article on Yahoo news about Alaskan legislators proposing a bill to drop the gas line, due not feasible/economical.. the DEM’S and Parnell are trying to keep it ??
Sorry to bum everyone out, but in light of Republicans in Congress trying to re-define rape downward, I thought the brutal sexual attacks on the women and girls of Haiti relevant to our continued conversation.
The great news of the week is that Colleen and her dogs finished the T200 race in 4th place (quite an accomplishment as the last time she ran it she was 10th and because the weather was unseasonable warm this year–hard on the dogs and have to worry about dehydration). We have about 18 inches of new snow on the ground today after 2 days of pretty mush non-stop snow. It is glistening and absolutely gorgeous outside with a cobalt blue sky and sun (yea!). I’ve been digging out this morning while waiting for an assessor to show up (we are re-financing our house to take advantage of lower interst rates).
Colleen won the humanitarian award (for best dog care-given out by the vets) AND the sportsmanship award (voted on by the mushers). So she came home with some money and lots of swag. So good to see someone who has worked hard for it get recognized. And at least some sled dogs out there are being given the home and care that they deserve.
I may run my babies today if it cools down later. Now where is that assessor????
What’s her mug doesn’t seem to well acquainted with politics,culture or values. Maybe Glen Beck Uni can hire her as a Revised-History make up artist,since she has proven adept at making s&*t up. Thanks for the link and the laughs. From Northwest by god Ioway.
Just to be clear, quittypants is still ®-free, right? Also, buttercup.
What’s that I hear? The Supreme Ginni-gin-gin is now serving Koch tea on the mezzanine level? Look out buttercup, er, I mean, “s-ck it up, buttercup.”
Is three more months of winter a mandatory/minimum kind of thingy for Alaskans or do you have some lateral wiggle room? The one who shall remain nameless has more in common with a certain deceased ex-Potus than the namesake of a certain deceased ex-Potus because the namesake is gay and a ballet dancer to boot. At least that was what some comments were saying this morning.Two of the three Reagan children are feuding about Raygun’s legacy and Patti is not talking to either of her brothers. Sounds like real-time Rethuglican family values to me. I have declared Winter is officially over and done with for this year. Don’t hold me to that,I might run for office someday.Not.
Yep, only three more months of winter. And today the sun will burst over the ridgeline at 12:14, set at 5:08, for a gain of eight minutes over yesterday. This is the bright side of winter.
I just read on alternet that those I cannot speak of are having von fleinn the lawyer trade mark their names?? What for??? What about any one else with those names??? I hate you John McCain!!!
I understand why they are seeking to trademark their name. Why should someone else make money using their name? It shows that they are in business, not politics. Or at least that is what it says to me. I have trademarked my business name, don’t want anyone else to use it, so why not?
Again, it is an indicator of where their heads are – no to governing, yes to making money.
Ya know, I’m still wondering about that, especially if she does plan to run for office. Could she then just sue anyone who gave an unfavorable report? Did Paul Newman regisgter his name or just his food products.
And, yes, Carol, it does show they are in business, and not the serious business of running for president.
McCain definitely needs to answer to this and it’s irrelevant how much input he did or did not have in the decision to put her on the ticket. For the life of me, I don’t understand why politicians won’t admit mistakes that are so glaringly obvious. Maybe I still have too much faith in humanity (as my wife says) but I would see an admission of an obvious mistake as a strength.
“Palmer man helps lead fight against depression”
Bill Pagaran recently found himself walking through an Anchorage mall feeling sorry for himself. “Am I doing any good?” he recalled thinking. “Am I really making that much of a difference?” While embroiled in his self-pity party, a young Alaska Native girl who was with a couple of friends stopped Pagaran. “Hey, you’re that guy,” she said. “You came to my village. I was suicidal and you gave me that $20 bill.” She pulled the crumpled, battered bill from her purse and said, “I’m keeping this forever. It made all the difference in my life.”…………..
“One of the more popular parts of the assemblies he holds at village schools includes the $20 bill example. First, Pagaran takes out a fresh, crisp, new $20 bill. “I’ll wave it and say, ‘What is this?’” he said. “Then I’ll say, ‘Who wants this?’ Of course, everyone wants it. Then I throw it on the ground and step on it. ‘Now who wants it?’ Then I crumple it up, then ask again.”
