Howard Dean is wonderful and February begins with a winter wonderland outside the window: Every tree is totally snowcovered. Looks like 3-4" so far but the snow continues to come down steadily although not heavily. Wind is supposed to pick up around 2, creating blizzard conditions. Luckily, Penny should be home from work before then. Prediction is for total snowfall around a foot.
My mom is having hip replacement surgery tomorrow morning. If anyone would like to light a candle for her, I know the support and good wishes would be appreciated.
Done. My uncle had both hips replaced, and had a great improvement in quality of life. It amazes me how quickly they have patients up on their feet and walking--typically the day after surgery. I'm sure everything will go well. Nowadays so many medical procedures are routine (!) that were in my youth hardly even thought of, and not taken as serious possibilities at that. Science fiction. Now cyborgs walk among us...
Weather continues dry here, with no prospect of rain in the offing. The snowpack is about a quarter of the old normal, and the big reservoirs are even lower than they were a year ago. But there are a good two months left in the traditional rainy season, so hope remains. I'm sure folks back East wouldn't mind if the North Pacific storms that customarily visit us did not continue to be diverted to them... Still, it's a nice day for gardening, and our tulip tree is blooming. My stretching exercises continue to have good effect, and yesterday I discovered a set of muscles that seriously need work, as well as a way to safely stretch them.
It's a beautiful day here, sunny and bright, cold but not unseasonably so.
I can't believe February is beginning! Been busy with Fun Trivia. If all reckoning is correct, the current tournament has about a fortnight left to run. Though I won't reach Division 10, the last and highest division, I look set to make a good showing in Division 9. That's a considerable improvement over last time, when my final standing was some 30% of the way through Division 8. Improving all the time. A couple of my tournament discussion thread buddies and I are already planning to make the run next time to try and snag that illusive Immortal (Division 10) badge.
Also busy with a project which, I was startled to see from the file stats, was initially started just over four years ago. Since it was very difficult - having no idear what you're doing will do that *wry grin* - I've only worked on it sporatically. Now though, at last, I seem to have gotten the hang of the thing. It's a searchable database, as complete as I can make it, of Engelbert's records. Partial discographies exist, but no single one contains all pertenant info. So, since I would find a more or less complete discography useful, I'm making one using MS Access. It's not the most intuitive software I've ever used. And I can be pretty muddle-headed. Finally, though, it all seems to be coming together.
Renee, I was glad to light that candle! ♥ May all be well.
*C*A*T*!!! So good to find you here!! Gosh, I was hoping that when you came up for air we'd find out exactly that: that you've been messing about with fun projects and not under the weather. So glad to hear it!
Alan, I've been meaning to ask you if your Tulip Tree is abloom, as my SIL's is blooming in FL.
puddle, gosh, take care! Does the noisy roof time keep you awake?
Bill, did Penny get home okay? No fun driving in slipsy weather. Glad it's pretty to look upon at least. We're in for a snow storm all day tomorrow.
Penny doesn't drive. It was a matter of walking to the bus stop and taking a couple of buses for relatively short distances. And yes, she made it, although it seemed to take a bit longer than usual.
listener--I'd say our tulip tree is about half-bloomed today; full bloom might be two or three days away.
Cat--very good to see you back and know all is well. I speculated that perhaps the weather was so cold the Internet froze and we wouldn't hear from you until after the Spring thaw.
I got some gardening done today--cut back the grass growing in part of the front yard flowerbeds (meant to spray same after raking, but decided to save it for next weekend). I pruned a plant we refer to as a trumpet vine--a semi-woody plant that produces big, lightly-colored trumpet-shaped flowers and in this climate dies back to the stems in the winter. (A hotel in Berkeley where we stay from time to time has a yellow-flowered one trained as a tree that doesn't die back--it's in a sheltered place in a milder climate.) Also pruned an overgrown wisteria, although I ran out of time to cut up the prunings. There might not have been room in the trash can anyway, and I noticed there were mosquitos shadowing me. We now have some aedes aegypti around here, which can transmit two or three nasty arboviruses (not known to be here yet, I think) and some others that can transmit West Nile virus--not sure when they are active.
I finally got back to starting on T'ai Chi this evening. The set of tight muscles I discovered a day or two ago are talking to me, but that will pass soon. Now they can't hide among the other tight muscles as they did for years. (Maybe for many years?)
Howard Dean is wonderful and February begins with a winter wonderland outside the window: Every tree is totally snowcovered. Looks like 3-4" so far but the snow continues to come down steadily although not heavily. Wind is supposed to pick up around 2, creating blizzard conditions. Luckily, Penny should be home from work before then. Prediction is for total snowfall around a foot.
