Crushed in DC

Wowwwww!  haven’t seen that since Indianapolis !  Stay warm! (& dry when that stuff melts, YIKES)

I’m in Philly, Larry. I was suppose to get back on the road today.  Hahahaha!  Once the snow stops [we have about 2 ft on the ground], it’s going to take hours just to get to the car and dig out.  For those of you familiar with the movie Rocky and that classic scene when Stallone runs up the Art Museum steps?  Well, this morning the kids are sledding down those steps, having a grand time.

It’s still snowing and blowing here.  The storm is expected to end late this afternoon.  And then, there’s another one coming mid-week.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to slide through a window on Monday.

It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!

Here in Colorado, that’s what we would call “a light dusting”.

OMG!  That is somethin’.  But…still beautiful.  …

…looks like that snow may stay around for a while.  What will the doggies do?

Sunny and a toasty 25 degrees here in Madison, WI.  Great day for an outdoor hockey game between UW and Michigan.  Sorry, after the snow we received earlier this winter, I have trouble feeling sorry for those enjoying this downfall.0

What bugs me about these weather events are the tv fools that stand out there in the snow, rain, or hurricane telling us that it’s precipitating. We know, we know!

LMAO! good one

Larry – great pics. Thank you. All I see there disguised as snow is the cold of Sec. of State HC’s heart.

Thanks Larry, great pictures, wow!  I confess to a little bit of envy, but 30+ inches? That’s just a little much for me! We got 8 inches about a week ago, and it didn’t go away until a week later when it rained, because it was too cold to melt! And, it was a pain in the butt, too, ESPECIALLY for my dogs. 

Again: Wow….

Still waiting in NY.

Pics like this remind me why I moved from Chicago to CA!  Winter of 1979 – same thing…..

LMAO  close, very close.  The reason THEY are using those disccriptions….it fell on DC (uh huh)

You see what is really happening, don’t you? Even Mother Nature is a r@cist. Dumping all that white stuff on Washington DC. Time for Obama to play some music, like “I got 99 Problems …”

Nah.

From 1970, I bring you a song by Gil Scott-Heron

Whitey on the Moon

A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell
(and Whitey’s on the moom)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be payin’ still.
(While Whitey’s on the moon)
The man jus’ upped my rent las’ night
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon)
No hot water, no toilets, no lights
(but Whitey’s on the moon)
I wonder why he’s uppi’ me?
(’cause Whitey’s on the moon)
I wuz already payin’ ‘im fifty a week.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Taxes takin’ my whole damn check,
Junkies makin’ me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin’ up
‘An as if all that shit wuzn’t enough:
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(With Whitey on the moon)

etc.

WTH???

Love it, Arabella!  It is, however worth noting that Thee One is making damned sure that Whitey doesn’t get back to the moon anytime soon . . .

LOL Arabella!  Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Global warmin’s on its way
(And Larry feedin’ birds)

He can’t. Snow is the wrong color.

If it had left some snow here, I wouldn’t have minded a bit!

Stay safe, Larry. Thanks for the pictures! 

Yeah, that sort of thing is why I moved to FL from PA. Down here the tail end of the front passed over yesterday, dumping masses of rain on us with t-storms for a bit of fun. But since FL is basically a big sandbox on top of limestone and coral, it all drains way as soon as it stops raining. Right now it’s about 60 with lovely sunshine and blue skies with fluffy white clouds drifting around. Many of my horse friends live up north, and when it gets cold and snowy I entertain them with my weather reports. This winter has been much colder than usual though, so I didn’t get to do the Christmas “it’s 70 here today, neener, neener, neener” bit. When big storms hit, I just offer sympathy and any help on horsekeeping in deep snow that I remember. Good luck up there!!

oh my gosh that sounds good!

You mean like when that Global Warming stuff melts it?

Have fun waiting then!

ICE AGE!

lark — that was uncalled for.

Who are you? Why do you have a different avatar on other threads?

