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Coffee Time! #7
Hello everyone! How are you all doing? I hope that you are having a great day. Here it is cloudy again, but a bit milder than the last couple days. However, it is supposed to snow this afternoon and overnight. Not much though, but we could receive about 4 inches (10cm) of new snow. We haven’t had any big snowstorms this winter, and by “big” I mean something around 8 to 15 inches (20 to 38cm) of snow.
It is nice not to have larger amounts of snow to deal with, but snow is important in our area to help keep the water levels where they should be in our lakes and rivers. And it helps to put moisture in the limited soil that we have to get things growing nicely in the spring. Spring rain can do that too, and rain does not need to be shoveled.
The Beauty of a Snowflake.
There are pluses and minuses no matter what. So, we enjoy what we get and be thankful. That is always the best way to do things. WP seems to have made some changes again, at least for me, I don’t know if anyone else has noticed a difference. The page where I write up my post, the font is very small now, and I can’t change it. When I publish the post, the font is normal.
Except once it came out huge. I didn’t do that, it just happened. No one said anything though, so maybe it didn’t show up huge for other people. Oh well, minor details, I guess. I was up early today, woke up at 4:30am and that was it, I was awake. When that happens there is no point in trying to go back to sleep. It won’t work. If it’s after 3am when I wake up, that’s it for me, I’m awake for the day.
No two snowflakes are alike.
Kind of strange really. I never used to be that way, this is something that started just a few years ago. Handy though, I don’t need an alarm to wake me up. Normally. Though I can’t always count on that. Speaking of waking up, Muffin is sleeping with me on the chair. Well, I’m not sleeping, she is, but she is with me. Her oat grass is doing so well, it is actually making a nice plant sitting in the window.
People notice that right away and say how nice it looks. Muffin must be doing something right. I think I mentioned a while back that I had a bad infestation of spider mites. I mean, they really took over my plants and I lost a lot of them. However, the spider mites are now under control, 3 weeks later, and my plants are doing nicely again.
Muffin’s oatgrass.
The hoya cuttings I got from a friend for Christmas have rooted nicely and there is some tiny new growth coming! Yay! I had a hoya plant years ago and the flowers are so nice. It will be a long time before this one gets big enough to flower, but I have something nice to look forward to. Well, time to do some dusting again. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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I’ve always wondered how we can be so certain no two snowflakes are alike⁉️
Isn’t it simply that in the vast downfall of millions of flakes, we have never seen twins? But with the quintillions of flakes that fall every year, or maybe even in one snow day, isn’t it likely a couple of them are so closely alike, we would not be able to see a difference? Just sayin’.🧐
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Well, the making of a snowflake is a complicated process. Starts with a tiny speck of dust and ultra tiny water droplets. The way water molecules are, they freeze a certain way. Now you have different temps in clouds as well and air currents, updrafts and downdrafts causing the forming snowflake to continually move about many times going through different temperature changes and adding more water and the chances of two snowflakes being the same is zero. Some might be very close, but will always be different. This is a very simplified look at a very complex process. It is always possible to see a difference, though you might have to get very close and use magnification to see it. Interestingly, those who photograph snowflakes agree that the best place in the world to do it is northern Ontario.😊📷❄️❄️
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Yeah, but again, with the quintrigintillion (10 to the 213th) snowflakes that have fallen, I doubt that there are that many molecules to rearrange in a unique pattern. I suspect back after Noah came off the Ark, there was a snowflake that fell in that first winter that was duplicated in the winter of 2018 in Siberia.😂❄️
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You are forgetting the mighty power of our God and the way He has created everything in such amazing complexity. One molecule of water will never freeze in the same shape twice. Looking at the frost on my window each day shows that so well. Every day the intricate patterns change, yet it is the same moisture on that window. And all the other complexities that I mentioned make the chances of two identical snowflakes ever happening as zero. If it was just left up to chance alone, then it could feasibly happen, though even then the chances are miniscule. God talks about the treasures of snow in His Word and this is one such amazing and beautiful treasure in that which He created.😊❄️
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I cannot dispute Father’s amazing creativity and I refute blind evolution/chance in most of nature (my current blog series; watch for tomorrow’s!). Yet, I’m not too sure He who manages the “storehouses of snow” (Job 38:22) and “gives snow like wool” onto the Earth would object to sometimes duplicating one or two of the flakes.😂
I guess someday in the eons of eternity, we can go to the Throne room together (or the storehouses of snow) and ask our Creator.🤠
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