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Restoring the Palm House
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When all is done, is there going to be an official opening?
Might such an opening as debut event mandate open to the non-paying public or open to purchased ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/09/2025

Understanding Hurricanes
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Olivia McClure authored the article Turn your yard's low spot into a high point with a rain garden for LSU AgCenter of Baton Rouge June 20, 2025. She asks ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/09/2025

Restoring the Palm House
My rain collectors were made of strong plastic
frankbeswick, on 08/09/2025

Understanding Hurricanes
There are fortified roofs and wind mitigation, but flooding is a concern. For larger hurricanes evacuations, even reversing the flow of traffic on some highway lanes, if the best defense.
blackspanielgallery, on 08/08/2025

Understanding Hurricanes
Derechos and hurricanes and tornadoes, oh my!
Do the Gulf states such as Louisiana defer to certain building materials and to certain indoor/outdoor plants as respectively more defensive of their occupants, owners and users and more ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/08/2025

Restoring the Palm House
Thank you for your comment above, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Another question arises.
Rain barrels attract Unitedstatesians in ther personal and professional lives.
Economical barrels display plastic parts. Higher ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/08/2025

Restoring the Palm House
Generally rain wate4i is collected on a site by site basis
frankbeswick, on 08/08/2025

American Chestnut by Susan Freinkel: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
The green, outer, soft layer to the dark shell to the light nutmeat of the black walnut is not edible.
Is the dark, hard shell between that green layer and the light-colored nut edible?
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Book Review: Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson
Maunakea News from the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hilo, "Big-Island" Hawaii County and island, Hawaii state considers, in its 'Imiloa August 2025 sky watch, Maunakea telescopes catching the 4th beyond-Neptune, dwarf-planet Sedna-like sednoid, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Book Review: The Cambridge Photographic Moon Atlas by Alan Chu, Wolfgang Paech and Mario Weigand
How We'll Live on Mars considers passenger fares to and from the red planet by 250-day flights each way as covering costs and creating profits.
Passenger fares could cover Earth-moon flight costs and create profits.
Online sources describe ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Film Review of Little Miss Marker: Shirley Temple in 1934 Drama as Marker for a Bet in Horse Racing
Little Miss Marker calls for a prequel and a sequel around a remake.
Two candidates come to mind for a sequel considering little Miss Marker as grown-up.
How about Marisa Abela or Eiza González?
The afore-mentioned actresses respectively ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Ngwayir (Pseudocheirus peregrinus occidentalis): Ringtail Possum of West Australia
The product for Owston's banded palm civets considers ZooBorns: the newest, cutest animals from the world's zoos and aquariums by Andrew Bleiman and Christ Eastland.
Owston's banded palm civets count as cute, cuter, cutest candidates for book, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Owston's Banded Palm Civets (Chrotogale owstoni): Ringtails of China, Laos, and Vietnam
The product line above carries the cute ZooBorns: the newest, cutest animals from the world's zoos and aquariums by Andrew Bleiman and Christ Eastland.
Wouldn't it be cute, cuter, cutest to work such wildlife as Owston's banded palm civets into ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon, on Baroque Musician Agostino Steffani: Music Mystery Review
Considering The Jewels of Paradise cinematically calls for concluding which actress to cast as Caterina Pellegrini.
Two candidates come to mind.
Mightn't Marisa Abela, who mastered Amy Winehouse in Back to Black, or Eiza González, who mastered ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025

Restoring the Palm House
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Does the rainwater capture disperse the water so collected immediately or does the dispersal depend upon "on-demand" deliveries such that some water draws ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/07/2025