Happy New Year to everyone every where! We are soon to sit down to a cheese fondue for our New Year’s Eve supper and the Weather Channel is promising us the likelihood of snow tomorrow through Monday! We are actually looking forward to it!
Happy New Year everyone! May we all become healthier, happier and come closer to fulfilling our potential and helping one another create a more civil, constructive and compassionate world. Starting in our homes, may our love stream outward and fill all the dark places, bringing light and hope to those who need it.
Most importantly, thank you all, AKM and each of her mudpups for giving me insights, information and laughter – but most of all, hope. You all are great! It has been an honor and a privilege to be part of this cyber community.
Yes,2011 stunk on the public front, in so many, many ways.
But the things which make everyday life rich were many and welcome
Lil grand guy learning to walk and laughing all the while,
Garden full of fresh yummy food
Gatherings for music
Time and conversation with people I love
Neighbors sharing labors and food and laughs
Alaska Pi… You have my gratitude for the reminder of Ms. Dickinson’s poem.
My wish for all is for good Health and the contentment which arises from Inner Peace.
All else follows…
I’m sitting here this morning thinking of the college friend who first introduced me to “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”.
She had more on her plate than most people could handle, so very much more than any of the rest of us .
In times of difficulty she would recite this poem like a mantra.
The wind is blowing here and it is snowing. I’m drinking hot tea and listening to my local NPR station playing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
I’m remembering all the times I heard Meggie coming down the hall , along the walk, through the quad, singing the Ode to Joy at the top of her lungs when something had gone well. Her passionate enjoyment of everyday life infected and enriched all of us who were friends and classmates. It still does.
Happy New Year to one and all !
2011 was an eye opener, wasn’t it ? A lot of people got rude awakenings as to what’s going in in their local and State Goverments, and are finally speaking up and DOING things about it . We’re outta Iraq, Osama is gone, and the Republicans have put on quite a circus for us to watch.. the debates, the near shutdowns of goverment and their latest – trying NOT to give a tax break to the middle class !! for all the angst caused by them, it’s finally turning around ! and the best of it all Scarah is a has-been !
on a personal front, the the year started out crappy with family events, but things got better thru the year, especially meeting Bear Woman, Alaska Pi, InJuneau and Firecracker..was the highlight of the year ! ( One of our group on the ship snapped a few pics that I’ve GOT to send to you !)
That’s a Happy Hogmanay to you Forty Watt and to ALL.
My favourite description of this Scottish tradition is: Hogmanay “is a time when people who can inspire awe in the Irish for the amount of alcohol that they drink decide to ramp it up a notch.”
AKM and the Mudpup Family has held the line and raised the beacon high for so many of us who are kindred spirits around the globe. In this all important year, may we “ramp it up a notch” and truly take responsibility – even more – for creating the world we envision. It’s a new day!
Well, I am one of those who no longer inspires awe in the Irish, as the hardest thing we drink in our family is tea. I shall ramp it up a notch by adding sugar and cream today.
One of the Clan Burns married to a Clan Innes
(There’s a reason they don’t blend tartans when you marry between clans. These two combined could make for some really ugly tartans!)
Canadian Country Girl, that did make me laugh. Mr. Forty Watt and I were born and raised in Fife and came to the US as adults, but neither of us ever heard that definition of Hogmanay. It will be repeated!
We have Stuarts (rather than Stewarts) all starting with great-great aunt Agnes who was a poet – Agnes Stuart Mabon. She was the only one with the sir name before she married, but it seems to have made a large impression because just about every last blessed soul in my family (except the Forty Watts) has Stuart as a middle name. I can only conclude it’s a very good thing to be.
Dearest AKM, admins, mods, mudpuppies, and hushpuppies: Cael flwyddyn newydd wych! May 2012 bring you and yours health, peace, prosperity, longevity, and joy. OCCUPY NEW YEAR!
