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July 2022

Utah’s Pollinators What you can do to help the pollinators in Utah

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Lake Powell Lowering What that means for Southern Utah

Accidently Call 911?

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Content Helping Utah’s Pollinators Highs and Lows of Life Accidentally Call 911?

The Longest Day of the Year The Tale of Two Numbers How much damage can caterpillars cause?

Everything is Better with Bacon Universal Uses Is your Dog Talking to you?

Patriotic Cake Roll Recipe 4th of July Celebration

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pollinators Utah is home to many unique species of pollinators, including five species of hummingbirds, 250 species of butterflies (including the iconic monarch) and over 900 species of native bees (including 21 species of bumble bees).

Pollinators in Utah face extreme changing conditions, and some are increasingly at risk due to declining populations.

The Utah Pollinator Pursuit was created in 2019, and is a program that enlists help from community scientists to gather data for pollinator research done by the Utah State University and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. If you have a smartphone or camera, you can help pollinators by recording photos or videos of the species you encounter and submitting them to the Utah Pollinator Pursuit form via the Survey123 app.

Using the data, biologists can make better informed decisions for habitat restoration projects throughout the state.

“With the recent drastic declines in Utah insect populations, we need to do something bigger to understand what was happening,” Utah State University’s Rare Insect Conservation Project Leader, Amanda Barth said, “We really appreciate the efforts of people who share photos of bumble bees, monarch butterflies and other rare pollinators species they happen to see during the spring and summer months.”

How can you help?

There are several easy ways that you can help pollinator species: 1. When gardening in the yard or out hiking, actively look for bumble bees and monarch butterflies.

2. Review the UPP data gathering protocol, so you are ready when you see one. Snap a photo or take a video (the closer you get, the better it is for identifying it). Then submit it through the app related to the species you found.

3. Add native plants to your outdoor landscaping, reduce the use of herbicides and insectcides that may be harming your native pollinators and provide suitable nectar and pollen sources that flower throughout spring to late fall.

4. Work with local nurseries to decide what pollinator-friendly plants will work best in your yard.

“By working together, Utahns can make a difference for pollinators,” Barth said. “Even small steps will make a big difference in the long-term survival for these species.”

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Utah Pollinator Pursuits Mission: “Improve conservation efforts for Utah’s sensitive pollinator species by leveraging the power of community science.”

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Highs lows of Life and

Written by Mark S. Boggs

There is a wonderful and insightful story in Taoist literature of a farmer that lives through highs and lows in a rather nonchalant manner.

It begins with one of the farmer’s horses running away.

His fellow villagers were saddened by the event and came by to express to him their sorrow saying things like, “Such bad luck.”

To which the farmer replied, “Maybe.”

The next day the horse returned and brought with it two other wild horses! “Such a wonderful turn of events!”, the villagers exclaimed.

Again, the farmer replied, “Maybe.”

The following day, the farmer’s son decided to ride one of the wild horses and was thrown, breaking his leg. “Such horrible luck,” the villagers exclaimed.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

And the following day, government officials came to the village to conscript young men into the army to fight.

Seeing the son with the broken leg, they passed him by. And the villagers, on cue, “Such wonderful luck!”

You can guess by now what the farmer thought… “Maybe.”

The older I get, the more I realize the wisdom of the farmer’s view. I was 11 years old in 1983 when my Grandma Clark died. It was the first real loss I’d experienced, and I 6 l www.swmlife.com

recall how tragic and inexplicable it all felt. My mother was grief-stricken, my grandfather was beside himself; it was truly awful.

However, the next three days would see family from every corner of the country arrive for the funeral. Our house was filled, day and night, with dozens of people sharing their various stories from Grandma’s life. There were lots of tears, of course, but what surprised me was the seemingly inordinate amount of laughter and joy.

It was a marvelous three days of meeting, reconnecting, and sharing with family and friends. And were it not for my grandmother’s death, none of it would have happened.

In 2009, my then wife informed of her decision to divorce. She didn’t want to counsel, she didn’t want to mull it over, she was just done. At the time, I was a brash, arrogant, know-itall kind of guy, full of certainty about how the road was laid out in front of me and sure of what would happen and what I deserved. This event was not part of that plan.

