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June 29, 2008
Be Careful Out There.
With high temperatures in the state and the July 4th holiday looming ahead, things can get a little crazy around here. Don't believe the temperature readings you see for the coast. Many weather reports tagged us as in the 50's yesterday. It was 80 degrees in the shade at my house.
So it's already hot, and it's crazy, people are shooting off fireworks starting like last week. It's a recipe for accidents. Especially drowning. You tourists out there, don't swim in our ocean. If the booze and lack of experience and undertows don't get you, the ecoli (or something else) will. What do you think happens when our ancient coastal sewer systems are besieged with tons of touristal excrements? Nothing happy I assure you.
June 25, 2008
Running Around Oregon.
Or perhaps a better title would have been, My Most Huge Gas Bill. In the past few weeks I have been trapsing around the state a bit. Usually I stay home and venture to local areas, (the beach, the river, my parents house) but occasionally I have call to run my buns all over the place. Which is what I did.
First I went with Mr Wyrd to Brookings, where our daughter (5 of 6 just to keep it straight), was graduating from High School.
It was a lovely day, which was wonderful considering they had predicted rain. As you can see by all the hat holding, it was just slightly (hurricane force) windy.
We zoomed in and looked for our young blonde haired darling. Hmmm. This wasn't as easy as we thought. There were TONS of blonde haired beauties. With blue/purple robes. We need a clue.
Then the clouds parted, the sun shone through, and the secret was revealed. It also helped that she was an honors grad and they called her name. Though you cannot tell by the shopped picture here, she has actually streaked her hair red. Very little blonde showing!
Even if they hadn't called her name we would have been clued in by this next move. Which one of these are not like the other?
For those who need a little more help.
Congratulations Vanita!!!!! (insert screams and confetti).
June 22, 2008
Gardener or Wussie?
It's years like this that test the metal of local gardeners. Long, cold, hailing, snowing, freezing winter. Days of cool, soaking drizzle. Jump from that to a few 100 degree days and back again. That's our dismal weather story. It's a wonder anything survives at all.
And yet it does. Sure, the heat killed about 3/4 of my tomato plants. And all 50 of my first lemon cucumbers. But I replanted and transplanted and pinched off burned leaves, and rearranged plants for maximum protection. It won't be the best garden year, but it will still be one. That's where the true skill comes in. When things aren't so easy. If our forefathers/mothers had quit when times were hard, they would have starved to death. And who knows, the way prices are going, if we don't improve our gardening talents we might too.
June 19, 2008
Earthquakes - Oregon
Today we had a mere 2.5 magnitude earthquake off of the coast of Oregon. Yesterday we had a 3.8, nothing like the 4.9 we had last Saturday, or the 6.9 Eastern Honshu, Japan experienced.
June 14, 2008
Earthquake - Oregon
June 13, 2008
Earthquake in Japan
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has occured in Honshu, Japan. No tsunami warning was issued.
June 03, 2008
Free Fishing Weekend.
This weekend is FREE FISHING WEEKEND! Clamming, crabbing, fishing, anywhere in the state, all weekend. And for our enjoyment, today was the lowest tide of the year, so it will be PREMO for clamming. Woohoo!
Dear Mr. Obama
Please don't choose Hillary as your running mate. If I had wanted Hillary in office, I would have voted for her. WHICH I DID NOT.
Marshfield High Keeps On Sucking.
It seems that the yearbooks are out today. The yearbooks we parents already paid some 40 or 50 bucks for. Yes, Marshfield was letting the kids pick them up today... FOR AN EXTRA THREE BUCKS. If they did not want to pay the extra 3 bucks, or couldn't, then they had to wait for Friday to get them. What's the big deal you ask? Well today was the last day of school for the Seniors. So if the rest of the kids wanted their senior friends to sign their yearbooks, they were SOL.
Gee, thanks Marshfield. Another petty way to suck more bucks out of the parents. GOOD GOING.
June 02, 2008
New Oregon Earthquake
A 4.7 magnitude 250 miles off the coast of Oregon.
The tsunami message said it was a preliminary 5.3. Somebody tell me what that means exactly?
Another Earthquake Off The Oregon Coast.
June 01, 2008
Medium Sized Earthquake in Oregon