Every step of the way, all the youth say they want that $20 bill. It’s an exercise Pagaran said illustrates that, no matter how battered or beaten it is, that $20 bill doesn’t lose its value, a lesson for youth who feel they have no self-worth through life’s circumstances. “At the end, it’s still of the same value as when I started,” he said.”………
Scout!!! that is an amazing story…..and it is the truth. we all have those days when it seems we haven’t accomplished anything in this world….and then someone will let us know that we matter. thanks dearest Scout. you too are one of the miracles in this world. i know because i saw for myself how love surrounds you and how you reflect that love back.
I think it’s going to be 3 “short” months of shoveling Chicago out of the avalanche we got. Can’t remember when LSD, LakeShoreDrive, was closed. People stranded overnight in buses with one loon-bus driver freaking out saying- “We’re gonna all die” over and over…LOL!
Looking forward to a beautiful spring and repairing my fence that got blown down. (it’s a good thing neighboring property is fenced in and currently empty and for sale so I don’t have to worry about DD, dear dog. Also looking forward to any and all “iceburgs” headed for what’sername.
Hi, Dreamgirl! Chicago surely has had its share of winter. I couldn’t believe the elderly man who spent 7 hours stranded in his car, no food or water, and watching the gas gauge go down.
I mentioned it to my neighbor, and he pointed out that if the snow had covered the exhaust pipe, he could have died inhaling the fumes. Either that or freeze to death. Some choice! Keep warm!
People stranded overnight in buses with one loon-bus driver freaking out saying- “We’re gonna all die” over and over…LOL!
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oh dear the poor driver!! hope he/she is feeling a bit better today. po’ thang. LMAO.
It’s not a beautiful day here – it’s raining. However, it’s not really cold so I can’t complain. I am ready for more of the sunshine we had earlier this week.
I heard some of Rush and Beck last night via Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel. I really wish that they would just crawl back in their holes and keep their lunatic ideas to themselves. They are not helping. Beck has a new conspiracy theory for each day and Rush can’t control his mouth even when people’s lives are in danger. I hope those who have been silent so far on Egypt remain so.
I can just imagine what Ron Reagan’s opinion is of Sarah speaking at that event. As for her opinion of the events in Egypt–can you imagine?? She knows nothing–nothing!
I expect that she’ll take the current Loony Tune Con line that Sharia Law will be taking over not only Egypt but the entire Caliphate stretching from Indonesia to Western Europe.
Be afraid, be very afraid. The only message they got.
I was reading restaurant reviews for a dinner I’m planning in Toronto, ON. One of the restaurants sounded fun but I needed to learn more about the food. Imagine my surprise in reading the very first sentence in the very first review:
“A difficult venue to place judgment, for a person whose relevancy to Moroccan culture is as sharp as Sarah Palin’s interview responses.”
I’ve heard on the grapevine that one of the mistresses is a lobbyist for the paper industry. She apparently convinced him to support a closure of a paper plant in his own district that cost constituents their jobs. The NE mentions that the NYT is on the story. Popcorn at the ready.
Ya know I think I know where she got her you betcha and the such from. I was reading a book based in Minnesota and that’s where all her speech patterns come from including the Yep.I came across so many words she used that the speech writer had to have gotten them form there. JMO
It’s about 62 here and sunny. While not sure about last night, our nights have been in the 30’s–cold for here. Should get to about 68 today. Think I’ll go rent a kayak before I go to work this afternoon. Ah, the pain of it all.
And I used to think you were so nice… I’ll be thinking of you while I navigate the 7′ tall icebergs on some of my neighborhood sidewalks. 😉 Have a pina colada with a fancy umbrella on me.
My Dad used to things like that after the parents moved to Fla. and he heard we got walloped. His gentle way of trying to get us kids to move down there.
It’s 23 degrees here at the moment. Sunny! My cheerful yellow living room is glowing. Does anyone know if female cardinals are territorial? There were two of them fighting over the area around the tree with the bird feeders in it.
Was -9 degrees F in far western MA this AM. Ice Build up, Leaking and collapsing roofs certainly are a concern. In Saratoga, NY a fairly new barn collapsed and many animals died.
