Got the new Covid vaccine tonight

Asian pears are ready for fresh eating! The yellow ones are New Century and the brown ones are Hosui. Our nectarines were hammered by the heat and recently got bug infested. But we harvested what we could & cooked them down. #HomeOrchard #AsianPears A collection of yellow and brown Asian pears placed in a clear plastic bowl.

Last Sunday, caught this Navy E6-B bird flying west of the refuge. Apparently they were on a west coast tour. #E6B #AvGeek A small white airplane flying against a clear blue sky. It is a four engine jet.

Saw a bad-ass Tarantula-hawk Wasp at the refuge. I haven’t seen tarantulas around these parts, though. #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Pepsis #TarantulaHawkWasp A black bodied and orange-winged Tarantula-hawk wasp with long orange antennae walking on a rocky dirt surface.

Rabbits all day at the refuge this pleasant summer morning #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Rabbits A wildlife scene featuring a jackrabbit with large ears sitting on a trail, framed between two hiking trail signs. There’s lots of tall, dry grass and on the horizon, a clump of trees.

In X-Plane 12, flew from KLAX to KJFK in the classic 747-200. I came in hot and then a bit low, but everyone got off the plane in short order so guess everyone’s happy 😅  #XPlane12 #FlightSim #YawmanArrowA 747-200 in classic United tulip livery on approach to KFJ 31L. There are three red and one white PAPI lights, indicating the aircraft is a bit low. The plane is flying over some water, with the runway rapidly approaching. Manhattan skyscrapers can be seen in the distance. It's a partly cloudy day.

My RaspberryShake detected the M7.1 earthquake from super early this morning Pacific time. Here’s the USGS link: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000nith/executive

#RaspberryShake #Earthquake #CitizenScience #Japan

A seismopgraph of the 7.1 earthquake off the coast of Southern Japan. Shows a strong, though kind of fuzzy signal that starts strong compared to background and slowly fades out.

It’s really disappointing that Amazon can’t be bothered to make reasonable delivery schedules in my own nick of the woods. It’s not a new problem! UPS is unionized & they do fine.

On Geekwire: “Driven away: Overloaded by Amazon, rural delivery companies reach the end of the road”

Well, I cannot help but be excited that Tim Walz is a Geographer and a GIS practitioner.

If you have a Yawman Arrow Controller, X-Plane 12, and the Felis 747-200, here’s my amateur-hour FlyWithLua script (on GitHub) to enable the Yawman Controller to have multifunction buttons to control the aircraft #YawmanArrow #FlyWithLua #Lua #XPlane12 #FlightSim

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