There were certainly many challenges in 2011 – personally, nationally and globally.
Perhaps my anticipation comes from a spirit weary of conflict and strife, or perhaps just from a hope that the new year will dawn brighter for all of us. Whatever the inspiration, I am convinced that 2012 will bring many wonderful surprises, relief to those who are struggling, joy to those who have been burdened by sorrow, and new opportunities for those who are ready to spread their wings.
I wish all who visit here – AKM, the Mudflats team, mudpups and hushpups – a new year filled with happiness, health, family, friends, and a more peaceful, safer world that embraces all who reside here.
All such milestones (so called) often give me pause, make me wonder, why we have such a penchant for counting time. By and large I think it is because ultimately we all come to sense that it is limited. We also come to realize that its perception is relative. Not in the scientific sense, but purely in terms of the fact that the older you get, the more quickly it seems to pass. It might be wise to educate youth more with respect to the value of time, not in the form of trite truisms, but in terms of the evident merit of it seeming, to the young, to dawdle and drag. Soon enough you might wish it could continue so.
huge hugs and many big ole sloppy kisses from me and mine to you and yours.
may all that is fine and all that is good be yours this year and all the years to come.
don’t let us count only the losses but let us also count the gain of strengh in the face of adversary,
of love in the face of indifference and hate:and of life in the presence of death.
may mercy and hope be yours now and forever more.
“U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska: (Personal) More time with family and catching up on house chores. (Policy) Drilling in the Arctic.
Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan: My 2012 New Year’s resolutions are to work hard every day to make the city a better place to live work and play, and to start working out more regularly until I get a one pack. A six pack is too ambitious.”
I still love where I live – just need to kick some butt(s out).
What a year it has been and I feel hopeful that next year will get better!
I did raise a toast also to our Dear departed Mudpup Michael, & his furbabies Alice, Gertrude & Mooshie, just for auld lang syne. RIP Michael, your kitties are happy and safe and living together!
Happy New Year everyone! Reading through all the posts has already made me feel more hopeful about the 2012. For our family, we had some very sad times and some very happy times and challenges we never expected. But one of the best things to come out of the challenges our little grandson faces was that my youngest daughter and I have started singing together again. She had the idea to make a CD for him and we did it together. It turned out to be a lovely gift for him and a lovely gift for the two of us as well. Even though it took up a lot of time in December when I needed to be doing other things, all that singing of quiet children’s songs was a lovely way to end the year.
AKM, and all, thank you for keeping all of us sane as we enter another year of intense politics. It’s not so much that I find comfort in knowing I’m not the only one out there who thinks like I do, but that whatever is going on is discussed rationally and always with a sense of humor.
2011 kicked my @$$, but I kicked back, stomping
and splashing through the puddles and muck
in my virtual yellow wellies.
Knock me down, I got back up again, 2011.
*STOMP*
**SPLASH!**
You’re done, 2011, and I’m still here, stronger for the challenges.
Leaner, if not meaner, also, too,
since I dropped 30 pounds of flab on you there, 2011. Take that!
Good riddance, you betcha.
Whew.
*taking a moment to sweep, er, to mop, er, to tidy up after 2011*
2012. *looking all around*
It’s got possibilities. What shall we make of it?
“… more love, directed energy, optimism, good work, health, and happiness…”
Thank you, AKM.
and all of you here @ themudflats
for caring, for creating, for sharing.
You occupy a special place in my heart.
Happy New Year one and all! Today is Christmas again. I will have my Christmas with my kids today. Grandbaby Hannah will get her quilt. This is one happy grandma.
AKM and everyone behind the scenes, thank you so much for creating such a wonderful place to hang out. May we all have a wondrous new year.