Don’t people plow off their roofs? Or at least shovel them off? Having come from a place where we measured overnight snowfall in feet rather than inches, this was common practice.
That’s one tall, long barn. In the article it mentions that they monitor the roofs. This may have been due to some sort of material failure, rather than too much load.
Maybe we should just let the engineers evaluate what happened before we criticize the owners, or even the people who designed it and hopefully recommended a proper pitch for the climate.
Given how much those barns CO$T, I’d be very surprised if they hadn’t factored in for the snow load.
I would go on top of a barn that high, with a metal roof, at what should be a pretty high pitch, to shovel off snow. It’s far too likely that there would be a thin layer of ice and I’m not looking to die.
“The 120-foot by 400-foot barn was built in 2006 and expanded in 2008, and had been supporting more than a foot of snow on some parts when it collapsed.”
So it managed just fine last winter when there was even more snow on the roof. It makes me think it may have more to do with the materials failing than a design failure.
We are roof raking the roof. The house is 200 years old so it’s actually built to take punishment. We did break the rake on Wednesday, had to order a new one which comes in today. Just in time for Saturday night’s storm.
There is more snow in Albany/Saratoga area than last year. Maybe 20″ more or 10″ above normal. Last year was 10″ below norman in Albany. By best estimate from reading the Albany Times Union.
Here’s a good link for keeping track of snow totals in some NY cities. They include Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton and Albany (and, as usual, Syracuse is beating the pants off the rest of us!). It’s kept very up to date and reports all sorts of seasonal and to-date statistics.
Here in Rochester we’re already up to 86 inches which is about 28 above the normal for this point in the winter. Our seasonal average is only 100 and our snowiest months tend to be February and March with an occasional big storm in April, so we’re on track to be well above the usual amounts this year.
The most frustrating part of the snowfall measurement here is that they take the official reading at the airport, which is about 13 miles south of the lake and definitely NOT one of the snowier spots in the Rochester metro area. I live about 4 miles from the lake and almost always get more snow here than the airport does, especially if there’s any lake effect!
sorry to be mean, but where I live, the mornings are frosty, but the afternoons get up around 60 degrees, and I have primroses blooming. I am more worried that we’ll get snowed on when the cherry trees bud out, or that the snow on the mountains will melt off all at once. Otherwise, I am not having a bad winter at all.
Easter usually brings Spring, and that holiday isn’t until April 24 this year……
Well I certainly hope you brought enough to share with the whole class.(Spring that is). Are the cherry trees gifts from Japan,because I have a feeling they will be getting sent to whence they came if a certain revisionist historian has her way.
Yawn. I live, right now, about a mile from where she’ll be speaking tonight. The big news has been the film festival and Colin Firth showing up to applaud Geoffrey Rush–who was on the cover of the Independent. The amount of press she’s gotten has been deafening in its near silence. What tomorrow’s coverage will bring, I don’t know. But, frankly, speaking at a venue like the Reagan Ranch Center isn’t that big a deal. This area sees far too many of the rich and famous that actually have talent to be very impressed with yet another Paris Hilton type celebutant.
This area knows which side it’s bread is buttered on and where the butter came from. It wasn’t Reagan, his ranch, or the Reagan Ranch Center, conveniently located between the freeway and the train tracks for your listening and breathing enjoyment.
Oh. And the people going to the film festival? Now there’s a group that knows how to dress. They really do make her look like a formerly high priced call girl on the steeply down side of her “career.”
I think that the Bday “celebration” for St. Ronnie is very telling. The split between the Cons and the Country Club set is very telling. The real celebration that has Nancy and the rest is off at the Simi Valley Presidential Library, about an hour away.
The Ranch Center and the ranch, outside Solvang, was purchased by Amway’s DeVos Family Foundation via their front group, The Young Americans for Freedom. They “train” campus activists in conservative tactics.
The ranch as far as I know was never a working ranch. Rather just a rustic retreat at the end of a dirt road up in the hills of the Santa Ynez Valley. Lot’s of Hollywood types like the area including Micheal Jackson before things got bad for him.