PE, one of the ‘exercises’ I do with some of my younger students is to re-enact the boat crossing of the first settlers.  That is to say, I have them arrange all the desks in the shape of a boat; and we describe that passage in detail, with special attention to the odors (for example, rotten food as the result of no refrigeration).  When we ‘land,’ I ask, what is the first thing you want to do?  Invariably, I hear a chorus of, ‘Take a shower!’  ‘Okay,’ I nod my head, ‘go find some clean water.’ 

WOW! I know it’s a nightmare, but it’s SO pretty!

Larry,

Stay warm and dry. From a NH perspective, I have to agree with propertius – just a dusting and no big deal.

Generators Huh?? We use wood stoves, fire places and Hibachi’s for chooking. Actually great fun for the family to read and play board games around a fireplace.

Sorry, but I do have to chyckle a bit. The pompous crooks in DC do not phase you a bit. Two feet of frozen water sends the whole area into panic. Ah the ironies!!

This is a fantastic resource for the Obama Administration.  With all of Team Obama giving the American people one snow job after another, they need all the basic supplies they can get ….

No, silly, that was Michelle

……having a bad hair day!

We have some snow.

..understatement.

My family would boil the alcohol off wine, then sweeten the syrup with honey and pour it on the snow “The original sorbet.”
Now before anyone gets cute, that’s all we had to work with.

Been shoveling 1 hour on 1 hour off still plenty to go and still snowing.

Cindy,
Wish I could send some back but in a way not since the kids have so much fun (me included) with it.
What is it about snow that lightens the mood.  Neighbors come out and everyone shoveling together , and our preoccupation with ourselves is forgotten for a while and it feels good–a community coming to life .

Lark, 

“Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn’t something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly — a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.”
 
Is this why you call yourself lark?
 
(I marked that I liked your comment by mistake—meant simply to reply.)

snow sorbet really sounds good!

That is an impressive snowfall.
The most I ever measured here is 22 inches. We were awake all night as the limbs of white pines broke from the top and dominoed down. They literally shook the ground.
We had kids and dogs sledding on our hilly back yard for two weeks.

My sister always does the same “neener, neener, neener” bit, Fla.  She lives on the Palm Coast but even they have had unusal cold spells [she lost a lot of her tropical plantings this year and last].  I’m now living south of the Mason-Dixon line, so the weather is more temperate.  But I actually miss the Mid-Atlantic [the shore in particular]. 

Crazy, I know.  But Philly and South Jersey are home turf.  Always will be. 

Ah, “California dreamin’
On such a winter’s day!”

Oh wait a minute–I’m already in California . . . gray skies and rain . . .
bummer . . .

I live in Georgia (the part where is doesn’t snow) and we complain if it gets below 50 degrees. My plan is to retire to southern Florida. There I will get old and cranky and complain if it gets below 70 degrees.

Not that I’m rubbing it in or anything. Goodness me no. Trust me. Really.

No because I am angry with her. And I have a right to be angry with her.

No because I feel angry with her. And I have a right to feel angry at her because she left my brothers and sister in jail. She lost her avatar. 
And besides I do not qualify as her fan.

I have two computers so I picked two different pictures.

How do I look at myself, you ask? As a person with more than one soul.

Right: ” I talk the war with both sides–always waiting until the other man
introduces the topic. Then I say “My head is with the Briton, but my
heart and such rags of morals as I have are with the Boer–now we will
talk, unembarrassed and without prejudice.” And so we discuss, and have
no trouble.”

Cindy, that is why Fairfax County had/has one of the top ten school systems in the US. I graduated from one of the best high schools in Fairfax County, McLean. And we had very good teachers. It’s the old adage, you get what you pay for. You pay for good teachers and you get them.

Cindy, It was, we got the idea from reading the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder..it sounded good and it was. My parents were careful to point out that in the book it was a very rare treat, since sugar was expensive back then.

Such a pretty cat! Does he/she like the snow?

lark,
You mean those missionaries who tried to illegally cross the border with the Haitian children who were not orphans?? What was she supposed to do, tell the Haitians to ignore their own laws?? She can’t do that. And she has other things to do besides get Americans who got themselves into trouble by their own illegal actions out of jail. The State Department is doing what they can for the missionaries, but short of illegally breaking them out of jail, there is nothing they can do but see to it that they have legal representation and negotiate for their release. This is not the job of the Secretary of State, it is the job of the State Department officials who deal with Haiti, ie. the Haiti desk at State. If you think that Hillary is supposed to do that sort of thing, at that level, you know nothing about how the State Department works. And if you want your “brothers and sister” to stay out of jail, then you should tell them not to commit crimes.

