*right click*
saved in Moment of Zen folder
*deep breath and calm to the marrow*
and for today, forget latkes (potato pancakes)…I’m sharing virtual jelly donuts, Israeli-style. Try my favorite: apple filled, dusted with cinnamon-sugar.
Happy Chanukah…Hanukkah…Festival of Lights. Let your light shine.
Thanks so much for the virtual jelly doughnut, thatcrowwoman. L’Shalom right back atcha! When I got together with my sisters for a Chanukah lunch (was it last year or the year before? can’t recall), we went out for Asian food. It was Chanukah-appropriate, because the skinny lavender eggplant was *swimming* in oil. Your light is shining all the way to the East Village, my ancestral shtetl (mom lived two blocks away when she was born).
There is a new documentary film about the state of our country. You can watch it online. I’ve watched about half so far and it is well done. http://www.deceptionsusa.com/index.html
Ahh….beautiful photo. I can almost hear how quiet it is.
Woke to 2 feet of snow. Band of lake effect snow rolled in last night and walloped us. I think it has stalled directly over my street. A portion of the main thruway has mile after mile of stranded motorists who have been there since 9pm last night. No word on when it will be cleared. Expecting another 8 inches by tonight.
It’s going to be a hunker down day. SO glad that I have a home office !
Toddling off for peach tea and warm apple bread. Yummmmmm
I’ve been wondering about you all day, neighbor! Hope you’re safe and warm and surrounded by purring little kittehs!
We only got about 2 inches of the wettest, heaviest snow I’ve ever seen. We had rain for a day and the snow on top of that so we were extremely lucky that it didn’t all freeze and make an ice rink of Rochester. We’re expecting flurries for the next several days but no major accumulation…yet. Although driving in this kind of weather can be a pain, I just love the crisp, bracing quality of the frosty air this time of year.
The one good thing about the snow and low temps is that it finally killed most of the lingering skunk aroma in my yard! Woo hoo!!!
Small world… I was watching ABC GMA this morning and they were doing the story about the publicist who was murdered, the person of interest was involved with police in a Bev Hills hotel and a man from AK and his son were witnesses to all of this. So I have an immediate thought– wonder if I “know” him? And in an ironic twist of fate, I do. It’s none other than Eddie Burke. You can’t make this stuff up.
I know! I was working at the desk this morning and looked up at the tv just in time to see Eddie Burke’s stupid face. I let out a ” G A H !!” . You’re right – ya can’t make this stuff up.
Now that is weird and here is why. The Harvey residential hotel is in one of the worst sections of East Hollywood around Santa Monica and Western. It is a flop house where you can rent an apartment for $675 a month. I’m not sure I’d even walk on the street during the day. What was Eddie doing in a place like that? This is all just too strange. There are some rather seedy hotels up around the tourist areas that show up on hotels.com and such but I don’t think The Harvey is even up to those low standards. Was Eddie staying there? or was he meeting someone to make a “purchase”? Bizarre
From reading the comments, it sounds like Palin is still doing what she does best – causing controversy and discord among everyone, democrats and repulbicans alike. What I don’t understand when people rush to her defense is why? Why do they support someone who only reacts, without any informed thought, and who offers no solutions? I just don’t get it. Unfortunately, until we figure that out, we are all going to be stuck with hearing about her.
We’re in the throes of our first frost here in NYC. Saturday, it’s tree decorating time in the Creative Little Garden, where I’m a proud working member (www.creativelittlegarden.org). I’m sure photos will be posted; our president is good about that. I have to search the closet for my cashmere swing coat (a perfect find from ebay). Back to work. Everyone, stay warm and cozy.
America’s Hitler?
“America’s Hitler won’t come to us (and soon enough, after many of us) sporting a mustache and military garb. Rather, she is likely to be wearing lipstick, a skirt, high heels, and, as Sinclair Lewis warned, will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. And she’ll be smiling and winking winsomely at us with a carefully orchestrated disingenuous folksiness that, truth be told, radiates more soft core p0rn than back porch neighborliness. Thus her greatest popularity with regressed straight white working class men who can only fantasize. This utterly male identified woman (“momma grizzlies” notwithstanding), this perversion of genuine feminism as in empowering women, could very well become America’s first fascist president.”
Sometimes it is so cold in Anchorage right after a heavy snowfall that the snow slides down the light poles in a spiral as if a ribbon ’round a candy-cane.
“Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in an interview today at his office in Abuja, the capital. An arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” the world’s biggest international police organization, he said.”
Well, I don’t miss the snow – we had enough snow and cold weather and icy streets the three days before Thanksgiving to last all year, as far as I’m concerned. But I do love the look of trees covered in white. It is indeed a moment of zen, especially when it’s a beautiful photo or when I can stay inside.
Waving at everyone from over here behind the giant snow banks . ALLO!!!
The snow band has stalled and will not budge. South Buffalo ( my part of town) has a driving ban. Every time I look out the window I see a small parade of neighbors trudging back from the grocery store. They are carrying groceries in one arm and beer or wine in the other. Cars are entirely buried. Even the plows are getting stuck. Snow hasn’t let up all day and is falling in my area an inch or more an hour. Expecting another 8 inches before it’s over. Funny thing is that only a short distance north they have clear pavement and green grass.
This was from this morning and we’ve recv’d at least another half a foot since then. We’re edging on 3 feet. Maybe not Alaska totals but we’re definitely living up to our Buffalo reputation.
Leenie – I just heard that Rochester is sending in tow trucks to help us out. Thanks!
oooh, it’s been decades, but I still remember those Buffalo snowstorms!
Also, too, when I lived in the Greater Cincinnati area back in the mid-70s the region got really hammered with snow one January (I-75 was shut down for a weekend from Cincinnati to Ann Arbor, Mich.) and I remember Buffalo and a couple of other Lake Erie cities sent their snowplows to help out.
That would be about January 25, 1977. Our son’s second birthday was on the 26th. We lived in Louisville, KY then. Got three feet plus of snow on the 25th and the city shut down. We’d gotten that boy a grime, and the little toy store was keeping it for us to pick up on his birthday. But, we had a state of emergency for three days, so no trike.
yep, that’s the storm! I was on my way to Ann Arbor that Friday. I ended up spending the weekend with about a dozen other travelers at the Ohio National Guard Armory in Lima, Ohio.
It turned out to be a great weekend…the Guard let us all pitch in and help according to our abilities. My sister and a couple of women and a couple of men took control of the kitchen, making meals and doing general KP duty. I’m an amateur radio operator and was put on the communications team, answering the phone and manning the radio (my first chance to be a dispatcher!). The truckers went out to the interstate with the Guard to check the abandoned semis & cargos.
By Sunday afternoon southbound I-75 was open so we headed back home, but not before the Guard arranged an informal ceremony where we were all presented ONG badges & pins making us honorary ONG members.
In the south, we always have the energy companies from other places send crews to help get the power back on after hurricanes. After Ike went through Houston, I know people were in love with those linesmen! I think it’s an amazing community spirit that these people leave their daily lives for weeks and even months to go help a city/town/community get power back so life can get back to some semblance of normalcy! Your comments about snow plows made me think of this. It actually became sort of a license plate game to see where they came from. Wonderful!
my husband is a power lineman and has often been away from home for weeks at a time helping to restore power.
he & he co-workers are always grateful for the patience and positive spirits of those without power and how people would be cooking up food on their grills and bring plates of hot food out to the workers.
Reminds we of where we last lived. However, that amount of snow wouldn’t have shut down the town or closed the schools, though we may have had a late start. We only closed schools if the heat was out (maybe) or if the winds were strong enough to blow over the school busses. Sometimes, school got out early so they could beat the weather.
I am always amazed at driving in the east. In California, you use chains. If you have to chain and unchain and chain again, so be it. Or you can have an all wheel drive and mud and snow tires. I’ve been watching the news and watching these people from Buffalo. Granted, we lived in a far smaller place, but the roads were steep, the lakes and hazards frequent, and we didn’t have these kinds of problems. We could easily get 10 feet of snow overnight. The plows didn’t get stuck. Spouse and I both kept emergency gear at work and in the car–warm clothing, emergency heating, those little heating things you put in your gloves and shoes, and food. Not that we’d love spending 17 hours in the car, but we could have done it without being cold and without being hungry.
We went to Detroit and we think they’re crazy–slippin’and slidin’ all over the place, running into lamp posts and parked cars. And all over a few inches of snow. We laughed when things shut down over 11 inches. Detroit didn’t know nuttin’ about driving in snow.
