Do you have those? I don’t have those either but if I did, there is a local heating and cooling company that advertises their ability to fulfill those. That is really good to know and in fact hard to forget since the spot airs on local radio pretty persistently.

When we grew up kale and leeks were winter vegetables. While there are others these two could literally be left outside in the frost, kale in particular turns brown and becomes the ingredient of brown kale, a dish that is only served after the first frost occurs. Have you ever wondered if animals also have a seasonal food cycle? Upon some thought it is clear, that the plants they might eat are not always available – perhaps except for grass, which was at least by my estimation the prime source of nutrition for deer and elk. We have long learned that any flowers and nice looking (and perhaps also good tasting) plants are in danger all season long. Hence, we put chicken-wire cages around them all the time. We learned that lesson the hard way or better said by having to replace many plants multiple times. That learning path includes

Autonomously driving vehicles show up in the news at some frequency, so when I first saw them in San Francisco a few days ago, I knew immediately what they were. Surprising perhaps that there were quite a few and also from different companies zipping around. Curious I signed up with Waymo, who has truly driverless vehicles on the road. They are fully electric vehicles from Jaguar with a significant build out of extra cameras on all four corners and on the roof. I was later asked if I trusted the technology enough to ride – which I did, but I realized that many people if not all do, since when you walk around town you come upon them at intersections. Many people pre-occupied with their music or their phones walk through crosswalks not realizing that a driverless car is pulling up, turning or waiting at the red light and I