Likely they didn't put them out because they were all small sized fruit.

I'm sure you're right. But at the time it just felt like a "revenge banana". Revenge for complaining about the TV.

[edit] BTW: I complained about the small bananas too. I know - what a bit•• I can be.

 

Where I grew up there is a variety of banana called fig banana which is sweeter than its larger cousin.

 

Where I grew up there is a variety of banana called fig banana which is sweeter than its larger cousin.

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Down here we call them "plátano macho" ... yet another politically charged, patriarchal term

 

I'm sure you're right. But at the time it just felt like a "revenge banana". Revenge for complaining about the TV.

[edit] BTW: I complained about the small bananas too. I know - what a bit•• I can be.

Those small guys are IMO better and then there are the starchy 'cooking' types seldom seen NA plates that I love fried with a little rum sauce.

 

The starchy 'cooking' types are plantain. They are cooked and consumed as stables along with yam and sweet potato.



They are mashed (pounded) to make fufu in a heavy wooden bowl (mortar) on a floor and a big heavy wooden stick (pestle), about 3ft long and 2" diameter.



They can be sliced thick length-wise and fried in oil in a shallow pan. The can also be thinly sliced biased wise and fried to a crisp in a pot of oil to make plantain chips with a sprinkling of salt. My mom used to make plantain chips to sell.

 

A little bit back to the Banana in scientific measurements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

The origins of the concept are uncertain, but one early mention can be found on the RadSafe nuclear safety mailing list in 1995, where Gary Mansfield of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory mentions that he has found the "banana equivalent dose" to be "very useful in attempting to explain infinitesimal doses (and corresponding infinitesimal risks) to members of the public".[2] A value of 9.82×10−8 sieverts or about 0.1 microsieverts (10 μrem) was suggested for consuming a 150-gram (5.3 oz) banana.

 

Maybe we need to start a "Banana thread"?

 

Some changes coming my way:






Wednesday high 72, overnight 43, Thursday 49. Then that terrible word: "32˚F" overnight Thursday to Friday. Bit of a shocker coming. Fortunately the sprinklers are flushed. Just have my daughter's house to winterize. Her sprinklers need to be blown down and the swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) needs to be drained and winterized. Winterizing means lubing the bearings before covering it for the winter. There has even been talk of snow down to 5700' elevation. I'm at 4550' so I may see some flakes, but usually the cold weather keeps them indoors.

 

with a little rum sauce.

Did you HAVE to say that?!

OK, back to how's the weather.
Like I said, it's going to get cold quick. I hate when that happens. I prefer gradual changes - it's much less a shock to the system.

 

Last night we had frost, plenty of frost. By mid week we may see a few 70 F days. Tis the season and each warming trend id followed by a cooler trend. The last warm is not as warm as the warm which preceded it and each colder is colder than the one before it. That frost was thick last night.

Ron

 

Maybe a bit of snow by the weekend.

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/dO3AxwEIoM0?feature=shared&t=32

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-otis-came-out-of-nowhere-to-slam-into-mexico/
Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico
Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in a region that has never seen landfall by a storm of such power before

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-otis-came-out-of-nowhere-to-slam-into-mexico/
Hurricane Otis Came Out of Nowhere to Slam into Mexico
Tropical Storm Otis rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane overnight in a region that has never seen landfall by a storm of such power before

Yeah, it's been a disaster alright. The president (I didn't vote for that guy) tried to visit the area to "supervise" and wasn't able to get through while the first responders are trying to repair the damaged roads and airports.

 

It's that time of year.
https://www.koin.com/local/australi...t-trail-hiker-rescued-from-oregon-snowdrifts/

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ot...n-lives-in-wake-of-hurricane-otis/ar-AA1jQ1t2
No fun in Acapulco: Smashed buildings, overturned boats and broken lives in wake of Hurricane Otis

This is the grim reality of Acapulco more than two weeks after Hurricane Otis — packing Category 5 winds of more than 165 miles an hour — ripped through the fabled Pacific resort and wrought unprecedented devastation, leaving at least 48 dead and 31 still listed as missing, and exacting up to $15 billion in damage.

Acapulco's glitziest hotels and condominiums are mostly windowless hulks. The one-time hideaway of Johnny (“Tarzan”) Weissmuller and Hollywood pals like John Wayne is a pile of rubble. Overturned yachts and smashed fishing vessels bob in picturesque bays.

Residents queue beneath a blazing sun for handouts of food and water, as soldiers with assault weapons make their rounds along a once-rocking coastal boulevard now lined with tattered palms, downed power lines and piles of fetid trash.

 

Ok, some of us live where the beach is only a stone throw from home. Thanksgiving day it rained most of the day as usual but then I woke to this.

kv

 

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Ok, some of us live where the beach is only a stone throw from home. Thanksgiving day it rained most of the day as usual but then I woke to this.

kv

Just rain at elevation 4550. Some 40 to 50 miles north of your location.