Of course, we hated it when people came from LA. They’d barrel towards the stop lights, slam on their brakes, and plow into the people in front of them. Then, they’d say, “I don’t understand. It’s all wheel drive.” Yep, we’d say. “All wheel DRIVE.” Cars have been all wheel brake for a looong time. You still have to brake sanely for the brakes to work.
These are the days I look forward to during the winter. When each strand has a unique wrap of frost, frozen atmosphere.
Thanx again, Muckracker. nem
There are days that the weather works just right to frost the Newfoundlands.
Haven’t had it yet, but they are beautiful.
Thanks for the moment of sanity before the next “episode”.
Beautiful picture! I can always count on the photos here to give a lovely start to the day, and this is no exception.
Thank you for sharing some of the best of Alaska
*right click*
saved in Moment of Zen folder
*deep breath and calm to the marrow*
and for today, forget latkes (potato pancakes)…I’m sharing virtual jelly donuts, Israeli-style. Try my favorite: apple filled, dusted with cinnamon-sugar.
Happy Chanukah…Hanukkah…Festival of Lights. Let your light shine.
L’Shalom.
Back at you, tcw – and I am adding applesauce to go with those doughnuts for dipping.
Maybe the dreaded “s” word here in the form of flurries. A week ago yesterday, the AC was on. A week ago today, it snowed. I am not at all amused.
The picture is so pretty, AKM! We don’t get pretty frosts like that, although the ice storms we have are beautiful if they are just little storms.
Mmmmm. Latkes. Maybe I’ll make some for dinner. But I’m taking one of those jelly donuts, thank you very much!
Yes, all our light shine!
Thanks so much for the virtual jelly doughnut, thatcrowwoman. L’Shalom right back atcha! When I got together with my sisters for a Chanukah lunch (was it last year or the year before? can’t recall), we went out for Asian food. It was Chanukah-appropriate, because the skinny lavender eggplant was *swimming* in oil. Your light is shining all the way to the East Village, my ancestral shtetl (mom lived two blocks away when she was born).
“I’m sharing virtual jelly donuts”
Yummmm…thanks thatcrowwoman!
Happy and Festive Hanukkah to all the mudpups who celebrate. May your lights shine brightly for these eight days and all the rest of the year, too!
L’Shalom Crow. i ‘ll take a donut and thank you very much.
There is a new documentary film about the state of our country. You can watch it online. I’ve watched about half so far and it is well done.
http://www.deceptionsusa.com/index.html
Ahh….beautiful photo. I can almost hear how quiet it is.
Woke to 2 feet of snow. Band of lake effect snow rolled in last night and walloped us. I think it has stalled directly over my street. A portion of the main thruway has mile after mile of stranded motorists who have been there since 9pm last night. No word on when it will be cleared. Expecting another 8 inches by tonight.
It’s going to be a hunker down day. SO glad that I have a home office !
Toddling off for peach tea and warm apple bread. Yummmmmm
I’ve been wondering about you all day, neighbor! Hope you’re safe and warm and surrounded by purring little kittehs!
We only got about 2 inches of the wettest, heaviest snow I’ve ever seen. We had rain for a day and the snow on top of that so we were extremely lucky that it didn’t all freeze and make an ice rink of Rochester. We’re expecting flurries for the next several days but no major accumulation…yet. Although driving in this kind of weather can be a pain, I just love the crisp, bracing quality of the frosty air this time of year.
The one good thing about the snow and low temps is that it finally killed most of the lingering skunk aroma in my yard! Woo hoo!!!
Small world… I was watching ABC GMA this morning and they were doing the story about the publicist who was murdered, the person of interest was involved with police in a Bev Hills hotel and a man from AK and his son were witnesses to all of this. So I have an immediate thought– wonder if I “know” him? And in an ironic twist of fate, I do. It’s none other than Eddie Burke. You can’t make this stuff up.
I know! I was working at the desk this morning and looked up at the tv just in time to see Eddie Burke’s stupid face. I let out a ” G A H !!” . You’re right – ya can’t make this stuff up.
Now that is weird and here is why. The Harvey residential hotel is in one of the worst sections of East Hollywood around Santa Monica and Western. It is a flop house where you can rent an apartment for $675 a month. I’m not sure I’d even walk on the street during the day. What was Eddie doing in a place like that? This is all just too strange. There are some rather seedy hotels up around the tourist areas that show up on hotels.com and such but I don’t think The Harvey is even up to those low standards. Was Eddie staying there? or was he meeting someone to make a “purchase”? Bizarre
very interesting Fan. indeed. what was the low life doing in a low life hotel?
