Sunsets
It’s not the shortest day of the year yet, but we’ve already had the earliest sunset. Sunsets are getting later now, day by day, which brings me joy.
The New Neo
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It’s not the shortest day of the year yet, but we’ve already had the earliest sunset. Sunsets are getting later now, day by day, which brings me joy.
*earliest* sunset, maybe?
Do not rejoice over me, enemy of mine. Though I fall I will rise; Though I live in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.
Christopher B:
Thanks. Haste makes waste once again. I’m out doing errands; will fix when I get home.
Yes, it’s an oddity that in mid-late December both sunrises and sunsets become later. The former faster than the latter, leading to the shortest day on the solstice. In the mid latitudes the earliest sunsets are in early December while the latest sunrises are in early January.
And due to New England’s latitude and position in the time zone sunrises will keep getting later until January…kinda cancels out the few minutes on the sunset.
Check out https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ for your local sunrises and sunsets.
For me, earliest sunset was Dec 5th and latest sunrise will be Jan 7th. Shortest day is 12/21/23 and closest to the sun will be on 1/2/2024.
Also – the site has info on what happened on this day – in 1791, the first 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights took effect when Virginia ratified them.
RE: You think you’ve got it tough–
I’ve been following the real life Youtube adventures of a number of different individuals and couples as they pioneer, or undertake some extraordinary or unusual task which I find interesting; a vicarious look at a whole other life.
One late 30 ish? self-sufficient couple I’ve been following for a couple of years now is located in a somewhat remote, very snowy, and cold part of Alaska (in fact, they just moved further North from an earlier homestead)—and on the new off grid property, which they have pretty much created from scratch, they improve, build, and repair their buildings and equipment—and the husband—a jack of all trades–is especially good at planning and improvising; industriousness doesn’t even begin to describe their daily routines, they are always on the move, and they both work full out from dawn to after dusk.
They raise their own food—with a large garden (they’re living off the last harvest from their old garden and have to establish the new garden come spring, chickens, and bees, plus they fish, they forage for berries and mushrooms, they hunt game birds, and moose, and do a tremendous amount of canning and preserving. They are both extremely good and inventive cooks.
They hope to successfully hunt one moose a year, which they process and freeze to eat over the winter.
This year they went out to hunt moose several times but were not successful in finding one. However, they have been signed up for a service in which the local highway authorities will give people on a list a call—day or night—about a moose that was killed on the roads and—if they can manage to get there first—they can go out and “harvest” the moose.
A couple of days ago they got a call at 2 A.M about such a dead moose, and the video below is about how they were able to find, load up, carry back home, and butcher the thousand pound? Moose.*
I find this interesting, perhaps you will too.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zWBYY7B7GQ
8 hours and 24 minutes of daylight here today. Ugh! But it’ll change to nearly 16 hours next summer. YESSSS!
My wife and I used to go out to Hawaii for a couple of weeks each winter. It helped break the gloom. The pandemic stopped that. Now the chaos of air travel and the high prices have stopped us. Thanks, Joe Biden.
We satisfy our desire for some sunshine with looking at pictures of our past trips. Well, it’s bet t er than staring at the gloom.
Snow on Pine, interesting couple. Not much different than nay farmer. rancher, or settler in the West. Dawn to dusk work is required and handiness at building and repairing is a key to success. Good for them. They’ve got the pioneer spirit and the work ethic to succeed.
My question is, how long would they last without fossil fuels? Wind and solar? Nope. Old time Eskimos lived without fossil fuels, but it was a sketchy existence. Biden and the Green New Deal want to kill people like that couple.
Thanks, Neo, Marissa, physicsguy and Liz for this info!
Snow, here is one you may enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxM9FYSs8V4&list=PL-UbUksm4nPn5yT4y39QDfZarNiCpRBEN
This is how our pioneer ancestors built character and a nation.
J.J.–Their new place is 40 acres, and they have abundant wood, which they cut for fuel, and also mill on their property for the lumber they need for their improvements.
If I remember correctly, they do have a drilled well, and maybe even septic.
They recently made an almost 3,000 mile round trip to a dealer in Oregon? to pickup and haul back a large, well priced tractor.
They have also just installed a solar power system.
Put in two very large concrete pads.
They did have the help of a neighbor and the concrete guy to help with pouring the extremely large second pad, but the husband and wife installed the water and electric lines, the complex underground heating and, then, when the pad was complete, the husband and wife team managed to erect a huge aluminum shell covering the larger pad, and a wooden covering for the smaller pad, to shelter their saw mill.
This couple is nothing if not ambitious.
P.S. They also have a very primitive and even more remote “vacation cabin” that can only be reached by float plane, or a 60 mile trip up a river. I don’t know if they are now closer or farther away from that cabin in their new location.
Gorgeous scenery, by the way, in their various videos.
There are people like those above, working hard and accomplishing something and, then, there is this guy.*
Will this apparent Senate staffer get away with it? We’ll see.
*See Sodom and Gomorrah Congressional edition at https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/15/staffer-caught-filming-sex-tape-senate-hearing-room/
J.J. The other couple I follow are building up their spread in Northern Idaho in a location with glorious mountain views.