2012 will be a wondrous year,thanks to AKM and the good people at Mudflats,all the friends that post on here and a large thank you goes out to all the animals who have endorsed a political candidate. Who knew chickens were so smart? The only other critter that comes close to an endorsement is a snake with emphysema. It might be construed as a vote for what’s-her-name except the sharp inhalation for the next breath isn’t exactly a rah,it is more a gasp for breath. SSSSSS>>>>UUUUHHHHH. Which brings us back to lowly laying hens who contentedly spend their days clucking-”barack,barack”. Convincing evidence that Ma Nature truly knows best. The rest of us need to keep up our guards against complacency especially because the Rethugs and Tea-Baggers have absolutely not a single credible candidate for any office.Party on,but remain vigilant.
Am I remembering correctly, Mike? Is your hip surgery this month? If so, know we will be rooting for you. May your recovery be swift and strong. Can’t keep a good Mike down for long, right? Many blessings to you, Mike. You are a great mudpup whose comments are a joy to read. Take care of yourself.
Happy and Healthy New Year, Mudpups! I look forward to my visit to Petersburg, Kodiak, Homer, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau at the end of this month!
There’s no top of the tram beer at this time of year! The winter winds (Taku winds) are fierce – 15 plus miles of ice fields & Canada was to your east, benlomond2, while you were enjoying the view of the water ways.
Maybe you could start an AK Travel in January thread in the forum?
whoa, that’s a bummer !! no tram until Spring ? and it’s DEFINITELY way too steep to go climb up it for the avg person…chuckle.. and I AM a “water person” ..liquid form, if you please ! I lile ice, but only in my drink or beer cooler !
Happy New Year, everyone. I certainly hope this year brings us all good fortune and health.
One of these years, I’m hoping to be able to look back on the past year with gratitude for all its blessings, but I suppose that’s a little speculative. It seems we tend to recall the trials and tribulations as we kick off the new and toss out the old. But, if we really think about it, we can all surely come up with something that worked out for us, or a person who was especially kind to us, or maybe a blog that made us feel welcome and important to others
Thanks for the good times, 2011, but get the hell out!
Well, the first morning of 2012 is officially here and – so far , so good. I took a peek outside and there’s no sign of the rapture being underway and not a zombie, alien craft or giant killer asteroid in sight. We’re off to a good start. ( of course, it’s still early )
Off to have the first cup of coffee of 2012. And then the first grilled cheese of 2012. ( yeah … I’ll do that all day )
When a post is made and an error message comes up [something along the lines of: "error, no name or email -- will not publish without"] does that message get parked somewhere where it can be retrieved? I just wrote a post and hit “submit”, but forgot that my computer had been shut down ‘abnormally’ …my always-present name and email address for posting here had been wiped clean in the shut down. Do I have to rewrite the thing or is there a kind mod-type soul who can pluck it out of the ‘garbage’ bin? Any idea? beth.
Woo hoo! I finally got the last of the fall chores done and the garage is cleaned out enough to fit the car. I dodged a bullet with the lack of snow so far this season but this IS Rochester and it’s coming sooner or later.
There are moments in our lives, when life comes clearly in to focus. In 2011 I helped paint a school in Thailand, smashed a canal boat in to the locks in Stratford-upon-Avon, watched my young acting students try so hard. I held my beautiful wife and let go of some dear friends. I sat with a very wise monk in a golden temple in Bangkok who gave me a simple answer: “look around as you walk through this village, everyone is happy, yet they have very little. You in the west have almost everything, but you are not happy?” Slainte’ to all.
wow! Russellsq you are one amazing Pup..Slainte’ to you as well.
i am so glad to hear your voice again.. it is people like you and like many Mudfatters who make Mudflats what it is. i wish you could tell about your adventures and the things you have learned along the way. when i hear your voices it gives me hope and happiness. your stories and your willingness to share your knowledge is what keeps me going. keeps my mind and body healthy and balanced. thank you for all you do.
Even thought it is New Year’s day—the Reps are still calling, and calling and calling!!!!!!
I pray that Tuesday hurry’s up and get this damm thing over.