FLDem—I was a music teacher in Springfield, Va. and they PAID for classical guitar classes for all of us music teachers! There was an old woman (probably the age I am now! ha!) who was the superintendant. She loved music. If you taught summer school, which I did, they gave you 6 hours toward your Master’s degree! Hello!!!
I swear I loved that Fairfax Co. school district.
Loved riding around McLean—used to drive by Ethel K’s back when I loved the Kennedy’s …and Teddy’s too. His mailbox was right on the highway!

They did not commit a crime so Hillary has just to make a phone call and say, the 100 million can be split in more than a thousand ways. After all, she is SOS. But no.

Go away.

I don’t think she is needed anymore – thank you very much – SOS HC stay away from this case.

wyntre,
Thank you for the new word “broom hockey” addition to my lexicon.
If I sound educated or intelligent don’t let it fool you, I’m a Harvard graduate.

Touchet, what a pity you weren’t around last night when all were [playing with silent letter sounds.  Too shea to you too, and an en guard.

Cindy, were were you when I got my guitar.  Sorry I missed out.

Forget Haiti… we might be air dropping DC and Virgina…. LOL!  Heck 1/2″ shuts DC down…. Hummm a few more of this types of storms hitting the Hill and who knows, that just maybe  enough to significantly lower the deficit!!

lark — I wasn’t trying to chase you away, but some of your comments are rather unusual to say the least. Am I correct in thinking that English is not your primary language?

Arabella -thank you very much for ‘Whitey on the moon “. Says things like no other. If I cant find out more about this I shall ask you for more info.

Also your own poems were clever.

the snopics are amazing. 

AC—-LOL! When I worked at Giant Music on Columbia Pike, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I sold guitar strings to Leo Kottke. Or was that you?!!

Was that the late seventies?

I’m not Leo Kottke but I did patronize Giant Music in the late 70′s early 80′s

If ever the U.S. has been betrayed, that interview with the DOS official must be one classic example.

Right like State can tell the Haitian Government what to do…. The Missionaries Hearts were in the right place but their heads were some where else…..A bone head move…..

And Rivera? What has he done as a humanitarian lately? For that matter what as any of the press done to make the situation any better? I’ll tell you ZIP!

And its a very difficult situation indeed!

I can explain it to you the why’s because I know them, but I rather not. I rather you respect me or not respect me, whichever you choose, for what I communicate to you, not for my accuracy communicating. But I can tell you this. For reasons beyond my control I cannot make my expressions any better. 
 
 
But I love E-prime, and E-prime works very well with me. And I decided today to come back to E-prime.  
 
 
And I said to you that I think as a Postmodern and that makes all the difference. Like Robert Frost said, two roads diverged in a yellow wood, I took the Postmodern road, and that makes all the difference. 

Ellen, the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa’s band, had a song called, “Don’t eat the yellow snow”.Here are the lyrics.. and down below is the YouTube film of it, Zappa was a very cool dude.

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow

Dreamed I was an eskimo
Frozen wind began to blow
Under my boots and around my toes
The frost that bit the ground below
It was a hundred degrees below zero…

And my mama cried
And my mama cried
Nanook, a-no-no
Nanook, a-no-no
Don’t be a naughty eskimo
Save your money, don’t go to the show

Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said oh, oh oh
Well I turned around and I said ho, ho
And the northern lights commenced to glow
And she said, with a tear in her eye
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow
Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow

AC, does that mean it’s Bush’s fault too??

Hey Larry. Love your ruler as a deck decoration. Perhaps you could wrap it around the pole of an outdoor umbrella and use it as a memento of the Great Blizzard of 2010, because I don’t think you’re going to see this sight again where you live.

