One thing I don’t understand about myself is why I have parties. It happens by mistake. I did it before I left home to come here. I’m not saying it wasn’t wonderful to see everyone or that I wasn’t flattered that so many people went out of their way to come see me. It’s just that I don’t like parties, so why would I give one?
Yet this is what my house looked like last night.
I was pleased that so many people showed up, and even two of our teachers made an appearance, which was great. When I showed the profs around my digs, one said, “So this is where you write your papers!”
This morning I awoke to a message for me in French, scrawled on the white board in my kitchen. I can tell it’s about bits of turkey, but I’m missing something. Can you help?
Yesterday I loaded up my car with laundry supplies so I’d be ready to tackle the task first thing this morning. I glided to school along icy roads, loaded up the washing machines and started to pour in my hippie organic liquid detergent. Nothing happened. Was the bottle empty? No. I upended it again and hit it on the bottom. Ouch. I never knew a full container of laundry soap can freeze solid.
Each day my pond looks a little different. Does anyone know why it freezes in those wavy patterns?
On my way home from doing laundry it was newly covered with an inch of snow, but I was too to cold to get out of my car to document it.
“I have a white turkey ready to eat. In a piece you’d like without bones? Yes! or not? Your friend, Dena …”
I like your cattails picture.
“Ice ripples form on the underside of river ice-covers. The local rate of freezing or melting at the ice-flow interface is related to the difference between the local heat transfer rates by conduction through the ice and by turbulent transfer from the flow to the ice. The local heat flux to the interface from the flow is expressed as a small perturbation expansion in terms of the steepness of the monochromatic interfacial wave, and is assumed to be shifted relative to the interface wave.”
Took me four or five attempts before I remotely grasped the concept, but there you go.
God Bless the internet.
P.S. There’s also a hybrid violet called “Rob’s Ice Ripple”.
Tell me something I DON’T know. But sincerely*: the ripply thing… does that apply to ponds? I didn’t know that would apply to relatively still bodies of water.
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