June 2024

Water water everywhere

We have plenty of experience dealing with drought and not enough water, however, we do not normally have to deal with too much water. A big problem with all the rain is that I get all the weeds pulled, it rains, and I have more and different weeds. There are weeds this spring that I have never seen before. I have the biggest, healthiest, most prolific, dandelions, prostrate spurge, and Asiatic Dayflowers (not a flower but an aggressive weed) than I have ever had before. They probably floated in on the runoff from so much rain. At least they are easy to pull and hoe since the soil is so moist.

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Lisa Laman Mini-Reviews of Ultraman: Rising and Brats

Credit where credit is due, Ultraman: Rising looks terrific in terms of its animation. The new take on the Japanese superhero Ultraman comes to life under the watch of directors Shannon Tindle and John Aoshima through animation building on the heightened visuals popularized by titles like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The Industrial Light & Magic crew (doing their only third fully-animated film following Rango and Strange Magic) deliver fantastic work providing stylized touches to Ultraman's various skirmishes with big monsters and other adversaries. Fire and smoke are realized in a style evoking hand-drawn animation. Brightly-colored impressionistic backgrounds surround the lead characters to accentuate powerful emotions. Even just the movements of Ultraman are enjoyably dynamic and angular. Just this massive superhero's body language is a lot of fun to watch!

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