Freeze warning

It is November 7th...

and we've yet to have a hard frost...

patchy spots of frost here and there but no extensive freezing...

it is november...

"A FREEZE WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE
FORECAST TO THREATEN OUTDOOR PLANTS. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL
INTERESTS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT
TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO...POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS
SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD."

It has been touch and go a few times earlier, last week or the week before. My big Jade plant and the stag horn fern have moved inside, but it just seems odd that now. Now we are maybe seeing some winter?

The weather folks were whispering the potential for snow late friday night when the 'front' moves through. Snow? Could it be? Could there be 'something' more than grass on the ground at Plymouth?

I had an idea... a thought, as i was riding in this morning. It was brought on by the sight of yet another bulk fuel tanker (probably #2 heating oil off loading at the Exxon/Mobil terminal). They are much more frequent visitors to that spot as it gets colder and more and more people are filling their oil tanks in New England. It got me thinking about the energy demands here and now for warmth, when at the same time, on the other side of the globe they are working hard, using energy, to cool off. It would be pretty awesome if somehow we could have an energy/temperature exchange program, no? Take that excess heat from one hemisphere and warm the other? Or at least the other way around... no?

The issue of scale though is what is amazing. A tanker full of ice from up nort', find the biggest damn supertanker they make, even full of ice it would barely make a dent in a heat wave in a southern city. Then i got thinking about biofuels, specifically biodiesel. That is liquid solar energy. Stored energy from the sun. That is very tankerable. Pump it through pipe lines. Produce it in the summer suns of the earth. Transport the product to the cold winter reaches of the earth. Scale and volume again are the big issues.

I just always wonder what affect we have, keeping our houses warm in the winter. Heat loss is measurable, it must have an affect? In the summer we are cooling our houses (in general, those w/o AC - good for you) but we are taking the heat from inside the house and putting it somewhere, and using energy to do that. Energy that creates heat as a by-product (hydropower being one notable exception, solar and wind as well but they don't count for as large a portion of energy generation from what i understand), more heat = more need for AC = more heat... but where there is excess heat - there is generally a place with not enough...

wouldn't it be cool to imagine some fantastic way to move and store that heat around the globe?

For now, i have to remember that even if the temp says 50°F on the computer (outside temp) that the sun sets in a few minutes and with the wind blowing, temps will be dropping. Time spin the what to wear home wheel! that and i'm joining an exclusive club. I've actually found (spent a while looking, no still haven't found my keys, a while back) my 3rd eye mirror. Yeah. one of those clip on to the glasses mirror. We'll see if i can figure out how to use/make it work for me. Who knows, maybe it will make me a little faster, it works for Paul C right?

yall be good,
Peace and all that...
G