Some Timely History
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) traces its practical origins to September 25, 1676, when two precise pendulum clocks were set in motion at the newly established Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
Key Milestones in GMT and Time Standardization
1675: King Charles II founded the Royal Observatory to help solve the critical maritime problem of determining a ship's longitude at sea.
1676 (September 25): Two accurate clocks were started, marking an early milestone in tracking uniform local time at the Greenwich meridian.
1880: Great Britain legally adopted Greenwich Mean Time as the standard time across England, Scotland, and Wales, driven largely by the scheduling needs of the expanding railway network.
1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., officially established the Greenwich meridian as the universal Prime Meridian (0° longitude), setting the foundation for global time zones.
1972: GMT was formally superseded as the international civil time ...
Send help......and a storage unit. He kept the m'fer a secret. Maybe I should come home with a pair of $1000 shoes.
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@SGKusmertz If you could have one song play when you enter a room, what would it be?
@bek1 Do you usually feel excited or stressed out about going back to school after summer break?
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What movie would you like to change the ending to?
UPDATE Not one correct guess yet. Below is a clue. First correct guess wins.
This dish has been making circles around their competition for centuries.
Birthday gift from Chris, @GGsister2:
Giadzy pasta, canned Italian tomatoes, tomato purée, olive oil, and a trio seasoned salts..
Well, I guess Chris is telling me to get cooking now that the kitchen is 90% done.
So…guess what I am cooking this weekend? First one to correctly guess the dish will win Gutter merch. Recipe may or may not use all ingredients shown.
Let’s see who knows their Italian food!
“Day 7”
Of the 2026 Cavalcade.
Note: ‘Mules’ or ‘Ana-Mules’ (animals) as my brother from another mother, Miguel, calls them.
- We were hearing Elk bugling all night last night. Now we know why the area is called ‘Elk Valley’.
- Of course the Black Tailed deer that crossed the road in front of us while driving back from the Grove of Giants.
- Last evening, a covey of 15-20 Quail ran through our campsite.
1292 miles
182 miles today, still almost 4 hours of seat time.
We left Crescent City around 11:00.
We stopped in Orick to get fuel and try to get some Butane cartridges for our single burner stove (coffee). We went to a Tractor Supply, after I checked the web to ensure they carried them.
Nope, the manager told me they quit carrying butane all together because the homeless steal them all. Target doesn’t carry them either, although we did finally find them at a local outdoors store.
We jumped off US101 and rode old US101, which is two lanes, was bypassed when they increased 101 into 4 lanes.
It’s now ...
