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Swiss Spaghetti Farmers...

...are expecting to reap a bumper crop this year. applause

One of the upsides of Global Warming/Climate Change is the unbelievable effect it's had on spaghetti growth.
This has been especially noticeable in the Alpine spaghetti growing districts of Switzerland, which have experienced unprecedented record spaghetti harvests in recent years. yay

On a more somber note, there is serious concern that new GMO spaghetti varieties may affect the quality and nutritional value of spaghetti. sad

Spaghetti farming is now almost totally mechanized.
This old news clip shows how the harvest was accomplished by simpler more traditional methods.
Today, these time honored traditions are observed by only a very few basically hobby spaghetti farmers. sigh

YouTube BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino MySwitzerland

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Is This More Heartwarming? Or Hilarious?

dunno
Decide for yourselves...

YouTube Baby Reacts to Seeing Mom for the First Time Using Glasses ABC News

wow....love

Leo's smile must be one of the most contagious...ever!
I dare you to watch it and not very happy...if not rolling on the floor laughing
Yes...I DARE YOU!! grin

cowboy
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Y'all may address me as Mic Guyver...

You know - like that legendary T.V. guy who can make/fix anything with nothing but a hairpin.

My house was built circa 1890.
Many of the fixtures are original - 125 years old.

A while ago, an original door lock went hawire.
I figured it was busted, so taking it apart couldn't hurt...what the hell, I might even be able to fix it.
Also, I'm rather fond of old things & like to keep them functioning.

A flat spring in the mechanism had broken. sad
I figured going to a hardware store asking for a spring for an antique lock would result in...rolling on the floor laughing
So I laid it aside for the time being.

lightbulb

A few days ago, I figured I might be able to cobble in a spring from a ballpoint pen.
Rummaging through an odds 'n ends bin, I found (are y'all ready for this?)
a...HAIRPIN!
Yes. Really!!

I figured it was just springy enough, and exactly the right size to snip & bend into a suitable flat spring.

VOILA! yay

Yep.
It fit just like it was custom made for the mechanism...which I guess it was, come to think 'bout it. roll eyes

As long as it was disassembled, I also oiled up the whole mechanism.
It now works like everything's moving on jeweled bearings...far(!) smoother than it ever did since I've owned it...probably smoother than it has in fifty years.
Maybe a hundred years, even. grin

Pretty cool, huh? batting

cowboy pointing Mic Guyver
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Laura Ingalls Wilder! party

The author/heroine of the Little House Books turns 150 years old.
She was born in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Her first book, Little House In The Big Woods (published when she was 65) recounts her early girlhood.

It also sets the stage/tone for the rest of the series of eight Little House Books in which she describes being young with America & growing up on the expanding frontier.

happy birthday Laura!

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FIREBALL IN THE SKY, E. Wisc. 1:25 a.m. Feb. 6

Stars are visible...lightning seems unlikely.
Fireball meteor? dunno

Did anyone else in the area observe this?

BTW - I'm stark raving sober.
drinking pointing scold

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GROUNDHOG DAY! WINTER WILL...

1) END - cool
2) CONTINUE FOR SIX MORE WEEKS - cold

groundhog

History...
Groundhogs (aka hedgehogs, whistle pigs, woodchucks) break hibernation this time of year. The weather lore holds that when they emerge from their Winter burrow, if they see their shadows, it frightens them, they return to their holes & Winter will continue for six more weeks.
wow.....hole....moping
If, however, it is cloudy, they do not see the shadow, so they remain out of their Winter abode and...WINTER ENDS!
dancing...applause yay

First reports from Eastern U.S. locales should be coming in shortly...
Stay tuned to this blog for updates as they become available!

Score -
END OF WINTER cool - 10
SIX MORE WEEKS OF FROZEN HELL ON EARTH cold - 6

popcorn.....drinking

cowboy
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Gunman Attacks A Quebec Mosque...

As of now -
"Five dead, many wounded."

YouTube - CANADA Quebec Mosque Attack CBC YourHotNews

sad

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HAPPY YEAR OF THE FIRE ROOSTER, Y'ALL!

chicken

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve; tomorrow begins the Year Of The Fire Rooster!

It's claimed the next couple weeks, until the full moon, will be the time of the world's greatest migration of people as folks in China, and folks of Chinese descent all over the world, travel to be with friends & family.
There will be special foods. Millennia-old tradtions will be honored.

I'll not get into the specifics of the foods & traditions.
There'll be plenty of opportunity in the comments for folks to share first hand details of the holiday(s).

For now (the eve of the New Year) it's time to clean your space & rid yourself of the old.

Happy New Year, Y'all! party

popcorn....drinking

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It's FESTIVUS! For The REST OF US!!

devil party very mad party flex party boxing party nerdangel2

professor YOUTUBE The Story Of Festivus

Yep! December 23...FESTIVUS! applause yay
The most irreverent, sacrilegious, un-commercialized holiday that celebrates dysfunction...rather than deny it.

SO...

Rummage through the crawl space and drag out your Fetivus Pole.
High Strength-to-Weight ratio Aluminum. Stacked PBR cans are acceptable. NO ornaments...tinsel is distracting. scold

Make out your list for The Airing Of Grievances!*
devil...writing

Get in shape for The Feats Of Strength!
flex

Prepare your Ketchup Smothered Meatloaf or Spaghetti Platter (Marinara is an option for y'all vegans very happy )
My personal favorite is spam

Fill your hip flask! drinking

And remember...It cannot end until the Head Of The Household is forcibly pinned to the floor! boxing

LET THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN!!
EXPECT YOUR FESTIVUS MIRACLE!! angel2

*Airing Of Grievances - Special Blogtown Rule...All such Airing shall be done via PM.
As is all too well remembered, Grievances got a damned good Airing on the blogs a short while ago.
scold

popcorn...drinking

cowboy
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"GOD'S SPEED, JOHN GLENN..."

John Glenn 1921 - 2016

YOUTUBE Tribute To John Glenn..."GODS SPEED JOHN GLENN"

sad flower

cowboy
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Where Will YOU Be In 2017?

Before you say, "The same place I am in 2016, of course!"
Watch this...

YOUTUBE Impending Pole Shift - Future Location of the North and South Poles

wow

Some claim this will occur very shortly, when Planet Nibiru makes it's pass through our solar system. hole

If I have it figured right...
writing
...The Great Lakes will be at about Bermuda/Bahamas latitude. cool
Maybe in time for my birthday. batting

I have a snow blower I'll let go cheap.
I won't need it at the Bermuda/Bahamas latitude. yay

Y'all South Africans & Hawaiians might want to take me up on it. cold
PDQ!
Just sayin'.

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