CORONA VIRUS IMPACT: Neil Diamond Updates "Sweet Caroline"

Neil Diamond posted an update of "Sweet Caroline" on his Youtube channel to reflect the sign of the times since the Corona virus with hand washing and social distancing.

UPCYCLED: OLD SCHOOL TELEPHONE TO POODLE PHONE

Check out Poodle Telephone on Cut Out + Keep

What a fun conversation piece (pun intended).

Cutout and Keep crafter Joanne C. turned an old school push-button landline phone into a poodle phone fake fur, googly eyes, pom-poms, and glue.

THRIFT STORE FIND: FREDDY KRUEGER LOOKING DRESS

Because the beckoning of a half-price sale at our local Goodwill I ventured out and spotted the above dress.

Not sure why the manufacturer, LuLaRoe, thought Freddy Krueger would be a great inspiration for one of their Junior looking dresses.

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DIY Coronavirus Commemorative Jewellery

As stores can seem to keep toilet paper on the shelves during the Coronavirus crisis, someone DIY'ed a pair of earring to commemorate the product that seem to be prized as much as bottled water and more than canned goods and food.

Photographer In Michigan Captures Image of Chicago Skyline 50 Miles Away

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Michigan Live posted the above image captured by photographer Jeri Raycraft explaining it is possible through a phenomenon called "fata margana" which is a mirage.

Wikipedia explains fata morgana as:

"A Fata Morgana (Italian: [ˈfaːta morˈɡaːna]) is a complex form of superior mirage that is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon. It is an Italian term named after the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the air or false land created by her witchcraft to lure sailors to their deaths."

and the science behind it:

"Often, a Fata Morgana changes rapidly. The mirage comprises several inverted (upside down) and erect (right side up) images that are stacked on top of one another. Fata Morgana mirages also show alternating compressed and stretched zones.^[1]

The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.^[1] (A thermal inversion is an atmospheric condition where warmer air exists in a well-defined layer above a layer of significantly cooler air. This temperature inversion is the opposite of what is normally the case; air is usually warmer close to the surface, and cooler higher up.)

In calm weather, a layer of significantly warmer air may rest over colder dense air, forming an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens, producing a series of both inverted and erect images. A Fata Morgana requires a duct to be present; thermal inversion alone is not enough to produce this kind of mirage. While a thermal inversion often takes place without there being an atmospheric duct, an atmospheric duct cannot exist without there first being a thermal inversion."

INTERESTING HACKS: ALUMINUM FOIL HACKS

The above video by Facts Verse and they have some interesting hacks for aluminum foils hacks you may or may not know or thought of before.  

• Make a funnel
• Use on ironing board to cut ironing time in half.
• Sharpen scissors
• Battery extender
• Use Aluminum foil balls to eliminate static in the dryer
• Clean your iron
• Remove tarnish from silverware
• Move heavy furniture using it under legs
• Wi-Fi signal extender
• Clean a hot glue gun
• Cook without oil
• Clean rust off chrome
• Plastic bag sealer
• Use your touch screen on your phone while wearing gloves
• Make cookie cutters
• DIY teeth whitening
• Fixture protector while painting.
• Grease catcher
• Oven protector
• Grill cleaner

I have used the battery extender one before when the battery in my mouse went dead and only had AAA when an AA battery was needed.  I will say use caution with this as the wad was probably a little too thick and it pushed the spring down too far and the AA didn't fit at snug as it should and had to shake it all of the time to get it to work.

I had not been aware of the one of putting the foil under the ironing board cover so going to try that some time.

I don't know about the DIY teeth whitening though; I guess in theory it might work, the thought of putting aluminum foil in my mouth made me cringe.

Have you tried any of these hacks before or know of any others?  Please feel free to leave a comment below.

FROZEN: OFF OF LAKE ERIE

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John Kucko Digital captured what two days of gale-force winds off of Lake Erie did to houses off of the lake in Buffalo.  It is both haunting, terrifying and beautiful all at the same time.