I just read an interview with Reagan’s daughter who exhibited disgust at Palin making that speech :
“When I tell her that Sarah Palin will be headlining one of the Reagan birthday celebrations, as keynote speaker of a lavish dinner at the former family ranch, Davis exclaims. “Are you kidding me?” She adds, “As far as Sarah Palin is concerned, I think he would be completely baffled at her fondness for shooting animals.”.
“In the meantime, Davis is watching the current political scene with a mixture of fascination and horror. Of right-wing superstars Palin and Michele Bachmann, who constantly invoke Reagan as their political love-object, “my father was a Rhodes Scholar compared to them.”
“She adds: “I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that’s the case with Sarah Palin’s conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she’s sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope—I really hope.””
Reagan Ranch Center. She’s speaking at the center, located in Santa Barbara. Not at the ranch. The Center is a fairly new and very ordinary building. They say it’s located on State Street, which it does overlook. But access is actually from the dead end and little used street behind it.
Looked through the paper today. Didn’t see one word about her coming. There was a small article about some other guy at the Reagan Center–right across from the article about talking to the homeless. Buried in the middle of the section.
Headlines were about budgets and the film festival.
Left work at 6:00. All the foot traffic was heading for the theaters. Of course, most people don’t walk downtown at night in the section between the freeway and the train station. Not unless they’re homeless and don’t want to go to a shelter, anyway.
Interesting, quiet way of marginalizing the Tea Party mentality by calling them “anti-government”. That would be a hard sell for my money. “Government-wary”. I could buy that.
3 more months?! such a long winter. i read that the sun came out 2 days early in greenland, i think it was. the groundhog said only 6 more weeks. maybe you’ll get lucky. brrr.
I am counting the hours. This winter has been pretty nasty all the way around. Of course, when it finally warms up, we have tornado alley Spring! Yesterday was beautiful here. Very cold, very sunny, and the ice on everything sparkled like Tiffany’s.
6 weeks, here…so they say. It never works out that way.
*yaaaawwwnnn* it’s wayyyy too early to be up. But, gotta be in at 7 on Fridays…ick. Can’t complain too much. A part time gig is better than a no time gig!
This one has been kind of a dud in my book. The bouncing between rain and snow is getting old. I would prefer one or the other so I could plan my activities a little easier.
If you can stand it, or wish to break your fast from things about the fish wife…a play-by-play review of the speech at the Reagan party.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-reagan-birthday
article on Yahoo news about Alaskan legislators proposing a bill to drop the gas line, due not feasible/economical.. the DEM’S and Parnell are trying to keep it ??
Oh, all these uplifting postings to go with AKM’s beautiful photos, and I’m the one posting a total downer:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-haiti-women-20110204,0,1917968,full.story
Sorry to bum everyone out, but in light of Republicans in Congress trying to re-define rape downward, I thought the brutal sexual attacks on the women and girls of Haiti relevant to our continued conversation.
I guess somebody has to say it. So here goes.
“Only three more months of winter…” What a chilling thought.
At least it gets that groaner out of the way.
True love.
http://i.imgur.com/JSzfB.jpg
Hi everybody. Just thought I would check in.
The great news of the week is that Colleen and her dogs finished the T200 race in 4th place (quite an accomplishment as the last time she ran it she was 10th and because the weather was unseasonable warm this year–hard on the dogs and have to worry about dehydration). We have about 18 inches of new snow on the ground today after 2 days of pretty mush non-stop snow. It is glistening and absolutely gorgeous outside with a cobalt blue sky and sun (yea!). I’ve been digging out this morning while waiting for an assessor to show up (we are re-financing our house to take advantage of lower interst rates).
Colleen won the humanitarian award (for best dog care-given out by the vets) AND the sportsmanship award (voted on by the mushers). So she came home with some money and lots of swag. So good to see someone who has worked hard for it get recognized. And at least some sled dogs out there are being given the home and care that they deserve.
I may run my babies today if it cools down later. Now where is that assessor????
Great news all around!
Sorry sparky…no trademark for you (yet).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-palin-trademark-idUSTRE7135WI20110204
What’s her mug doesn’t seem to well acquainted with politics,culture or values. Maybe Glen Beck Uni can hire her as a Revised-History make up artist,since she has proven adept at making s&*t up. Thanks for the link and the laughs. From Northwest by god Ioway.
