2026 drought as the Sun has gone Red Giant, and unless we move to Europa or move Earth+ Moon to Jupiter, all life on Earth will go extinct and into oblivion//190th published book Day in the life of the King of Science, his character & personality

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2026 drought as the Sun has gone Red Giant, and unless we move to Europa or move Earth+ Moon to Jupiter, all life on Earth will go extinct and into oblivion//190th published book Day in the life of the King of Science, his character & personality-- reflections on Nature // Sociology science

On 15July 2026, looking ahead to when the next forecast of rain for my spot in South Dakota was not something that made me happy. No forecasted rain until 2 August. That means, if true, the month of July had but 1/2 of a centimeter of rain when normally we have 5 or more centimeters. A shortfall of 1/10 the amount of rain we normally get.

Seeing my lilac leaves shrivel, and seeing brown lawns and seeing the bottom layers of black walnut leaves turn yellow, I hauled out the garden hoses and started watering, starting with the lilacs.

I looked across the street to a star studded cornfield. Corn a wall high, straight upright somewhat perfect, dense lush corn and realized the farmer was irrigating with groundwater his field of corn.

When Sun has gone Red Giant initiation phase, every year gets worse than the last, because, simply put, every year the Sun has more atoms than the last year. Sun and stars shine ___Not from fusion___. They shine because every atom in the Cosmos is a proton torus with muons inside doing the Faraday law-structure.

Do you know what the Faraday law-structure is????? Perhaps you never took physics in school. The Faraday law structure is that you thrust a bar magnet through a coil of wire and it produces electricity energy in the coil. Same thing with every Atom in a star or Sun. Every atom are muons thrusting through the proton torus producing electrical energy which some of it ends up being Sunshine.

Every year the Sun has More Atoms and thus more Solar Radiation. Global Warming on Earth is due to 95% Sun gone Red Giant and only about 5% of Global Warming is due to burning fossil fuels with CO2 greenhouse gases. If in the 10 years of 2027 through 2037, if no fossil fuel, none at all, were burned and no CO2 emitted into the atmosphere, that the years 2027 through 2037 would still be the worst drought years ever recorded on Earth. Why??? Because the Sun shines from Faraday law structure not from fusion and every year the Sun has more Atoms. The Sun converts this electrical energy into making more new hydrogen atoms in addition to pouring out sunshine. And, the Sun in its journey in the Milky Way galaxy, every year collects more debris in its path, adding to the increase in Atoms.

By the time 2037 comes around, if I am still alive, I will be 87 years old. Will I be able to walk, run, work?? Will I be able to water the lilacs, hazelnuts, rhubarb, vegetables??

When Sun gone Red Giant, means, we as part of a living planet Earth, has two choices--- we can just all die and go extinct and into oblivion. Or, we can muster our collective Soul together and start planning to colonize Europa a moon of Jupiter, or better yet, move Earth + Moon both together out to Jupiter via precision Atomic Bomb blasts that pushes Earth out of its orbit and slowly treks to Jupiter.

If we do nothing, we go into extinction and oblivion. If we act, we create Earth II, that lives and prospers for another billion years.

The reason we have not seen aliens in a cosmos that is full of advanced intelligent life is the same reason we are facing this huge ordeal. All advanced intelligent life is going through this ordeal of their star going Red Giant. And they are too busy moving out and away from extinction and oblivion.

Is humanity smart enough or will it sink into oblivion??

As Hamlet said--- to be, or not to be....

AP, King of Science

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Alright I rechecked my graft, for yesterday, Wednesday I thought the graft of Gleditsia scion to spruce rootstock had taken for I glimpsed a green spot near a thorn.

So I went back there with my glasses and reinspected the graft. Turns out it must have been a reflection from the Sun onto a fibrous piece that made me think it was a success.

So yes, in a few days I start to experiment with spruce rootstock to hollow out a tip leaving the cambium layer for a few centimeters. Then I take a Gleditsia and Black Locust scion that I stripped away the bark exposing the cambium layer.

I apply the scion to rootstock and in this new experiment have close contact of centimeter of cambium layers.

Trial and Error. But I feel confident that success is near at hand.

I love this Experiment for my father was a horticulturist.

AP, King of Science

On Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 5:07:03 AM UTC-5 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
Good news on Reincarnation experiment-- bad news on drought.

The Good news is that one of my grafts of spruce rootstock with Gleditsia locust scion appears to have a new green shoot growing. Maybe I need a closer look?

If true then I have just grafted two different phylums together, a world's first. If not true, then soon I will try something different-- keeping spruce and locust. I will try to bore or drill out the spruce keeping the green active cambium layer and then strip away the locust bark surface down to the cambium layer.

In that fashion I will join cambium layer upon cambium layer, more surface area exposure for both cambium layers.

Yes, in a few days, for summer is running out, I will make 2 more grafts.

Now many will congratulate me for the first to graft physlum to phylum a first in biological history if true. But I need a better look. But if true, many will naysay that this graft is not an example of Reincarnation.

And the naysayers may well have a good point.

My idea of Reincarnation is that the Waves of DNA of the Dead are recycled, so that some days I pick up a Wave of the Ancient Archimedes of Greek times in Syracuse doing engineering or math or physics that is shot into my body and have that thought. That is my idea of Reincarnation. And so if the graft is a success of spruce with a locust stem, the DNA of Spruce and DNA of locust are intermingling, where the Locust scion was dead upon cutting it, but is now back to life in a different plant body.

Will see tomorrow if I have a success, or was I just imagining???

Now I do not like to go over 100 posts and so after this post will start a new thread.

This entire thread will be added to my 190th book of Science.

I will title it --- The pains of 2026 drought as the Sun has gone Red Giant, and unless we move to Europa or move Earth+ Moon to Jupiter, all life on Earth will go extinct and into oblivion//190th published book Day in the life of the King of Science, his character & personality-- reflections on Nature // Sociology science

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So I feel sorry, and pain for the soybean field nearby, bottom leaves turning yellow, and leaves shriveling in the baking Sun, no rain to speak of for the entire month of July. I doubt it will go to seed on any of those soybean plants.

While another field of corn with nightly irrigation is superb.

Here in Clay County there is talk now of putting in a  Data Center. And to me, well, that is sheer crazy. Because Clay County has no native electricity power station from native energy. We import into our county the electricity we use. If you have no native electricity, it is stupid to put in a Data Center that needs loads and loads of electricity.

Nearby is Yankton with a hydroelectric power station. How big it is, I do not know and whether it can supply a Data Center with electricity. But Clay County the answer is a definite NO.

What Clay County needs to do instead of mindless foolish Data Center, is start to take hold of Missouri River Irrigation for Clay County. To be able to flood a field with Missouri River water. One flood per July would last the entire growing season. As my own personal memories of living in Moab Utah and the Irrigation water I used to flood the field to grow trees and alfalfa.

Much of the Irrigation of Clay County is now using loads and loads of electricity, and that electricity is not going to be available to a silly Data Center.

