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Air Purifier Went to Code Green and More Odds and Ends
Just some odds and ends here today. Our new RENPHO Air Purifier went to Green Air Quality yesterday around lunchtime. It’s the first time since we got it that it changed. Green still means “good” air quality. Blue is “very good.” Orange is bad, red is “polluted,” and magenta is “evacuate now!” The fan speed…
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Day of The Fox Hunt
Yesterday, Sena called me to the window in the sun room to see the “tabby cat.” When I got there, it looked a lot more like a fox. It was hunting in the outlot and it may have caught a rodent. It also seemed to be flea bitten. When we first moved in to this…
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CDC Update on Respiratory Viruses and the Covid-19 Vaccine
CDC posted an update on Covid-19 vaccination on October 13, 2023. In brief, the salient points: They save lives and prevent hospitalizations. The vaccines work. The side effects are mild or moderate. Scientific evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. They don’t make you magnetic and they don’t have microchips to track your…
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Plant Based Cheese Made with Artificial Intelligence Is Only The Beginning!
We tasted plant-based cheese by Kraft yesterday. Sena bought it at Hy-Vee the other day. It’s actually not bad. The company is called Kraft NotCo. They make Not Cheese. It’s made with chickpeas, which are the same thing as garbanzo beans. You can also buy plant-based mayo, called Not Mayo. I don’t know if it’s…
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An Unexpected Encounter with Bigfoot on the Clear Creek Trail
The other day we put in about a 2.5 mile walk on the Clear Creek Trail in Coralville. We haven’t been there in a long while. It gets really quiet along the wooded trail. Sometimes even the birds don’t sing. It was pretty quiet except for some strange knocking noises. You know, Sena has taken…
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Decision Time on Flipped Drain Tile Lids
OK, today another drain tile lid flip. We made a decision yesterday on this. We’re going to have the installers return and screw down all seven lids. Sure, it’ll mean I have to unscrew them to clear out the debris. Whatever. The guy we called said this is happening because of an over-eager squirrel. That…
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Door Painter Dad Joke
We just got our upstairs doors picked up by the painters yesterday. They took all the doors off the hinges and taped numbers on them to keep track. They’ll probably finish them and return them by the end of the week. Two guys removed the doors and one of them had a dad joke for…
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150 Years of Coralville and Iowa River Flathead Catfish as Big as Your Leg!
We found out we missed the wheat paste murals posted on various buildings in Coralville this past summer. It’s the 150th anniversary of the city of Coralville in Iowa this year. You can find out more about it on the Coralville Public Library web site. We drove around and found some of the murals were…
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And Then There Were Four Drain Tile Lids Flipped
Now there are 4 tile drain lids that have been flipped. A couple of others were flipped last night. Sena put them back on and put a rock on one of them. The two others with rocks on top of them were undisturbed. Four of the seven lids have now been flipped this season. We…
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The Screaming Barn of Iowa City Rises Again
Harvest Preserve made the Screaming Barn of Iowa City rise from the grave only a couple of days after I mentioned it after our autumn walk on October 2 (Monday). Halloween is the inspiration! It looks great! There were enhancements in addition to the returning theme of grisly epitaph dad jokes. It should be visible…
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