end of June, and NB>> draws major crowds.... :) BM> Equivalent here is probably the Bix (Beiderbecke) -- this year being BM> held virtually July 31st and August 1st. BM> https://www.bixsociety.org/index.html NB> Almost time for it now.... ;) This weekend! ...Haven't heard much about it this year: usually the week before advisories about street closures which leads in to the event information. NB>>> Nothing to say.... generally, if at that sort of party, sat on the NB>>> outskirts and just observed others making fools of themselves... ;) BM>> I'll admit to being a sort of 'social wallflower' BM>> - drinking has minimal appeal to me. I do drink, but one will probably BM>> last me at least an hour. "Getting wild and crazy" just isn't me. To BM>> modify, 'always the designated driver, never the partier'. NB>> Wild and crazy isn't me, either.... if there's a good single malt NB>> available, I'll have some, but those are for sipping, not guzzling... BM> Right. Plus sipping allows for longer enjoyment (and a smaller bar BM> bill, and probably no hangover!). NB> Exactly. :) Sort of along that line The District in Rock Island (IL) is a several block pedestrian mall with small shops, bars and restaurants. Due to a past spike the bars had to close an hour earlier (from 3 a.m. to 2) for a month. The mayor was trying to maintain or at least extend the 2 a.m. closing but the alderman voted to go back to the 3 a.m. closing. One of those 'will be interesting to see what happens' with that hour re- instated. BM>>> Yes. The other day she was entertaining a white moth. Don't recall BM>>> how it start but she had a ~3/4" moth on her finger and it was just BM>>> sitting there, quite contented, every so often stretching its wings but BM>>> made no attempt to fly off, so no fear on its behalf. "Mr. Moth" got a BM>>> tour of the deck in the back yard, placed on a couple of small statues, BM>>> stayed on them for a while walking a little, then Autumn put him back BM>>> on her finger to continue the tour. Eventually to the front yard, then BM>>> returned. Finally she placed him in a potted plant on the deck, in BM>>> the shade, Mr. Moth sort of 'looked around' for a minute then crawled BM>>> under the flower. NB>>> Sounds like she could have a career as an insect "whisperer"... ;) NB>>> Rather impressive that the moth was willing to go on the whole tour NB>>> like that... ;) BM>> We thought so! NB>> And she probably just took it as a natural thing, that the moth would NB>> want to be taking on a tour of the yard by her.... ;) BM> Yes -- she did sort of realize it wasn't the usual for a BM> moth to hang around like that, but as he did then enjoy each other's BM> company and let's explore together. NB> Probably hasn't happened again since... :) Oddly enough yesterday! The moth almost seemed to be the same one: a little bigger. Towards the end he did seem to be tired: Autumn had him doing some tricks which he did do rather perkily at the beginning but seemed to be tiring out. We did persuade her to give him a nap -- ended up a few naps as she'd let him rest for a few minutes, get antsy and figured that was long enough and want to play/go back to training. At the end she did put him on a flowered shrub near the fence. NB>> And if you are getting the same heat wave we're getting, NB>> everything is likely to be put on hold for a little while... ;) BM> It's been a 'little warm' here lately and will continue through BM> Thursday: has been hitting the mid-90's with heat indices in the low BM> 100's. Work up a sweat watering the flowers after dinner!! NB> Almost all of July has been too hot here... we keep having Heat NB> Advisorys for indices in the high 90s/100 or so... We're in one NB> as I type, as a matter of fact.... We just finished one of those last weekend; did some work in the latter half of the morning after things dried from the overnight humidity and/or rain. 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