I'm not sure I mentioned it, but I'm on day 13 of the Kung Flu. I'm now doing much better now, but a week ago I was wondering if I'd eventually have to go to the hospital.

 

Glad to hear that you are recovering.

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Glad to hear you are doing better.

Jim

 

I have friends in the San Diego area who have avocado trees on their property. They would fall off the trees. The dog would chew them. Other small animals like squirrels would come nibble. They hired some people to come clean up the yard. The kind of guys who go door to door in selected neighborhoods, and work for cash only. These guys were smart enough to come with ladders and pick the avocado off the trees....... I saw them selling the avocados by an off-ramp. I thought it was funny that my friends were paying these guys to harvest the fruit, and then those guys sold the fruit.

It was quite odd, to me, that they did not eat their own avocado. The whole family. Nobody wanted to climb a ladder to pick the fruit. I guess that's how the wealthy live.

Around here, everyone that I know with any kind of produce growing in their yard, eats it. They eat it. They share it. My fig trees, on good years, produce so much fruit that I give it away. My lime tree produces pitchers of margaritas. The big hit is always loquat - if I can get to them. The tree is almost 30 feet high. The birds usually rip into them before they fully ripen. You can't pick them early, to beat the birds, because the fruit does not ripen off the tree. And I can't sit in the yard with a cooler of beer, and a Red Ryder BB Gun, all summer.

 

Happy Humpeth Day Nor Cal.

Jim

 

Howdy guys,

Not much happening up north except snow! We got 20" here at my place a week ago. That doesn't seem like that much for some places but that's more then we have had in years at one time.

 

We never get snow here in the armpit of California. Unless you count the snow up in the mountains, but I don't count that as the mountains are not in the city of Fresno.

Jim

 

Over 100 different emergency use authorizations were granted for clinical trial, for Covid treatments. Drug companies were literally throwing whatever they had on the wall, hoping that it would stick. Keep in mind, clinical trial means that it was experimental. A lot of those drugs never made it past clinical trial, and some were flat out rejected. In the case of Ivermectin, The FDA specifically issued a statement that Ivermectin has not been approved for use as a Covid treatment. For whatever reason, some people gravitated towards Ivermectin. I wonder why they didn't jump on the anti-androgen bandwagon. A drug given to transexuals. Maybe we could have Joe Rogan on his podcast, updating us on how soft his skin has gotten.

 

After all of that rainfall and snow, The State said that reservoir levels are still low. We are still in a drought.

 

I’ve been watching the Sac River up here, and they have been keeping the release fairly high all year.

If you are on the book of faces, check out the California water for Food and People Movement. Some of their contributors have been really documenting the actions of the water boards.

I personally don’t believe that we should be sending so much Bywater downstream until the reservoirs are near capacity .

 

Will, managing water in California has been a hot topic for decades. How we allocate the water from Northern California, to the rest of California, is a hot enough topic to divide California into 2 states. I think that we need more storage capacity, and probably better collection. Maybe find a way to efficiently collect and store more of the rain as we get it. There surely has to be a better way to reuse water from treatment facilities. And we are bordered by The Pacific Ocean. Is desalination not politically or environmentally correct? I don't know. In some places, it goes hand in hand with generating power. Desalination plants are used in other parts of the world. Surely, desalinated water from The Ocean could be used for farming. I don't know if our Department of Water Resources is doing what's right, or not. It just feels like more could be done. Since we are using an infrastructure which is over 50 years old, and built when The State's population was half the size. People add solar panels to their roof, and sell the electricity back to the grid. I should install my own water tower, collect the rainfall, and sell it back to The Public Utilities Commission.

 

IIRC there is a desalination plant in San Diego, but they say it is too expensive and not very efficient. However, I read that on the internet, and we all know how reliable and truthful the internet is.

Jim

 

Every yahoo north of the Pecos got conned on that ivermectin baloney, but no one noticed that canabinoids apparently bind to the spike protein on COVID. Who knew?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35007072/

 

Good morning everyone.

Desalination seems like a great idea, then they can also sell the salt.

 

Apparently, we already have desalination. I did not know it. But The State has been doing it. There is no salt. Just a highly concentrated brine which they discharge back into The Ocean.