Straight-Line Wind Damage!
This must have happened in the freak nor'easter we got back in July!
I had no idea it has come so close to my back yard!
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This must have happened in the freak nor'easter we got back in July!
I had no idea it has come so close to my back yard!
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Howard Dean is quite First!
ReplyDeleteStraight-line wind damage is quite Last!
It was eerie coming upon all of that along the path. The photos don't give you the sense of magnitude. There were at least 5 major downed tree clumps, and most clumps were 8-12 feet across.
Yup, but better to see it *after* rather than *during*.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up where there were redwood trees [Sequoia sempervirens, the coast redwood), such sights were common in the woods because redwood trees have no tap root despite their height (big ones can be over 400 feet tall). So when they tip over for any reason the roots pull up a big circular mass of roots and dirt like that.
ReplyDeleteRelatively easy weekend at Salt Mine No. 2 (the hospital). Got some quality sleep both Friday and Saturday nights. Naomi arrived by train Sunday evening, will be home for a full week. Sunday we will drive her back to San Mateo, with stops at a potter's sale in Berkeley and a Pixar exhibit at the Oakland Art Museum. New Harry Potter movie some time this week. (Maybe tomorrow evening? Depends on the demands of Salt Mine No. 1, to which I go in about fifteen minutes.)
TTFN
Beautiful! Warm and pale. Door's open.
ReplyDeleteAlan, I lived among the coast redwoods. It's something I'd like to do again, this life or next time around. They were the trees that absolutely convinced me that trees have souls.
So true. I wonder how the birds and beasts fared out there.
ReplyDeleteAt the time, however, I was driving on the road nearby!
Got only so far and decided to turn around, thereby driving
through the worst hit area twice during the brunt of it!
Doesn’t Un-Dough-Stand What Pizza Is
ReplyDeletePizza Place | Wyoming, USA
Me: “Thanks for calling [Pizza Place]. Is this for carry out or delivery?”
Caller: “Yeah, uh, I need to order a small pizza for carry out.”
Me: “Sure, what would you like on it?”
Caller: “No cheese, ’cause I don’t like cheese.”
Me: “No problem.”
Caller: “And no sauce, I hate sauce.”
Me: “Okay. What toppings would you like?”
Caller: “Oh, just plain.”
Me: “Plain?”
Caller: “Yeah, no toppings.”
Me: “So, you want a small pizza with NO cheese, NO sauce, and NO toppings?”
Caller: “Yeah. Do you, like, have a special name for that?”
Me: “Bread.”
Over the river, and through the wood,
ReplyDeleteTo Grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh
through the white and drifted snow.
Over the river, and through the wood—
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes and bites the nose
As over the ground we go.
Over the river, and through the wood,
To have a first-rate play.
Hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling-ding",
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!
Over the river, and through the wood
Trot fast, my dapple-gray!
Spring over the ground like a hunting-hound,
For this is Thanksgiving Day.
Over the river, and through the wood—
And straight through the barnyard gate,
We seem to go extremely slow,
It is so hard to wait!
Over the river, and through the wood—
Now Grandmother's cap I spy!
Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding done?
Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
I wanted to post this link to an artile on Huffington Post comparing Obama to Harry Truman. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-emanuel/post_1308_b_786617.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=112210&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily+Brief I may be the only one here old enough to actually remember Truman and the 1948 campaign (I was 12 at the time). But the article doesn't bring out one resemblance I expect to see: Truman campagned against the "do-nothing 80th Congress." I expect to see Obama similarly campaigning against the "do-nothing Republican Congress."
ReplyDeleteGridlock for the next two years is a given. The Party of No now has the votes to make its opposition stick. But by talking about his willingness to compromise Obama is setting up a framework where it is solely Republican intransigence that keeps anything from being done. That will resonate, especially if (as the Republicans hope) the economy is still bad.
Penny calls this a "beautiful day." Certainly warm enough -- mid-60s. But "gloomy" isn't the half of it.
ReplyDeleteAh, Bill ~~ I'm with Penny: when ANY of the parameters are within "nice" range, I'm willing to go with it. . . . :)
ReplyDeleteWhat I mostly remember about the '48 election was that my parents voted for Henry Wallace. And I did, too, by proxy since my second grade teach had us all stand up an say who *we* were voting for. And I DO remember the morning after. . . . BTW, the *reason* they voted for Wallace, was they were never going to vote Republican, and wouldn't vote for Truman because he dropped the bomb. My dad, as a vet, felt it was wrong and unneeded and his wife agreed with him.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mostly remember about the '48 election was that my parents voted for Henry Wallace. And I did, too, by proxy since my second grade teacher had us all stand up an say who *we* were voting for. And I DO remember the morning after. . . . BTW, the *reason* they voted for Wallace, was they were never going to vote Republican, and wouldn't vote for Truman because he had dropped the bomb. My dad, as a vet, felt it was wrong and unneeded and his wife agreed with him.
ReplyDeleteI remember my father saying that he was thinking about voting for Norman Thomas. I don't know if he did, though, or what exactly his reasoning was. At the time I was young enough to just assume it was because there was no better choice. And I never got a chance to discuss politics with him because he was dead a year and a half later.
ReplyDeleteFunny, that is spot on except that I have always heard it with the Grandfather and Grandmother in the opposite spots! Grandfathers wore caps and Grandmothers wore bonnets!
ReplyDeleteShortly off to see the new Harry Potter movie with Naomi; got off work before sundown for a change, and picked up tickets on the way home. Clear but cold (or what passes for cold hereabouts)--snow on the foothills. The ski resorts will be open for Thanksgiving weekend--heaviest snow they've had for years. At least two feet, maybe three or four I guess.
ReplyDeleteWell, I hope Obama has it in him to campaign against a do-nothing Congress; but I will believe it when I see it. He doesn't seem to manifest the necessary partisan fire.
And I remember hearing the song as going to Grandmother's house too. Doesn't have to be just one way, certainly!
TTFN
Grandmothers at the time this was written likely wore mob caps IN the house, and bonnets to meeting?
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ReplyDelete"Well, I hope Obama has it in him to campaign against a do-nothing Congress; but I will believe it when I see it. He doesn't seem to manifest the necessary partisan fire."
ReplyDeleteNope, I think he has compromised himself so badly in his first two years that he has virtually zero chance of being elected. The Republicans would not have the numbers they have now if Obama, Emanuel and the rest of them had not been so dismissive of the left and so eager to embrace the right. Obama gave away his power to the Republicans with both hands, eagerly and with gusto. He can complain about the "do nothing Congress" all he wants, but it's all too easy to counter with the "do nothing President". So far all he has to point to is a deeply and seriously flawed health care bill, a whole lot of broken promises and a frighteningly Bush-like talent for doing the wrong thing.
The man is toast, and he did it to himself.
Apparently it's both:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather%27s_House
Hi Alan,
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to hear what you think of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It covers such a short span of time that there isn't much of anything by way of character development. I missed that part. But I was glad they found a reasonable place to leave the story off at. I have pretty much decided that Hermione is my favourite character.