Question #7: Which of the three bridges at the Canal is oldest?
Answer. The Bourne and Sagamore bridges were both opened on the exact same day: June 22, 1935 with the Railroad Bridge opening later that same year on December 29th.

Question #8: How many lighthouses (active & deactivated) are on Cape Cod (not including the islands)?
Answer. 16. they are: Chatham, Cleveland Ledge, Highland, Hyannis Rear Range, Long Point, Monomoy, Nauset, Nobska, Point Gammon, Race Point, Sandy Neck, Stage Harbor, Three Sisters, and Wood End.

Question #9: How many islands are associated with Cape Cod?
Answer. 15: They are Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Elizabeth Islands which total 13 in the chain.

Question #10: How many miles of coastline does Cape Cod have?
Answer. 559.6, according to the Cape Cod Chamber

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Ron recycled the giant pile of plastic bags that I’ve been accumulating and worked with me to cut down the grasses at Edgewater.  That’s love.  We filled the truck.

It was colder than I realized: 30° by the time we were done.

The insulation installers were at Edgewater on Wednesday.  Peter wrote that they could feel the difference immediately.

Vikings Season 4 started last night.

So, a Judge Magistrate used a law – the All Writs Act – from 1789 to demand that Apple develop and hand over software to decrypt information on iPhones.

From the Scenic Roots website.  Did a little raking today and hung out the burlap to dry.  It felt great to be outside.

A couple of fact-challenged individuals on a FB thread disputed my claim that women in the US are not paid as well as men. Here are two very recent international comparisons of how poorly women in this country are doing compared to the rest of the developed world. http://www.weforum.org/…/where-is-the-best-country-to… http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap…/rankings/

BernieCare and his other proposals might work if Americans were generous. My impression of many of his supporters is that they are too selfish, too immature and too mean-spirited to actually work or vote for any of BS’s ideas. I wonder how many of the BernieBots, for example, have run for office or do volunteer work in their communities. I’ve had dialogs with the Bernie followers and have been cursed and disrespected every which way. I think it would take a different type of human to make his program work. From the way some of his followers think, act and write, they are not that different from the meanest among us.

I am mystified by the allure of free tuition at state colleges.

Let’s not forget about fees and other costs, which would not be covered by the BS plan.

More importantly, without being assured of a job at graduation, what’s the point of marking time for four years?

How about opting for a really free high school diploma in the trades, at which point you’d be paid while you complete an apprenticeship, and be guaranteed work for the rest of your life – AND you wouldn’t have to live in a city, commute in traffic 2 or more hours a day or work as a corporate wage slave in some d*d office.

Plus, you have the possible benefit of union membership, the ability to live almost anywhere, being able to do-it-yourself and fellowship of (and discounts from) other skilled craftspersons.

Cold today and supposed to get worse tonight.

I screwed up by letting the burlap freeze in the snow, so we thawed some big pieces in the tub, and Ron picked up more bags at the coffee shop after he jolly jaunted his way to the Donut RV.

I’ve wrapped the male skimmia, the rosemary, the front hydrangea, a couple of rhodies and the azalea in the front.  Some of the smaller plants I put in last Fall are covered with snow, which should insulate them.

I kind of knocked off yesterday.  Had a mammo and bone density scan.  Made a deposit at the bank and bought a book bag and some books at the library.  Sent an interim invoice to Jim.

Gloria Steinem is no hero of mine. I have no respect for a woman who’s made a place for herself in the world by trading on her looks.

Although her patronization of all young women (while she was flirting with Bill Maher) was ridiculous in and of itself, I would imagine that the LGBT community found her dumb, heterosexist remark particularly offensive.