Comments on: Open Thread – Termination Dust http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/ Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Say NO to Palin in Politics http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137477 Say NO to Palin in Politics Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:28:10 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137477 Does anyone else think that the publishers may be playin with public response? in order to quench those very queries in publication? eh? Does anyone else think that the publishers may be playin with public response? in order to quench those very queries in publication? eh?

]]> By: Say NO to Palin in Politics http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137466 Say NO to Palin in Politics Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:49:09 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137466 Way back when I was a spry 19 yr old, I volunteered to help with the fall Hot Air Balloon Festival in Crested Butte, CO. I got a free balloon ride for my early morning efforts. What fun. I lived on the outskirts of Crested Butte, elev. 8900' for 3 yrs, talk about short lived and awesome summers, but they were nothing close to what Alaska has with it's extra sunlight. In the winter snow buried windows as it slid off roofs, if you didn't keep them dug out you'd look at a wall of snow all winter, ugh talk about dark and dreary, I did that one year thinking it was good for insulating. I hated it. All that deep snow also created high walled walkways and eventually slippery walk over humps, ya know, it gets hard to throw snow over head height. Seriously, it's hard on your back to keep up with hundreds of inches of snow, that's when a sauna comes in handy. And goodness, it takes forever to melt! People would drive very long 1 x 2 measuring sticks into the snow, marked in feet, just to watch it go lower and lower until finally, ah green grass! Oh yuck, mud season is not pretty and gets old real fast. One winter we had a record 24' of snow, the town ran out of places to put it. I tried to find pics for a visual but didn't have much luck online. Mine a buried somewhere in a box. And nope, I never want to shovel snow like that again, no way! But, ah, the fond memories, lol. Way back when I was a spry 19 yr old, I volunteered to help with the fall Hot Air Balloon Festival in Crested Butte, CO. I got a free balloon ride for my early morning efforts. What fun.

I lived on the outskirts of Crested Butte, elev. 8900′ for 3 yrs, talk about short lived and awesome summers, but they were nothing close to what Alaska has with it’s extra sunlight. In the winter snow buried windows as it slid off roofs, if you didn’t keep them dug out you’d look at a wall of snow all winter, ugh talk about dark and dreary, I did that one year thinking it was good for insulating. I hated it.

All that deep snow also created high walled walkways and eventually slippery walk over humps, ya know, it gets hard to throw snow over head height. Seriously, it’s hard on your back to keep up with hundreds of inches of snow, that’s when a sauna comes in handy.

And goodness, it takes forever to melt! People would drive very long 1 x 2 measuring sticks into the snow, marked in feet, just to watch it go lower and lower until finally, ah green grass! Oh yuck, mud season is not pretty and gets old real fast. One winter we had a record 24′ of snow, the town ran out of places to put it. I tried to find pics for a visual but didn’t have much luck online. Mine a buried somewhere in a box. And nope, I never want to shovel snow like that again, no way!

But, ah, the fond memories, lol.

]]> By: NY Dem http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137389 NY Dem Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:10:23 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137389 Nothing like the first snow of the season. It has a certain "smell' to it that is hard to explain. I love to sit on the front porch during that first snow - it's dark; the snow is gently wafting to the ground, sticking to the fallen leaves; and then I take several deep breaths. The smell is clean, crisp, almost like the snow is cleansing the air as it falls. Nothing like it. Nothing like the first snow of the season. It has a certain “smell’ to it that is hard to explain. I love to sit on the front porch during that first snow – it’s dark; the snow is gently wafting to the ground, sticking to the fallen leaves; and then I take several deep breaths. The smell is clean, crisp, almost like the snow is cleansing the air as it falls.

Nothing like it.

]]> By: nswfm CA http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137367 nswfm CA Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:50:28 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137367 messed up the link above: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/09/bytes-sarah-palin-a-pail-of-water-from-a-shallow-well.html messed up the link above:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/09/bytes-sarah-palin-a-pail-of-water-from-a-shallow-well.html

]]> By: nswfm CA http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137366 nswfm CA Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:49:08 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137366 Honesty in Gov, Leah Burton of God's Own Party (previously Theopalinism) was also quoted in The New Yorker: “Remember how I have been warning that she was going to be free to roll around the country like a loose cannon? Well, that time has come upon us, just in time for the 2010 campaign stumping.”—God's Own Party? http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/ Didn't she come forward against that idiot $P tried to appoint as Attorney General, WAR? Congratulations and keep up the expose', bloggers ! Honesty in Gov, Leah Burton of God’s Own Party (previously Theopalinism) was also quoted in The New Yorker:

“Remember how I have been warning that she was going to be free to roll around the country like a loose cannon? Well, that time has come upon us, just in time for the 2010 campaign stumping.”—God’s Own Party?
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/

Didn’t she come forward against that idiot $P tried to appoint as Attorney General, WAR?