I read that but figured it was someone else with the same name.
Now the right wants to blame the left for Palin?
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/131593-sarah-palin-for-president
From reading the comments, it sounds like Palin is still doing what she does best – causing controversy and discord among everyone, democrats and repulbicans alike. What I don’t understand when people rush to her defense is why? Why do they support someone who only reacts, without any informed thought, and who offers no solutions? I just don’t get it. Unfortunately, until we figure that out, we are all going to be stuck with hearing about her.
Absolutely beautiful.
The 2018 World Cup games will be in Russia – Sarah can watch it from her front porch!
Maybe we can all chip in a buy her a ticket…one way. And in order to get good seats, she should leave soon. How ’bout tomorrow???
We’re in the throes of our first frost here in NYC. Saturday, it’s tree decorating time in the Creative Little Garden, where I’m a proud working member (www.creativelittlegarden.org). I’m sure photos will be posted; our president is good about that. I have to search the closet for my cashmere swing coat (a perfect find from ebay). Back to work. Everyone, stay warm and cozy.
Everyone, stay warm and cozy.
you too Zo
Uh Oh, Palin’s tea party pals requested billions in earmarks! Did they all take some kind of hypocritical oath?
Forgot the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/tea-party-caucus-took-1-b_n_790892.html
America’s Hitler?
“America’s Hitler won’t come to us (and soon enough, after many of us) sporting a mustache and military garb. Rather, she is likely to be wearing lipstick, a skirt, high heels, and, as Sinclair Lewis warned, will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. And she’ll be smiling and winking winsomely at us with a carefully orchestrated disingenuous folksiness that, truth be told, radiates more soft core p0rn than back porch neighborliness. Thus her greatest popularity with regressed straight white working class men who can only fantasize. This utterly male identified woman (“momma grizzlies” notwithstanding), this perversion of genuine feminism as in empowering women, could very well become America’s first fascist president.”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/01-8
That is also what the Antichrist is supposed to look like and doesn’t someone the tweets know nothing tweets looks like?????
I adore hoarfrost.
Sometimes it is so cold in Anchorage right after a heavy snowfall that the snow slides down the light poles in a spiral as if a ribbon ’round a candy-cane.
Your words paint a beautiful image! I have seen that phenomenon and your description brought back the beauty and absolute cold I felt when I saw it.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/equality_time_to_repeal_dont_ask_dont_tell
“Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Mark Begich should support repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.”
If you support ending this discriminatory policy, please call Lisa’s office 202-224-6665
“Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said.
Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said in an interview today at his office in Abuja, the capital. An arrest warrant for Cheney “will be issued and transmitted through Interpol,” the world’s biggest international police organization, he said.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-01/nigeria-to-charge-dick-cheney-in-pipeline-bribery-case.html
YES! Can you just imagine him in a Nigerian jail??? He’ll be begging to get prosecuted here.
About time and they should take his daughter with him,To bad they couldn’t sneak in and take Rove also.
beautiful!!!
I’m so envious! I miss the snow. It won’t snow here until he!! freezes over, or until Ms. Palin’s baked Alaska!
Well, I don’t miss the snow – we had enough snow and cold weather and icy streets the three days before Thanksgiving to last all year, as far as I’m concerned. But I do love the look of trees covered in white. It is indeed a moment of zen, especially when it’s a beautiful photo or when I can stay inside.
Russia’s Pravda newspaper is blasting Sarah Palin as an unpatriotic traitor to the ideals of America
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/30-11-2010/115998-spankin_sarah-0/
It is obvious that Russia is seeing Palin (standing on her porch) and giving her the finger.
Waving at everyone from over here behind the giant snow banks . ALLO!!!
The snow band has stalled and will not budge. South Buffalo ( my part of town) has a driving ban. Every time I look out the window I see a small parade of neighbors trudging back from the grocery store. They are carrying groceries in one arm and beer or wine in the other. Cars are entirely buried. Even the plows are getting stuck. Snow hasn’t let up all day and is falling in my area an inch or more an hour. Expecting another 8 inches before it’s over. Funny thing is that only a short distance north they have clear pavement and green grass.
