Macadamia nuts…

I was a young child when I had my first macadamia nut,  from a jar my father had brought back from Hawaii.   I thought it tasted like a crunchy little bite of heaven.   All these decades later,  my opinion remains confirmed.   I am surprised to learn that the vast majority of the world’s commercial macadamia crops originated from  a single  19th-century tree in the tiny town of Gympie in Queensland, Australia.   Hawaii remains a huge commercial producer of the nuts,  which are technically seeds.  They are generally the most expensive nut per pound,  which is why you generally see them as part of some delicious confection.  The price is unlikely to decline much,  as a tree takes  seven to  ten years to mature sufficiently to produce the seeds.  Land in Hawaii is extremely expensive,  so few people can afford to wait that long for the land to produce.    There are a few other places with suitable tropical climates, such as Southern California,  Florida,  Costa Rica,  and some South African,  South and Central American locations.

 

 

Black Friday shopping…

The media served up steaming headlines of horse puckey about the big sale day being a bust this year.   Instead  it set records,  including being the  second largest  Internet shopping day ever.   Foot traffic at bricks and mortar stores may have been down a bit,  but online and phone orders were higher than ever.   We’ll know more after all the calculations are done.

It appears that shoppers  could ignore  the climate emergency and the  disruptions  of the climate Nazis,  even when led by the  treasonous Jane  Fonda.   I deliberately avoided the physical crowds,  though I did purchase a few things online very early in the morning when most sensible people were still asleep.   Once again,  online retailers were not prepared for  the crush of customers.

Dutch tractor trail…

Dutch farmers used  their tractors  to snarl traffic during morning rush hour on highways leading to the Hague to protest their livestock and farming practices for being blamed for greenhouse gas emissions and a proposed crackdown on them.

Good for them!

 

 

Green photoshop…

In the past,  the Canadian Green Party claimed environmental virtue by using biodegradable disposable cups.   That was so yesterday.   Now you must carry reusable cups.   So when the party leader was photographed with a clearly disposable cup in hand,  the party just  photoshopped it  out of existence,  replacing it with a reusable cup and metal straw.

The greenies always do two things:  rules for thee but not them,  and when caught,  they lie like rugs.   This is true of every green group I have ever heard of.  The third thing which is likely to be true is that the leaders have never been responsible for a plot of dirt larger than a flower pot.   I left the farm many years ago,  but I grow 99% of my herbs and about 60% of my vegetables in my backyard.  With the Deep South sweltering in a drought,  it has not been easy to grow enough for my family and the critters in the woods,  but it’s worth the effort.   The next time a progressive starts screeching about the environment,  bring up some pix of Baltimore, L.A., Chicago, etc.  The dirtiest cities in the country are all run by progressives.  They should clean up their own yards before daring to criticize the rest of us.

Grilled hypocrisy…

Or meat for me,  but none for thee.   The Dems just held their annual  steak-fry  to entice voters,  but the candidates have all been telling us to eat less meat to save the planet and be healthier.   10,500 steaks at a single event in Iowa sounds awfully hateful against the climate,  doesn’t it?   And they aren’t frying the steaks,  they are using really large grills.   One more example of Democrats having no idea what they’re doing.

 

 

 

Watermelon snow…

Yeah,  it is real snow,  and  it is pink,  and it really does smell just a trifle like the delicious summertime fruit,  but you don’t want to eat it because it is hosting a form of algae which speeds up the melting process.

 

 

Freezing for green…

The snotty elites who run New England assured their gullible citizens that going green would ensure sufficient energy for their needs,  no matter what.   It was a lie then and the lie is  being exposed  now,  in spades.  Thank God the entire country has  not gone  green.

Bitter cold covers much of the USA,  and even in the normally mild South,  daily high temperatures are lower than the customary lows for wintertime.   Big Girl is the only truly happy creature I have seen this week,  since part of her heritage is from the mountains of Europe,  and she has an incredibly thick coat of fine, very dense and crinkly hair — four layers of it.   She is a perfect nightmare when she sheds,  but she is so well insulated that her top coat is quite cold when she comes in,   meaning that her body is toasty warm.   Everybody who proclaims their belief in global warming is busily trying to  explain why  they are freezing their asses off.

Al Gore seems to think we have forgotten that his big buddy Michael Mann was the creator of the infamous  hockey stick  graph which was mathematically disproven and thoroughly debunked in 2003.

Despite all the climate hysteria,  there is  no evidence  that extreme weather “is becoming more frequent and dangerous”  in the U.S.   All the charts and claims being thrown around mean little and prove nothing, even when NASA’s highly flexible and therefore highly suspect “rubber ruler” of temperature data is stirred into the corrupt stew of the environmentalists.

Real climate change…

Climate change hysterics would literally lose their minds  on Kepler -431b,  a new;y discovered planet with wildly changeable  weather due to its wobbly axis and erratic orbit.

Very cold indeed!

Given the frigid temps across the USA,  this compilation of stupid  climate quotes  from Al Gore is the perfect amusement.

Weather turmoil…

I don’t recall hearing about  frost quakes  before,  but they appear to be an interesting phenomenon.   Our Canadian cousins are welcome to them,  just as our British cousins are stuck with more  dreadful flooding,  which does produce some spectacular photographs.

The USA isn’t exempt from bad weather either —  just look at this  wind chill map  from the Drudge Report.   Even the Deep South is in the deep freeze tonight.   I brought in a few tender plants,  but my citrus has been watered and fertilized to a fare thee well,  then wrapped up against the wind and cold.   The wind cuts through whatever you have on,  unless you’re Big Girl,  whose three layers of hair and feathers make her impervious to the air temperature.   I will have to call her in when it’s bedtime,  and her hair will be cold to the touch,  but the pads of her feet will be quite warm,  as will her skin if I go to the trouble of digging through all the hair to get to it.