The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Riddle Sideways: Morning Adams.
Riddle Sideways: howz the weather?
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: or storm?
Adams Rubble: The fearsome storm has laid down and 1/4" of snow so far
Riddle Sideways: oh
Riddle Sideways: how is the household?
Adams Rubble is grateful that I do not have to make decisions that affect thousands of lives based on weather predictions
Adams Rubble: the household is warm and safe from the fearsome storm
Adams Rubble: thanks for asking
Adams Rubble: we had a nice time yesterday with our visitor who is safe at her home too
Adams Rubble: might be more snow up there
Riddle Sideways: oh, not the usual Tuesday visitor
Adams Rubble: yes came Monday to avoid the fearsome storm
Riddle Sideways: the Predicted fearsome storm instead of the unexpected sudden fearsome storm
Adams Rubble: yes

Riddle Sideways: maybe should get a false alarm fearsome storm warning in October to get people to go stock up and get readu
Adams Rubble: the unexpected one came on November 16
Adams Rubble: not that fearsome but paralyzed the State
Riddle Sideways: ha, got that date right on mind

Adams Rubble: since then the State has been closing down at the chance of shite stuff
Adams Rubble: NJ Christy has been mouthing off about it since then
Adams Rubble: It took him 3 hours to get home
Riddle Sideways: ummm, Christy is not in office?
Adams Rubble: no
Riddle Sideways: but, he reports how long to get home
Adams Rubble: yes, scoring points against the Dem giv
Adams Rubble: gov
Adams Rubble: makes him feel big
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: ah... the storms are the Dem Gov fault!
Adams Rubble: get it?
Riddle Sideways: but, he is Big and fat

Adams Rubble: anyway I feel grateful that I do not have to make those decisions
Adams Rubble: weather becoming more unpredictable
Riddle Sideways: that would be tough job
Riddle Sideways: remember listening to something about that last year
Riddle Sideways: use to be a bad forecast out only 1-3days
Adams Rubble: Australia experiencing drought and floods at he same time
Riddle Sideways: and better recording, computation, etc. has it out a week

Riddle Sideways: oh Yes! that darned butterfly flapping again
Riddle Sideways: wait, wait a minute... if many-most butterflies are dead-dying
Riddle Sideways: ummmm, the flapping is less
Riddle Sideways: and the weather is getting worse
Adams Rubble: we humans have made a mess of things
Riddle Sideways: HEY... might be something
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Riddle Sideways: maybe
Riddle Sideways: if butterflies don't flap
Riddle Sideways: weather don't move
Riddle Sideways: Vortexes
Riddle Sideways: displaced weather
Riddle Sideways: well, maybe a therory in the making
Riddle Sideways: puts it on the hypothesis shelf
Riddle Sideways: btw - the hypothesis shelf is very full

Riddle Sideways: this news just in: Pond duck count = 4
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways:  half way through yesterday a second pair showed up
Adams Rubble waves to ducks

Riddle Sideways: and the poor pro golfers had to delay playing while crews blew hail stones off the greens
Riddle Sideways: funny picture in paper
Riddle Sideways: am grateful that is the worst things going on here

Riddle Sideways: had no computer working enought to publish yesterday's log
Adams Rubble: did anyone come?
Adams Rubble: so sorry to miss
Riddle Sideways: but, Xir dropped by
Adams Rubble: ohhh
Riddle Sideways: after long distance IM
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: That country is in a real mess
Riddle Sideways: need to get that log out
Adams Rubble will read when it is there
Riddle Sideways: there was a grand celebration in the streets over their politians being in jail for one year
Riddle Sideways: people waving flags
Riddle Sideways: Spain reporting, nothing happening over there, go look elsewhere
Adams Rubble: Spain does not want Catalonia to separate
Riddle Sideways: Free speech, seems to mean you are free from jail if you don't speech
Adams Rubble: Xirana's artwork has been very eloquent
Riddle Sideways: yes, have lost track of how many shows and styles-themes
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Adams Rubble: we humans make lots of messes
Adams Rubble: out of ignorance and greed
Riddle Sideways: thinking there is foul odor to the winds of change

