The major storm system, which the National Weather Service is calling a “once in a generation type event,” is touching nearly every state in the US.
Folks better get used to it …
By the way, did I forget to note last week that the earthquake off the far northern Pacific Coast was a 6.4 ?
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Another thing I forgot to share last week is what a gift it is to just flush the toilet without digging out snow into a waste basket (non-woven) and thawing it to use in order to flush.
That thaw-and-flush reminded me of the time (have I already told you this?) when an earthquake left our stretch of Celtic Street in Northridge without water and neighbors came with buckets to get water from our swimming pool to use for flushing.
So flush and be grateful.
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While George’s cousin, Mary, was here she had a chance to talk with Francis. Mary is a dedicated genealogical tracker of James Bohomile Dibelka (who the family calls JB) and therefore of Frances Josephine Kaspar who was his wife, making her the mother of both Mary’s father Robert and George’s father James and the current Francis’ great grandmother.
Neither Mary nor I have found another Frances or Francis in the Dibelka family.
Interesting coincidence.
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I’m currently reading the 7th Lady Hardcastle book with only two more to go unless TEKinsey decides to give Lady Hardcastle and her lady’s maid (and co-spy) Flo another couple of mysteries to solve.
To which I will join Flo in saying Kaloo Klay as she chortles in her joy while I am being grateful to Cousin Don in Tampa for introducing me to the two of them.
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Referring back to coincidences … It came to my attention that there was a time not too long ago that TV was dominated by female centered shows … to name just a few … I love Lucy, Laverne and Shirley, the Golden Girls, Cagney and Lacey, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Zena Warrior Princess, Sex and the City, Rhoda, Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting (which may have been the inception of macho men first as sidekicks then as leads in movies (think Bruce Willis) as well as tv shows (think Marvel heroes) and no fair reining in all those macho dudes starring as cattle drive bosses and all those other good guys and baddies in cowboy movies (and yes, pun intended).
How many more female centered shows can you think of from that era ?
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Tired of hearing about the big storm, the once in a lifetime storm bomb.
Well, here are some tidbits …
There have been some places in the track of this storm stretching from Wasington state to Texas and the deep South and up the east coast into New England, and as far as some of the Canadian Maritime Provinces, which have been colder than temperatures on Mars.
Cold and wind have made some places where frostbite requires only 5 or 10 minutes of bare skin exposure to be deadly. Several places in the storm track are registering temperatures in the minus numbers (-18º , -35º, -20º. -48º in places as far apart as Chicago, Cheyenne, St Louis, and some places in Colorado). There have been deaths on icy roads and some as the result of homeless folks refusing to go into warming shelters. There are videos available showing people tossing boiling water into the air causing amazing sprays of frozen ice and snow.
Nothing as dramatic as that around here since the deepest snow I’ve recorded here in the Village has been 4-5’(not counting the Service District berms) and 28º here at my house. However, there have been a lot of Ambulance calls all across Southern Siskiyou County mostly for falls and heart attacks and broken arms and elevated blood pressure problems etc. often as a result of snow shovelling.
End of snow/storm reports.
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An entire group of holidays overlap this year starting with Hanukkah, then Christmas, then Kwanza, and ending with the New Year.
One year Helene, Barry, and the kids were with us on the Farm for the blended holidays. I seem to remember the kids all sleeping in the upper level of the barn on the hay. If that’s not right, Mark will tell me.
George told me that when he went to school in Chicago he would celebrate ALL the holidays for which the school allowed excused days including both Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholic holidays as well all Jewish ones. Had Muslim ones been known then I’m sure he would have included them.
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Last thursday would have been my Nana’s 142nd birthday anniversary. She died less than a month before her 107th birthday anniversary. To meet her record, I can’t die until early April 2037. Anyone placing bets?
The other day I was thinking of all the music I have enjoyed in my life which Nana probably never heard let alone learned to like and enjoy even though the composers were alive during the early years of her life … Brahms, Tchaikovsky (especially the Nutcracker),Liszt, Ravel, Satie, Gershwin …
Too bad. We might have had some interesting conversations.
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Something to think about this next week …
Like the Rorschach Inkblot Test, everyone who looks at life and nature sees something different because they are looking through different eyes and experiences.
… I heard this as part of a TED presentation, but I don’t recall which
So, ‘til next week …