Clay County's first priority is to the agriculture here and it needs electricity. For our Sun has gone Red Giant Phase, for Sun and Stars shine from Faraday law-structure, not from fusion. And Global Warming is 95% Sun gone Red Giant, only 5% from fossil fuel burning greenhouse gases.

I dread even looking at the pain those soybean plants are going through, baking in the Sun and no rain until sometime in August.

AP

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Now I am almost certain that long grass is better than short grass in a drought, as that the dew at night is almost like a tiny rain at night.

Now I need to explore if scientists have found that grasses evolved so that they can capture as much dew moisture as possible and get that water into their body system. I would guess that the geometry of the grass blades are such as to capture the dew water. 

Just walking through the field had my shoes sopping wet in dew.

I have been following the weather forecast for several weeks now looking for rain. A week ago, there was the prediction that today, Sunday 19July is forecast to be the hottest day of this year so far at 37 degree centigrade, even going to 40 degree centigrade.

18July was certainly horrid, but maybe today will be the worst.

I started to cut all the new brush growing in the lilac and hazelnuts with a chain saw. And then watering with hose. If I keep at it every day, getting some here and there, I think I can save them all.

The weather forecast predicts 2 August is the best chance of a rain.

But the rain so far this year has never been a soaker. Every rain has been a light rain, not amounting to much.

And my overall opinion and assessment of how Sun gone Red Giant causes heat domes and light rains and interior of continents go desert, is the idea that increasing heat causes the nonexistence of Cold air, cold-fronts cannot form. And the cold fronts are essential in releasing the water in clouds to rain.

So most of the rain in the future will be around the coasts where a cold front is met. But for the interiors, we have nothing but Heat Domes and no cold front available.

AP, King of Science

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I am in trouble with one of my favorite cats--- a tomcat named Tree Climber. I last saw him yesterday entering a dense corn field of the neighbors. Did he get lost in the cornfield??? I long ago hypothesized that cats as they walk, leave a scent trail in case they want to go back from whence they came.

Will be looking to see if Tree Climber shows up for dinner late tonight.

There should be an easy experiment to see if cats lay down scent trails. Just get a stretch of land and have a cat walk through it. Remove the cat and get a new cat on the scene. See if the new cat walks the same path as the previous cat.

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Of great relief to me, Tree Climber returned today. I am almost certain that cats as they walk leave a scent trail, so as Tree Climber was exploring a dense cornfield, he could find his way home be retracing his walk.

And today, 22July2026 was the first day this summer that I did not need the air-conditioner on. It was 22Centigrade through the day inside the house. And it was cloudy outside. The weather bureau gave it a 20% chance of rain but none came. The forecast for Thursday night is 60%.

During Droughts, I seldom laugh or feel genuinely Happy, because of the pain of no rain.

The pain of No Rain.

So my clover in the lawn is dried out, and only a few green grass blades present.

As I walk on the lawn, I hear this crunch sound as if I am breaking the limbs of grass and clover.

During a Drought, if you told me the funniest joke you know, I may have a half smile, but no laughter.

No laughter because the Drought seems to hang over my head to the exclusion of much of else that is going on.

A drought is plants dying all around me, so there is no cheer in that.

But at least, Tree Climber came home.

AP

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I never thought in my life, that rain and rainfall will be the lasting happy days of my life.

I guess most every farmer has that same feeling.

Drought has been the gloomiest time of my life.

This year's drought is so agonizing that it rains infrequently and when it does rain, it is just a sprinkle, a sprinkle here and there and gone. Hard for me to remember when it was a downpour. When I would say it is raining cats and dogs.

Hard for me to remember when we had a soaker rain.

The weather forecast tonight is 100%, but will it amount to anything, or be just another sprinkler.

Yesterday I was watering the watermelon and pulling up some weeds. As I pulled up the weed, it was moist soil on top, but almost completely dry soil below. So the surface of the soil is wet, but below is still bone dry.

Drought is a horrible experience, just as summers of 40 degrees centigrade caused by Sun gone Red Giant is a horrible experience. And now we have had that Heat alert for 3 weeks.

Yesterday I read a report on camels in Africa and how many of them are dying from the excess heat.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Prayer of thanks for rain to South Dakota-- Carbon, carbon in us, Fill us with Life anew....

Yesterday's rain restored some normalcy to this summer of drought 2026. Some of the grass pulled through, none of my clover. The farmer's soybeans seems to have pulled through.

I feel this year's worst pain is over with and see more rain in August to say that the rest of the year is going to be normal.

A Prayer of Thanks

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One of the best engineering feats on computers is the circular play around, where 1 song plays around over and over again.

Ahhhh...... Ahhhhh in Quiet Streams 4:44 There is a Balm in Gilead

Praying for rain, as our Sun has gone Red Giant initiation phase-- the reason each year gets hotter and hotter, and unless we make Europa our new home-- all life on Earth will perish and go into oblivion.

I am praying for Rain-- Carbon, carbon in us, Carbon of Plutonium Fill us with Life Anew. That we may love What thou dost love And do what you superdetermine us to do, Oxygen, oxygen of Plutonium Make us wholly thine Take us to the Proton torus

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Some 3 weeks ago I kept praying for rain and the rains came. We had 3 days in a row of soft rain. I pray for more rain since we had none for 3 weeks now, and the grass is starting to turn brown.

Perhaps my long nagging question of whether tall grass is good for drought is starting to yield some answers. For my tall grass field is brilliant green while the lawns are browning. I believe it is the dew at night and morning and the grasses hold the moisture in.

Now we have another dry spell. The grass is about to turn brown. It worked 3 weeks ago, let me try again.

Rain rain rain rain rain dear Lord.


Rain Prayer song --    Sung or spoken to Quiet Streams-- There is a Balm in Gilead 4:44    

Carbon in us  
Carbon of Plutonium
Fill us with life anew  
That we may love  
What thou dost love  
And do  what you superdetermine us to do  

Oxygen, oxygen of Plutonium
Make us wholly thine  
Take us to the Proton torus  
Nucleosynthesis divine  

Plutonium in us  
Atom Plutonium  
Thus, shall we never die  
But live with thee
Part in your Muon divinity  
Part in your Neutron infinity  
ATOM  ATOM ATOM  

Thanks for the rain of 23July, Please give us  more   rain, rain rain rain rain

ATOM

[Archimedes Plutonium]

I made a survey tonight of my fruit orchards to see what apples or pears were coming. I found only my best pear tree has made fruit this year. Probably because it is near the house and gets all the roof rain water. I used to think it was that fruit trees bear every other year, skipping a year. But I rather think it is more on how much water they get and no stress in growing. Looks like a small harvest of fruit for me, although the black walnuts look like a bumper crop.

May have to can a few pints of crabapples to keep me over the winter.

My cats are doing extra well. A week ago I started to put diatomaceous earth into their drinking water. Already some coats are looking better and their step looking better. Diatomaceous earth is the best way I have of killing internal worms in cats. I am super careful not to breathe in any of the earth when mixing in water. It is dangerous on lungs.