The interviews with voters on WHO tonight—-they still can’t decide who they will vote for.
I would like to tell them, to do theirselves a favor—-STAY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Won’t you love the telephone silence once the Tues. caucuses are over! Last week I got a phone call from someone (?) asking if I would support DeMint. Now I live in Michigan and I assured the caller that never in my life would I support DeMint or any other Republican. I have no idea how the call came to me? I think that 2012 is going to be a c-r-a-z-y year. I only hope it ends well – with President Obama re-elected and with a genuine Democratic Congress, both Houses.
You got that right!!!!!!!! Maybe tomorrow will bring some to back out. This might cut down the telephone calls ——maybe.
I wonder just how many millions and millions of dollars are spent on these TV Ads.
And they are the CHRISTIAN conservatives????? DUH!!!!!!
2011 was not one of my best years, but I hesitate to dismiss it, since there were so many good parts that more than made up for the bad. I was heart broken and incredibly angry when my Representative, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot almost a year ago, yet the local and national outwelling of love and support showed me what human kindness can do. Last spring, my house was robbed, and my computer and treasured collection of old Native American jewelry were stolen. But friends chipped in to buy me a new coputer, and lots of old friends raided their jewelry boxes to send me starters for my new collection. I think I have learned that for every negative occurance, there are three or four positive occurances. For Palin’s crosshairs, there was Obama’s incredible speech in Tucson, and a fund-raising concert for a foundation set up to assist the Tucson community, at which Jackson Brown and David Crosby played, and at which Alice Cooper served as a low-key, affable master of ceremonies. For my smashed-in window and empty jewelry box, there were neighbors who came immediately to put in a new window, and packages in the mail within days. I can’t let go of that kind of kindness.
May we all learn to keep our hearts wide open in 2012, to give kindness and grace whenever we can, and to welcome it right back!
Why do you and others that post here insist on making my eyes well up.? I’m either laughing till I puke or sniffling back tears because someone,somehow has touched a raw nerve,accidently of course. For whatever reason(s),keep ‘em coming,all of you,my friends.
May I be the first to wish all the mud pups a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year!
Happy New Year to all you Mud Pups. Your comments are the best. And AKM, your writing is the best! Love, Hushpups from all over.
And may I be the second.
Happy New Year to everyone every where! We are soon to sit down to a cheese fondue for our New Year’s Eve supper and the Weather Channel is promising us the likelihood of snow tomorrow through Monday! We are actually looking forward to it!
Happy New Year, AKM and Mudpups everywhere! Wishing you all a peaceful and palin-free 2012!!
Happy New Year everyone! May we all become healthier, happier and come closer to fulfilling our potential and helping one another create a more civil, constructive and compassionate world. Starting in our homes, may our love stream outward and fill all the dark places, bringing light and hope to those who need it.
Blessings be, in your hearts and lives.
Most importantly, thank you all, AKM and each of her mudpups for giving me insights, information and laughter – but most of all, hope. You all are great! It has been an honor and a privilege to be part of this cyber community.
Here is to a healthy and happy 2012!!
Thanks all for being the ones to help shine a little light into the dark corners of my overly taxed brain!!
Special thoughts and hugs going to all who are fighting the job or health issues…hoping 2012 will be especially kind to all of you!
Happy 2012, Mudpups! May the New Year bring us the re-election of Obama, and the de-election of all thos RWNJ’s in Congress!
Yes,2011 stunk on the public front, in so many, many ways.
But the things which make everyday life rich were many and welcome
Lil grand guy learning to walk and laughing all the while,
Garden full of fresh yummy food
Gatherings for music
Time and conversation with people I love
Neighbors sharing labors and food and laughs
I have hope for 2012
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/827/
Best wishes to you all!
Alaska Pi… You have my gratitude for the reminder of Ms. Dickinson’s poem.
My wish for all is for good Health and the contentment which arises from Inner Peace.
