May 10 2022 - Elon Musk Wants Friends

 

The headline says that Elon Musk wants to run twitter so he can have friends.  That's Yahoo News and the National Post.  The story?  Elon Musk tweets ominous message on Mother's Day.  This is the article: "Judging by many of his antics to date, Maye Musk has no doubt been subject to many a disconcerting experience thanks to her son Elon. " "But she did more than roll her eyes at a tweet of his on Sunday, in which he suggested he may not be long for this world. " "In an enigmatic tweet, her entrepreneur son and general disruptor suggested something sinister could happen to him. There’s no suggestion it was directed at his beloved mother or even that he was being serious, but she could not have been impressed with the timing.  His tweet was - "If I die under mysterious circumstances, it's been nice known ya" "Mama Maye, 74 and parent to two other less-provocative offspring, lashed out at her miscreant boy with a couple of angry face emojis." Her reply was "That's not funny" with two frown emojis. The next day he insulted Japan's declining birth rate.  I checked out the news report's link to Twitter and what Twitter 'features' and 'showcases' is shocking to me.  So many rude/stupid/crazed replies on the 'celebrity tweet'.  Are there a lot of Elon Musk jokes?  Yes there are many.   Tesla founder Elon Musk is originally from South Africa, which is strange You’d think he was from mad-at-gas-car. Did you hear that Elon Musk is planning to buy the entire island of Madagascar? He’s planning to rename it Madaelectriccar.   This is Ninth Street in St. Catharines.  I bought a flat of greenhouse-grown Mascara earlier in the spring, and can remember they had a field of them along here.  I was rewarded with a wild patch in the vineyard. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

 

With the pandemic, I am now engaged in the most popular hobby of all times.  I wanted to find some pink fibrous begonias, but found myself driving by the garden centres.  They had lineups of cars to get into the parking lots, and then snaking lines of people outside.  I wonder what will be the case after the pandemic. Will this interest remain or float away? Something keeps popping into my mind.  A square meal is an odd expression.  Plates are round, so why are meals square?  But aren't I being too literal?  The word square has a meaning that includes proper, honest, and straightforward.  The story that a square meal came out of the British Royal Navy's use of square wooden plates is a false one.  Those plates were knowns as trenchers, but there's no connection.   It is so wonderful a connection that the story continues to be repeated. The square meal phrase is of US origin and the first reference is 1894. Fair and square, all square, and square deal are in the same expression group.  The term honest food is in the same range as square meal - simple food using simple ingredients.  There are lots of restaurants with honest meals, there's an honest restaurant, there's honest food, the honest kitchen - for both people and dogs.  There are even restaurant menus that offer "bluntly honest descriptions".    Do you know those round hay bales you sometimes see in fields? The government is going to outlaw them. Apparently cows aren’t getting a square meal.   The simple dandelion has many stories, and there are millions of them at Lilycrest Gardens, Brian's hybridizing field.  We take them for granted, but looking at them closely is a marvel.

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Niagara Gorge Stories

A news item this week occurred at the Niagara River Gorge where a mid-twenties woman slipped on the rocks, fell into the gorge waters and remains missing.  The gorge has 24 kilometres of hiking and walking tracks running along or near the gorge.  It is very popular with sports enthusiasts. The waters of the rapids are rated class 6 - which is very dangerous.  We mostly think of the Whirlpool Rapids, but there are 4 more sections - the Upper Great Gorge, Lower Great Gorge, Old Narrow Gorge and Lewiston Branch Gorge.  The one closes to the falls is the Upper Great Gorge. It is the right-angled turn in the river's course that makes the deep counter-clockwise spin that we call the Niagara Whirlpool.  The water has a maximum depth of 125 feet. There is a rescue team for the gorge - the High Angle River Team.  There eight members in the team and they are also prepared to rescue people from the aero car should it ever break down - the aero car has a perfect safety record for its many years of operation.  They regularly rescue people on the hiking trails in the gorge.  The most common scenarios seem to be when people go off the trails and fall down the rocky cliffs.  There were more than 150 calls along the river last year.  Our Niagara Orchard story this week is the greening of the trees and the dandelion seeding.  All the seeds have blown off now in the winds.  What a sight, though, fluffy white all down the orchard rows.

Dandelions are Here!

We have a few scenes of spring today.  This pretty cherry tree is on Yates Street in St. Catharines.  It is an historic district with houses from an era  of grace and proportion.  The street runs along Twelve Mile Creek so traces a winding path, giving it further charm. Our next picture comes from Charles Daley Park - with our boat on that floating horizon in the distance.  The willow trees are just sprouting their green leaves. Finally, a picture of something that we don't appreciate dandelions much.  They want to take over grassy plots and this is a perfect example of a public park with its lawn awash in yellow blooms.