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So we had a nice reprieve of weather a few days back when it gave us a 2.5 centimeter rainfall. A relief in this Drought year 2026. But now we are back again with this massive Heat Wave, Heat Dome. About 35 degrees centigrade today, Sunday 26 July, and more heat to come, and only by next Thursday to start to cool down.

Again I am back to my old idea that the worst of Winter is far far better than the worst of Summer. I say this because in Winter I can always add additional clothing to stay warm, but with Summer there is a limit to how much clothes I can take off to stay cool. And in both seasons, I can die from the weather, but in summer, a heat stroke is likely to sneak up on you. Shoveling snow in winter, I can modulate that work, but in the worst of summer, a heat stroke can easily creep up on you.

So, yes, I prefer the worst of Winter over the worst of Summer. Besides, in winter you can stay inside all day if you want.

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So, on 27July2026, I planted about 20 oak acorns. I own three separate properties in Meckling South Dakota. I have native Burr Oak on two of the properties but none on the third. I keep planting acorn seeds to get them going on this 3rd property. I hate to look for a oak sapling and dig it up for they have enormous tap roots and so a waste of time to do that.

Hopefully this year one of those acorns will sprout and fulfill my wish to have oak trees on all property.

Once the oak get established it will be up to me to pick and choose between Oak and Black Walnut for the sites. I want a mix of both, but black walnut seems to be more aggressive.

So in really old age, I will be a cull master of deciding which trees where. 

This is the fun part of forest tree management, deciding what stays and what goes.

Of course, well, no buckthorn. They should have named it ThornfromHell.

Tomorrow I start to make two new grafts of Locust scion on Spruce rootstock. I mean only a branch of Spruce.

My troubles so far is that the union does not have much contact of cambium to cambium, only a tiny bit of contact.

So what I will do is drill out the Spruce leaving the cambium. Then take a Locust and peel away the bark exposing the cambium. Now connect the two and where I have much surface area of spruce cambium in direct contact with Locust cambium.

I must be Special careful when drilling out the Spruce as the drill may slip and I poke a hole in my finger or hand. So what I plan to do for safety is take a pair of pliers and hold the Spruce limb with the pliers, then drill.

I want to have direct contact of Spruce Cambium with Locust Cambium by this amount--

Spruce cambium outer layer

2 centimeters (20 millimeters

________ 

________
Locust cambium inside Spruce drill hole.

We need some more rain as the Heat Waves is too much.

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Yesterday, my cats made me happy. I was feeding them, my daily feeding routine and saw the kittens, playing. When cats play with each other, they are Happy Cats.

I have restarted the diatomaceous earth treatment in their water, to rid them of worms.

Yesterday I also started the new grafts of Spruce branch rootstock and Locust scion. It is easy to peel away the bark on Locust to its cambium layer but the drilling of the rootstock to expose its cambium layer is difficult. And I need to be safe by holding the branch by pliers to avoid drilling a hole in my fingers or hand.

Essex England is experiencing Drought, only a few millimeters of rain for all of July. On the news right now of BBC, 29JUL2026. I thought South Dakota was in bad shape, never thinking that England with its bright green countryside is under Drought.

Hopefully today is the last day here in South Dakota of temperature 32 degrees Centigrade or higher. Hopefully the end of this Heat Wave, 4 in July alone.

Time to Pray for more Rain to cool things down and to overcome this Drought.

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So, yes, the worst time of year for me, especially since Sun gone Red Giant is Summer. The worst of Summer is the worst time of year. When you have sizzling heat weather, the body and mind do not want to work. And the logical fact, the worst of winter, you can always put on more clothes to achieve comfort, versus high heat, you are limited in taking off clothes to achieve comfort. To be sure, every season has it advantages and disadvantages, for Summer is the height of plant growing season, but the heat and drought are mind boggling. 

If I was given a choice of living in a tropical climate or a far north tundra climate, I would chose the tundra.

And these comparisons are dwelling more and more on my mind, knowing Sun has gone Red Giant.

As I move into my second home this year and fully next year, a Summer home that has almost a full basement.

The future of house building, starting now, should be where most of the home is underground. Underground that helps cool the home in summer, helps heat the home in winter. More costly because it requires concrete and masonry, but more durable.

Leaving my first home for winter. Where the low ceilings make it easier to heat.

I remember when living in Moab Utah in the 1970s of a store carved out of solid rock where it was quite pleasant inside.

More and more homes should be built underground. And to tap into the geothermal of the ground for winter and the coolness in summer.

Wood houses above ground make less and less sense, every year we have the Sun gone Red Giant knocking at our door.

AP

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We had 1 cm of rain today, and every rainy day is an excellent day for me. The weather is cool and I do not have to water plants.

Some weeks back I planted 4 large pots with plum seed, rhubarb seed, concord grape seed, and asparagus seed. I am proud to announce the asparagus has sprouted. Hoping that the concord grape seed sprout because I am down to only 2 vines.

It is fitting that near the end of my life, I experiment with all sorts of seeds. Scientists need to pay more attention to seeds, for there is the possibility that we can transform animals to be borne from seed. That way, we can preserve animals in long Space voyages.

Good news on my 3 Tomcats. There was a time period where they all 3 would fight, every day a fight of those 3--- Tree climber, Crybaby, and Get-along. Now, after training--- where I go outside and using a water squirter, or even a bucket of water, to break up fights. Now, they can eat from the same platter, face to face and not fight. I consider it a miracle, honestly a miracle that I turned 3 fighting Tomcats into well behaved Tomcats.

Tree climber is especially smart, for he knows my daily pattern of walk and anticipates seeing me.

So, good news on Rain, good news on asparagus seed and good news on Tomcats.

AP

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A pretty article on strawberries from BBC, which catches me up on how modern science research treats fruit crops.

--- quoting BBC---

t one of the most profitable horticultural crops in western India. 

Despite that success the industry still relies on varieties that are imported from California, Florida, Italy and Spain, as no one in India has developed a domestic plant.

It can take 10 to 15 years for breeders in the US and Europe to develop a top quality fruit and they patent their varieties. 

"We import the certified mother plant from the breeder abroad," says Nelson Sequeira, the founder and director of Tara Farms Fresh, a licensed strawberry propagator.

Once imported the plants have to go through a government quarantine, before they are planted in a nursery. There the mother plant produces daughter plants and those are then sold to farmers.

"One single imported mother plant becomes an engine. That single mother plant will shoot out runners to yield an average of 20 daughter plants - with some advanced growers pushing that up to 30 or 40," says Sequeira.

It's a high-tech and precision operation.

"The plants do not touch the ground. We use large industrial pipes split completely in half to form long, rounded gutter containers," Sequeira explains.

"Instead of soil, we pack these containers with a specialized coco-peat substrate derived entirely from coconut husk. We then integrate a highly precise drip-irrigation and fogging system to control micro-climates."

Tara Farms Fresh

New strawberry plants are cultivated every year

Sequeira and other propagators rely on mother plants from abroad - for now.

But work at Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), an agricultural university in Maharashtra, might change that.

MPKV has partnered with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on a breeding experiment.