All else follows…
I’m sitting here this morning thinking of the college friend who first introduced me to “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”.
She had more on her plate than most people could handle, so very much more than any of the rest of us .
In times of difficulty she would recite this poem like a mantra.
The wind is blowing here and it is snowing. I’m drinking hot tea and listening to my local NPR station playing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
I’m remembering all the times I heard Meggie coming down the hall , along the walk, through the quad, singing the Ode to Joy at the top of her lungs when something had gone well. Her passionate enjoyment of everyday life infected and enriched all of us who were friends and classmates. It still does.
Hope and Joy to all!
Wishing everyone at the Mudflats, and their families, a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012!
Wishing for America and the world 4 more years of President Barack Obama & VP Joe Biden!
Happy New Year to one and all !
2011 was an eye opener, wasn’t it ? A lot of people got rude awakenings as to what’s going in in their local and State Goverments, and are finally speaking up and DOING things about it . We’re outta Iraq, Osama is gone, and the Republicans have put on quite a circus for us to watch.. the debates, the near shutdowns of goverment and their latest – trying NOT to give a tax break to the middle class !! for all the angst caused by them, it’s finally turning around ! and the best of it all Scarah is a has-been !
on a personal front, the the year started out crappy with family events, but things got better thru the year, especially meeting Bear Woman, Alaska Pi, InJuneau and Firecracker..was the highlight of the year ! ( One of our group on the ship snapped a few pics that I’ve GOT to send to you !)
2012 WILL be better – for ALL of us !
Happy Hogmanay * and a good New Year to one and all.
* if explanation is required: http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow12.htm
A guid New Year to ane an’ a’!
That’s a Happy Hogmanay to you Forty Watt and to ALL.
My favourite description of this Scottish tradition is: Hogmanay “is a time when people who can inspire awe in the Irish for the amount of alcohol that they drink decide to ramp it up a notch.”
AKM and the Mudpup Family has held the line and raised the beacon high for so many of us who are kindred spirits around the globe. In this all important year, may we “ramp it up a notch” and truly take responsibility – even more – for creating the world we envision. It’s a new day!
Wishing you all a Happy and Creative 2012!
One of the Clan Stewart.
Well, I am one of those who no longer inspires awe in the Irish, as the hardest thing we drink in our family is tea. I shall ramp it up a notch by adding sugar and cream today.
One of the Clan Burns married to a Clan Innes
(There’s a reason they don’t blend tartans when you marry between clans. These two combined could make for some really ugly tartans!)
Canadian Country Girl, that did make me laugh. Mr. Forty Watt and I were born and raised in Fife and came to the US as adults, but neither of us ever heard that definition of Hogmanay. It will be repeated!
We have Stuarts (rather than Stewarts) all starting with great-great aunt Agnes who was a poet – Agnes Stuart Mabon. She was the only one with the sir name before she married, but it seems to have made a large impression because just about every last blessed soul in my family (except the Forty Watts) has Stuart as a middle name. I can only conclude it’s a very good thing to be.
Happy New Year!
May you be a shining light of hope to the hopeless
A comfort to the comfortless
A peacemaker to the peaceless
A friend of the friendless
And may there always to someone to do the same for you.
May your new year be a blessing on you and all around you.
And may your dozens always be Baker’s
Dearest AKM, admins, mods, mudpuppies, and hushpuppies: Cael flwyddyn newydd wych! May 2012 bring you and yours health, peace, prosperity, longevity, and joy. OCCUPY NEW YEAR!
Wishing everyone peace of mind, and a healthy and prosperous 2012!
There were certainly many challenges in 2011 – personally, nationally and globally.
Perhaps my anticipation comes from a spirit weary of conflict and strife, or perhaps just from a hope that the new year will dawn brighter for all of us. Whatever the inspiration, I am convinced that 2012 will bring many wonderful surprises, relief to those who are struggling, joy to those who have been burdened by sorrow, and new opportunities for those who are ready to spread their wings.
