I checked on the house finch nest this morning. That would make about 15 days since we first found the nest. The eggs are not hatched, but it looks like they’re being moved regularly. I think it’s still possible there may be baby finches soon, although the typical incubation time is around 14 days. And I haven’t seen the female in about a week.
What do you think? Hatch or no hatch?
Don’t forget to register for the Johnson and Linn County NAMIWalks on May 4, 2024. See registration and location info below:
Heads up! The Carver College of Medicine Health Sciences Research Day is on April 26, 2024. The event is open to the public. Find your way to the Medical Research Facility (MERF) by google map.
Just a reminder, Monday April 22, 2024 is Earth Day. The theme is get rid of plastic waste.
There is a National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) walk scheduled for May 4, 2024 at Terry Trueblood Recreation Area. See the announcement here.
Just a reminder: the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will meet on May 16, 2024 to make recommendations on Covid-19 strain selections for the fall vaccine of 2024-2025.
The University of Iowa Dept of Physics and Astronomy and the Sciences Library invites the public to view the partial solar eclipse on April 8, 2024 between 12:30 PM-3:00 PM at the Pentacrest and the Sciences Library courtyard. Solar eclipse glasses free while they last.
Just in case you haven’t already heard, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) revealed the lack of evidence proving the existence of extraterrestrials from the reports about what we used to call UFOs.
And NASA has said basically the same thing.
So, is there anything left to say about this? Probably not from the official side of the issue. But I don’t think this will be the end of reports of UFOs from the public.
We just found out there’s going to be a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. We hope to get some solar eclipse glasses before then if they don’t run out of stock everywhere. They’re selling fast.
We’ve seen a couple of lunar eclipses and those were fun. The most recent one was during cold weather in November 2022. I had to wear a winter coat.
In Iowa City, it starts at about 1:00 PM on April 8, 2024 and runs until a little after 3:00 PM. We missed the last one in 2017. The next one visible in the U.S. won’t be until 2044. We think we better see the one next month.
We get a lot of mail meant for somebody else. What’s up with the United States Postal Service (USPS)? It has been happening for years. What we do is identify that the mail is not for us and put it back in the mailbox for the postal delivery person to pick up. We write “Person does not live here” on the envelope.
We’re going to write “Return to Sender” on them. Maybe that’ll work.
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