Points of Inaccessibility

The photos with the green rectangles are part of my posting, Oh Shit, Thursday 5/17.  I believe that Blogspot has some odd way of denoting the dates so that the last posting receives the date and subsequent ones just have the time, makes it a little hard to search though.

I've long thought that the midwest was where God intended people to live, away from those frothy oceans and their storms, those bumpy mountains where it's too tilty to grow corn and soybeans, no earthquakes to speak of, except for that big 'un, by New Madrid, of which we do not speak, and plenty of water, but no flash floods like those hilly places have.  We do get some twisters, but they don't kill all that many, and in this day where everybody has a movie camera on their phone we get all these fantastic videos.  Oh and the cold, seems like we get considerable cold, like this morning, May 21, when it is like 50 degrees.  I can see my spindly little tomato plants on the balcony shivering.  But of course that just builds our character, unlike those spineless wretches on all sides of us.

Seems to me the worst invasive species are the bugs.  We have the ash borer and the Japanese beetles, and now we have the stink bug: .https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/when-twenty-six-thousand-stinkbugs-invade-your-home  Not only do they eat everything in their path, but they want to live in your house, covering your walls in a thick brown layer.  Oh you can brush them off, but you have to be careful not to squish one because then they stink.

Point Nemo, can it actually be named for an annoying Disney movie?  Sort of, it's named after the Jules Verne character upon whom that fish is surely named. And it turns out that Point Nemo is one of three oceanic Points of Inaccessibility, the other two being the north and south poles.  There are also continental poles of inaccessibility, being the point furthest from any coast.  The North American pole is in southwest South Dakota.  Some people consider the Dakotas to be part of the midwest, but personally I am not allowing them in, too dry and to hilly.


The thing about Mother Nature is you think she is on your side by giving you stuff like if you are say a deer, faster feet, but then you look over your shoulder and she is giving the wolves sharper teeth.  And as everybody knows, it 's not  nice to fool with Mother Nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVijP-CDVI