I wish all who visit here – AKM, the Mudflats team, mudpups and hushpups – a new year filled with happiness, health, family, friends, and a more peaceful, safer world that embraces all who reside here.
Wishing all of you the best New Year ever! After the last two years I’m really needing something better & so are many of you.
All such milestones (so called) often give me pause, make me wonder, why we have such a penchant for counting time. By and large I think it is because ultimately we all come to sense that it is limited. We also come to realize that its perception is relative. Not in the scientific sense, but purely in terms of the fact that the older you get, the more quickly it seems to pass. It might be wise to educate youth more with respect to the value of time, not in the form of trite truisms, but in terms of the evident merit of it seeming, to the young, to dawdle and drag. Soon enough you might wish it could continue so.
Consider all yourselves kissed. *mwah* Happy New Year!
And consider *your*self kissed, the problem child. Mwah-hah-ha!!
huge hugs and many big ole sloppy kisses from me and mine to you and yours.
may all that is fine and all that is good be yours this year and all the years to come.
don’t let us count only the losses but let us also count the gain of strengh in the face of adversary,
of love in the face of indifference and hate:and of life in the presence of death.
may mercy and hope be yours now and forever more.
Awesome!
Happy New Year.
Here’s to watching these resolutions fizzle away:
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/new-years-2012-resolutions-few-alaskans
“U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska: (Personal) More time with family and catching up on house chores. (Policy) Drilling in the Arctic.
Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan: My 2012 New Year’s resolutions are to work hard every day to make the city a better place to live work and play, and to start working out more regularly until I get a one pack. A six pack is too ambitious.”
I still love where I live – just need to kick some butt(s out).
Happy New Years Everybody!
What a year it has been and I feel hopeful that next year will get better!
I did raise a toast also to our Dear departed Mudpup Michael, & his furbabies Alice, Gertrude & Mooshie, just for auld lang syne. RIP Michael, your kitties are happy and safe and living together!
Amen to that.
thank you for that Kath. i did too. i think of him often and i remember him fondly. he was a dear sweet Pup.
i also want to send my love to Great Granny 2C. thinking about you Sweetheart.
Happy New Year everyone! Reading through all the posts has already made me feel more hopeful about the 2012. For our family, we had some very sad times and some very happy times and challenges we never expected. But one of the best things to come out of the challenges our little grandson faces was that my youngest daughter and I have started singing together again. She had the idea to make a CD for him and we did it together. It turned out to be a lovely gift for him and a lovely gift for the two of us as well. Even though it took up a lot of time in December when I needed to be doing other things, all that singing of quiet children’s songs was a lovely way to end the year.
AKM, and all, thank you for keeping all of us sane as we enter another year of intense politics. It’s not so much that I find comfort in knowing I’m not the only one out there who thinks like I do, but that whatever is going on is discussed rationally and always with a sense of humor.
Happy New Year to everyone. Celebrate, have some fun and get some rest. We have a lot to get done before November.
Happy new year and here is hoping that each one of you find a new way to build up and help another person this coming year.
Should have said “each one of us”
2011 kicked my @$$, but I kicked back, stomping
and splashing through the puddles and muck
in my virtual yellow wellies.
Knock me down, I got back up again, 2011.
*STOMP*
**SPLASH!**
You’re done, 2011, and I’m still here, stronger for the challenges.
Leaner, if not meaner, also, too,
since I dropped 30 pounds of flab on you there, 2011. Take that!
Good riddance, you betcha.
Whew.
*taking a moment to sweep, er, to mop, er, to tidy up after 2011*
2012. *looking all around*
It’s got possibilities. What shall we make of it?
“… more love, directed energy, optimism, good work, health, and happiness…”
Thank you, AKM.
and all of you here @ themudflats
for caring, for creating, for sharing.
You occupy a special place in my heart.
L’Shalom,
thatcrowwoman
hugs Crow. love ya!
