Posted on 01/05/2022 6:00:38 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
Good evening, Janey...((HUGS))...still stuck I see. Have plenty of supplies while you can’t get out?
Good evening, lightman, and yes, I made it through hump day, barely.
Happy eve of the Theophany.
Any of the east coast bad weather finding you?
Looks like it will find me this time tomorrow evening....at least 4 inches of snow, maybe a couple more, starting around 7 PM Thursday and ending around sunrise Friday.
Probably just blade plowable but I’ll have “the beast” on standby just in case.
Howdy, luvie.
Hope you’ve had a good day. It was pretty nice up here, though a little cool. Still comfortable enough. The next two days are going to be rotten. Wanna share some of your warm temps with us? LOL
Hey there, radu!
It was really nice here except for the wind early in the day. It’s supposed to be colder tomorrow, but still a high in the 40s, so not awful. The 25 or so tomorrow night will be quite chilly, though. We won’t be having any storms like you apparently will. Brr!
I have great respect for the SEABEES; the air conditioner we stole from their barracks in Da Nang many years ago worked faithfully against the 95 deg. Vietnam heat.
With respect and Thanks,
Rembrandt
OK Bud :)
Hey, radu...the high of -2 is supposed to be here in a couple hours and then drop again. It’s -10 on my porch.
It sounds like we’re swapping places with low with this cold front. You dropped to 14 and we stopped in the mid 20s. Our low tomorrow night is forecast for 14. BRRRR
I’m not happy at all with the ice they say we’ll have here. That can bring down tree limbs and power lines as well as making the roads dangerous.
Dang, it’s cold there! The last time the temp was posted in Lake Hood chat was 3:30 this afternoon and it was 4 degrees there at the time. Big difference between there and in town!
Be glad you aren’t in Finland. I found a neat live stream set up at a ski park recently and have watched that quite a bit. It’s a little after 6:30 a.m. there now and -21!!!
People were out skiing last night while it was -16. Those people are nuts!!!!! LOL
I hope you don’t get the ice storm. Been there, done that. And our city lost so many trees that year. Our neighbor across the street had one fall on his car. Thankfully, he wasn’t in it at the time.
I kind of like winter weather as a change from the heat, but not the nasty kind. LOL!
Yeah, I’ve been there, done that too. Five days with no power in ‘98. It was a lousy Christmas. I was one of the lucky ones, though, since some people went two weeks without power. A lot of beautiful old trees were destroyed all over town.
They aren’t saying “ice storm” for tomorrow but it depends on the temps. If we get sleet and snow mix, that’s a big enough pain but we can get by ok. If it’s freezing rain ............
I hope it’s just some nice quiet snow. That isn’t harmful and it’s pretty. Till it starts melting. We’re just supposed to be cold. Which should be no surprise, but after the strange winter we’ve had, when it gets cold it does surprise us. LOL!
Love the Seabees. Love the “Can Do” motto.
When I was a kid in the mid-Sixties, my dad got orders to Yokosuka, Japan. When we arrived, we found out there would be no quarters available for two weeks, so we had to stay at the motel on the base, which was over near the fence that had the Mikasa on the other side.
My parents had one room, and all six of us kids stayed in the other on cots.
We were on a beach that had huge lengths of rusted anchor chain on it that had been laid there over the years and forgotten. The weather seemed constantly gray and drizzly, and as we killed time on the beach, we could see the US Navy ships far out near the horizon coming in and leaving the naval base.
In front of the hotel, there was an enormous sculpture of The Seabee up on a pedestal!
As a nine year old kid, I spent a lot of time looking at it...the big black and yellow abdomen with the stinger, the funny face with the dixie cup at a jaunty angle on top, and each leg holding something, one held a wrench, one held a hammer, and of course, that Thompson machine gun with the drum magazine!
I thought that sculpture was the coolest thing I had ever seen, and I spent a good deal of time looking at it and daydreaming!
After a few weeks, we finally moved into our quarters, a gigantic two story apartment right across the street from the Fleet Activities building where my dad would work every day. It was a big, white building several blocks long that we were told used to be a parachute hangar for the Japanese Navy in WWII. The building had been divided up into six large two story apartments, and us being on the end, had a little yard with a japanese style koi pond that had been filled with sand, and had a tiny arched bridge over it.
