Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

Br’er Rabbit

Foliage

I recall bicycling through the North Carolina countryside in the evening in early summer and seeing the woods lit up by fireflies.

Gourmet

Twin Peaks

Every summer, Great Smoky Mountains National Park gives parkgoers a chance to see a magical phenomenon — a synchronous firefly viewing. The “natural light show” — which can only be viewed in a handful of places throughout the United States — occurs when large populations of fireflies gather for mating season and flash their lights in perfect synchronization, creating a dazzling display of light. To tamp down on crowds, Great Smoky Mountains National Park has implemented a lottery system so that only a select group of winners can attend the event. The limited attendance makes the experience better, not just for the humans, but also for the blinking, benevolent beetles, which are sensitive to the artificial light pollution emitted from flashlights and car headlights. On April 21, Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced that their lottery will open on recreation.gov on May 2 at 10 a.m. and close on May 5 at 11:59 p.m. The cost of entering the lottery is a single dollar. If selected for the firefly viewing, recipients will be prompted to pay a $29 vehicle pass fee, the cost of which goes directly to the park. According to the National Park Service website, all lottery applicants will be notified in an email by mid-May, whether they were successful or not.

Double Trouble

Little Audrey

It’s the kind of thing a teen would try, French or not.

Expensive just means that it has a high asking price. I suspect that finding a willing buyer could be a problem. What that buyer pays will be its value for a while.

Put down

I hope this brings a smile….. The VA gave me a walker so I can get more walking in to strengthen my back. I added a phone and drink holder and flames!

So you’ll never pitch again?

So the bicep is all heeled? It was a bicep, right?

I Don’t believe it was all the time. This was a rehearsed YouTube for money.

So it’s not just six soldiers, it’s six dragoons.

Why would they have rifles and revolvers?

Down beat

On May 20, 1883, Krakatoa, a volcano on Rakata Island in Indonesia, erupted with a force never seen — or heard — on Earth. Some 1,300 miles away, residents of islands in the Bay of Bengal reported hearing a series of blasts “resembling those of artillery.” Even farther away, reports from islands in the western Indian Ocean recorded a “distant roar of heavy guns.” As the speed of sound is around 767 miles per hour, Krakatoa’s loud awakening took four hours to reach the distant island of Rodrigues (near Mauritius) roughly 3,000 miles away — and it still delivered sounds as loud as a gun blast. At an estimated 310 decibels, the eruption of Krakatoa is the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. In fact, Krakatoa was so loud that for those in close proximity, the sound of the eruption wasn’t a sound at all. That’s because at 194 decibels, acoustic vibration transforms into a shock wave of a sonic boom, and the Krakatoa shock wave was so massive, it circled Earth four times before finally dissipating. For a full five days, weather stations around the world experienced spikes in pressure every 34 hours — approximately how long it takes for sound to circumnavigate the globe. The Krakatoa eruption was one of the most powerful in history, due to a buildup of pressure in the magma chamber. It delivered the equivalent force of a 200-megaton bomb — four times as powerful as the largest-ever thermonuclear explosion, Tsar Bomba, which produced the loudest human-made sound in history

Exhausted

After Pope Gregory X died in 1276, the first papal conclave was held. Speed was encouraged. The longer the cardinals took the less food was provided.

Not bright

What about it is the felony? Length? collapsible? Other?

I bet it was rehearsed and teleprompted. But if singers can do it why not talkers.