I spent a year in Iowa beginning in December 1983 through Jan 1985.  I arrived in the midst of a record breaking blizzard with -83 wind chill factor.  It just snowed, snowed and snowed; barges were frozen on the river, trucks on the highways.  We were only allowed to walk from our dorm directly to busses outside.  The next winter, last week I was there, another blizzard.  California dreamin’ I remember calling my daughter in Carmel on New Years Day asking what they were doing…cried when I heard, “Oh, it’s 70 degrees here, Mom and we’re on our way to the beach.” 

You can have it, kids!  I hate those winters!  Pretty snow turns to slush and mud.  No thanks!

“Snowmageddon” — that’s what President Barack Obama calls the storm that’s shut down Washington.

His motorcade made it a few blocks through deserted streets so he could speak at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting on Saturday.

I call it BOmageddon….

Wow, Ellen! How cool.

Stay warm all u snowbirds. I can tell you, apart from the white covering you all have, Vegas is getting a ton of rain! 
 
Global warming has a lot to answer for !!

Wonderful pictures Larry.

Frank Zappa, another great Italian.

TeakWoodKite, BO should feel right at home.
He pulled the biggest “snow job” in my memory!

Now Hillary Clinton as a SOS contintues her repetitive pattern of surrendering. Lets see if you agree. During the election she surrender many times during the debates and to the press. But demontrably she surrender to the DNC first, then to her husband and finally at the Convention to Obama.


Can you now count how many times in the last year she has surrender as a SOS the interest of the U.S.?

Why don’t you tell us.

lark, dear
I think your birdseed has fermented over the winter.

Clinton’s underwhelming performance so far as secretary of state is representative of a U.S. foreign policy that projects weakness rather than strength and is leaving the United States increasingly vulnerable in the face of an array of enemies.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/wm2548.cfm

The DOS under SOS HC in Geraldo yesterday night surrender to the most weakest and needy nation in the entire world and betrayed the trust of 10 Americans.

Clinton’s underwhelming performance so far as secretary of state is representative of a U.S. foreign policy that projects weakness rather than strength and is leaving the United States increasingly vulnerable in the face of an array of enemies.  
  
http://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/wm2548.cfm  

Nile Gardiner Ph.D., is the Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Erica Munkwitz assisted with research for this paper.

The DOS under SOS HC in Geraldo yesterday night surrender to the most weakest and needy nation in the entire world.

It does not matter if Hillary said boo or not… Haiti is a difficult situation but my bet in this is that someone is going to get their hands slapped and that will be it….Believe me it could be worse……

The fact is that the missionaries did not follow any procedures nor did they at least make UN or USG Contact… They did did this on they’re own listening to locals and that was a real dumb mistake, now they are paying the piper….but they will get off lightly…..

lark, shut up! if you think hillary is doing this all by herself, then you need to get a brain and use it.

I don’t know lark, at  first it was entertaining to a degree but now you should change your moniker to CRAB[Y].

And lumpy, and odious.

and answers itself too no doubt!

Thanks for the good wishes.

Now I hope they don’t get off lightly. They did that by following the law: Luke 10:37. Now Miss Silsby and the 9 NLCR workers have an opportunity to take over the administration of the jails they live at, make them a Christian run facility. Many leaders of Christian organizations in Haiti will visit them in jail and bring supplies so that they can fix those places to Christian standards. Many Christians will form LLC corporations to bid on contracts to manage and run all the prisons in Haiti. Christians do not need governments for anything.  
 
As for Hillary Clinton and her DOS, the countries around the world will have noted that she has surrender to the weakest and most corrupt contry in the world. That will give Obama lots of rope to hang himself. Maybe that stands as her intention. To frustrate Obama.

15,000 KW? Larry, you must live close to the railroad or right on top of the natural gas line to fuel that rascal, and I imagine your neighbors HATE the Transformer Yard you had to have built to handle that much current.

15KW, or 15,000 WATTS…now THAT’s a big-ass generator for standby use at a single family house in the temperate zone. Most folks make do with 4-7KW, and Rich Suburbanites, maybe 12KW.

15,000KW arrived either on a barge or three railcars…