Just to be clear, quittypants is still ®-free, right? Also, buttercup.
What’s that I hear? The Supreme Ginni-gin-gin is now serving Koch tea on the mezzanine level? Look out buttercup, er, I mean, “s-ck it up, buttercup.”
Just saw this on twitter http://digg.com/news/politics/listen_to_a_liberal_caller_crush_rush_limbaugh_s_ronald_reagan_delusions
Is three more months of winter a mandatory/minimum kind of thingy for Alaskans or do you have some lateral wiggle room? The one who shall remain nameless has more in common with a certain deceased ex-Potus than the namesake of a certain deceased ex-Potus because the namesake is gay and a ballet dancer to boot. At least that was what some comments were saying this morning.Two of the three Reagan children are feuding about Raygun’s legacy and Patti is not talking to either of her brothers. Sounds like real-time Rethuglican family values to me. I have declared Winter is officially over and done with for this year. Don’t hold me to that,I might run for office someday.Not.
Yep, only three more months of winter. And today the sun will burst over the ridgeline at 12:14, set at 5:08, for a gain of eight minutes over yesterday. This is the bright side of winter.
Monkey business.
I just read on alternet that those I cannot speak of are having von fleinn the lawyer trade mark their names?? What for??? What about any one else with those names??? I hate you John McCain!!!
I understand why they are seeking to trademark their name. Why should someone else make money using their name? It shows that they are in business, not politics. Or at least that is what it says to me. I have trademarked my business name, don’t want anyone else to use it, so why not?
Again, it is an indicator of where their heads are – no to governing, yes to making money.
Read where they applied for trademarks the latter part of 2010…but, have not been approved…they were requested to forward more information.
Ya know, I’m still wondering about that, especially if she does plan to run for office. Could she then just sue anyone who gave an unfavorable report? Did Paul Newman regisgter his name or just his food products.
And, yes, Carol, it does show they are in business, and not the serious business of running for president.
McCain definitely needs to answer to this and it’s irrelevant how much input he did or did not have in the decision to put her on the ticket. For the life of me, I don’t understand why politicians won’t admit mistakes that are so glaringly obvious. Maybe I still have too much faith in humanity (as my wife says) but I would see an admission of an obvious mistake as a strength.
“Palmer man helps lead fight against depression”
Bill Pagaran recently found himself walking through an Anchorage mall feeling sorry for himself. “Am I doing any good?” he recalled thinking. “Am I really making that much of a difference?” While embroiled in his self-pity party, a young Alaska Native girl who was with a couple of friends stopped Pagaran. “Hey, you’re that guy,” she said. “You came to my village. I was suicidal and you gave me that $20 bill.” She pulled the crumpled, battered bill from her purse and said, “I’m keeping this forever. It made all the difference in my life.”…………..
“One of the more popular parts of the assemblies he holds at village schools includes the $20 bill example. First, Pagaran takes out a fresh, crisp, new $20 bill. “I’ll wave it and say, ‘What is this?’” he said. “Then I’ll say, ‘Who wants this?’ Of course, everyone wants it. Then I throw it on the ground and step on it. ‘Now who wants it?’ Then I crumple it up, then ask again.”
Every step of the way, all the youth say they want that $20 bill. It’s an exercise Pagaran said illustrates that, no matter how battered or beaten it is, that $20 bill doesn’t lose its value, a lesson for youth who feel they have no self-worth through life’s circumstances. “At the end, it’s still of the same value as when I started,” he said.”………
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2011/02/04/local_news/doc4d4b9874cc648064165558.txt
Scout!!! that is an amazing story…..and it is the truth. we all have those days when it seems we haven’t accomplished anything in this world….and then someone will let us know that we matter. thanks dearest Scout. you too are one of the miracles in this world. i know because i saw for myself how love surrounds you and how you reflect that love back.
((((((Bubbles)))))) to infinity and beyond
I think it’s going to be 3 “short” months of shoveling Chicago out of the avalanche we got. Can’t remember when LSD, LakeShoreDrive, was closed. People stranded overnight in buses with one loon-bus driver freaking out saying- “We’re gonna all die” over and over…LOL!