Heh, as a kid I kept white rats as pets, and as they died which they did continually, I buried them in that little sand filled pond, complete with little crosses. I kept those rats until one Sunday morning, they chewed through the wooden whiskey crate I kept them in and escaped with one of them crawling into bed with my mother and father! Her blood curdling scream was the signal to me that ensured I would be getting rid of all my pet rats!
Next door to us was a Seabee Administration building of some kind. There was a Petty Officer there named Barker, who had a puppy, and my horrified mother looked out the window to see us cavorting with the puppy as a smiling Seabee Petty Officer named Barker sat and watched us. He was Black Irish, black hair, blue eyes, and a very broad face that looked out from atop a stocky, barrel chested body.
My poor mom. She knew her fate was sealed when she saw that puppy, and that she was going to be taking care of a dog. We all were heartbroken when we left to go overseas, and had to leave our beloved black lab mix (named Kelly) with our Nana and Papa. We adored Kelly, and all of us missed her terribly. When of course, Petty Officer Barker gave us the puppy, the deal was done.
We named him Brutus, and he was a wonderful reddish brown dog about the size of a beagle but looked like a solid colored shepherd with the ears that pointed straight up. We got a life lesson when he was engaged in enthusiastically mating with a feral bitch in our front yard surrounded by about 10 of us young neighborhood kids, they became locked together and were stuck, butt-to-butt, connected by, er, something.
My mother looked out the window and saw these two dogs in this predicament as they paraded embarrassingly back and forth in front of that crowd of kids (who were watching with mouths agape) like one of those “push me-pull me” bugs and she somehow got the notion she had to put an end to this absurd sexual spectacle. She grabbed a bucket of cold water, and running out the front door, doused the poor dogs with it. They frantically ran like some malformed, eight-legged creature and fell in a panic down a steep hill!
Well, they separated all right. The bitch ran off, but poor Brutus just stood there embarrassingly, with his member dangling and dragging on the ground! If our mouths were agape before, upon seeing this, there were squeals of confusion, laughter, and horror! None of us had EVER seen anything like THAT! In the years since my parents have passed, I regret that I never asked them what the inevitable conversation must have been that night between a husband and wife. I can only imagine it, the two of them in the bedroom as they got ready for bed, my crewcut dad clutching a highball in one hand, smoking his omnipresent unfiltered Pall Mall he lit with his clinking Zippo, my mother taking a drag on her filtered Kool, discussing the events of the day. “So, Joan. How were the kids today?”
One can only imagine.
Then, a short while later, my mother took us on a trip into Yokohama for some purpose, and as we drove down the highway that cut through the city, we saw a tiny homeless kitten on the side of the road. My mother, sitting in the front seat with our maid Miekosan, saw the kitten before we did, and prayed we wouldn’t see it. Of course, we did, and cried in unison for her to stop, which she did. All hands were against her. It was a tiny calico, shorthaired kitten with a tiny stump of a tail, and we instantly named her Chi Chi. My mother gave it a bath in the kitchen sink when we got home, and the tiny creature was so ridden with fleas that it looked like the contents of a pepper shaker had been liberally emptied onto the surface of the water.
Brutus and Chi Chi came to Subic Bay with us when my dad got orders there, but when we returned stateside, they had to be put down because we couldn’t find anyone to take them. It was a sad day.
But it all started next to that Seabee building next to our house, and I will always remember Seabees with warm heart because we got a beloved dog from them...:)
I’m praying for snow but they say that will stay north of us. Everything hangs on the temps.
It’s definitely been a strange winter. I have to admit I enjoyed the warm December we had. LOL
I can live with colder temps but I just hate ice.
I hate ice too. I’ve had to drive to work in it until I finally just said enough. Then when we had ice on the roads, I called in. I didn’t care what they threatened, I wasn’t driving 20 miles on ice. No WAY. I didn’t get fired, so guess it worked. LOL!
Fingers crossed that you get snow or just nothing.
Driving that far to and from work would be way too unnerving. Can’t blame you for calling in.
It’s so hilly here, just driving a mile has me white-knuckled. That’s why I just stay home. Fur us, just getting to the highway where they put down brine is almost impossible and it’s only a quarter of a mile.
We won’t get nothing and that’s why I’m praying for snow. That’s bad enough as it is.
Dang, I just looked at the radar. A couple of hours ago it was all clear. Now there’s rain popping up over LA, AR, and MS, heading up this way. Snow coming down over KS now and they’ll hook up.
Whatever we get is here til Saturday. We just deal with what we get.
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