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November 30, 2022 Last day of the month. I made quiche last night, first time, it was absolutely light and delicious!
I got to go out and enjoy the water this morning, It felt so wonderful!
I got a new TV yesterday, it was made a month ago in Mexico. I had been suffering with my old TV for a long time, it was dark on the left third and had a white light in the lower right hand corner. I tried to donate it but no one wants it, so off to the recycler it goes.
There was an article in the paper about the Owls I have photographed years ago. The adults caught a rat that apparently had eaten rat poison. The whole family died. Now the nest is empty.
November 27, 2022 A lot of sunscreen on and Kay out to kayak with me. It was windy and took a lot of effort to paddle
I took my camera that will take movies. I told Kay that I did not like the camera (it does not do stills the way my D300 does) and the camera paid me back for dissing it. It only recorded the last seven minutes of the three hour trip. The photos and videos I took all along the trip did not make it onto the chip! Here are the videos it did record:
November 25, 2022 I hope everyone had good Thanksgiving, Dee and Graham had invited me over to their awesome home for dinner!
November 16, 2022 We have a thief in our midst. The weather has been so nice I have left the doors open and the screen doors shut. Yesterday morning I went down to the kitchen for breakfast and I felt something under my foot. On further inspection it turned out to be bread crumbs. That is strange I thought, I had not gotten out bread recently. I did have a loaf of really nice bread on the counter. The bread was full of nuts of all kinds, including sunflower seeds. I had only used two slices out of it. I looked up, and there was no bread on the counter, it was gone. It had vanished. I looked at the open door, the screen had been partially opened.
So there now are 8 billion people on Earth. Think we’ve reached the planet’s carrying capacity yet?
The symbolic 8 millionth person is a baby girl born in Manila November 15, 2022 at 1:29 a.m.
The rate of the Earth’s population growth is scary, although demographers expect it’s going to slow down a bit. It took about 300,000 years from the time Homo Sapiens emerged for us to reach the first billion, in about 1804.
We hit 2 billion just 123 years later, in 1927.
3 billion in 1960, 33 years later
4 billion in 1974, 14 years later
5 billion in 1987, 13 years later
6 billion in 1999, 12 years later
7 billion in 2011, 12 years later
And just 11 years later, we have reached 8 billion.
The UN said annual growth has fallen from 2.1% between 1962 and 1965 to below 1% in 2020 and could even drop to around 0.5% by 2050. It also projects the population to continue growing to about 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and peak around 10.4 billion in the 2080s.
November 14, 2022 It has been cloudy and rainy in the mornings for a while, and I have been up in the booth doing the sounds for a play.
But this afternoon my Red-shouldered Hawk came to say hello, and fly down onto the lawn to catch a lizard I guess.
(Photos from my back porch.)
November 10, 2022 Nicole is knocking! Just wind and 2.8 inches of rain so far.
I cannot see across the bay for all the rain, my rubber tree and the mangroves are bending to the wind.
Wind and rain!
November 8, 2022 Eclipse of the moon this morning!
November 4, 2022 Both Dolphin and manatee sighting day! Again the manatees were in the widened section of the creek and two dolphin were heading south.
November 3, 2022 Another manatee sighting day! Several manatees were in the widened area of Bear Creek, Nature John and I paddled with them for a long time. They kept raising their whole heads out of the water and one came up right under me.
