Island Of Misfits
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It does feel good to "force" yourself to these things, sort of brings out the bit of tough that's left! Shark must move forward and all.
Bubba
Happy satyrday brothers and sisters and all hail Lord Saturn!
More rain starting at 50F and 72% RH, with 7 mph breeze and predicted to soar to 58F.
Enjoying my daughters visit and especially thankful for her help setting up my cameras. A project full of twists and IT roadblocks that I would have never figured out and am amazed at how patiently she continues to dig to sort it out, including with tech support that is clueless, besides speaking hard to understand heavily accented Indianglis. Currently trying to get the recording to auxiliary drive working after discovering that the commands were ignoring us because Blink/Amazon wants to sell cloud space and we had to delete the free home trial and wait a day for them to disconnect, before it would accept instructions from us.
Heavy rains and windy yesterday, so we stuck mostly indoors except for grocery shopping, and today we will show the Portland sights to our new SIL
More rain starting at 50F and 72% RH, with 7 mph breeze and predicted to soar to 58F.
Enjoying my daughters visit and especially thankful for her help setting up my cameras. A project full of twists and IT roadblocks that I would have never figured out and am amazed at how patiently she continues to dig to sort it out, including with tech support that is clueless, besides speaking hard to understand heavily accented Indianglis. Currently trying to get the recording to auxiliary drive working after discovering that the commands were ignoring us because Blink/Amazon wants to sell cloud space and we had to delete the free home trial and wait a day for them to disconnect, before it would accept instructions from us.
Heavy rains and windy yesterday, so we stuck mostly indoors except for grocery shopping, and today we will show the Portland sights to our new SIL
Funny as fk.
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Morning Misfits. Gotta run down stairs and start brewing a batch of tea. Girls will love this. B right back.
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Okay back upstairs. Tea is brewing, two more starts have shown Roots overnight, girls also need fed and have some up potting for the ladies waiting to get into the flower attend. I'm going to be busy here than a one legged man in an azz kicking contest this morning at least.
Looks like a cloudy start to the day I don't care I can't see the Sun from my basement anyway.
Looks like a cloudy start to the day I don't care I can't see the Sun from my basement anyway.
I really like them roster
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Strike the mainsails; foresails only. 50 MPH gales out there. Had to pull the flags off the flagpole. She had a pretty good bend going. Looks like the gales of November came early. Bet the pucker factor is pretty high on the Big Lakes.
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Windy day here as well. Lots of leaves are disappearing from the trees. Some trees hold on until strong winds get the last of them. I will still have a few on my Bradford Pear but not many. I will be on leaf detail again tomorrow.
Illusions, my last boat, didn't come alive until the small craft warning were out, but at 50 mph gusts, I would be down to a storm hanky..............
Merry day of the Sun all! More rain here in Paradise, starting at 46F and 86% RH, with 12 mph breeze and predicted to soar to 47F in the heat of the day.
Family visit going well, though I picked a bad day for a tour of the Scenic Highway waterfalls, because there was no parking at any of them, due to heavy participation by the rest of society. Not a showstopper because my SIL is recovering from knee surgery and wearing a brace, so not heavily into walking.
More good food. A mid-day wild Blackberry concentrate over Cheesecake, with Grayfox and my daughter treating us to a delightful dinner of thick cut breaded porkchops with asparagus and small potatoes and I marveled everyone with Creme Brule topped with candied orange peel.
Planning more scenic touring today, and I will whomp up a batch of my infamous Jalapeno Lemonade. I also have some candied rose petals to top off the balance of the Creme Brule Le Orange.
Everyone enjoying Miss Layla and Sweet Melissa, who have started sharing affection after Miss Layla properly explained to the interlopers what dangerous ground they were treading on and who had their eye on them. Both are animal lovers and missing their own, so with some treats, it didn't take long.
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50 mph winds and I would heave to , get down below and strap in
and the really smart sailors would never sail into conditions like that…not a good sailor anyway , one that plans ahead
there is always the unpredictable squall and if one sails long enough one will experience a puckering storm
good morning
and the really smart sailors would never sail into conditions like that…not a good sailor anyway , one that plans ahead
there is always the unpredictable squall and if one sails long enough one will experience a puckering storm
good morning
My Maryjane graduated from ring the bell to barking to go out.
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The gails last night were a curse wrapped in a blessing. Only had to pick up less than 20 bushels of leaves and a mess of tree branches, but it saved me from having to climb up on the roof of the main shead to blow 'em off. Clean as a whistle up there.
It's a sunny 60 degrees out with a mile breeze. Kinda pretty compared to what's coming this winter.
Plow goes on the Jeep tomorrow. How many weeks have I said that so far?
It's a sunny 60 degrees out with a mile breeze. Kinda pretty compared to what's coming this winter.
Plow goes on the Jeep tomorrow. How many weeks have I said that so far?
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SILENZIO'...BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING
About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall/winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried in the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries, has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate it, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even the custom to keep a portrait of "their" soldier in a place of honour in their home.
Annually, on "Liberation Day," memorial services are held for "the men who died to liberate Holland." The day concludes with a concert. The final piece is always "Il Silenzio," a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland's liberation. It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since.
This year the soloist was a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by André Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands). This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
SILENZIO'...BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING
About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall/winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried in the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries, has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate it, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even the custom to keep a portrait of "their" soldier in a place of honour in their home.
Annually, on "Liberation Day," memorial services are held for "the men who died to liberate Holland." The day concludes with a concert. The final piece is always "Il Silenzio," a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland's liberation. It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since.
This year the soloist was a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by André Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands). This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
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Been trimming....need a brake. Gonna take a walk then back to the scissors.