To that point, it was the most traumatic event of my life. I felt emasculated and lost. I started to doubt things; things I thought I knew. Who had I been as a husband? What did this mean with regards to being the father of two young children? If I was a

And with each new event, I begin to see the highs and the lows attendant with each one.

is a great way to distill the difference between what you control and what you don’t. And if you pay attention long enough, you’ll figure out how little you control. And the sooner you can come to this conclusion, the freer you’ll be. But sometimes you need to be thrown to the bottom of the well to see the light of this reality.

miserable husband, was I a miserable father? And this doubt began to overwhelm all the other conclusions I’d made about the world and my place in it.

The whole thing brought me back to a moment a few years earlier on a routine errand around town in the car with my three-year-old son, Max. After a few stops, getting in, getting out, completing each task, Maxwell asked from the back seat, “What gonna happen next?” It echoed like an oddly metaphysical question.

What he really meant was, “What are we going to do next?” But the line haunted me and especially so as the tumult of the divorce was ongoing. I had no idea what was going to happen next. I didn’t know anymore. I didn’t know for me, I didn’t know for him, I didn’t know anything for sure.

And it was everything I needed.

I began to investigate with much more curiosity, and far less arrogance, this thing we’re gifted called “life”. It became apparent that I was, more often than not, the problem with things. And if I wasn’t the problem, it usually meant I would have to adjust my thinking or behavior so as not to let the problem consume me. As the self-help author, Byron Katie, says, “You can be right, or you can have peace.” Easier to bend to the world than bend it to your will.

And with each new event, I begin to see the highs and the lows attendant with each one. To wit, I recently purchased a home. But it was only possible due to the untimely death of my father who died after hitting a deer on his motorcycle.

Even, the accident itself had two sides. My father had just gotten done nursing both his mother and his wife down the long road of old age degeneration and dementia. The last thing he wanted was to burden anyone else with the same fate. It initially appeared he would survive with only a concussion. But with each passing hour, as it became apparent that his brain would not stop bleeding and his neurological prognosis was nil, it became a rather obvious decision to pull all life sustaining measures and allow him to die. The growing severity of his accident, along with end-of-life planning, had made moot any discussion of him living against his wishes.

So, I try to keep the Taoist farmer in mind whenever life hands me its blessings and its burdens. Sometimes death can reconnect a family, and divorce can force us to look in the mirror and account for ourselves. And when I think of little Maxwell’s tiny voice asking what will happen next, I’m pretty sure that I don’t know.

Will it be good or bad?

A little of both?

Maybe.

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Accidentally Call 911?

Written by Mike Perez in Firefighter Knowledge

It doesn’t matter if you call 911 at four o’clock in the morning or midnight, you can always expect a dispatcher to be on the line ready to take your call. But what if you dialed by accident? What will happen now? The same thing as what would occur if you called intentionally: the dispatcher is going to answer.

As soon as you hear those words, “911, what’s your emergency?” you’re going to panic. Take a deep breath and get your bearings. How you handle the situation now can prevent it from getting much more embarrassing in a couple of minutes.

STEP 1

STEP 3

DON’T HANG UP

EXPLAIN YOUR SITUATION

If that’s your first inclination when you realize you’ve misdialed 911, please refrain from hanging up. In some situations, someone who’s dialing 911 might not be able to talk for fear of their safety.

Okay, so you’re going to talk to the dispatcher. Explain that it was an accident. The dispatcher will probably ask for some identifying information from you such as your name and address. Answer these questions readily, the info is just for their own records.

Thus, when you call and there’s silence on the other line, then the click, click, click because you hung up, the dispatcher isn’t going to just assume you’re fine.

STEP 2

STEP 4

IF YOU DO HANG UP, ANSWER THE CALL THAT COMES BACK IN

DON’T BEAT YOURSELF UP TOO MUCH

Even though you know that you probably shouldn’t have, you hung up on the 911 dispatcher. You’re not the first person to do this, and you won’t be the last.

Gosh, you’ve never felt so humiliated in your life. That was so mortifying! Sure, accidentally calling 911 isn’t the makings of a good day, but it happens. Actually, it happens quite a lot, you’re far from alone in making this mistake. If the police didn’t come to your home or office, then it’s no harm, no foul. Try to forget about the incident and move on with your day.

