A few months ago I put Areas A & B (in pink, the blank space between makes up Area C) on a map of N. Cal to see if it helped me understand anything. It did - that traveling a distance such as Sac (where I live) to my parents in the Bay Area might require going through *multiple* military checkpoints

Attempting to turn a huge-ish twig and wood pile into some homemade biochar in my small, urban backyard and not sure I nailed it tbh

Anybody have tips on how to achieve pyrolysis without special equipment?

Set up a scraper to grab soil moisture data from NOAA like 3 years ago then forgot about it - heard @weatherwest.bsky.social say how dry SoCal is & here's California since May '24 (the last time it rained in LA?)

Dark green is wetter than avg, dark red is drier, & white is avg #palisades