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Because I lurves all y'all so and you have burning desperate needs to know this shit:


The Earth used to be covered in giant mushroom-like organisms.


Long before trees, Earth was home to towering organisms called Prototaxites, which lived during the Late Silurian through the Devonian periods, roughly 420 million to 350 million years ago. Fossil evidence shows they could reach up to 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide, making them the largest land organisms of their time.

Most plants back then measured only a few inches, forming low mats of mosses, liverworts, and early vascular species. Land animals — millipede-like arthropods, primitive insects, and early amphibians — were also relatively small, and the first treelike plants would not appear until millions of years later, making Prototaxites the giants of their prehistoric world.

For more than a century, scientists debated whether Prototaxites were plants, fungi, algae, or lichens, since nothing comparable exists today. Their fossil “trunks” were composed of tightly packed microscopic tubes, unlike vascular tissues in plants, and they lacked roots, leaves, or wood. Isotope studies suggest they lived as heterotrophs, absorbing nutrients from decaying organic matter rather than producing their own food.

They may also have played a role in shaping primitive soils and nutrient cycles, and some researchers speculate their massive columns offered shelter to small arthropods. Although scientists are still investigating how Prototaxites lived and precisely what role they played in early ecosystems, evidence now points to them being either fungi or an otherwise unknown fungus-like branch of life.​
 
We're not to flannel shirt stage quite yet. I did make sure the furnace will operate as intended, and I got a lovely new sweater last week. We get a bit o' rain here today and then a few degrees cooler, I think. That's usually the formula this time of year.
It rained all.day yesterday. I just woke up to a very bright moon. Apparently a "supermoon". I slept well for not long enough and i am TIRED

I have to drive to the office on the other side of columbis an hr away.... sad because an hr drive
 
It rained all.day yesterday. I just woke up to a very bright moon. Apparently a "supermoon". I slept well for not long enough and i am TIRED

I have to drive to the office on the other side of columbis an hr away.... sad because an hr drive
Sorry k. Think good thoughts on your commute. I know I usually do.

Maybe you can too!
 
Let’s see: schedule two toilets to have the wax rings replaced. Got the doors crew working on three more apartments, sorting out the key problem for one of the apartments we did yesterday, pumped up one of the tires on the property manager’s car, talk to the relocation manager About stuff coming up, trying to sort out the city website so I can get inspection scheduled again, short of Siding crew because windows have been postponed from arriving today to arriving Thursday, growled at the electricians for not doing what I gave them to do yesterday which I wanted it done yesterday and if I wanted it done today, I would’ve given them it to do today, said some complimentary things to my helper who really rocks, told him to bring me his resume so I can try to get him a job, make sure the site was clean, went to the printing shop and picked up the set of plans and the matrix for the next job, called the cabinet guy to make sure that we would have material by Halloween so that we can start on the third, and then said some cuss words and went to lunch on the way back to the job from the print shop.


Got an email that I have to see the cardiologist three weeks from today. I put in the day off request and made a decision that I need to cut £10 before I go in there. Ask for help on that. Having a salad for lunch. There will be more walking going on starting as soon as I walk out of here….


Then we’ll see what I get done this afternoon.
Intermittent fasting…salads are good (use apple cider vinegar dressing w goat cheese), walk, and when you eat, skip bread…processed foods are out for you sir! I was able to drop close to 15-20lbs over a three-four month period sorta-kinda following that regimen. The fasting part I held to hard and fast…food choices came and went but I basically followed that model.

If yer really gung-ho, follow Keto to the letter of the law…I’m not there yet….

Took Mamma in for her radiation treatment this a.m. In at 7, walked out at 8. They said the next round may be longer but she wasn’t in pain and things are trending in the right direction. I’m waiting to hear back from my cardiologist…

Is it Hump…why yes it is! Go forth and Hump away! HDH approved as always. HMMZ——

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I’ve never seen this show… but damn, yo, I might just start!
Dude…doood….yeah…

All the cooking shows I remember growing up were (to me then) old folks on PBS. She was the first to sort of turn that paradigm around. At least the first that I saw. Many copycats followed.

I’m not sure if she’s still on, but you can find her with the Oracle of All Knowledge (UToob).
 
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