Could A St. Biden Be Next?

The Russian Bear Could Eat Half or All of This Fish

Valentine’s Day 2022

Then Came Old February

Then came old February, sitting
In an old wagon, for he could not ride,
Drawn of two fishes for the season fitting,
Which through the flood before did softly slide
And swim away; yet he had by his side
His plow and harness fit to till the ground,
And tools to prune the trees, before the pride
Of hasting prime did make them bourgeon wide.

—Edmund Spenser.

1 February, 2022 - Lunar New Year of the Tiger

My New Year’s Letter to All Visitors

1 January 2022, Local Atmospheric Conditions

Lat: 37.7° N
0657 Hours PDT
Current Conditions: 37°F/2.8°C, Cloudy
Humidity: 47%
Dew Point: 30°F
Wind: 3.0 mph

Astronomy:

1 January, 2022            Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            7:20 AM PDT  4:57 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         6:51 AM PDT  5:26 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      6:18 AM PDT  5:59 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  5:46 AM PDT  6:30 PM PDT
Moon                   6:21 AM PDT  3:51 PM PDT

Waning Crescent, 1% of the moon is illuminated

Length of Visible Light 10h 35m
Length of Day 9h 36m
Tomorrow will be 00m 39s longer

21 December, 2021 - The First Day of Winter

"Winter and summer, then, were two hostile lives, and bred two separate natures. Winter was always the effort to live; summer was tropical license. Whether the children rolled in the grass, or waded in the brook, or swam in the salt ocean, or sailed in the bay, or fished for smelts in the creeks, or netted minnows in the salt-marshes, or took to the pine-woods and the granite quarries, or chased muskrats and hunted snapping-turtles in the swamps, or mushrooms or nuts on the autumn hills, summer and country were always sensual living, while winter was always compulsory learning. Summer was the multiplicity of nature; winter was school."

- Henry Adams, 1905

My 2021 Christmas Postcard to All

For My Property Value, Zestimate Is Graded F -

Zillow's property algorithm is a mess. It has its hits and misses. The venerated estate company did not bother to investigate, for exmaple, why my property's SD is ±$50,00 between the summer of 2020 and summer of 2021.

In the preceding year, my house valued the most among the houses on the block. In this year 2021, however, my property value is ranked last on the block by Zillow. Reasons not given.

Case in point, on my neighbor's smaller lot, the house has a poorly constructed leaking patio roof; the house also has peeled exterior paints with exposed trim. These exterior blemishes has existed for many years. Yet Zillow estimated my neighbor's property worth thousands of dollars more than my.

Of coourse, Zillow would not care or know that I have invested $100K in recent years sprucing up my house. It is built on a larger lot than my neighbor's. As Lundquist sums it up in the referenced web below, "Zillow can't smell if twenty cats live there [house]."

Nevertheless, this blogger thinks Zillow is still satisfied with its arm-chair Zestimate algorithm.

Zillow's Home Flipping Fiasco   (November 2021)