Looking forward to a beautiful spring and repairing my fence that got blown down. (it’s a good thing neighboring property is fenced in and currently empty and for sale so I don’t have to worry about DD, dear dog. Also looking forward to any and all “iceburgs” headed for what’sername.
Hi, Dreamgirl! Chicago surely has had its share of winter. I couldn’t believe the elderly man who spent 7 hours stranded in his car, no food or water, and watching the gas gauge go down.
I mentioned it to my neighbor, and he pointed out that if the snow had covered the exhaust pipe, he could have died inhaling the fumes. Either that or freeze to death. Some choice! Keep warm!
People stranded overnight in buses with one loon-bus driver freaking out saying- “We’re gonna all die” over and over…LOL!
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oh dear the poor driver!! hope he/she is feeling a bit better today. po’ thang. LMAO.
It’s not a beautiful day here – it’s raining. However, it’s not really cold so I can’t complain. I am ready for more of the sunshine we had earlier this week.
I heard some of Rush and Beck last night via Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel. I really wish that they would just crawl back in their holes and keep their lunatic ideas to themselves. They are not helping. Beck has a new conspiracy theory for each day and Rush can’t control his mouth even when people’s lives are in danger. I hope those who have been silent so far on Egypt remain so.
Aren’t they vulgar????
I can just imagine what Ron Reagan’s opinion is of Sarah speaking at that event. As for her opinion of the events in Egypt–can you imagine?? She knows nothing–nothing!
I just read a article about Reagan’s daughter’s reaction: take a look at # 6.2.1 above.
I expect that she’ll take the current Loony Tune Con line that Sharia Law will be taking over not only Egypt but the entire Caliphate stretching from Indonesia to Western Europe.
Be afraid, be very afraid. The only message they got.
Fear Muslim takeover is just the latest incarnation. It’s taken over from the Red Menace (referring to Communism, not the Republican Party.)
I was reading restaurant reviews for a dinner I’m planning in Toronto, ON. One of the restaurants sounded fun but I needed to learn more about the food. Imagine my surprise in reading the very first sentence in the very first review:
“A difficult venue to place judgment, for a person whose relevancy to Moroccan culture is as sharp as Sarah Palin’s interview responses.”
There’s not escaping her!
🙂
On the one hand, it’s so true! She’s like KUDZU! On the other hand–that was pretty darn funny.
She is exactly like kudzu…!
She does get around, doesn’t she? I’m a bit surprised they referenced her in Toronto in a restaurant review, though, That’s a new one! Ha, Ha!
Gotta go get my bread out of the oven. 37 degrees here and raining – the worst is coming tonight with snow and ice.
Did someone mention bread,as in fresh from the oven baked bread with gobs of butter and homemade jam and fresh milk for a chaser?
Were you peeking in my window?
Can’t wait for spring!! It has been a very long cold winter.
Just heard about Boehner. Maybe this is why he is a cry baby!
http://www.democraticunderground.com:80/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439×337126
I’ve heard on the grapevine that one of the mistresses is a lobbyist for the paper industry. She apparently convinced him to support a closure of a paper plant in his own district that cost constituents their jobs. The NE mentions that the NYT is on the story. Popcorn at the ready.
I’ll wager those big ‘ole crocodile tears turn into stomach problems and migraines in the near future.
Karma.
I think he’ll drink and smoke more!
Good article about the boycotted one. Walter Rogers has cred up the wazoo. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s far more often right than wrong.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2011/0203/Our-misplaced-obsession-with-Sarah-Palin
Ya know I think I know where she got her you betcha and the such from. I was reading a book based in Minnesota and that’s where all her speech patterns come from including the Yep.I came across so many words she used that the speech writer had to have gotten them form there. JMO
It’s about 62 here and sunny. While not sure about last night, our nights have been in the 30’s–cold for here. Should get to about 68 today. Think I’ll go rent a kayak before I go to work this afternoon. Ah, the pain of it all.
And I used to think you were so nice… I’ll be thinking of you while I navigate the 7′ tall icebergs on some of my neighborhood sidewalks. 😉 Have a pina colada with a fancy umbrella on me.