Dispatchers are used to this, but they’re still obligated to call you back. They must follow up with you to ensure you’re not in danger. If you don’t answer, the dispatcher will send police to your location to check it out, so please, answer the phone!

Even if emergency personnel did show up, then it might be embarrassing, but you should also be grateful. This situation proves how efficient the police are at getting to a potential crime scene quickly so they can save lives. You will not be charged for any response to a 911 call, even if it was made in error. https://firefighternow.com/accidentally-call-911-do-this/ Click the links for more content!

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The Longest Day Written by Ron Smith

Our longest day occurs on June 21, the Summer Solstice.

On this day, the Northern Hemisphere receives more total solar energy than any other date on the calendar year. This begs a fascinating question. Why doesn’t our warmest weather come in late June? Instead, our hottest weather comes in late July and August. Consider an individual day. We receive the maximum amount of solar energy at noon, or 1:00 PM if on Daylight Savings Time. The hottest daytime temperatures typically occur several hours later, often around 4:00 PM. This occurs because we still receive more energy from the sun than our earth can radiate away. Only when the sun appears much lower in the sky does heat radiated exceed solar energy absorbed. That’s when temperatures begin to decline. In our calendar year, we still have long days and a high solar altitude until September. That’s why we don’t see daily maximum temperatures decline until September. In September, solar energy radiated from the Northern Hemisphere begins to exceed solar energy absorbed. Daily highs begin to fall. Typically, our hottest weather occurs in late August, about 2 months after the Summer Solstice.

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LAKE

A TALE OF TWO NUMBERS

powell Written by Ron Smith

The numbers 36 and 90 don’t seem to have much in common.

They are both even, but other than that, they do not appear to be related. While they are not linked together mathematically, they are linked in telling us about the Southwest’s ongoing drought condition. Last year, we received 90% normal snowpack.

Yet, that only translated into a 36% normal water runoff into the Colorado river and its tributaries.

This year we also received 90% normal snowpack. Once again, we expect this to result in a disastrously low water runoff.

How could near normal snow result in such an unexpectedly low water runoff? Hotter, longer summers result in the ground becoming extremely parched.

The soil is absorbing a lot more moisture than it did before our region became afflicted by drought. Dry soil also means that the roots of shrubs and trees will absorb more water.

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stressed plants are taking in as much water as their roots can absorb. Lastly, as our air becomes hotter and lower in humidity, more snow sublimates.

Sublimation is a direct transfer from a solid state into a gaseous state. In other words, snow goes directly from solid ice to water vapor without passing through the liquid state. The air is thirsty. The soil is thirsty. The plants are thirsty.

Over the past 20 years, Lake Powell has fallen from over 90% capacity to less than 25% capacity. Lake Mead has fallen from over 90% capacity to less than 30% capacity. We are in

danger of losing both reservoirs and both electrical generating facilities. We must quickly adapt to using much less water.

Even conservation may not save Lake Powell.

Climate scientists predict that it has a 3% chance to become a “dead pool” that cannot produce electricity in the fall of this year. Those odds climb to nearly 40% next year.

The drought remains painfully real.

Ron Smith has spent his career lecturing and teaching astronomy, meterorology, and earth science. In retirement, Ron continues to enjoy sharing his love of science with others.

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How much damage does caterpillars cause?

Caterpillars seem harmless. Maybe that’s why people everywhere overlook how much damage are they can actually cause over short and long periods of time. Keep reading to find out the signs to look for so you can stop the damage to your yards.

Caterpillars can do extensive damage to your plants, especially your garden and trees. It’s important to be very observant! Caterpillar damage is rather easy to diagnose on your plants.

When you’re inspecting your plants and looking for caterpillars, be aware that they are sometimes really hard to spot. Unfortunately, this happens all too often.

Identifying damage early is essential, which is why I advise visiting your garden daily.

Here are some things while in your garden: •

Look for gaping holes, missing edges to your leaves, and possibly whole leaves missing from your plant!

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When small, some caterpillars are nearly impossible to spot because they blend exceptionally well with the leaves and plant stems. Along with that, they also will hide under the bottom of leaves from birds and other animals, which means you must inspect very closely.

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Another sign to look for is caterpillar frass, or as most of us would call it, poop. This is

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usually small black or brown balls deposited, on leaves or around plants.

