We're getting to the scrambled eggs as I promised in my previous blog post, but I want to review what else I wrote that was and still is on my mind .....
One of California's largest ever wildfires grown now to over 114,000 acres has threatened for the third time the billion dollars worth of vital communication towers on historic Los Angeles area Mount Wilson but again was repelled. This Bobcat Wildfire is finally over 63% contained. The area air quality in my city is slowly improving.
Issues pressing on my mind continue to be associated with the U. S. Presidential election, the Supreme Court Associate Judge replacement situation given the tragic death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ongoing corona virus threat, perpetual increasing environmental and climate change concerns to name a few matters occupying my thoughts.
"Executive order directs state to require that, by 2035, all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California be zero-emission vehicles. Transportation currently accounts for more than 50 percent of California's Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
I may well not be around then or driving a car. Self-driving vehicles may be most prevalent in fifteen years, or perhaps we'll have combo car/plane vehicles by then a la The Jetsons. I would be disappointed to miss all that which can be an ageing problem should the grim reaper pay me a visit inconsiderately causing me to miss everything.
The flying car that had intrigued me, the Terrafugia FX, ownership of which was acquired from the American inventors after the business was moved to China is no longer a U.S. option, unfortunately. The prototype I had seen in a video featured a sleek design with folding wings so the car could easily park in the typical 2-car garage.
However, we may have a flying car sooner than we think as the Japanese have announced having one by 2023.
On a different note, I've encountered another issue for consideration that has come to my attention. Who knew scrambled eggs were prepared differently by the French, British and Americans? I didn't, but perhaps you did. I assumed the way my Mom scrambled eggs as I have continued cooking them was the way everybody did. So, when I've been displeased with some restaurant's eggs, I've learned it may just be because they used a different cooking method.
Little did I know that my method and tastes for scrambled eggs has been for the British style. I thought those scrambled eggs I didn't like that I was served at restaurants were lazily prepared -- that they just dumped the egg into the skillet, when they actually were scrambling the eggs American style, but that doesn't make me like them any better.
The Insider article describes the British scrambled eggs as "dry", but I don't experience mine as dry at all. The American style is really dry, especially by comparison with mine, I think. As for the French style, I don't know if I've ever been served scrambled eggs cooked in that manner though they sound moist and tasty. I've not tried cooking any in French style and am not likely to do so -- sounds like more work than I like to do now, plus I want the minimum of cooking utensils to have to clean afterward, so guess I'm lazy in that regard. What system do you use for the basic scrambled eggs?
Meanwhile, in the White House, I wonder if our leader is coping with scrambled brain disorder that many of his appointees seem to have acquired also, given the thoroughly mixed-up approach to governmental administration to which we've been subjected for four years. At least one department head with little or no experience in the area to which he was appointed to administer has bowed to the Peter Principle effects causing him to take a leave of absence from his position. I can only wish his departure will become permanent and a few other unqualified department head appointees would join him, like the Postmaster General and the list goes on.
In reviewing the article about how efforts to overcome the PP issues in subsequent years evolved, the summary culminated in saying followers of such a leader must be "honest and credible" to compensate in order to help their leader overcome his shortcomings. Unfortunately, honesty and credibility are lacking not only in our leader but he demands his subordinates do and think as he does, so most eventually abandon those qualities to meet his criteria as expected for accepting their appointment by him.
As long as this federal government administration that makes no pretense about ignoring an ethical and moral, if not legal mandate, to represent all of our citizens, not just his supporters (cult?), remains in control of our U. S. government -- we can expect more of the same chaos and much worse. Voters have the power to extricate our nation from this quagmire by draining the current controlling administrative cesspool despite our leaders threats of not leaving office if he loses the majority vote.
SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.....VOTE.....AID.....ASSIST..... ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO VOTE!
Life in Southern California right now makes it impossible for me to ignore the wildfires that national and world news are also reporting.Beginning this past weekend and daily now the sun has only rarely broken through the smoke blanket covering our skies at higher altitudes.Earlier this week there was a darkness when I looked outside which was unusual.
Gazing out my windows in daytime now the air can seem clear at ground level but generally there’s a slight haze present.Local news tells us microscopic lung-damaging particles permeate our air. They are not filtered out when we breathe even with the masks we wear to protect us from Covid-19, so we’re told to stay indoors.
Last week forest wildfires erupted in the mountains many miles east and west of where I live during our record setting high temperatures. Fires causes are reported in one instance to be accidental as a consequence of an ill-advised gender reveal event; another due to arson. At least one small town is gone, other homes have been incinerated and lives have been lost with threats of more losses continuing.
Some residents in our city, perhaps in fringe wooded areas, reported receiving alerts to prepare for possible evacuation though they were not threatened nor is our city. Some local areas experienced a rain of ashes but I’ve seen none where I live below the foothills.
We’re sandwiched between two only slightly partially or uncontained wildfires but great distances apart with no likelihood they will join together. The San Bernardino Mountains wildfire named the El Dorado is many miles east of here with many cities in between. West of here, but closer is the Bobcat wildfire in the Los Angeles National Forest, also separated by many cities. Fortunately, the unpredictable treacherous Santa Ana winds have not whipped up in late afternoon, evening or night to completely alter the fire’s direction and volatility as can occur. Regardless, my city and I remain quite safe.
News accounts and photos of Northern California, smoke-filled orange and blood-red darkened San Francisco fires are awesome to view in photos but are indicators of the devastation that is occurring elsewhere. Oregon is experiencing incredible losses with dangers continuing. Smoke is coming our way from those areas and now heads east with reports of being present as far as midwest Great Lakes state Ohio.
This climate change so many choose to deny or even recognize as a need to address is only just getting started. Future years will be no less better and are expected only to worsen.
Will we humans accept our responsibility for how we’ve corrupted our environment, continue to do so, and undertake to correct our planet’s self-destruction – if not for ourselves, at least for our children, grandchildren and future generations? May all reading this remain safe, staying healthy as I am.