Adams Rubble: we are always changing
Adams Rubble hints at a topic

Riddle Sideways: have a personal dilemma here over the property
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: the neighbors have fences and have cleared Their land of debre
Riddle Sideways: fire fuel
Riddle Sideways: ours is the only yard that turkeys, deer, lions, ducks, etc. can cross
Riddle Sideways: and ours has much burnable fuel
Riddle Sideways: very Natural land
Riddle Sideways: like a forest
Riddle Sideways: like the forested mountain up the hill
Riddle Sideways: supposed to fall in line and clear all nuture off this land
Riddle Sideways: supposed to be good human and mess with the land
Riddle Sideways: however, have mixed feelings on that
Riddle Sideways: Should put up a WALL
Adams Rubble understands that
Riddle Sideways: should get guard dogs
Riddle Sideways: should take all burnables away
Adams Rubble: is the natural native plants and trees
Riddle Sideways: need a spark fence put up
Riddle Sideways: yes, oaks and natives are very combustible
Riddle Sideways: need to plant non-natives
Riddle Sideways: that deer don't eat
Riddle Sideways: that don't burn
Riddle Sideways: actually pure dirt is recommended
Adams Rubble: birds and insects can't profit from the non-natives
Riddle Sideways: nope
Riddle Sideways: the recommended butterfly food plants are combustible
Riddle Sideways: native bees don't like the new plants
Riddle Sideways: what to do
Riddle Sideways: best thing would be not to Think
Adams Rubble: I can't offer advice because I do not know anything
Riddle Sideways: ha
Adams Rubble: you may come up with some kind of compromise
Adams Rubble: you have all those creatures migrating through your and?
Adams Rubble: land
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Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble would nerovous about the mountain lions
Adams Rubble: be nervous
Riddle Sideways: well, yes
Adams Rubble: do the mountain lions eat deer?
Riddle Sideways: reports have them down into the valley more lately
Riddle Sideways: yes, they follow the deer down into lower valley more now
Adams Rubble: yummy
Riddle Sideways: why the kitties have to be home in by dark

Adams Rubble: there are people who want more mountain lions in NJ
Adams Rubble is not one of those
Adams Rubble is not having succcess googling "spark fence"
Riddle Sideways: see more reports annually from the Santa Cruz mountains area of tagged mountain lion ranging

Riddle Sideways: not sure what the real phrase is for a chicken wire fence that is supposed to stop embers blowing onto a house
Adams Rubble: ohhh netting around house openings?
Adams Rubble thinks there ought to be some room for compromise
Riddle Sideways: supposed to have those also, but no. an ember barrier
Riddle Sideways: right, can't find them either

Riddle Sideways: search engine let down
Riddle Sideways: feel a song coming on
Adams Rubble: :)
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Adams Rubble thinks about the Monty Python sketch in The Holy Grail in which the son is locked in the tower
Riddle Sideways: no, no, NO breaking into a song now
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: Stop, Stop the musical intro

Adams Rubble: this storm is a lesson in wu-wei
Riddle Sideways: well, what will you do with your day without the visitor
Adams Rubble: there is an urge to go out and mess around with shoveling or something
Riddle Sideways: and without the fearsome storm
Adams Rubble: but the best thing is to nothing
Adams Rubble: let it play out
Adams Rubble: the ice already is covering the snow
Adams Rubble: in a couple of hours it will all turn to rain
Adams Rubble: and the snow will prvent the ice from adhearing to the concrete
Adams Rubble: so wu-wei
Riddle Sideways: what fun
Adams Rubble: do nothing
Riddle Sideways: ok, well go start your doing nothing ㋡
Adams Rubble: I wish you well in figuring out what to do about your dilemma
Riddle Sideways: thanks for wasting the time here
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: it was not a waste!!!
Adams Rubble: I hope to see you Thursday
Riddle Sideways: hope to
Riddle Sideways: off we go
Adams Rubble: have a very good day
Riddle Sideways: by ALL
Adams Rubble: bye