They have four kids, who the the mother of the couple home schools, and have built their large home by hand and by themselves.
They have a large garden, rabbits, a few sheep, and a couple of horses and, again, do extensive canning. *
The one thing I don’t like about their setup is that they have “sponsors,” and hawk a product on each episode, which I guess they need to generate enough income to help them survive and build.
The other couple in Alaska have no sponsors or ads, but also don’t have as large, fancy, or as nice a spread.
*See “Good Simple Living” at https://www.youtube.com/@GoodSimpleLiving
Well, Senate Sodom and Gomorrah boy has gotten himself fired.*
I wonder, though, how he could possibly have thought that he was going to get away with what he did?
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/breaking-democrat-senate-staffer-involved-gay-sex-scandal/
Snow, when I retired. we bought five acres near Leavenworth WA.
It was a hay meadow in the Icicle River valley. I was going to be a gentleman hay farmer. We got all our building permits from the county in about three weeks and for about $100. (Today, 30 years later, it would take 18 months and cost maybe $10,000.) Anyway, we built a road to the property, brought the electricity and irrigation water line a 1/4 mile from the main powerline and irrigation ditch, drilled a well, had a septic system installed, and acted as the general contractor and “Manuel Labor” to get our home built.
We then installed an irrigation system to keep our hay filed watered properly. We continually improved our house, added some trees along the property lines, and sold our hay to a nearby neighbor who kept a couple of horses.
We cultivated a garden, and also raised blueberries and blackberries. Ah, the farming life. Some years were better than others.
We lasted eight years there. We decided to sell and move to the wet side of the mountains because the Sierra Club was trying to shut down our irrigation water, which cost a lot of money to defend against. And we also wanted to spend more time traveling.
I hope these couples will escape the never-resting eye of the enviro-nazis. They are a threat to all who seek to build something of value.
RE: UFOs—For those interested in this subject, here are old official documents from the 1950s and later, which reveal what was really going on.
Starting several minutes into this show, after some “technical difficulties,” there begins a review of several documents released by the CIA from the 1950s and later which show that–while the government was trying to shut/tamp down public interest in UFOs, via a very deliberate campaign of ridicule and phony commissions with rigged conclusions that “there was nothing there”–behind the scenes, the authorities considered these UFOs to be real and of extraterrestrial origin, were a potential threat, and were frantically trying to do research on them to gain access to anti-gravity technology.
These documents mentioned that the government was funding 43 different projects to delve into anti-gravity, that major universities had been contracted to do some of this anti-gravity research, that there was an anti-gravity conference which involved some of the greatest minds in physics,* and that they were trying to discourage government whistle blowers by warning of penalties of 10 years in jail for those who tried to reveal information to the public.
Toward the end there is also a review of a recently discovered 54 page document from the Australian government archives–Australia being one of the “five eyes” intelligence sharing group i.e. the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand–which gave the Australians a very good vantage point from which to give a very frank and revealing summary/overview of the US government’s actual activities regarding UFOs. **
* Public intellectual Eric Weinstein apparently got wind of this mysterious conference and talked about it and anti-gravity research on a recent interview which I can no longer find.
** See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpK3Sg2Qggs
RE: Australian government summary of some U.S attitudes and actions with regard to UFOs during the 1940s, 50s, and into the 1960s.
This is a dynamite document!
If you are interested in this subject you can go directly to the actual, very revelatory, almost 60 page document, a now unclassified digital copy of which is available to read, at no charge, at the Australian National Archives website, look up Series A13693, Item ID 30030606.
In that document you will see how the Australian authorities summarized and evaluated what the U.S.government–mostly apparently the Air Force and the CIA–were doing with regard to the UFO Phenomena in the 1940s, 50s, and into the 1960s.
And what the U.S. government was doing was lying to the American people, and through a number of supposedly rigorous studies of UFOs–which were actually disinformation operations–telling the public, “nothing to see here, move along” while, at the same time, trying to intimidate former insiders from revealing the true state of play.
Meanwhile, on the inside, the authorities believed UFOs to be real, and to be of extraterrestrial origin, and they were frantically recruiting scientists, universities, and private aerospace companies to secretly study the possibility of mastering the anti-gravity propulsion which they believed these UFOs used, back then funding 46 different research projects, and spawning almost 500 research papers, the majority of these projects under the auspices of the U.S. Air Force.
This Australian government document likely only a small glimpse into some of the attitudes, actions, and research programs which were taking place within government regarding UFOs in the U.S. during the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s.
What do you suppose the U.S. government has secretly been up to with regard to the UFO Phenomenon and to anti-gravity research since then?
Upsidasium and Hushaboom are alien technology too.
That alien technology is so powerful that after 80 years people still use bullets, arty, bombs, HE instead of the super secret death rays and antigravity stuff. It is criminal what the governments are doing ……
Unicorns don’t need no stinkin gravity. Just sayin’
Interesting how om always replies to whatever I post about UFOs with mockery, but not with actual engagement with and rebuttal of the specific information I present.
Snow on Pine specializes in breathless National Enquirer reports. Project Blue Book was a thing in the early 1960s when I was a boy, Cattle Mutilations were a thing in the early 1980s when I was in grad school, but the gullible are always available for UFOs.