Weather

When large masses of warm air and cold air meet, they do not mix. Instead, they form a front,...when a front passes, the weather changes.


Based on that definition, I would say we've had a front passing every ten minutes all day. Every time I look up the weather has  cycled through sun and blue sky, rain, hail, wind, and sometimes all those things at once. 

We managed to get just about half way around the lake this morning when the first rainstorm hit us. The temperature felt like it dropped twenty degrees, the wind came up, blowing the cormorants, ducks and geese off the lake and into the bushes, and in a trice, the blue sky had been vanquished by dark clouds. 

By the time we arrived back at the car, drenched and cold, it had stopped raining,  so we decided to carry on to Acre Coffee. There we found the usual cast of characters, none of whom seemed the least bit wet or bedraggled.

I made a cassoulet today, ground up some eggshells for OilMan's compost bin and read an interesting article in the New York Times about why so many people  believe stupid things (my word, not theirs...their words are things that are demonstrably false). 

Apparently there is a sort of collective memory that we take for granted and assume we know, when we actually don't but feel that we have access to it. "Most of what we think we  'know' about any subject is really just a placeholder for information stored elsewhere.... in a long forgotten textbook or in some expert's head .  

"You know that smoking causes cancer. But can you articulate what smoke does to our cells, why cancers form and why some kinds of smoke are more dangerous than others?" The problems occur when our assumed knowledge piggy backs on someone else's.  i'm sure this has all proceeded at warp speed with the advent of the internet and the dissemination of unverified "facts".