My Dad used to things like that after the parents moved to Fla. and he heard we got walloped. His gentle way of trying to get us kids to move down there.
Every stroke with the kayak paddle was for you, dreamgirl!
Bet you sell more hot beverages in your climate than if you were here, though. 🙂
And, while I loved my kayak trip, I miss the snow. And snow days. Truly.
It’s 23 degrees here at the moment. Sunny! My cheerful yellow living room is glowing. Does anyone know if female cardinals are territorial? There were two of them fighting over the area around the tree with the bird feeders in it.
comfort and warmth:
http://i.imgur.com/VbqLZ.jpg
Oh, Bubbles, what a great picture! Comfort and warmth indeed.
How cute and lovable
Quarter inch of ice with a quarter to half inch of snow on top of that in San Antonio Texas this morning.
City is Closed.
We’ve got over 2 feet of snow on the ground and this morning it’s 2 degrees. Yup, winter in western MA.
But how much snow do you have on your roof? News this morning said roof rakes were selling like crazy up there.
Was -9 degrees F in far western MA this AM. Ice Build up, Leaking and collapsing roofs certainly are a concern. In Saratoga, NY a fairly new barn collapsed and many animals died.
http://tinyurl.com/4rfmoln
Don’t people plow off their roofs? Or at least shovel them off? Having come from a place where we measured overnight snowfall in feet rather than inches, this was common practice.
That’s one tall, long barn. In the article it mentions that they monitor the roofs. This may have been due to some sort of material failure, rather than too much load.
Maybe we should just let the engineers evaluate what happened before we criticize the owners, or even the people who designed it and hopefully recommended a proper pitch for the climate.
Given how much those barns CO$T, I’d be very surprised if they hadn’t factored in for the snow load.
I would go on top of a barn that high, with a metal roof, at what should be a pretty high pitch, to shovel off snow. It’s far too likely that there would be a thin layer of ice and I’m not looking to die.
“The 120-foot by 400-foot barn was built in 2006 and expanded in 2008, and had been supporting more than a foot of snow on some parts when it collapsed.”
So it managed just fine last winter when there was even more snow on the roof. It makes me think it may have more to do with the materials failing than a design failure.
We are roof raking the roof. The house is 200 years old so it’s actually built to take punishment. We did break the rake on Wednesday, had to order a new one which comes in today. Just in time for Saturday night’s storm.
There is more snow in Albany/Saratoga area than last year. Maybe 20″ more or 10″ above normal. Last year was 10″ below norman in Albany. By best estimate from reading the Albany Times Union.
Here’s a good link for keeping track of snow totals in some NY cities. They include Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton and Albany (and, as usual, Syracuse is beating the pants off the rest of us!). It’s kept very up to date and reports all sorts of seasonal and to-date statistics.
http://goldensnowball.blogspot.com/
Here in Rochester we’re already up to 86 inches which is about 28 above the normal for this point in the winter. Our seasonal average is only 100 and our snowiest months tend to be February and March with an occasional big storm in April, so we’re on track to be well above the usual amounts this year.
The most frustrating part of the snowfall measurement here is that they take the official reading at the airport, which is about 13 miles south of the lake and definitely NOT one of the snowier spots in the Rochester metro area. I live about 4 miles from the lake and almost always get more snow here than the airport does, especially if there’s any lake effect!
Our neighbor does one side of his house the side he can reach from the ground
sorry to be mean, but where I live, the mornings are frosty, but the afternoons get up around 60 degrees, and I have primroses blooming. I am more worried that we’ll get snowed on when the cherry trees bud out, or that the snow on the mountains will melt off all at once. Otherwise, I am not having a bad winter at all.
Easter usually brings Spring, and that holiday isn’t until April 24 this year……
Well I certainly hope you brought enough to share with the whole class.(Spring that is). Are the cherry trees gifts from Japan,because I have a feeling they will be getting sent to whence they came if a certain revisionist historian has her way.