Researchers are using controlled, low-dose gamma irradiation on plant tissues to induce stable genetic mutations.

"The goal is to fast-track the development of India's first indigenous, climate-resilient strawberry cultivar that matches the large fruit size and firm texture of foreign varieties while natively tolerating Indian heatwaves," says Dr Darshan Shashank Kadam, assistant professor of Horticulture at MPKV.

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He admits it could be a long process, with results perhaps in 10 or 15 years. But in the near term they are helping farmers in other ways.

"We are developing scientific packages of practices for farmers. We have already standardised planting schedules, fertiliser recommendations and growth regulator applications specifically for Mahabaleshwar conditions," he says.

Berry Fresh Agrotech

Berry Fresh Agrotech grows strawberries year-round

Large farms with more resources are investing in new technology.

Ketan Yashwant Sodha, is the founder and CEO of Berry Fresh Agrotech. He started with traditional open-field farming, but was frustrated by losses caused by the weather.

"For the past 10 years, it has consistently rained in India during our peak season - November, December, and the first week of January. When you are in an open field and your plantation is at its absolute peak, a single rain will ruin your entire crop," he says.

So in 2022, he started to experiment with hydroponics, a type of covered cultivation that does not use soil and tightly controls water, nutrients, light, and temperature.

His early results were not encouraging.

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"I suffered immense losses and failed multiple times," Sodha says.

"The soil is forgiving; hydroponics does not forgive. If you make a mistake today, you will wake up tomorrow morning to a disaster - and the recovery time in hydroponics takes twice as long as soil."

But the lessons learned from those mistakes are paying off.

"We have trailed 19 different varieties, including rare Japanese ones, and we are the only ones in India trailing a specific Netherlands variety this season."

Sodha says that limiting each plant to 75ml of water a day produces "rich, highly concentrated sugars and aromas instead of water-logged, bland fruits".

His team also runs what he calls regular "blood work" on the crops, which involves laboratory testing of the leaves and petioles (the stalks attaching leaves to the stems) to measure exact nutrient uptake. That way he knows exactly which nutrients and chemicals need to go into the water supply.

And by using a semi-open polyhouse, strawberries can grow the whole year round. "It's not a seasonal fruit for us," Sodha says.

Now he is ready to scale-up.

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"We have built the trial facility, written the SOPs (standard operating procedures), and designed the farm manual. We are talking to investors to expand to a five-acre facility that will accommodate 200,000 plants."

Krishan Bhilare's family has been farming strawberries for generations in Mahabaleshwar.

He can remember when the first American varieties were planted in 1992 and being amazed at the size of the fruit.

Bhilare is part of a Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) network. They have installed towers at four strategic locations across their land. The towers monitor weather conditions.

The system employs AI, which uses the weather data to pinpoint when rain will strike. Farmers can then be advised to delay spraying their crops, so expensive chemicals are not just washed away.

The FPO is also building vertical towers, where strawberries can be grown on a coco-peat substrate, five layers deep. 

"By stacking five pots into a single vertical tower, we can scale our density from 25,000 plants to 125,000 plants per acre. We are effectively multiplying our production footprint by five times on the exact same piece of land," says Bhilare.

But such investments are either beyond small farms, or a huge risk.

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In 2017, Danavle and her husband experimented with hydroponic strawberry farming. 

"The experiment was 100% successful and the fruits we grew were entirely organic. It saved us a lot of labour, the workers didn't have to constantly bend down or prune, and it saved us a lot of money on medicines and field manure."

But they were unlucky - a massive cyclone hit Mahabaleshwar that year.

"The cyclone completely knocked down our entire hydroponic setup. Then we did not have the courage to set it up again."

So, Sheetal went back to the traditional method of growing strawberries, but with a twist.

"I took help of social media. I post videos of how one can grow strawberries and invite tourists to visit my strawberry farm, learn and pick the fruit. They directly now buy from the farm. This has helped, cut the middle man, and make more profit. So, now I am an influencer and entrepreneur."

--- end quoting BBC---

AP writes: What I need now is more knowledge of where strawberries are Native to. The above article hints that mountainous regions are involved, or is it forest regions?? I yearly before winter cover my strawberries in pine needles.

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The most interesting part of this news, for me,  is where a University in India uses Gamma radiation to tinker with the genetics and to select new varieties of strawberries.

Of course I grow strawberries and finally came to the conclusion of concrete block farming them to control the weeds.

With new runners, I transplant them in their own new block hole so I know where a plant is and know where to water and know to weed all surrounding plants.

I have one slight problem this year. I seeded watermelon next to the strawberries and those watermelon will soon encounter the strawberry patch.

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--- quoting BBC---

India wants to join the strawberry superpowers

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India relies on strawberry varieties from the US and Europe

In the west of India, the mountainous region of Mahabaleshwar is home to most of India's strawberry farms. 

Around 85% of India's strawberry cultivation happens there.

An altitude of more than 1,000m (3,280ft) gifts the region a long cool growing season between November and March.

In addition, light, well-drained soil is well-suited to strawberry cultivation.

But that doesn't mean farmers have an easy life - it's a labour intensive and risky way to make a living.

"If you have a field full of strawberries and sudden heavy rains hit, the entire crop is ruined and we have to bear massive losses," says Sheetal Danavle who, with her husband, grows strawberries on half of their three-acre farm.

Strawberry plants have to be replaced every season and are not grown from seed. Instead, farmers buy young plants from suppliers. For Danavle, on her small farm, that's an outlay of $2,500 (£1,900) every year.

"If the season goes well, you can earn double your investment. But the climate makes it a huge gamble," she says.

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Farming strawberries can be a "huge gamble" says Sheetal Danavle

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Brrr...

I know that Autumn is Sept, Oct, Nov, but every year now I notice 1 August the night air is chilly, almost light jacket weather of 17 Centigrade.

But it is a welcome relief from 3 or 4 heat waves we endured.

We need some more rain to make up for the drought summer.

And I still need to get my 2 grafts going.

I like the idea of a summer home and a winter home, feels almost like taking a vacation , even though it is in walking distance. 

I will try to develop the basement as my summer sleeping quarters. Will sleep under a Netting so no insects or spiders or mice or rats enter the bed.

I want to get away from air conditioning as much as possible. And the basement is ideal for not exceeding 25 Centigrade even though the outside air is 37 Centigrade.

I do not recall any of my family members living in the basement, nor their children. In fact I know no-one who sleeps in the basement. I do remember my father renting out the basement of a building, but the renters never stayed long.

So a altogether new experience for me. I may like it. Then again, there maybe issues with mold of fungus. If for some reason my respiration is affected, I will discontinue.

But as Sun gone Red Giant, we should anticipate the future with worse and worse summers.

AP

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Started a new experiment today. I had 17 extra potatoes in the refrigerator that had sprouted and so I planted them. Only I spaded over sod. I am thinking that the potatoes would benefit from the grass overturned soil would benefit the potatoes.

Well spaded over and planted 17 potatoes. Potatoes like cool weather and so the summer is mostly gone. Will see if the potatoes benefit from sod spaded over.