The first 8 hours of 2012 have been awesome.
Happy New Year one and all! Today is Christmas again. I will have my Christmas with my kids today. Grandbaby Hannah will get her quilt. This is one happy grandma.
AKM and everyone behind the scenes, thank you so much for creating such a wonderful place to hang out. May we all have a wondrous new year.
What a great way to start the new year!
2012 will be a wondrous year,thanks to AKM and the good people at Mudflats,all the friends that post on here and a large thank you goes out to all the animals who have endorsed a political candidate. Who knew chickens were so smart? The only other critter that comes close to an endorsement is a snake with emphysema. It might be construed as a vote for what’s-her-name except the sharp inhalation for the next breath isn’t exactly a rah,it is more a gasp for breath. SSSSSS>>>>UUUUHHHHH. Which brings us back to lowly laying hens who contentedly spend their days clucking-”barack,barack”. Convincing evidence that Ma Nature truly knows best. The rest of us need to keep up our guards against complacency especially because the Rethugs and Tea-Baggers have absolutely not a single credible candidate for any office.Party on,but remain vigilant.
Am I remembering correctly, Mike? Is your hip surgery this month? If so, know we will be rooting for you. May your recovery be swift and strong. Can’t keep a good Mike down for long, right? Many blessings to you, Mike. You are a great mudpup whose comments are a joy to read. Take care of yourself.
January 11th,if my white blood count is normal by then. It is elevated now and I’m taking anti-biotics. Thanks for asking.
Happy and Healthy New Year, Mudpups! I look forward to my visit to Petersburg, Kodiak, Homer, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau at the end of this month!
you’re gonna LOVE Juneau !!! Have a Beer at the top of the tram , the view is just AWESOME !
Thanks, Ben! I’ll make sure I do!
There’s no top of the tram beer at this time of year! The winter winds (Taku winds) are fierce – 15 plus miles of ice fields & Canada was to your east, benlomond2, while you were enjoying the view of the water ways.
Maybe you could start an AK Travel in January thread in the forum?
whoa, that’s a bummer !! no tram until Spring ? and it’s DEFINITELY way too steep to go climb up it for the avg person…chuckle.. and I AM a “water person” ..liquid form, if you please !
I lile ice, but only in my drink or beer cooler !
Happy New Year, everyone. I certainly hope this year brings us all good fortune and health.
One of these years, I’m hoping to be able to look back on the past year with gratitude for all its blessings, but I suppose that’s a little speculative. It seems we tend to recall the trials and tribulations as we kick off the new and toss out the old. But, if we really think about it, we can all surely come up with something that worked out for us, or a person who was especially kind to us, or maybe a blog that made us feel welcome and important to others
Thanks for the good times, 2011, but get the hell out!
Well, the first morning of 2012 is officially here and – so far , so good. I took a peek outside and there’s no sign of the rapture being underway and not a zombie, alien craft or giant killer asteroid in sight. We’re off to a good start. ( of course, it’s still early )
Off to have the first cup of coffee of 2012. And then the first grilled cheese of 2012. ( yeah … I’ll do that all day )
Happy New Year to all !! ONWARD !
When a post is made and an error message comes up [something along the lines of: "error, no name or email -- will not publish without"] does that message get parked somewhere where it can be retrieved? I just wrote a post and hit “submit”, but forgot that my computer had been shut down ‘abnormally’ …my always-present name and email address for posting here had been wiped clean in the shut down. Do I have to rewrite the thing or is there a kind mod-type soul who can pluck it out of the ‘garbage’ bin? Any idea? beth.
Woo hoo! I finally got the last of the fall chores done and the garage is cleaned out enough to fit the car. I dodged a bullet with the lack of snow so far this season but this IS Rochester and it’s coming sooner or later.
I’m ready for 2012 and I’m ready for snow!
A simple wish for a Happy New Year to everyone here at Mudflats and across the country.
