Continental Breakfast (Open Thread)

Hurrahing in Harvest via Osumashi

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise
Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,
Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour;
And eyes, heart, what looks, what lips yet give you a
Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies?

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder
Majestic – as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet! –
These things, these things were here and but the beholder
Wanting; which two when they once meet,
The heart rears wings bold and bolder
And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet.

To go from the Hopkinsy sublime to the pop culture whatever, All The Leaves Are Brown:

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Continental Breakfast (Open Thread)

Sort of a poem about autumn. (“Unleaving” and “leafmeal” are lovely Anglo-Saxonisms.) Published in 1880, to a young child.

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.
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Continental Breakfast (Open Thread)

Pumpkin omelet, Spanish style! “full of yummy healing spices!” At your own risk.

Pumpkins are so delicious! Extremely Easy! (Actually I quite like the look of these.)

Okay, we should move on from this pumpkin theme. Or at least expand upon it. Suggestions?

Crass, but funny. I must be slipping, I can’t come up with anything better than “Sussex it to me, Duchess! Yeah, Baby!“.

https://twitter.com/Knesix/status/1577671332870905864

Anne, the Princess Royal carries her own bags through JFK airport to catch a commercial flight home.

https://twitter.com/CountessCommon1/status/1577715809496997888

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Electric vehicles and the evacuation of Florida

Electric vehicles and hurricanes: the nightmare scenario is a mandated evacuation.

It is fortunate that as of the current moment, electric vehicles constitute only about 100,000, out of nearly 8 million vehicles registered to drive on Florida’s roads. What if they all were electric, the (impractical) dream dream of greenies?

Depending on how heavily loaded they were, even assuming everyone had a full battery charge, cars from southern Florida would start running out of juice after 100 – 250 miles. They would then have to spend hours at recharging stations, which would rapidly be clogged with other cars and trucks ….

Those cars that ran out of juice on the highway would block traffic. Even assuming that emergency service vehicles could get to them (unlikely if the entire fleet were electric cars), towing a portable generator (powered by fossil fuels, of course) …

In all likelihood, the highways would become vast parking lots, trapping their passengers wherever they happened to be stalled, waiting for the storm and flood waters to reach them, unable to get to safety.

h/t Tom_Billesley

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Continental Breakfast (Open Thread)

Apparently we in the Maritimes are going to have a very horrible storm in the next few hours, so if you never hear from me again assume the power went out and then I was swept out to sea, slightly annoyed that I never got around to watching the last half-season of Better Call Saul. Avenge me. Use your imagination.

In the meantime here is a cinnamon apple rings recipe via Osumashi.

https://fortunegoodies.com/cinnamon-apple-rings/

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