Share Buttons Removed


I have decided to remove the buttons that allow visitors to share Green Comet posts on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. They slow down the loading of the site. They create a link to sites which have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with your data. Besides, no one seems to want to use them anyway.

Is anyone going to miss those buttons?

rjb

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The Cold Snap


That was the cold snap. Minus fourteen the first night, following a biting north wind that froze our doorknob on that side. Temperatures hovering near that mark for a couple of days, not changing much between day and night. Much colder not far north of here. I guess we just caught the southern fringe of the arctic outbreak. Snowing today and forecast to warm up over the next few days, all the way above freezing.

Guess what I heard:

“Cold enough for ya, yet? So much for global warming, eh?”

A thousand years of data won’t convince them, but one cold snap will. Although, I guess it could be a harmless bit of amusing banter and not indicative of the speaker’s political leanings, couldn’t it? Just a bit of humor. Gallows humor, maybe.

Those clothes that were on the line in the last post sure got freshened up in that wind. The shirt I’m wearing — the plaid one — smells like fresh air.

Go see the rest of the Jesus and Mo cartoon to find out how they got to that point.

rjb

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The Snow


Here’s the snow that was forecast, along with some wind. North of us are snow plows working hard, snowblowers roaring in driveways, cars that look like white humps in the snow. Here you can clear the driveway with one hand on the shovel. It’s still warm, though. Around freezing. Next up, the cold snap.

rjb

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