••• The Montecito Journal has the back story on the pig house on Butterfly Lane, including this: “There’s one place in the Grossos’ home where the presence of pork could not be found—in the refrigerator. Nikki, a Kosher Jew from Nebraska, never indulged in the savory meat, although now in her 70s she says she just started trying bacon.”
••• Noozhawk reported on last night’s SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, which I only mention—there are too many to bother—because it may have been the loudest one yet. The friends with whom I was having dinner thought someone had driven a car into the building. How much is too much? Do we get any say in the matter?
••• “Santa Barbara May Boost Desalination Plant Funding by $1.8 Million […] City water staff say increasing the yearly contract amount would help the operator offer competitive wages, reduce staff turnover and address repairs.” —Noozhawk
••• The tree of the month is the Montezuma Bald Cypress: “There is a specimen (called the ‘Council Tree’) in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico, which is estimated to be over 2,000 years old, and which holds the world’s record as the tree with the stoutest trunk—37.5 feet in diameter!” —Edhat
••• “Businessman spends four years, and $10 million restoring the Ojai Playhouse, the community’s only movie theater. It originally opened in 1914. […] The theater has been closed since 2014, when it was hit by a flood. Berger bought it in 2020.” All of which is great, but calling someone—in this case, David Berger—a businessman without explaining his business is kind of weak. Is he a drug dealer? A mining magnate? A blogger? —KCLU
••• “A fleeting pop-up gallery and celebration will settle in down in the Funk Zone for one day only, Saturday, December 14. […] L’image will morph from a transient gallery entity by day (noon to 5 p.m.) into a ticketed multi-sensory party by night, from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The event promises to cull artistic energies from a large and varied cast of artists in multiple media contexts, with food and drink in the margins.” It’s at the warehouse at 111 E. Yanonali Street/202 Anacapa Street; ticket info is here. —Independent
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Thx for the scoop on the pig house. Was curious about that and always entertaining to walk past. I wonder why that sonic boom was so much louder than the others.
This is a pretty good description of how sonic booms can vary based upon weather conditions. It’s been colder this week, and so the air is more dense and it can conduct sound more effectively.
https://www.clickorlando.com/weather/2018/02/19/how-weather-conditions-affect-the-sound-of-a-sonic-boom/
I’m pretty sure there was no sonic boom with this launch. The booster landed on a droneship in Baja, not back at Vandenberg.
Moving into an areacode with a AIRFORCE BASE turned SPACEFORCE BASE- what a joke being upset by the rockets. Like complaining about airplanes coming and going from an airport, or a cruise ship entering a port. Thankful for Elon Musk and his ambitious plans, not to mention his problem solving skills.
Conflating class with crass is right on brand for you and your ilk. Bless your heart!
Christine’s observation is spot on. Mean to strangers often?
Not as often as your hero Elon.
While it’s not clear to me whether the Starlink network would in fact be used to benefit our national security over others’, couldn’t agree more that if that is the case that some loud noises are a small price to pay.
Space X leave the dang flights alone. How many more businesses are you Democrats willing to have leave the State before you understand these people pay taxes to the State.
With Newsom having taken our State from where we
Had a surplus to now being in debt to over 46 Billion where do you think the taxes will come from?
They are already talking about adding an additional 48 cents per gallon to our gas tax.
Why does the Space X issue always have to degenerate to politics? The comment about a truck crashing into a building is exactly what I thought in my house. It was frightening. That seems to me like it crosses a common sense line of what’s acceptable.
The sound you hear is called SUCCESS or sometimes we call it AMERICAN MADE!
If a sound that you are forewarned about frightens you, what on earth are you doing living along a major highway?