Re: Food Prices

Am 01.06.2025 um 04:26 schrieb Jeff Liebermann:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 20:49:21 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 5/31/2025 5:07 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

The
rest were not hard, mostly because of quirks: I've got a repair project
pending on my side porch steps; I had to align my reflecting ceiling
sundial with due north-south, and learned my house is precisely oriented
that way... etc.

 In the distant past, I use an analog watch:
<https://www.wikihow.com/Use-an-Analog-Watch-as-a-Compass>
The tricky part is dealing with daylight savings time.
 These days, I find a printed paper road map.  I locate two points. One
is my own location.  The other is an identifiable landmark in the
distance.  Mountain peaks work well.  Lay the map on a flat table.
Align on the map your location and the distant landmark.  True north
is printed on the map as an arrow.

In my region, we have several north-south lines as features:
Directly south of Heidelberg, the hill edges, the old Roman road, the railway line and the motorway are all parallel North-south lines.
The Rhine from Speyer to Mannheim flow due North though not exactly straight.
<https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y3gegeDExwwv6rTg6>
At bit further to the North, the motorway A67 goes perfectly to the North for 25km.
On a grander scale, the Rhine Rift Valley goes in a straight line North-to-Northwest 200km (125 miles) from Basel to Bruchsal (with edges: black Forest and Vosges in France) and then heads straight North for another 50 miles from Bruchsal towards the end at Frankfurt / Mainz (the Odenwald as eastern edge gives a good North-South approximation, the western edge is less sharp).
Rolf