Tomorrow, Saturday, September 30, 2017, Is “National Public Lands Day” (NPLD) — A Day To Volunteer.

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Some of you may have heard, over the ‘ether’, that National Parks, e.g., Acadia, and some State Parks, are having FREE entrance on Saturday, September 30, 2017. That is indeed TRUE. That is because it is “National Public Lands Day” (NPLD) – 2017. So, if you want to go to a Park for FREE, tomorrow is the day. [Not a BIG deal for us since as a family we have two (2) lifetime (4-person) passes to the National Parks!]
Though most only get to hear the FREE part, the real essence of NPLD is as a day of public volunteering on PUBLIC LAND. So, if you can. In New Hampshire there are various local initiatives THOUGH I can’t find any by our NH “Parks & Recreation” (for 2017).
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The Picture Of The Day (Sony a6500) + 6 Also-Rans — September 29, 2017.
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The also rans:
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The 1926 Canadian Painting, “Mountain Forms” By Lawren Harris That Sold Last Year For $8.3 Million (U.S.).
If you, like I, have never heard of Lawren Harris.

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To keep it in perspective.
I just happened to see a snippet about this in one of those free ‘Coffee News‘ advertising flyers. Piqued my interest in that I had never heard of him. So looked it up. Interesting painting.
In the scheme of things, the US $8.3 million does not put this painting anywhere close to a World record — just a Canadian, and yes, $11.2 M Canadian does look better than $8.2 M (in real money).
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2017 Fall Foliage In New Hampshire — September 28.
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These were all taken in our yard, most from the deck — if not on the deck. What can I say. I don’t have to go far to see or photograph fall foliage. It was COLD tonight, 50°F. I had to breakout the sweats.
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New Cricket Laws — “Laws Of Cricket 2017 Code” — Came Into Play, September 28, 2017.

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These new laws, the “Laws of Cricket 2017 Code” came into effect September 28, 2017 — the day that two Test matches started: Pakistan v Sri Lanka & South Africa v Bangladesh.
To be honest I just found out about them while watching highlights of those matches. I had heard about some of these proposed Laws BUT had not realized that they had been approved and were coming into play in September 2017.
- Limiting the thickness of a bat’s edge to 1.58″ is interesting — along with ensuring that it cannot be more than 2.6″ thick at any point.
I still have the last bat that I bought, c. 1983 (so it is ~34 years old). It is a ‘Duncan Fearnley’ (which has tried up a tad over the decades). I measured the edge, 0.75″. Thickness, 1.5″! Wow.
— - Tethering the bails to the wicket could be interesting. I am not really sure that there ever was a desperate need for this. We will see.
— - Wow! Players can be sent off for misconduct! Wonder who will be the first to get sent off.
— - DRS rules changed. “Umpire’s Call” will not result in a loss of a review, BUT in Test matches the reviews are NOT RESET back to 2 each after 80-overs! Pakistan, already on Day 1, lost both their reviews.
Interesting stuff.
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