AP

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Last night we had rain, much needed rain, and today is so cool, and it feels as if Autumn is here. Feels like light jacket weather.

I wonder if the Gulf Stream with its warm air that goes from US Mexico to Europe, is the main cause of Europe heat waves, and the cause of European drought. The Gulf Stream is nice in winter time as to make Europe warm, but is it hell in summer as to make Europe hot and hotter in summer.

AP

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A measure of cat intelligence was conducted today. There was a tomcat I did not want to feed with two female cats, for the Tomcat ate earlier.

So I put a lightweight plastic concrete mixer tray over the plate.

It was not long for the Tomcat to figure out the food was underneath and that he pushes the try aside.

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I am going to need to organize my monitoring of Droughts in South Dakota.

I should have done this years back so as to remember that awful summer of no rain at all. Was it 2012????

outh Dakota

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~645,500

South Dakota residents in areas of drought, according to the Drought Monitor

Increase of 

 

0.8%

 

since last week

53rd

driest June on record (since 1895)

2.98 in.

 

total precipitation

Decrease of 

 

0.45 in.

 

from normal

17th

driest January—June on record (since 1895)

7.64 in.

 

total precipitation

Decrease of 

 

2.73 in.

 

from normal

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Current South Dakota Drought Maps

U.S. Drought MonitorUSDM 1-Week ChangeShort-Term MIDILong-Term MIDI

The U.S. Drought Monitor depicts the location and intensity of drought across the country. The map uses 5 classifications: Abnormally Dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought (D1–D4). The map is jointly produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,  U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Drought Mitigation Center. Authors from these agencies rotate creating the map each week, using both physical indicators and  input from local observers.

This map is used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to trigger some disaster declarations and loan eligibility. Individual states and water supply planning may use additional information to inform their declarations and actions. Learn more.

How has drought impacted this state in the past? Explore historical Drought Monitor maps.

Source(s): NDMC, NOAA, USDA, NASA

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Drought & Dryness Categories% of SD

D0 – Abnormally Dry

11.6

D1 – Moderate Drought

40.4

D2 – Severe Drought

25.8

D3 – Extreme Drought

10.1

D4 – Exceptional Drought

0.0

Total Area in Drought (D1–D4)

76.3

Updates

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More from drought dot gov website.

Drought in the Missouri River Basin
In South Dakota and across the Missouri River Basin (MRB), drought is a common climate event. Prolonged droughts in the 1930s and 1950s substantially affected water supplies, agriculture, energy, transportation of goods, and ecosystems. More recently, short duration droughts wreaked havoc on the MRB. The intense 2012 summertime drought surprised the region, as flooding was expected to continue into a second year following the devastating floods of 2011. Flash drought in the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies in 2017 resulted in $2.6 billion of agricultural losses alone. In 2020-2021, drought affected the same area and was a multi-billion-dollar event that had wide-reaching impacts on the region’s communities, ecosystems, water resources, and agricultural systems.

Partly in response to the floods of 2011 and then the extreme and rapidly evolving drought in 2012, NOAA’s National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and partners established the Missouri River Basin Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) in 2014. The Missouri River Basin DEWS is a network of regional and national partners that share information and coordinate actions to help communities in the region cope with drought.

AP writes:: So 1895 to 2026 is 2026 - 1895 =131 years of monitoring. And being 17th driest from January through June.

However, some good news for me today, for a concord grape seed germinated and my asparagus germinated from seed and my rhubarb germinated from seed. I am still waiting for at least one burr oak to germinate from seed.

Of course, I water these plants.

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Sad sad day for me 14AUG2026, as I was backing out of the driveway I gave a look yonder at the trees and noticed a Scot's Pine completely with brown needles.

The Drought of 2026 has taken its toll on my Scot's Pine.

I thought they were all doing just fine, and all of a sudden one is completely dead.

I am grieving this loss today.

And need to hand bucket water the pine from now on.

Even though, last night we got good rainfall, 2.5 cm. worth.

AP

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So my barn swallows finished up another season at my house. They had 2 broods like last year. The first brood was 4 chicks, the second brood was 2 chicks. All in 3 months. Last year I saw them in a different part of two town showing off their aerial acrobatics. Actually a few of them followed me as I seem to have stirred up some insects.

I suppose if all birds went extinct, that barn swallows would be some of the last to go, as they are excellent flyers. And they have such efficient reproduction, all taken care of in 3 months time. 

I offer them 7 nests each year. 6 of stainless steel cups and 1 of their own mud built. They are fascinating to watch.

AP

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Almost a perfect day for me, 22August 2026, for the night before, I mentally list the chores I need to accomplish the next day. It is late summer, even though the days climb into 27 degrees Centigrade, that I need to --- in a hurry ---- transplant the seedlings of rhubarb, asparagus. I transplanted a flat of rhubarb and another flat of asparagus, with good success up against rows of concrete block where I bust the sod soil-- highly rich soil. It went smoothly and timely. I need to transplant them because in pots they will not survive winter, and need the warmth of the soil, in addition to covering them with pine needles.

Then I had to run an errand in town-- Vermillion and to mail some letters at the post office. Then I did a bit of grocery shopping; came home and all the cats were accounted for, for last night two of them did not come home, and I heard coyote howling.

All went smoothly for often, I do not get all the things done on my mental list.

But in addition, today I have made spectacular progress in the Revised Euclid Axioms bringing forth a revolutionary new geometry. Funny thing is, it all happened while writing my High School Logic textbook.

AP, King of Science

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So let me describe the AP gardening method. It requires picking out a sunny spot. And for me that is getting ever more difficult with all the trees I have.

So I find a spot then I haul over some concrete block those with 2 holes in them, 8 by 8 by 16 and lay a line of them in a row on the sod grass. I lay them so they cover the ground and will not grow grass.

Next I get my 4 essential tools--- spade, fork, headshears, trowel. Starting with the headshears I cut away any of the grass and weeds near the block. Then I use the fork to rake away the sod leaving a good foot distance to the block. Now I use my spade.

My spade is special for it is the correct size for me and has a flat straight edge that is serrated edge. It is the easiest spade I have ever worked with. While other spades are tedious. My spade digs into the soil the fastest.

So now I dig up the sod and overturn it. Nice rich black soil, and once done I dig again to widen the line, making it 2 feet across. Now I get the seedlings from the pots grown in and using the trowel, plant them in the line of the block.

A farmer, years back told me that the best watermelon he ever grew were from a woods he cleared and planted them there. Well, I suspect my sod overturning is just as good. Overturned soil is fresh with nutrients and free of weeds is the benefit the farmer was talking about.

The block serve not only as a marker, but as a water collector and weed preventative.

AP

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What an ugly summer it has been, for 3 weeks ago I thought the drought summer was over with, yet now, it is back again. I am still mourning the loss of my Scot's Pine, perhaps two of them. Something I could easily have prevented. I honestly do not know what I was thinking--- perhaps they were so tall that their roots tapped into the subsurface moisture. And then one day, pulling out of the driveway I glanced over in that direction and saw brown needles. It has put me in a bad temper ever since. How so sudden death to a tree can be.