There are moments in our lives, when life comes clearly in to focus. In 2011 I helped paint a school in Thailand, smashed a canal boat in to the locks in Stratford-upon-Avon, watched my young acting students try so hard. I held my beautiful wife and let go of some dear friends. I sat with a very wise monk in a golden temple in Bangkok who gave me a simple answer: “look around as you walk through this village, everyone is happy, yet they have very little. You in the west have almost everything, but you are not happy?” Slainte’ to all.
(((russellsq))
(((Irishgirl))) Russell and I will be in Ireland in July. Meet up for a Jamisons?
wow! Russellsq you are one amazing Pup..Slainte’ to you as well.
i am so glad to hear your voice again.. it is people like you and like many Mudfatters who make Mudflats what it is. i wish you could tell about your adventures and the things you have learned along the way. when i hear your voices it gives me hope and happiness. your stories and your willingness to share your knowledge is what keeps me going. keeps my mind and body healthy and balanced. thank you for all you do.
Best wishes to all! May you have what you need. And if you have more than you need, share generously.
2012 may be a fantastic year; it’s impossible to tell on day one. However, we can look back at the year that just passed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/31/opinion/the-damage-from-republicans-of-2011.html?src=ISMR_AP_LI_LST_FB
What are we going to do about this?
Happy New Year to all pups! We spent the day looking at the Gulf. Tomorrow is our drive home. Ah.
Here’s to making fresh tracks in the flats in 2012. Happy New Year to all the mudpups.
Even thought it is New Year’s day—the Reps are still calling, and calling and calling!!!!!!
I pray that Tuesday hurry’s up and get this damm thing over.
The interviews with voters on WHO tonight—-they still can’t decide who they will vote for.
I would like to tell them, to do theirselves a favor—-STAY HOME!!!!!!!!!!!
amen! i just cannot abide teh stooooopid any longer. really i just cannot.
Won’t you love the telephone silence once the Tues. caucuses are over! Last week I got a phone call from someone (?) asking if I would support DeMint. Now I live in Michigan and I assured the caller that never in my life would I support DeMint or any other Republican. I have no idea how the call came to me? I think that 2012 is going to be a c-r-a-z-y year. I only hope it ends well – with President Obama re-elected and with a genuine Democratic Congress, both Houses.
You got that right!!!!!!!! Maybe tomorrow will bring some to back out. This might cut down the telephone calls ——maybe.
I wonder just how many millions and millions of dollars are spent on these TV Ads.
And they are the CHRISTIAN conservatives????? DUH!!!!!!
Just only what’s-her-name with the god complex.
2011 was not one of my best years, but I hesitate to dismiss it, since there were so many good parts that more than made up for the bad. I was heart broken and incredibly angry when my Representative, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot almost a year ago, yet the local and national outwelling of love and support showed me what human kindness can do. Last spring, my house was robbed, and my computer and treasured collection of old Native American jewelry were stolen. But friends chipped in to buy me a new coputer, and lots of old friends raided their jewelry boxes to send me starters for my new collection. I think I have learned that for every negative occurance, there are three or four positive occurances. For Palin’s crosshairs, there was Obama’s incredible speech in Tucson, and a fund-raising concert for a foundation set up to assist the Tucson community, at which Jackson Brown and David Crosby played, and at which Alice Cooper served as a low-key, affable master of ceremonies. For my smashed-in window and empty jewelry box, there were neighbors who came immediately to put in a new window, and packages in the mail within days. I can’t let go of that kind of kindness.
May we all learn to keep our hearts wide open in 2012, to give kindness and grace whenever we can, and to welcome it right back!
amen Mags.
Nice.
Why do you and others that post here insist on making my eyes well up.? I’m either laughing till I puke or sniffling back tears because someone,somehow has touched a raw nerve,accidently of course. For whatever reason(s),keep ‘em coming,all of you,my friends.