I live at the VERY edge of a Sandhill Crane migration route, and I saw a flock of at least 40 flying southwest today at 3:52PM! I haven't seen any in a couple years, and this is the biggest group I've spotted. Usually I catch them with their strung-together rattle calls, but these guys were pretty quiet (just a couple brief rattles today, which was thankfully still enough to make me look up through the trees!). Allegedly it was 28ºF today but felt like 21°F--I hope they were staying warm up there. Safe travels, friends!!
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Sebastian, with this place, i can't see it right now but it that enough for a smile?
Yeah, uhm [lifts mask to show smile], nobody's standing here [takes mask off, coughs] there it is [laughs], yes, I mean, if I'm being completely honest, it's an eighth place but for us it's like a victory, you'll have to be honest there, there wasn't more in it today, the opposite, there was way less in it actually; I think the first lap was very good, the start, the patience but then also aggression, a restart, surprising Fernando round the outside, i think he didn't count on that; but uh yeah, all in all we did everything right and tried to keep the faster cars behind us for as long as possible same as yesterday and had a bit more, more fun today.
Is such a success enough already to move the team forward in the long run?
Noo; but I believe the important thing for us is that we have a good result now, the first points in the bag but yeah, we have to be realistic, the next races will be really really hard for us, the pace isn't there yet, our car is very hard to drive, I'm definitely going to sleep well tonight; you can't let your concentration slide on the straights at all so it was very exhausting but it's of course fun when you know you have something countable.
Before the race we talked about school grades [note: he gave himself a six (worst grade in Germany) for Australia], so I'd like to know, which grade are you giving yourself for the race now?
A 1 (best grade in Germany). We went to one extreme and now we're going to the other. No but I'm happy, as I said, of course not where I want to be but you have to be realistic and from that point today was very good already.
Thank you.
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Well, that's a leap, from 6 to 1, how would you grade the whole thing?
Yeah, so I have to say I'm with him a bit there, you could hear how euphoric he is without him really daring to announce it like that, but the beautiful thing about Sebastian Vettel is still that he terribly likes driving race cars, terribly likes driving in Formula 1 and you can see that passion in him and that leads to, a really hard to drive car, really difficult conditions and now an eighth place, excuse me, an eighth place, normally he would never, it wouldn't be of note but the way he did it today, I have to say, I'm happy, he's getting a 1 from me too.
This might be my favorite exchange of the new series. There’s just something so strangely comforting and real about it that keeps bringing me back I love it
"i just feel like I'm losing myself. Like stuff that used to come easy I can barely handle. The Spider-man stuff. School. Relationships. It's like I'm getting buried and I'm scrambling just to stay afloat. I just want to do good. I want to be good. But i feel like I'm getting resistance from every angle."