A few days ago I walked past the farmer's soybean field and the plant leaves were curled up in the midday sun, suffering, yet here it is a fews days away from September. So I got out the hoses and started watering again.

Today I watered the lilacs.

At some moment in time, all my lilacs will be dead as Sun gone Red Giant. All my sour cherries are dead some 10 years ago. 70% of my apple trees are dead. 90% of my apricot trees are dead. I lost no oaks. And the black walnuts are thriving, even though leaves wilt.

Drought wears on the mind.

The drought summer of 2012 is listed as the worst drought year in 117 years. I remember it as having No Rainfall May, June, July, no rain at all. Or was it no rain for June, July, August, for my mind wants to forgot such horrors. I water bills per month were twice as high as my electric, and telephone bill combined.

But some good news today, I had my first watermelon. I planted them late--- in July and thinking I would have none. I want to keep my seed lineage, starting some 20 years ago. I started with all red watermelon but through the years, my heritage seeds are 1/2 white and 1/2 red.

Good news also on my grapes, concord grapes seedlings, many have come up and will transplant near a dead apple or apricot tree for the grapes to climb. I have a problem with a certain type of moth or caterpillar that eats the leaves into a net like geometry, weakening the vines. I never spray, and in response, I simply will increase the number of plants in different locations.

One benefit of the Internet is that I was not sure my sprouted seedlings were grapes. So I Google searched "grapes seedlings" under images and sure enough, what had come up were concord grapes.

Maybe as the lilacs die from drought, they will be next for grape vines.

I suppose as the years go by and Sun gone Red Giant, I will be left with parched grass and a few Burr Oaks along with Black Walnut, all the rest dying off and dead.

We need our Governor of South Dakota, to start making plans for hauling water out of the Missouri River for irrigation, otherwise South Dakota ceases to be farming and agriculture.

Every summer after 2012 has been fully drought or verging on it. Last year was not bad, but this year is bad. Next year will likely be worse than now.

AP, facing reality

Sun shines not from fusion, it shines from Faraday law and every year worse than last.

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How many Heat Waves did Europe have this year?? Was it 5 or are they on 6 now??? And is Europe a proof that Sun gone Red Giant???? I say that because in the full axis of tilt of Earth in Summertime for the higher latitudes, the solar radiation is more intense--- where the north pole itself has no night-time but 24 hour Sun.

No wonder the poles are accelerating in ice melt. And no wonder England is in Heat Waves, hotter than South Dakota.

But looking at the weather forecast the next 7 days here is 32 degrees centigrade, appallingly hot considering it is Autumn in this week. And, worse yet---- NO RAIN in sight. I have started to water hose my trees and lilacs. Still mourning the loss of not just one Scot's Pine but two. You take your eye off the ball for just a minute, and whammo, you lose favorite trees.

CONCLUSIONS I HAVE DRAWN from the last 5 years of Drought

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1) Of course this bad weather is 95% due to the Sun, and only 5% ascribed to fossil fuel burning. For the Sun and Stars shine not from fusion, but shine from the Faraday Law of every muon thrusting through its proton torus producing new electricity.

2) Forget about modeling and just use common sense. When the Sun shines from Faraday law-- every year becomes hotter than the last. And then as each year gets hotter, that extra heat causes there to be LESS and FEWER cold fronts. To get Rain you need hot moist air to clash into cold-fronts. When you have more heat each year, you have Fewer cold air masses in the interior. About the only cold mass you have on land is at the coasts.

Thus we end up flooding the coasts with Atmospheric Rivers, and end up that the interior of the continent turns into a Desert.

As the years pass by with every increasing Solar Radiation, the Midwest and western USA will end up being another Sahara desert found in Africa. If I could live long enough, but I would not want that, I would see every plant on my place die and only cactus would manage to live here.

I beckon the governor of South Dakota--- forget about the dumb and ignorant Data Centers-- that trashful idea, for data centers eat up electricity all for the point of making Ads in the iphone-Cloud. We do not need more Ads. We need more RAIN. And so the governor needs to focus on taking water out of the Missouri River and use as irrigation.

I probably will see and experience the day in South Dakota where all crops fail, even those with irrigation because the groundwater had been depleted, and where the irrigation from the Missouri River, directly, will be the only saving of Agriculture in South Dakota.

We see the Colorado River is almost all taken for. Start to do the same with the Missouri and Mississippi River--- For our SUN has gone RED GIANT.

AP, King of Science

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How entirely dreadful at looking for the forecast of September weather. The entire month stuck at 32 degrees Centigrade,,,,,, with,,,, with no rain.

With Sun gone Red Giant..... it will not be long before Antarctica is the only liveable continent. All the rest of the continents like living in a oven.

I have been garden hose watering for nearly a week now.

I lost 2 Scot's Pine and perhaps a section of Lilac. This is painful for me.... and in mourning of my Scot's pine. Just take my eye off the ball for a second, and whammo, lost a big straight pine tree. I admire the Scot's Pine for its orange color and straight trunk.

Summer is meant to be the fun time of year. In Sun gone Red Giant, summer is the ugliest time of the year.

At this rate, we will cease to have winters in a decade. Winter will feel like Spring. And Summer will be 7 months long.

I was deeply, deeply surprised to see England in Heat Waves and in drought.

Good thing that I spent 1999 visiting much of Europe, experiencing what the environment was like in Europe. The lush green of England and much of Europe, the deep purple blue Mediterranean Sea, and Greek island life, almost a paradise.

And then comes 2026 with Sun gone Red Giant and England in drought. 

Humanity, quickly, needs to pull its head out of the sand--- for our bad weather is caused 95% by Sun gone Red Giant, and only about 5% by fossil fuel burning greenhouse gases.

AP

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Today was a typical day of why rainfall is so short as Sun gone Red Giant.

I was walking around 6PM and the sky was dark with clouds, heavy clouds full of moisture, but no rain. No rain because the temperature was still, can you believe it-- 32 degrees centigrade hot hot.

To make clouds shed rain, they need to bump into a Cold Front or cold air mass.

This is why most rain comes at nighttime in summer for night has more cold fronts.

Sad, that the sky was dark and full of clouds, yet it was still a Heat Wave of 32 Centigrade that gives us, no rainfall.

Looking at the forecast-- it says a 70% chance tonight.

I will see what happens.

But the Pattern is clear. As the Sun goes Red Giant, heat waves called domes keep building up in the interior of continents, making them deserts because no Cold Air Masses. Along the coast of a continent is the only place a cold air mass can exist especially if there are mountains along the coast, and thus the coastal rain becomes Atmospheric Rivers.

Climate Change is due 95% because Sun gone Red Giant, and only 5% because of fossil fuel burning greenhouse gases. Proof:: polar ice melt acceleration is because increasing yearly Sun radiation.

AP, King of Science

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Funny, just about 15 minutes after the post above, I got a Emergency Alert on my iphone of an impending tornado until 9PM. Then I got more and more of these alerts, going to 9:15 of a tornado sweeping through the area.

