Currently in a lull from the rain in Eastham, MA. Total (including yesterday) in rain gauge is now 1.3”, so we got 0.6” today so far. Spotter #21-241 #mawx @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

Raining in Eastham, MA. Not over yet, 0.7” in the rain gauge so far. #mawx @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

Late rainfall report from Eastham, MA. 0.3” this morning after the morning sprinkles ended. Thunderstorms before dawn. #mawx @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

My favorite thing about Listers is the captions underneath some interviewees’ names: “guy we met on a gravel road in AZ”, “guy we met by a hummingbird feeder.” Also that it starts out with a Golden field guide.

This is an interesting-looking initiative. #editing

PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!! #LGM

I’ve mostly given up on the Mets for this season, but I’m looking forward to Jacob deGrom returning to pitch against them tonight.

Arguing with myself about whether to make pizza or Korean beef noodles for dinner.

Thanks for the win, Red Sox. I needed that one today.

About 0.5” in the rain gauge from today’s rain so far in Eastham, MA. Spotter #21-241. Don’t think we’re done yet. @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

If anyone is in the Eastham, MA, area this weekend it’s Windmill Weekend, if one is so inclined: www.easthamwindmillweekend.org

It just occurred to me this morning that I’ve spent an awful lot of my life waiting for a bus. Commuting, school, general local transit trips…

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Hi everybody! (better post this since I'm joining late) I'm Jennifer Hanson, a copyeditor, indexer, and writer that specializes in natural history, especially birds. I'm also interested in genealogy and local history, among other things. #ACESChat

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Watching the local news and Alston Christmas is a big story.

Lots of Red-breasted Nuthatches bopping around the neighborhood and “singing” the song of their people. Not sure if we got an influx overnight but ‘tis the season for RB Nut irruptions. They’re here on Cape Cod year round, but this seemed like much more than usual here in Eastham. 🪶

Reminding myself that hissing at yellow jackets to discourage them from getting too close is unlikely to work.

Can you still call it “the house that Ruth built” if it’s the current Yankee Stadium?

If Gatorade had to bring back the “fierce” label, why did they have to use the particular green color that used to mean “fierce lime” for what is now “fierce green apple”?

O.7” in the rain gauge this morning in Eastham, MA. Boy, did we need it! Spotter #21-241 @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

Finally getting some rain here in Eastham, MA. #mawx

No matter how harrowing or dire your road gets, make the occasional and appropriate room for weirdness & whimsy. You may lose track of hope after your battles are done, but whimsy, if you let it, will always heal you and, in its own weird way, help you find hope again, when you need it the most.

Spent the day transcribing badly microfilmed records of WWI courts martial. I propose this as an appropriate punishment for anyone who ever proposes destroying original documents after they’ve been digitized.

We simply cannot lose Biodiversity Heritage Library. Please consider helping if you can. 🙏

Ok, that’s more like it. #LGM

Done digging in the index mines for another day. Whew. Time to hydrate and get some sleep before I get back at it tomorrow.

I don’t know who needs to read this but the names are spelled Alfred Russel Wallace and Robert Ridgway #amindexing

It’s Wednesday but I keep thinking it’s Friday.

Mr. Cardinal has no crest, and instead a grayish bald spot on his pate. 🪶 In yard bird news.

Making a pizza. The dough wanted to be rectangular, not circular, so I went with that, added some sauce and shredded moz, threw on some smoked paprika, smoked pepper, and rosemary from the garden.

#wxhistory #OTD in 2005: Tropical Storm Irene is named, the earliest "I" storm at the time. Persevering for 14 days after becoming a TD on Aug 4 until dissipating on Aug 18, Irene was also the longest-lasting tropical system of the 2005 Atlantic season. (1/2)

Ailanthus Webworm Moth (Atteva aurea) on goldenrod at the NY side of Liberty Loop at Wallkill NWR.

0.5” in the rain gauge this AM in Eastham, MA. Still raining lightly. Spotter #21-241 @wx1box.bsky.social @capecodweather.net

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week. He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention. We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

Magazine Monday: A Leaning Tower of Pizza, colossal replicas of dinosaurs, a giant shrimp wearing a cowboy hat and carrying six-shooters — John Margolies’ photos capture the roadside attractions of America’s golden age of car travel. lcm.loc.gov/issue/july-a...

Anecdata: it’s the height of the summer season here on Cape Cod & I have yet to see a Canadian license plate. Normally, there are plenty of plates from Québec & Ontario. I could easily have missed one, but the obvious conclusion is that the local tourist economy is taking that particular hit. 🇨🇦

Some people really don't have a deep personal connection with food and that's cool but also I do feel bad for them because food is so much more than just a thing you eat, it's the great cultural and intercultural glue of the species

Ok, I shouldn’t do this, because I shouldn’t be making up extra distractions for myself but one like = one moth.

Argh. More divided loyalties. Kyle, can you please keep it tamped down until the Sox leave town? Miss ya!

I don’t think I can do much more of this catcher’s interference stuff with the Red Sox.

Ack, I was trying for a quote post. I was thinking that in the circles I run in, leave two dudes alone together for 60 minutes and they will create a plan that involves a chase for some life/state/county birds/leps/odes. Or possibly some life counties.

a simple fact of human nature is that if you leave two dudes alone together for more than 60 minutes they are going to create a plan that involves throwing something out of a window or off a roof

@petnoodle.bsky.social @peromyscus.bsky.social Y’all ok down there?

@editrix-rachel.bsky.social Happy birthday, Rachel!

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

Thank you no thank you, current laptop, for deciding that your trackpad will stick and select everything in sight as I try to read this document I #amindexing. Grrr.

Happy National Moth Week to all who celebrate!