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Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

(In my best Andy Rooney voice) Do you ever wonder why we say "I caught a cold"? There are a lot of things I would like to catch (your mileage may very}, an award winning photo, the game winning touchdown pass in a football game, the buxom redhead that works at the bank. Hell, I'm even good with catching a 2 for 1 deal on a dozen extra large eggs at the grocery store. What I'm not good with is catching a cold. Coughing, sneezing, body aches and pains, chills, lack of energy, loss of apatite. Snot to mention hacking up all that mucus and phlegm. These are not things anybody I know wants to "catch" So why do we use that term. I propose a change. Instead of saying "I caught a cold" I think we should say "a cold caught me". After all, nobody tries to catch a cold.

If the above rant wasn't a dead giveaway, I have a cold. Symptoms started last Friday with a sore scratchy throat. Things stayed that way through Tuesday. When I woke up Wednesday morning the sore throat was gone. Yippee! Colds gone! Nope. No such luck. A few hours after getting up the cold kicked into high gear with all the nasty symptoms mentioned above. No fun but better this week than next week.

Snowy Egret

Morning. Cooking is one of the methods I use to experience different cultures when there is not the time or budget for a personal visit. Last week ...

Weather Comes, Weather Goes - Hopefully
It's been kinda insane where I live, recently. The Wind! The Rain! The Floods! We lost access to the internet a few times, and lost power as well. Monday afternoon/night, after we lost power, our weather station (which has battery backup and can store data without mains power for about 24 hours or more) recorded wind gusts of 42 mph. And that is basically a record at the farm. Even the neighbor's cows don't make wind gusts that strong!

So, I'm posting this quickly, because the forecasters say we are going to get another round of wind and rain tonight. It's not supposed to be 'as bad', so there's that, but we are hunkering down expecting to have no power or internet regardless.

The Essex and the Whale, as drawn by Thomas Nickerson, one of the surviving sailors - Public Domain, Link

Photographers Around the World Capture Astonishing Auroras During the Solar Maximum

Good morning everyone.
Wringing everything out from the last atmospheric river flowing through the Pacific Northwest. It was a doozy.
Otter Creek through the Farm was up 4 ft. and washed a lot of debris down and out into the Cowlitz River, itself at flood stage.
Another AR coming Wednesday and Thursday mixed with snow.

I read a few days ago that the official death toll in Gaza had passed 70,000. I have no idea how accurate that is but I think it’s safe to say that number is low, and probably very low.