The author of this piece gives too much credit to either the speaker or the speech writer, but there you have it, politics in America:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/could-palin-use-speech-to-end-silence-on-egypt/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Yawn. I live, right now, about a mile from where she’ll be speaking tonight. The big news has been the film festival and Colin Firth showing up to applaud Geoffrey Rush–who was on the cover of the Independent. The amount of press she’s gotten has been deafening in its near silence. What tomorrow’s coverage will bring, I don’t know. But, frankly, speaking at a venue like the Reagan Ranch Center isn’t that big a deal. This area sees far too many of the rich and famous that actually have talent to be very impressed with yet another Paris Hilton type celebutant.
This area knows which side it’s bread is buttered on and where the butter came from. It wasn’t Reagan, his ranch, or the Reagan Ranch Center, conveniently located between the freeway and the train tracks for your listening and breathing enjoyment.
Oh. And the people going to the film festival? Now there’s a group that knows how to dress. They really do make her look like a formerly high priced call girl on the steeply down side of her “career.”
All good.
Love, love, Love- both Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush! Two amazing actors. I enjoyed The King’s Speech.. hope one of my boys get an Oscar.
Hope the deafening silence, regarding The Celebutard Quitta-Twitta, continues to serenade the world for decades and decades.
I think that the Bday “celebration” for St. Ronnie is very telling. The split between the Cons and the Country Club set is very telling. The real celebration that has Nancy and the rest is off at the Simi Valley Presidential Library, about an hour away.
The Ranch Center and the ranch, outside Solvang, was purchased by Amway’s DeVos Family Foundation via their front group, The Young Americans for Freedom. They “train” campus activists in conservative tactics.
The ranch as far as I know was never a working ranch. Rather just a rustic retreat at the end of a dirt road up in the hills of the Santa Ynez Valley. Lot’s of Hollywood types like the area including Micheal Jackson before things got bad for him.
I just read an interview with Reagan’s daughter who exhibited disgust at Palin making that speech :
“When I tell her that Sarah Palin will be headlining one of the Reagan birthday celebrations, as keynote speaker of a lavish dinner at the former family ranch, Davis exclaims. “Are you kidding me?” She adds, “As far as Sarah Palin is concerned, I think he would be completely baffled at her fondness for shooting animals.”.
“In the meantime, Davis is watching the current political scene with a mixture of fascination and horror. Of right-wing superstars Palin and Michele Bachmann, who constantly invoke Reagan as their political love-object, “my father was a Rhodes Scholar compared to them.”
“She adds: “I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that’s the case with Sarah Palin’s conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she’s sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope—I really hope.””
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-03/reagans-daughter-patti-davis-on-his-centennial-alzheimers-family-feud/
Sounds like The Young Amerikuns for Freedom are like the Scientologist arm(pits) of the Republican party.
http://www.yaf.org/SchoolhouseForReaganism.aspx
Reagan Ranch Center. She’s speaking at the center, located in Santa Barbara. Not at the ranch. The Center is a fairly new and very ordinary building. They say it’s located on State Street, which it does overlook. But access is actually from the dead end and little used street behind it.
Looked through the paper today. Didn’t see one word about her coming. There was a small article about some other guy at the Reagan Center–right across from the article about talking to the homeless. Buried in the middle of the section.
Headlines were about budgets and the film festival.
Left work at 6:00. All the foot traffic was heading for the theaters. Of course, most people don’t walk downtown at night in the section between the freeway and the train station. Not unless they’re homeless and don’t want to go to a shelter, anyway.
It’s our Constitution too:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/countering_the_usurpers.html#more
Excellent read.
Interesting, quiet way of marginalizing the Tea Party mentality by calling them “anti-government”. That would be a hard sell for my money. “Government-wary”. I could buy that.
3 more months?! such a long winter. i read that the sun came out 2 days early in greenland, i think it was. the groundhog said only 6 more weeks. maybe you’ll get lucky. brrr.
I am counting the hours. This winter has been pretty nasty all the way around. Of course, when it finally warms up, we have tornado alley Spring! Yesterday was beautiful here. Very cold, very sunny, and the ice on everything sparkled like Tiffany’s.
6 weeks, here…so they say. It never works out that way.
*yaaaawwwnnn* it’s wayyyy too early to be up. But, gotta be in at 7 on Fridays…ick. Can’t complain too much. A part time gig is better than a no time gig!
This one has been kind of a dud in my book. The bouncing between rain and snow is getting old. I would prefer one or the other so I could plan my activities a little easier.