Some caterpillars can be hard to spot, but one in-particular I don’t think you could miss is called the Hickory Horned Devil.

These caterpillars look like something from a nightmare and can be almost as big as a hot dog. They have green bodies that become turquoise as they grow. They have lots of prickly, orange horns on their heads, and black horns on their body. Most birds won’t mess with them because they look like a death sentence!

They will gorge themselves on leaves in order to store up enough energy to create their cocoon and because after they have hatched into being the regal moth, it will be their last meal…ever! Regal moths actually don’t even have mouths.

Regal Moths are the largest moth north of Mexico. Some things that the Hickory Horned Devils enjoy eating are hickory-type trees, such as walnuts, buttonbush, filbert, pecans, ash and small children... Just kidding. Believe it or not these frightening caterpillars are completely harmless at least to humans, but not so much to your plants.

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Everything’s Better With Bacon Everything’s Better With Bacon It even makes understanding inflation It even makes understanding inflation easier.easier.

“Bacon’s the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause. Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.” – Jim Gaffigan Let’s face it: talking about bacon is always fun. It can even help illustrate a topic that has been in the financial media a lot lately — inflation. In 1991, the price of a pound of bacon cost $2.22 (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Thirty years later, in August of 2021, a pound cost $7.10. That’s inflation at work. Inflation is simply the rise in the cost of living, and it eats away at your money’s purchasing power and may not buy as much retirement in the future as it does today.

Over the past several months, inflation has crept back into the financial media limelight. Last year, price increases began to grow out of pandemic-related shutdowns and supply chain disruptions. As an example, the Consumer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, climbed 5.4% in September of 2021 compared with the prior year.

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Keep Inflation in Mind in Your Retirement Planning

When you retire, one thing is a given: the cost of basic necessities as well as other things you enjoy will continue to rise. The following table provides some hypothetical examples to help increase your awareness of inflation.

2021 prices are based on Kmotion Research and general averages, including data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Projections for 2051 prices assume a 3% annual inflation rate.

Get Real With Inflation

When managing inflation risk with your investments, it’s important to understand a couple of basic terms. Your nominal rate of return is the amount of money you make on an investment before expenses — this rate of return does not take inflation into account. Your real rate of return is the nominal return on your investment minus the inflation rate, and gives you a better sense of the purchasing power of the money you make from your investments. For example, if your investment portfolio earns an 8% rate of return in a particular year, and the inflation rate is currently 3%, your real rate of return is just 5%.

Conventional wisdom says you should consider keeping an appropriate amount of your assets allocated to stocks and stock mutual funds to help offset inflation risk. Although past performance is no guarantee of future results, historical average stock returns have stayed ahead of inflation over the long term.

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UNIVERSAL

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Written by Casey Ritter

I bet you didn’t know that PlayDoh was originally used to clean wallpaper.

In 1933, Cleo and Noah McVicker created the putty to help clean up soot-covered walls (according to the Huffington Post). But, it wasn’t until 1949 that Joe McVicker discovered it could be used as modeling clay, and in 1956, Play-Doh was put on store shelves for kids.

After reading this article on Play-Doh, it got a few of us in the office talking about items we have used in our lives but not for their original purpose.

For example, clothes hangers.

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unlocking bedroom doors, Diana uses hangers to get the hair out of her tub drains, and Kamarie uses hangers to pull paper towels off the top shelf of her pantry that she can’t reach.

Curious about what else I could use to its full potential, I asked my friends if they had anything to add to the list. Here are some of their fascinating results. Hair ties and hair claws to close chip bags or keep multiple desk cords together. Shower curtain hooks to hang jeans in a closet. Pantyhose for storing onion and garlic keeps them properly ventilated and dry so that they last long. One friend has never

used his tv remote; he uses his cell phone to control his tv and music.

Another item that I use differently than its intended purpose, is a billboard sign. I used an old billboard sign during the summer for a few years as a slipn-slide, and everyone loved it.

People are very creative and can develop many uses for billboard signs. I have seen people use old billboard signs to cover up boats, trailers, and even bundled hay.

Even though hangers were made to hang clothes and billboard signs were intended to advertise, they have more potential when unlocked by the human brain.

Do you have any items that have universal use? If so, email them to admin@swmlife.com. We would love to hear from you!

