COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019
Lonely husband gives more
than he’s getting from wife Surprising 1st results from
sun-skimming spacecraft
NASA
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I married in
tasks such as vacuum and mop the com-
our early 40s. I have given my all to her, but I mon areas. I genuinely thought I was being
have always felt underappreciated.
considerate by going above and beyond.
I always wanted to be a father, but she
When they returned, they seemed shocked
didn’t want to have kids. After we were togeth- and even slightly offended, and made jokes
er for a few years, she changed her mind, so we about how I must think they are messy. At
decided to try for a child and were surprised
the time, it seemed fi ne, but I understand
to discover after only a week of trying that we
now it may have been misinterpreted.
were pregnant. A few months
Did I cross a boundary,
ago, we were blessed with our
and should I avoid doing this
DEAR
beautiful, healthy daughter.
in the future? How should I
ABBY
My wife had diffi culty with
apologize? I feel terrible for
breastfeeding, so she decided
offending them.
to stop and solely bottle-feed.
— CLEANING’S
I have been supportive of her decision, but
MY THING
she still feels sad and guilty about it. I have
DEAR C.M.T.: Stop beating yourself up
done all I can to encourage and comfort her,
and ASK your friend if she was offended
but she just brushes me off.
that you mopped and dusted while you were
I love my wife with all that I am, but I
housesitting. If the answer is yes, apolo-
don’t feel loved in return. Since we started
gize. And when you do, explain that you
dating, she has always called me “Babe.”
are somewhat of a “neatnik” and thought
Now she calls me by my fi rst name. I tell
they would be pleased to come home and
her I love her every day, but she hasn’t said
fi nd fewer chores needing to be done. If
it back since the baby was born. She also
she’s truly offended, you won’t be asked to
doesn’t say good night when she goes to bed.
housesit again, but I have a strong hunch
We haven’t kissed in almost two months. I
you will be.
receive no affection from her; she never even
touches me. I don’t care about not having sex,
DEAR ABBY: I am a naturally thin young
but she won’t even touch my arm or try to
woman. Oftentimes, especially when I’m
hold my hand. I feel alone and lonely in my
working in offi ces with older women, my
own home. What can I do to change things?
co-workers comment on their dissatisfaction
— HEARTSICK HUSBAND with their weight and how they wish their
DEAR HUSBAND: Tell your wife what
body could be more like mine.
you have written. She may be feeling over-
To be honest, I don’t equate thinness with
whelmed and exhausted from taking care of
beauty or fat with ugliness. But when I try
a brand-new baby, or suffer from a common
to tell these women I think they are beautiful
condition called postpartum depression. (It’s
as they are, it’s received with suspicion, as if
sometimes referred to as the “baby blues” for
they think I don’t mean what I say. How can
a reason.) Urge her to discuss how she has
I respond to those who are unhappy with
been feeling with her OB/GYN because, with
their weight without sounding insincere? I
medical help, the condition is treatable. Please don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.
don’t wait because the sooner this is dealt
— THIN IN FLORIDA
with, the better it will be for all three of you.
DEAR THIN: When your co-workers
compliment you about your fi gure, smile
DEAR ABBY: I recently housesat for a
and say thank you. Period. If they express
friend and her family while they were on va- dissatisfaction with their appearance, do not
cation because they needed someone to water allow yourself to be drawn into the conver-
their plants and take out their dog. Cleaning sation. You can’t alleviate their insecurities;
is a favorite pastime of mine, so while I was
they haven’t believed you when you tried.
there, I did some tidying up. I did not enter
Because the subject makes you uncomfort-
any of their bedrooms and only did small
able, try changing the topic to another one.
weather
By Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— NASA’s sun-skimming
spacecraft, the Parker Solar
Probe, is surprising scien-
tists with its unprecedented
close views of our star.
Scientists released
the fi rst results from the
mission Wednesday. They
observed bursts of energetic
particles never seen before
on such a small scale as well
as switchback-like reversals
in the out-fl owing solar
magnetic fi eld that seem to
whip up the solar wind.
