Transit of Venus: watch today or never

We have CLOUDS. Of course we have CLOUDS. Figures. I'll have to watch it live-stream at National Geographic's and/or spacewweather.com's site. But if you can, don't miss this literally once-in-a-lifetime chance.

TRANSIT OF VENUS: The historic 2012 Transit of Venus commences today, June 5th, at 3:09 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:09 UT). Spaceweather.com is covering the event with observing tips, a real-time photo gallery, and links to live webcasts from around the world.  Extraordinary photos of Venus taken during the hours leading up to the transit are also featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com

Oh deer

Last year, I spied a deer from the upstairs window, and was somewhat mortified to see it's one hind leg was a nasty mess. I'm assuming she got hit by a car and the femur totally broken, so that the muscles contracted the leg upwards. I figured she'd be dead in days, but to my surprise, she's still alive. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the mild winter we had with just two days of snow (and one of those was the Halloween storm). Next winter, probably not so lucky.


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