Congratulations and keep up the expose’, bloggers !

]]> By: phoebe http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137360 phoebe Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:42:50 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137360 #90Grandma68 I grew up in Chapel Hill in the 50's & early 60's & we had snow about once a year. The schools all closed & we spent the day playing in the snow. I don't remember it snowing very often at all then. Fall in NC was really something. #90Grandma68

I grew up in Chapel Hill in the 50′s & early 60′s & we had snow about once a year. The schools all closed & we spent the day playing in the snow. I don’t remember it snowing very often at all then. Fall in NC was really something.

]]> By: Grandma68 http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137347 Grandma68 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:16:46 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137347 Wow, snow! Something we don't see much of here in NC (except in the mountains). The leaves are just beginning to turn (we had lots of rain, so it will be slow this year). Will be in the mid- to high 70s all next week, low 50s, and we probably won't have our first hard frost until the end of the month or early Nov. Next month I'll plant pansies, those wonderful fragile-looking little flowers that can freeze and still come back perky! I've actually had them live from late fall until July in past years. Lived in Buffalo in the late 40s, early 50s as a southern transplant kid. And we walked to school in 3 ft snowdrifts, I swear to the Great Spaghetti Monster! It's true, it's true! Schools did NOT close, no matter--and since it was parochial school, we were expected to be at Mass, too! Wow, snow! Something we don’t see much of here in NC (except in the mountains). The leaves are just beginning to turn (we had lots of rain, so it will be slow this year). Will be in the mid- to high 70s all next week, low 50s, and we probably won’t have our first hard frost until the end of the month or early Nov. Next month I’ll plant pansies, those wonderful fragile-looking little flowers that can freeze and still come back perky! I’ve actually had them live from late fall until July in past years.

Lived in Buffalo in the late 40s, early 50s as a southern transplant kid. And we walked to school in 3 ft snowdrifts, I swear to the Great Spaghetti Monster! It’s true, it’s true! Schools did NOT close, no matter–and since it was parochial school, we were expected to be at Mass, too!

]]> By: Marnie http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137346 Marnie Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:13:11 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137346 Periodically I check NASA camera shots of Mt. Redoubt to see how the dome is doing. I was amused and somewhat surprised several weeks ago when the top the mountain was white with frozen mist. Then again it is a "white capped" mountain. For a flatlander from the south it is interesting. between the NASA shots and your to watch such a vastly different kind of seasonal changing. Periodically I check NASA camera shots of Mt. Redoubt to see how the dome is doing.
I was amused and somewhat surprised several weeks ago when the top the mountain was white with frozen mist.
Then again it is a “white capped” mountain. For a flatlander from the south it is interesting. between the NASA shots and your to watch such a vastly different kind of seasonal changing.

]]> By: phoebe http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137342 phoebe Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:51:26 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137342 #84 BuffaloGal My sister lives in the Buffalo area & I rememeber the blizzard of 1977. They live in Hamburg & the ice storm was incredible. We used to always go back at Christmas & one year they hadn't any snow....Christmas morning we woke up to the first snow of the year. It was great! #84 BuffaloGal

My sister lives in the Buffalo area & I rememeber the blizzard of 1977. They live in Hamburg & the ice storm was incredible. We used to always go back at Christmas & one year they hadn’t any snow….Christmas morning we woke up to the first snow of the year. It was great!

]]> By: rebekkah http://www.themudflats.net/2009/10/02/open-thread-termination-dust/#comment-137341 rebekkah Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:24:32 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=7065#comment-137341 The problem child: Guess we are in the same corner of North America. I think you mentioned once where you live. I'm south of there - 60 miles, so you know what I mean. Glad to know a Mudpup so close. Have lived up your way until recently. Funny how Alaska seems to make me feel at home. Same kind of weather, lots of moose, lots of open uninhabited land, sand dunes on the coast, rocky coasts, except for the Alaskan high peaks. The problem child: Guess we are in the same corner of North America. I think you mentioned once where you live. I’m south of there – 60 miles, so you know what I mean. Glad to know a Mudpup so close. Have lived up your way until recently.

Funny how Alaska seems to make me feel at home. Same kind of weather, lots of moose, lots of open uninhabited land, sand dunes on the coast, rocky coasts, except for the Alaskan high peaks.

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