ReplyDeleteSnow still coming down. I don't think there was as much wind as predicted, although it was windy at times.
DeleteMy mom is having hip replacement surgery tomorrow morning. If anyone would like to light a candle for her, I know the support and good wishes would be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteDone. My uncle had both hips replaced, and had a great improvement in quality of life. It amazes me how quickly they have patients up on their feet and walking--typically the day after surgery. I'm sure everything will go well. Nowadays so many medical procedures are routine (!) that were in my youth hardly even thought of, and not taken as serious possibilities at that. Science fiction. Now cyborgs walk among us...
DeleteDone. Bet of wishes to her!
DeleteWeather continues dry here, with no prospect of rain in the offing. The snowpack is about a quarter of the old normal, and the big reservoirs are even lower than they were a year ago. But there are a good two months left in the traditional rainy season, so hope remains. I'm sure folks back East wouldn't mind if the North Pacific storms that customarily visit us did not continue to be diverted to them... Still, it's a nice day for gardening, and our tulip tree is blooming. My stretching exercises continue to have good effect, and yesterday I discovered a set of muscles that seriously need work, as well as a way to safely stretch them.
ReplyDelete--Alan
Hi guys!
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful day here, sunny and bright, cold but not unseasonably so.
I can't believe February is beginning! Been busy with Fun Trivia. If all reckoning is correct, the current tournament has about a fortnight left to run. Though I won't reach Division 10, the last and highest division, I look set to make a good showing in Division 9. That's a considerable improvement over last time, when my final standing was some 30% of the way through Division 8. Improving all the time. A couple of my tournament discussion thread buddies and I are already planning to make the run next time to try and snag that illusive Immortal (Division 10) badge.
Also busy with a project which, I was startled to see from the file stats, was initially started just over four years ago. Since it was very difficult - having no idear what you're doing will do that *wry grin* - I've only worked on it sporatically. Now though, at last, I seem to have gotten the hang of the thing. It's a searchable database, as complete as I can make it, of Engelbert's records. Partial discographies exist, but no single one contains all pertenant info. So, since I would find a more or less complete discography useful, I'm making one using MS Access. It's not the most intuitive software I've ever used. And I can be pretty muddle-headed. Finally, though, it all seems to be coming together.
Big weather of some variety is hitting my roof. We've got ice, snow, and wind scheduled. I have a tin roof, which amplifies what happens to it.
ReplyDeleteRenee, I was glad to light that candle! ♥ May all be well.
ReplyDelete*C*A*T*!!! So good to find you here!! Gosh, I was hoping that when you came up for air we'd find out exactly that: that you've been messing about with fun projects and not under the weather. So glad to hear it!
Alan, I've been meaning to ask you if your Tulip Tree is abloom, as my SIL's is blooming in FL.
puddle, gosh, take care! Does the noisy roof time keep you awake?
Bill, did Penny get home okay? No fun driving in slipsy weather. Glad it's pretty to look upon at least.
We're in for a snow storm all day tomorrow.
Penny doesn't drive. It was a matter of walking to the bus stop and taking a couple of buses for relatively short distances. And yes, she made it, although it seemed to take a bit longer than usual.
Deletelistener--I'd say our tulip tree is about half-bloomed today; full bloom might be two or three days away.
ReplyDeleteCat--very good to see you back and know all is well. I speculated that perhaps the weather was so cold the Internet froze and we wouldn't hear from you until after the Spring thaw.
--Alan
I got some gardening done today--cut back the grass growing in part of the front yard flowerbeds (meant to spray same after raking, but decided to save it for next weekend). I pruned a plant we refer to as a trumpet vine--a semi-woody plant that produces big, lightly-colored trumpet-shaped flowers and in this climate dies back to the stems in the winter. (A hotel in Berkeley where we stay from time to time has a yellow-flowered one trained as a tree that doesn't die back--it's in a sheltered place in a milder climate.) Also pruned an overgrown wisteria, although I ran out of time to cut up the prunings. There might not have been room in the trash can anyway, and I noticed there were mosquitos shadowing me. We now have some aedes aegypti around here, which can transmit two or three nasty arboviruses (not known to be here yet, I think) and some others that can transmit West Nile virus--not sure when they are active.
ReplyDeleteI finally got back to starting on T'ai Chi this evening. The set of tight muscles I discovered a day or two ago are talking to me, but that will pass soon. Now they can't hide among the other tight muscles as they did for years. (Maybe for many years?)
--Alan
Just checked--the WNV carrying mosquitos here are mostly active around dawn and dusk.
ReplyDelete--Alan