Here’s a photo of a street in my neighborhood:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/buffalonews-photo/1291301128_7976.jpg
This was from this morning and we’ve recv’d at least another half a foot since then. We’re edging on 3 feet. Maybe not Alaska totals but we’re definitely living up to our Buffalo reputation.
Leenie – I just heard that Rochester is sending in tow trucks to help us out. Thanks!
Cocktail hour will now commence !!
“I just heard that Rochester is sending in tow trucks to help us out. Thanks!”
Happy to help! Stay safe…
oooh, it’s been decades, but I still remember those Buffalo snowstorms!
Also, too, when I lived in the Greater Cincinnati area back in the mid-70s the region got really hammered with snow one January (I-75 was shut down for a weekend from Cincinnati to Ann Arbor, Mich.) and I remember Buffalo and a couple of other Lake Erie cities sent their snowplows to help out.
We really appreciated it!
That would be about January 25, 1977. Our son’s second birthday was on the 26th. We lived in Louisville, KY then. Got three feet plus of snow on the 25th and the city shut down. We’d gotten that boy a grime, and the little toy store was keeping it for us to pick up on his birthday. But, we had a state of emergency for three days, so no trike.
yep, that’s the storm! I was on my way to Ann Arbor that Friday. I ended up spending the weekend with about a dozen other travelers at the Ohio National Guard Armory in Lima, Ohio.
It turned out to be a great weekend…the Guard let us all pitch in and help according to our abilities. My sister and a couple of women and a couple of men took control of the kitchen, making meals and doing general KP duty. I’m an amateur radio operator and was put on the communications team, answering the phone and manning the radio (my first chance to be a dispatcher!). The truckers went out to the interstate with the Guard to check the abandoned semis & cargos.
By Sunday afternoon southbound I-75 was open so we headed back home, but not before the Guard arranged an informal ceremony where we were all presented ONG badges & pins making us honorary ONG members.
grime? Stupid smart phone. trike!
In the south, we always have the energy companies from other places send crews to help get the power back on after hurricanes. After Ike went through Houston, I know people were in love with those linesmen! I think it’s an amazing community spirit that these people leave their daily lives for weeks and even months to go help a city/town/community get power back so life can get back to some semblance of normalcy! Your comments about snow plows made me think of this. It actually became sort of a license plate game to see where they came from. Wonderful!
Stay safe and warm!
my husband is a power lineman and has often been away from home for weeks at a time helping to restore power.
he & he co-workers are always grateful for the patience and positive spirits of those without power and how people would be cooking up food on their grills and bring plates of hot food out to the workers.
Reminds we of where we last lived. However, that amount of snow wouldn’t have shut down the town or closed the schools, though we may have had a late start. We only closed schools if the heat was out (maybe) or if the winds were strong enough to blow over the school busses. Sometimes, school got out early so they could beat the weather.
I am always amazed at driving in the east. In California, you use chains. If you have to chain and unchain and chain again, so be it. Or you can have an all wheel drive and mud and snow tires. I’ve been watching the news and watching these people from Buffalo. Granted, we lived in a far smaller place, but the roads were steep, the lakes and hazards frequent, and we didn’t have these kinds of problems. We could easily get 10 feet of snow overnight. The plows didn’t get stuck. Spouse and I both kept emergency gear at work and in the car–warm clothing, emergency heating, those little heating things you put in your gloves and shoes, and food. Not that we’d love spending 17 hours in the car, but we could have done it without being cold and without being hungry.
We went to Detroit and we think they’re crazy–slippin’and slidin’ all over the place, running into lamp posts and parked cars. And all over a few inches of snow. We laughed when things shut down over 11 inches. Detroit didn’t know nuttin’ about driving in snow.
Of course, we hated it when people came from LA. They’d barrel towards the stop lights, slam on their brakes, and plow into the people in front of them. Then, they’d say, “I don’t understand. It’s all wheel drive.” Yep, we’d say. “All wheel DRIVE.” Cars have been all wheel brake for a looong time. You still have to brake sanely for the brakes to work.
When Obama was working on health care, people were curious about the Canadian system. Here is a good discussion of some of its complex problems.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/andre-picard/medical-tourism-is-here-to-stay-but-who-should-pay/article1821253/?cmpid=nl-news1
I have often wondered about the black market and the selling of organs.
Beautiful photo, just gorgeous!