Is Your Dog Talking To You? Recently speech pathologist Christina Hunger made a stunning advancement in the science of speech and communication.

But her groundbreaking work wasn’t in humans — it was dogs. Specifically, her dog, Stella. Essentially, Hunger taught Stella to answer basic questions using a board fitted with buttons that, if pressed, correspond to different words Stella might find useful, like “water” or “outside.” Yet dog-human communication doesn’t depend on a high-tech board to act as the medium.

Dogs Understand Human Speech Fido might retrieve a ball when you yell “fetch,” but did you know he may recognize many more words than such basic commands?

In the Genius Dog challenge, researchers found that certain dogs could learn to remember objects by name, suggesting that dogs can quickly master certain words, much in the same manner as young human children.

Other recent research hints at the fascinating ways dogs’ brains process speech in a similar fashion to humans. In fact, dogs use the left part of their brain to process word meaning and the right part of their brain to interpret tone — just like humans. A 2018 study found that when humans spoke in “baby talk” directly to their dog (using exaggerated, high-pitched, varied tones and simple, repetitive language) it helped improve their dog’s attention and learning rate.

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Humans Can Understand Dog Speech Dogs use vocalizations and body language to communicate with each other – and with you. When dogs are positively communicating with each other, they tend to demonstrate certain friendly gestures, according to the American Kennel Club. These gestures include tail wagging, perked ears, or play fighting.

Aggression signals include pinned ears, growling, raised hackles, and a stiff tail. Like humans, pets also transmit sounds to communicate their feelings. Sighing or groaning could mean that your dog is bored. Whining or whimpering can indicate anxiety or fear.

But before you get too wrapped up in what your dog is trying to tell you with its tail wags, ear position, or just straight-up barking, consider what you are telling your dog.

Dogs are also incredibly emotionally intelligent and they can pick up on human distress through the sounds and motions we make. Your pup might just be mirroring your own emotions back at you. Our dogs are always communicating with us, even if this communication is very different from the verbal language humans use to communicate with each other.

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4th of July

Cake Roll Recipe found from www.tasteandtellblog.com/4th-of-july-cake-roll/

Directions: Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Brush vegetable oil on the bottom on the sides of a half sheet pan (18”x13”)*. Line with parchment paper, then brush vegetable oil on the parchment paper. Sprinkle flour over the pan, then tap out the excess, coating the oil with the flour.

Cake: 1/2 cup vegetable oil, plus more for the pan 1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup milk 3 large eggs 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 teaspoon red gel food coloring 1 teaspoon blue gel food coloring powdered sugar, for dusting

Frosting: 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature pinch of salt 3 cups marshmallow creme 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar 2–4 tablespoons milk

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Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. In another bowl, whisk together the 1/2 cup of oil, sugar, milk, eggs and vanilla.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk just until the mixture is combined. Pour half of the batter into another bowl (about 1 1/2 cups of batter). Add the red food coloring to one bowl and the blue to the other. Stir just until combined.

Spread the red and blue batter in the pan in alternating stripes, 3 of each color. (I transferred the batter to ziplock bags and then cut off the tip. I think this made less of a mess for me, but you can also pour the batter!)

Each stripe will be about 2 inches wide. Don’t worry if they aren’t completely straight.

Bake in the preheated oven until the top springs back when pressed, about 15 minutes. Let the cake sit for 3 minutes, then loosen the edges from the pan with a knife, if needed. Generously dust the top of the cake with powdered sugar, then place a kitchen towel over the top. DO NOT use a terry cloth towel. Place a cooling rack on top, then invert the cake over onto the towel and rack. Remove the parchment paper, then roll the cake up with the towel, rolling the long end of the cake. Let the cake cool completely, at least 1 1/2 hours.

To make the frosting, beat the butter and the salt in a stand mixer until light and creamy, about 1 minute. Add the marshmallow cream and vanilla and continue to beat for 2-3 minutes longer. Add in the powdered sugar, then start adding the milk, 1 tablespoon at a time, until you reach a spreadable consistency.

Gently unroll the cake and spread half of the frosting over the entire surface of the cake, all the way to the edges. Re-roll the cake (without the towel).

Trim the edges. Using the remaining frosting, frost the outside of the cake.

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