20 February …
This is a week for pictures …
“Potentially Historic” Avalanche Reported on Mt. Shasta
This D4 whopper in Avalanche Gulch on Mt Shasta occurred during last Wednesday’s rapid warming event following several feet of snow overnight” the Avalanche Center wrote on Facebook. “Debris 30’ high and terminus at 7,200 feet. This potentially historic avalanche ran several miles and nearly 4,000 vertical feet.”
Avalanches are measured on a D scale, with D1 being the smallest and D5 being the largest. Thankfully, no one was on the mountain during the dangerous event.
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That was the height of excitement for this area last week. Avalanche Gulch is the draw on the mountainside where the ski resort was located when we first moved here. Avalanches had already wiped out a resort with lodge there in the past. Who knows why they chose to rebuild in the same place. Then another, small avalanche wiped out the one I remember, and this time when they built a new ski resort, they built on other slopes more on the McCloud side of the Mountain below Coyote Butte.
Here’s proof I live in a calendar. Here’s what it looked like around here …
At the reservoir (snow on ice) …
Coming up our hill …
The meadow with next year’s firewood …
Paul in the center driveway …
and a neighbor’s car in fuel conservation mode …
Other California areas also had their share of excitement what with floods, DEEP snow, and landsides. We aren’t envious.
Temperatures have been below freezing for the last few days but egg production is back up.
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The Met is to reveal their 2019-2020 selections today. I wonder how many will be new operas, how many will be new productions, and how many will be old standbys. My “opera friends” and I will be making our selection(s) soon. I don’t know what I’d like to see and/or hear … maybe “Lakmi” for the duets.
I do wish they would put one of the old standbys into English. I think it would be a challenge for the singers and an incentive for the audience. Maybe “Elixir …”.
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As you know, I’ve been reading Christie’s Poirot canon. I am about half-way through. Some of her character descriptions are a blast in spite of the tale supposedly being a mystery rather than a comedy. One character in the last one I read is described as having a “rocking horse face” with “flaring red rocking horse nostrils”. Can’t you just see her?
And her descriptions of Poirot … you have to read them to appreciate Suchet’s take on the role. I read somewhere he said that to catch Poirot’s walk, he put a coin between his buttock cheeks. Now that’s getting into the role, right?
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Here’s a shopping list from when I was young.
That’s why the cost of the neighbor’s snow removal equipment left me reeling … over $45,000.
George and I paid less than $13,000 for our first house – a 3 bedroom, 2 ½ bath, 2 garage on a quarter acre.
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And to finish for this time … for your edification …
Elder’s Meditation of the Day February 18
“Laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh.”
So … ‘til next week …