T+60, Notes From All Over -- It's Winter And Montana Farmers Still Bringing In The Crop; Meanwhile, Pho Keene Great In New Hampshire -- January 5, 2019

Plentywood, MT: link here.

• eastern Montana, crops are still being brought in
• one ranch/farm: 7,000 acres
• 7,000 acres / 640 acres (one section) = 11 sections
• let's say five sections x two sections
• a section is one mile x one mile
• so, this ranch/farm is two miles wide by five miles long?
• durum wheat
• still 1,300 to 1,400 acres to combine
• expecting 40 - 50 bushels/acre; brought in 20 to 25 acres
• reason for the delay: too much rain; to much moisture
• quotes from the rancher/farmer

It's the kind of growing season they've not seen before around here.

"Nothing close at all. It's just unbelievable. One for the record books...for us anyway."

"It was kind of a bad year for everybody I guess."

The earth is getting greener, not browner. Link here. 

Atmospheric CO2. For what it's worth, we should get the December reading this next week. Link here. Daily readings:

• January 3, 2019: 409.99
• January 3, 2018: 406. 64

I'm feeling hot already. It must be all that coal they're burning in Germany.

From Chesto over at The Boston Globe:

General Electric prepares sell another business line: The Boston-based industrial company -- already deep into a wave of divestitures -- could be close to a deal to sell its jet-leasing business to a private equity firm for as much as $40 million.

R.I.P., Herb Kelleher: The Southwest Airlines co-founder reshaped an entire industry.

Pho Keene Great!  A Keene, NH, restaurant owner must have been looking for more exposure with this sign. Guess it worked: Now half of New England knows this Vietnamese restaurant is opening next to Keene City Hall after announcing itself with a sign that says "Pho Keene Great." Needless to say, the bureaucrats next door were not amused.

"Pho" is pronounced "fuh." 

How did authorities address the issue: the store did not have a permit to hang a sign. I am not making this up.

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For Arianna 

So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures, Maureen Corrigan, c. 2014.

Soft cover.

Chapters are way too long; author needs to break it up a bit. Introduction is an astounding 23 pages long. Text is 304 pages; there are only six chapters and the introduction (304 / 7 = 43 pages; throw out the introduction, and each chapter averages 46 pages; my attention span is about 23 pages/chapter).