Duckburg Gazette

Palm trees are evil

Windy wind wind... saw a lot of wind this week but also extremely dry!  The weather has been in the low 80's and high 70's but also pretty windy lately at least in the mornings to noon.  Nights were very breezy when then felt pretty chilly.  But where is our rain?  The air has been very dry which kind of worries me because prime fire weather now!  With it being this dry with no moisture or even humidity, one little spark and then the wind to fan that flame could cause some serious damage.  I drove through some nearby canyons this week and the brush was bone dry.  Hope for some rain of any kind soon as we need it for more than just the water but the moisture!

Weekly Update:
The weather here lately has been pretty windy and because of that, a lot of branches and leaves are falling from all the various trees that surround my house.  One of which are palm trees... these are very nasty trees!!  I never realized till I had to start picking up the things that fall off from them.  So almost towards the top of a palm tree is this very thick bramble and the closest comparison would be nature's barbed wire!  They are very clumped together and a bit prickly as well as hard.  A cluster fell and when I picked it up to put it in the trash, I realized wow, this could be a good defense against something.  Now the palm leaves, if you happen to move your hand in the wrong direction, they will cut you up!!  I was holding them about to bend them to fit in the trash and I noticed that it felt pretty dang sharp along the edges.  These are just simply not friendly trees and not sure what real purpose they serve other than looking tropical?  The trees were originally here when I moved but wondering why... at least get me the kind that grow coconuts!

At the movies:
New at #1 is The Boy and the Heron with a nice 12.8 million to open.  Not a great number but a good one for this specialty type film that will do really well in the after markets.  Holding it's ground at #2 is The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes with 9.4 mil more and a very minor drop from last week but still overall under-performing expectations.  Also holding at #3 is Godzilla Minus One with 8.3 mil extra and not much roar left in this monster.  Still at #4 is Trolls Band Together with 6.2 mil a it continues to struggle to reach 100 mil but still do not see it happening.  Tailing at #5 is Wish with 5.3 mil and I'm sure it wishes it did more at the box office.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Not really a movie but one that did play on the big screens on a wide release pattern.  In at #8 is Waitress: The Musical with 3.2 mil to open and likely will be gone and stay on the stage instead.

Quote of the week:
"We are most alive when we're in love." - John Updike

Facts & Tips:
Fire's alchemy symbol is a triange, resembling a campire.

"It is a thing of beauty, is it not? What a man may accomplish if mind is set to purpose." - Nick Tarabay as Ashur in the series Spartacus.

posted by McDuck @ 00:30