I heeded their warning and packed a few essentials-- wallet, papers and went over to my building with a basement in it.

Well, I emerged after watching some TV near the basement, and cleaning up the basement a bit. I emerged to find no tornado, but a nice rainfall of 2 centimeters worth of rain.

I am so thankful of the rain, and now wondering if I can stop watering via garden hose. Can I call this year 2026 drought, is now over with???? I hope so.

And thanks to the emergency alert system we have in place here in the USA. For I will heed them--- the only wise thing to do.

Trouble is, if I am sleeping and a tornado comes, I probably will not know of it, until it is ---- right on me.

AP

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What a glorious night, another round of rain showers. I was out feeding some cats and almost got caught in the rainstorm.

So tonight, started out with a Emergency Alert of a tornado around 9PM, that delivered just rain of 2 centimeters and now another round of rainfall of about 1 centimeter.

Looking at the Radar, and some more showers are coming my way.

So yes, I will tomorrow hang up on the garden hose watering and start my project of sawing down weed-trees.

Especially sawing down more of the Buckthorn.

Just the other day I ran into a-lot of stickers that clung to my mosquito netting attire, in fact my entire pants were coated in these burrs. It is smaller than a cockle burr and have to explore exactly what plant it is.

I would rank it as my number 2 plant enemy, considering how much time it takes me to clean these burrs off my clothing.

Looking on Internet, some call it Virginia stickseed Hackelia virginiana. I usually get a whole stem of the seeds sticking to my clothes, especially when going off the path to water plants. I suppose these stickseeds have cost me in total at least 2 days out of my life.

Now that I know well what the weed looks like I am going to make every effort to sickle them out next year.

AP

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Can you believe it, 5 September and still 32 degree Centigrade weather. Still need air conditioning late into the night. Refrigerator running almost constantly.

Looking at the weather forecast--- 30s for the week. Will 25December be 30 degrees Centigrade? Will 1 January 2027 be 30 degree Centigrade????????

If it is, one thing good about it, would be, ..... finally...... college and university professors, will........ finally begin to ask the question----- does the Sun shine from fusion,...... or better yet....... shine from Faraday Law of each and every proton inside the Sun has the Faraday Law going on of muon thrusting through proton torus.

This is what happens when  scientists never take LOGIC in their education, and unable to think straight, think clearly, think correctly.

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Today, 5SEP2026, made my last transplants of potted plants, before winter. I am hoping what I transplanted were grapes grown from seed. But I have my doubts, for they look a-lot like cottonwood, popular trees. I guess I will find out next year.

And today I had delicious watermelon, slightly pink and pulled from the refrigerator. Chilled watermelon is a thousand times better than unchilled. But happier yet, I have the seeds to continue my Heritage watermelon line. I bought these seed some 20 years ago and have used the continuous line of plants. I separate them into pink and white, and early and late.

I was in danger of losing my Heritage line of seed by planting them this year in July, thinking I did not have enough time to keep the seed line going. Next year will plant them in mid May.

This year 2026 is the worst year for me on fruit to process and can. The Drought stressed all my fruit trees so they bore no fruit. The only harvest for me this year will be black walnuts. And in the store will buy organic cranberries come Thanksgiving. 

Sad, sad year of drought for fruit.

Looking, I still have about 30 quart jars of apples and pears from last year 2025 harvest. That will last me through the winter.

I am already making my New Year's Resolutions--- spend more time outside tending the gardens, grounds and plants in 2027, and less time writing science books.

This is going to be easy for me, because this hurdle of 5 Logic textbooks will be ---- behind me. Those 5 textbooks have become my most difficult project so far, and now that I am solved of them, I should have more free time.

AP, King of Science

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I am trying to make out what mice communication means. I often hear mice do a "ddddrrrrrrrrr" sound. So I opened the door to where I have the most mice traps. It is a room where on outside are hazelnut bushes and lilacs. They love hazelnuts and lilac. And my house was not constructed to be rodent and insect proof--- what a shame. I guess 98% of the home construction in the USA is Not insect or rodent proof.

So what is this mouse communication of a "dddddrrrrrrrrr" reverberation sound??????

[Archimedes Plutonium]

So, 2027 I am making a determined effort to prove this hypothesis-- white watermelon seeds produce white fruit. While dark colored seeds produce red-pink fruit.

For years now I suspected that, but I was not careful enough in planting to find out the truth.

Let me put a strong effort in 2027 to see if the hypothesis is true.

And in 2027, I will not plant the seed in July, no, I will plant the seed in middle May, some in beginning of June.

Chilled watermelon is the best fruit for a sizzling 39 degree centigrade day of summer.

AP

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It has been a marvelous good year for the garden spider Argiope, those big spiders that tackle grasshoppers.

The siding on a warehouse of mine has perhaps 50 of them.

I have no explanation as to why they are abundant this year???

It was hot and dry for much of the Summer. Maybe they prefer hot and dry.

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Saw a beautiful sight of more than 100 monarch butterflies, heading south. They stopped over on my artesian pond, and, I suppose some of my milkweed.

This tells me I have a healthy ecosystem. Still healthy. Earlier in year I saw many toads and about 5 salamanders. 

I have not seen any frogs though. Usually I see frogs in my water tanks as I empty out the tanks.

This has been the best summer of all for Agriope garden spiders, they are everywhere. But no frogs, which is starting to worry me.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Funny, how yesterday saw this sight of more than 100 monarch butterflies and today I scraped past a tree spider's web. I guess the tree spider saw a lucrative opportunity.

And tonight was the first night of signs of Autumn as the temperature is at 14 degrees Centigrade. My type of temperature as I wore a light jacket.

Autumn has finally come to my part of the USA, and glad for it. Either tonight or tomorrow will remove my metal table top I sleep beside in summer, vice the air conditioner. Just touching the side of the stainless steel sends shivers. But as I learned this summer, once the ambient air is above 27 degrees centigrade, it no longer works. All is well though, for next summer I will spend my nights over the other house with its basement cellar where it is 21 degrees Centigrade the year round. I am looking forward to switching homes summer and winter, making the best that each offers. Sort of like taking a vacation, only not a real vacation.

I wonder if the cats will sense that I am at another location, inside, and no longer at what they understood where I was. Be interesting for me to follow that cat intelligence that I no longer sleep over there, but over here.

But one thing good about one location versus the other. I get better reception on my iphone. I think the phone companies have their business so exacting that they can control the channelling of the signal to almost an exact spot of geography.

And one of the items I am going to have to deal with in the moving back and forth is the food supply. Emptying the refrigerator and freezer and the canned foods.

But also, able to fix one location up while living at another, like that of painting the ceilings and just a overall general house cleaning.

I was successful in removing the possums or was it raccoons??? Not sure which, for some animals found a way up into the attic. So I sealed off all possible known routes and have not heard them since that time.

This is the big problem of home building. Few if any construction companies make a home that is animal and insect proof. I suppose all that wood is the cause of never a insect proofing.