NASA’s Nicola Fox
compared this unexpected
switchback phenomenon to
the cracking of a whip.
“They’re striking and
it’s hard to not think that
they’re somehow important
in the whole problem,” said
Stuart Bale of the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley,
who was part of the team.
Researchers said they also
fi nally have evidence of a
dust-free zone encircling the
sun. Farther out, there’s so
much dust from vaporizing
comets and asteroids that
one of 80 small viewfi nd-
ers on one instrument was
pierced by a grain earlier
this year.
“I can’t say that we don’t
worry about the spacecraft.
I mean, the spacecraft is
going through an environ-
ment that we’ve never been
before,” Fox said.
Launched in 2018, Parker
has come within 15 million
miles of the sun and will get
increasingly closer — within
4 million miles — over the
NASA/The Associated Press
This image taken from video animation provided by
NASA, shows fl ips in the direction of the magnetic
fi eld embedded in the solar wind that fl ows out from
the Sun, as detected by the NASA’s Parker Solar
Probe’s FIELDS instrument.
next six years. It’s completed
three of 24 orbits of the sun,
dipping well into the corona,
or upper atmosphere. The
goal of the mission is to shed
light on some of the myster-
ies surrounding the sun.
Parker will sweep past
Venus on Dec. 26 for the sec-
ond gravity-assist of the $1.5
billion mission and make its
fourth close solar encounter
in January.
The fi ndings in the jour-
nal Nature were made dur-
ing a relatively quiet phase
of solar activity.
“We’re just starting to
scratch the surface of this
fascinating physics,” said
Princeton University’s
David McComas, the chief
scientist of one of the space-
craft’s instruments.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
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St. Helens
44/50
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Condon
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High: 84°
Low: -11°
Wettest: 3.35”
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HAY INFORMATION SATURDAY
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RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Thursday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
22% of capacity
35% of capacity
65% of capacity
20% of capacity
33% of capacity
59% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Wednesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
OREGON
Brookings
Sisters
Tillamook
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1 cfs
14 cfs
60 cfs
N.A.
28 cfs
On Dec. 6, 1964, almost 15 inches of rain
fell on Little Port Walter, Ark., in 24 hours.
This is the greatest 24-hour rainfall event
in the state’s history.
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1:46 p.m.
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SAT.
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4:10 p.m.
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2:18 a.m.
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Arock
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Fields
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SAT.
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36/43
Medford
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RECREATION FORECAST SATURDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Beaver Marsh
Grants Pass
Falfurrias, Texas
Daniel, Wyo.
Williams, Ariz.
High: 57°
Low: 12°
Wettest: Trace
34/39
35/40
Roseburg
49/54
Brothers
45/51
Coos Bay
Powers
37/46
Oakridge
Huntington
34/40
Chiloquin
High Wednesday
Low Wednesday
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Elkton
29/39
35/43
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Bend
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Florence
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very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
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Council
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Sisters
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Baker City
Redmond
45/54
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Halfway
Granite
31/38
42/49
39/51
Corvallis
39/49
38/51
Newport
Enterprise
34/41
37/43
Monument
34/44
Idanha
Salem
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37/43
La Grande
37/45
Maupin
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Portland
Newberg
42/50
Lewiston
36/45
Hood River
36/48
TIllamook
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Walla Walla
35/44
Vancouver
42/50
47/53
Baker City
As Parker gets even closer
to its target, the sun will
go through an active phase
“so we can expect even
more exciting results soon,”
University College London’s
Daniel Verscharen wrote in
an accompanying editorial.
Verscharen was not part of
the mission.
Over the summer, Fox
shared these early results
with solar astrophysicist
Eugene Parker, 92, professor
emeritus at the University of
Chicago for whom the space-
craft is named. He expressed
excitement — “wow” — and
was keen to be involved.
It’s the fi rst NASA
spacecraft to be named after
a person still alive. Parker
attended its launch last year
from Cape Canaveral.
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EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Snow, 2-4”; breezy
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
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