21.5.25

COULD IT BE ANOTHER SEASON?

Hot Air contributor Beege Welborn confesses to a guilty Tuesday pleasure.
Normally, Tuesdays at our house are pretty chill, particularly once Winter rolls around. major dad and I get done with work, get 'the farm chores done' (as we have dubbed feeding the inside and outside zoos), and usually Dr. Alice comes over for dinner.

After we get done eating, she and I will settle in for another thrilling episode of The Curse of Oak Island while my long-suffering husband tries to find somewhere in the house free of the sound of 'Oh, look! It's another bobby dazzler!' or the admittedly annoying narrator saying, 'A corroded BUTTON?! COULD IT BE...?!' as if it were the most important discovery next to that of peanut butter and chocolate.
There have been a few more corroded buttons since then, and this season, the spurious references have been to the Hospitallers, relentlessly taking the limits as nothing over nothing approaches the bottom of the solution channel.  Over the winter, the crew had an enormous gob pile to sort through, the final exploration being an air-scouring of the bottom of that channel, and maybe another corroded button or two came up along with all the cobble and yet another fragment of a Shakespearean era pick-axe.  We'll have to wait until late fall for any evidence to come to light, as well as to gape at the latest civil engineering, sending a cluster of tangent caisson casings down to bedrock.  (That island is so undermined by searcher excavations that it's unlikely anything that might have been concealed down there is still in a stable formation.)  Let's see what the summer exploring season brings.

Her column was inspired by something that was indeed a rent in the firmament.
There's no snow falling in Green Bay, or DeKalb, today, but local high temperatures this week have  reached record lows not seen in the better part of a century.  Could it be there is no global warming?

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