And one of the largest reasons I want to shuttle back and forth with the seasons, is the house I live in has no *** fly proof entrance****. In Wyoming Ohio, near Cincinnati, our home had a porch before the entrance, so any flies would get stuck in the porch. Here, I open the door and 20 flies fly in. Really obnoxious situation at the one home. At the other home there is no fly problem.

So, well, this summer is gone, but look forward to next summer of 2027 when I live in my summer home.

And now that I have my 5 Logic textbooks done, I can do more work outside and inside.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Year of the spider for me, this year. Could El Nino have anything to do with it??? Absurdly???

Everywhere I look is a spider, more spiders than grasshoppers, I reckon.

The Chinese calendar has a year of the tiger or rat, but none for spider. They have a year for the rooster, which probably eats both grasshopper and spider.

So why is this year so abundant in spiders where I live?? Especially those big garden spiders Agriope. And they have saved some of my vegetables from grasshoppers.

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Now I cannot think of a worse season of the year to be rainy--- as Autumn. 

Of course there are only 4 seasons, but the most illogical season to be full of rain is Autumn. Because the plants and trees are winding down in growth, getting ready for winter. Trees losing leaves, bracing themselves for winter frost and freeze.

Logically, the best time of year for Rain is Spring and Summer, so as to prepare plants for growth and the growing season.

So sad that 2026 was Drought for Spring and Summer, and now we are dumped full of rain in this Autumn. So sad and disappointed of this turn of events.

Is this what is to be expected for 2027 and 2028???? Drought in Spring continuing into Summer, then a deluge of rain in Autumn-Fall????? So disappointing.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

The full moon tonight is exceptionally beautiful, almost due East. Every end of the month I look forward to a full moon near East sighting.

I need to comment on the Autumn rainfall. It has been tremendous, almost every day now is rain. But the complaint is that we have little rain in Spring and Summer, which ended up in drought.

Perhaps the worst season to have plenty of rain is Autumn when plants are closing down and preparing for winter. And where much of this Autumn rain will evaporate and go somewhere else.

The season of Spring is the time to wish for this ample rain carrying into summer the growing season.

Something strange about this rain. At night I wear a headlamp and see the rain as almost like minuature snowflakes. Not raindrops but like floating particles. Strange rain. And if the El Nino is the cause of this abundant Autumn rain, well, it probably is better than the La Nina.

What we need is normal rainfall, not droughts. Let us see what 2027 brings.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

So on 1 October 2026 I voted via early voting for the Midterm elections held on 3 Nov 2026. It was fast, convenient, and easy. There was no line-queu. In and out in 20 minutes.

I voted for all Democrats except an Independent where no Democrat was running. My message to politicians and USA democracy, is that the Republican Party needs to be thrown out because they chose DonDolt Trump a Russian-phile who lived in Russia and had free sex, food and entertainment and was sent back to the USA to do Russia's every bidding. We see it in Trump sending Vance to Hungary to campaign for the Russian-phile Orban, and now for Germany's AfD. Whereever in the world is a Russian sympathizer up for election, there will be a Trump envoy campaigning for and likely giving billions of dollars to that Russian-phile.

We see it in the Lindsay Graham bill signed into law that will sanction Russia, but the Russo-phile lover Trump will not activate it nor execute on it, instead, he tariffs Canada.

I hold the Republican Party responsible for letting Putin destroy Ukraine, and give Ukraine to Putin.

For that, the Republican Party should dry up, shrivel up and be blown away. If the USA manages to survive the next two years under Trump, then the Republican Party should be in the dust bin of history of the USA, for allowing Trump 1st Russian president in office.

My opinion is that a pommelling of the Republican Party at the Midterms is just not enough, considering that DonDolt works for Putin of Russia.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Remind me to never buy "yellow potatoes" again for potato salad. This potato takes too long to microwave to mash. The Gold or Yukon Gold potato is far better to microwave and then mash for potato salad.

Either the Yukon Gold or the Red potato is good.

I make a delicious potato salad.

organic potatoes, microwaved that is mashed

organic celery

organic cut onions

organic dijon mustard

organic mayonnaise 

several tablespoons of fresh squeezed lemon juice 

fresh picked peas if available

organic raisins if available

I find the best tasting potato salad is eating the salad when the potatoes are still hot or warm

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Every year I have to look up when Hallowean is, and when Thanksgiving is?? I know they come around in October before Xmass. I know the date of Xmass as 25Dec, no problems with that, but I never fixed Hallowean nor Thanksgiving firmly in mind. 

I fixed Plutonium Day firmly in mind as Nov7 and Dec14 and forgotten all the other holidays.

And this is what is so important about Google. If Google never existed, it should exist for this simple reason, of, when is Hallowean? So I type into Google "Hallowean" and do not even have to spell it fully or correctly for Google will know what my search is--- and there it is--- wide and plain to see--- Hallowean Oct 31 and then looking for Thanksgiving --- Nov26.

Of course, for me, Xmass or Hallowean or Thanksgiving are treated as if just any other ordinary day. Only 7Nov, and 14Dec are treated differently.

Not even my birthday is anything special.

As long as the cats I keep are happy, then I am happy on holidays.

Speaking of cats, so today I let out the 11, I keep bunkered in a garage for that is their winter home, and as soon as I open the garage door, they, like clockwork scramble outside and play with each other. They are playful and happy and I am happy that they are happy. Once they stop playing, I know something is wrong and they are no longer happy cats.

Maybe, for Hallowean, Thanksgiving and Xmass, this year, I will get them a special treat--- a new food that they never ate before. So my cats can celebrate the holidays.

AP

[Archimedes Plutonium]

In recent years about this time of Autumn I prepare the cats-- abandoned cats of the town-- for their winter quarters. I have about 33 cats at last count. Some wonder off, most keep to a tight schedule of when I usually show up to feed them and then later at night put them into their building-- garage, warehouse, barn, shed and sometime during the day release them for half a day before locking them up during the night.

Most are very clockwise to know when to go into their nighttime building.

But during the Spring and Summer, I find out which cats are fighters and belligerent. Those I keep outside permanently. I had the unfortunate experience where this one vicious female killed three cats before I realized what was happening.

And so today was the day I moved a charming white female cat into a building. She had 2 kittens this summer and was getting sick, probably calci on the approaching cold weather. We are due for our first frost on Friday and today, 13Oct is Tuesday. So, I decided to put a fighter cat out of her building home and let her stay permanently outdoors for the winter for I have outdoor structures they can sleep in, and feed them everyday.

So this time of year, I have to take these last few days of warm weather and rearrange the cat living quarters before Winter hits hard and long.

The white cats name is "Lovely" for her disposition is stoic and lovely, and has attempted to have kittens for 3 separate times. And now she has 2 kittens, and she and her kittens need the best chance of survival in the long winter ahead. The cat I removed where Lovely is now home is named "Princess" for she is a queen cat and a fiercesome fighter. She fights with almost every cat she meets.

My cat care has come to the point where I have to separate Fighters from "conformers".

Maybe I will witness an evolution of behavior in my cats.

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