Temotu may actually be Tuamotu, which is the archipelego (island group) where Tahiti is located?
I've been through there aboard ship, but we didn't stop.
Per Wikipedia, there are three Temotu's - Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Solomon Islands.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Good afternoon and peace be with you. all 52 and sunny in Carolina this afternoon.
Big news locally is a double shooting with one dead. The west side of town is shut down while the hounds do their job.
For the nth time, a local teacher or school official has been gigged for having an affair with a student. I can hardly turn the news on without hearing of one, twice this weekend. What are these people thinking?
I have been putting in some time on the wireless for a change and having an interesting time. Recent contacts include Temotu and Ogasawara. Who can identify these places and find them on a map?
Everyone take care and have a great day.
Tom
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A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
good morning
juice and coffee are ready.breakfast is ready.time for a nap.The y101 has new power for ND&W in the yard.2 NS high hoods.Sunshine today as well.Radio DJ is praying the Irish get lucky tonight.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Good Evening
Nice and peaceful out here tonight...but pretty busy earlier...had 30 people in this house this afternoon...made for an interesting afternoon here...
Have a great evening y'all!!
Mookie....Spring is going around here...mmmmm?....aaahh?
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
blownout cylinderWhere we are back to the dull skies and ccold again ...high of 27F and low tonight of 19F...oh...and ice fog....yay...
It is cold, no doubt. But after all this is the dead of winter when we have to expect cold. I live in north Jersey. I remember not all that many years ago walking to my morning train. My path paralleled (but was a few feet away from) the track. It was in the high teens with fires lit under the switches to keep them from freezing and I felt like stopping to warm my hands despite my heavy mittens. I slogged along in the path that was worn in the snow, my feet freezing in my boots. My timing was good; just as I was buying a cup of coffee I could see the train headlight and a few minutes more I was in my seat smelling wet wool and drinking it. The morning paper said continuing cold.
But that was then. This is now. So far there has been almost no days below freezing. Today the temperature was in the mid 30's. Where I live global warming has arrived. It's a lot less uncomfortable but it isn't really good.
Ms Mook - with the goldfinches having gone to their winter wardrobe, sometimes it's hard to tell what's stuck inside the feeder. It's not like they stick around for a chat when I get them out.
Lately the trick for getting them out has been to dump more seed into the top-loading feeder. The whole "roof" hinges up. Once I get enough seed in, they're close enough to the top to make their way out.
I have to refill the danged thing anyhow. The little monsters go through a couple of gallons of seed a day if I let them. The worst are the Jays, who seem to be either awfully fussy, or exceedingly considerate, as they sweep food out of the feeder and onto the ground. I figure they're just looking for exactly the right seeds to stuff into their gullets.
At least the seed on the ground attracts an audience. Thejuncos, mourning doves and cardinals are usually ground feeders, along with most of the "dicky" birds. And the occasional squirrel or three.
Musings -
General: We have wall-to-wall sunshine and really slick spots in the shade. 33 right now.
Tree: I worked with birds for a few years. When sparrows were being made, they heard brains, thought they said trains and said they would take one later (old saw, but true) But their mental deficiencies make them fun to handle. If you were bonded with them a little, you could open your mouth and they would mimic you. Great way to get food down them.
Adrian: I go to my basement and all I get is dirty laundry.
Moo....
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
adrianspeeder locomutt Keep up the good work! [shouldn't there only be 2 rails instead of 3?.........2 rail "O"Scaler for almost 40 years] Two rails? Way too fancy for me... Adrianspeeder
locomutt Keep up the good work! [shouldn't there only be 2 rails instead of 3?.........2 rail "O"Scaler for almost 40 years]
Keep up the good work!
[shouldn't there only be 2 rails instead of 3?.........2 rail "O"Scaler for almost 40 years]
Two rails? Way too fancy for me...
Adrianspeeder
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Good Morning All:
A beautiful Sunday morning here in Almao City. Currently clear and 50 degrees.
Headed back to Shreveport today. I'll be listening to the football game on the car radio.
Enjoy your Sunday!
tree68 Modelcar Wow....so much difference in our morning here from Larry's NY site...Sky is totally blue, clear and plenty of sunshine. Quentin - While many areas experience lake effect snows (officially "lake enhanced"), what we get off the east end of Lake Ontario tends to be extremely focused and defined. I can have sunshine and blue skies here at the house, while 10-15 miles to the south they're experiencing whiteout conditions. Drive another 30 miles (it'll be slow going) and you're back into the sunshine again. Watch the weather radar for the area east of the lake - you'll see when those bands set up, and when they do in earnest, they'll be in for snow measured in feet, not inches.
Modelcar Wow....so much difference in our morning here from Larry's NY site...Sky is totally blue, clear and plenty of sunshine.
Wow....so much difference in our morning here from Larry's NY site...Sky is totally blue, clear and plenty of sunshine.
Quentin - While many areas experience lake effect snows (officially "lake enhanced"), what we get off the east end of Lake Ontario tends to be extremely focused and defined. I can have sunshine and blue skies here at the house, while 10-15 miles to the south they're experiencing whiteout conditions. Drive another 30 miles (it'll be slow going) and you're back into the sunshine again.
Watch the weather radar for the area east of the lake - you'll see when those bands set up, and when they do in earnest, they'll be in for snow measured in feet, not inches.
Understand Larry, the Lake effect certainly can be meaningful in effecting local weather conditions....And some times it can be far reaching. But not often here where I am. We're 175 mi. {roughly}, from the lakes, and don't see Lake effect snow here very often but it can happen. Have a niece in Meadville, Pa., south of the Erie area and they certainly know the effects of Lake {enhanced}, action on snow activity.
Quentin
I must have missed the "muffled thump" of an inch or three of snow arriving overnight. The scanner is quiet, though, so it apparently hasn't been a problem on the roads.
Gotta go rescue a sparrow from one of the bird feeders. The little duffers have apparently found a way into the feeder (it'll hold about 3 gallons of sunflower seed) but haven't figured out how to get back out. I'd love to be able to band one of them to see if it's the same bird every time...
Things to go, places to do...
Forecast has us in the possible snow showrers / flurries catigory this morning as well as last night, and we did get a half inch or so last evening, but some snow has melted overnight, and it's now 35 degrees. So maybe we've broken out of the deep freeze for a while, and we'll continue to see our snow melt away. The new week is to be somewhat warmer. Anyway, this morning we have dark overcast sky, but no rain or snow currently.
Glad of no snow overnight to make it slippery to go to church and then Sunday meal.
Good Morning
Snowing out here this morning..about 3" fell last night...some more expected...
Thanks for the breakfast Joe...
Have a neighbourhood potluck to get stuff ready for this afternoon...every couple of weeks one of the neighbours gets to host this event...this week is our turn...
Have a good day!!
breakfast is ready.juice and coffee are ready.time to clean off what mother nature gave us.Church and sunday school today.Back to work tonight.
joe
adrianspeeder YfNVrinUZyw Been playin' in the basement again... http://youtu.be/YfNVrinUZyw Adrianspeeder
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Been playin' in the basement again...
http://youtu.be/YfNVrinUZyw
morning
BC thanks for breakfast. work is done.enjoyed seeing the new power on the shortline yesterday.The mow crews have been busy.Won't be able to out walk the train anymore.Going to be a relaxing day today.Guessers say freezing drizzle overnight.(YUK)
And good morning to all here.
Where we are back to the dull skies and ccold again ...high of 27F and low tonight of 19F...oh...and ice fog....yay...
Today is a relaxing in the trainroom and cleaning it up day here...let me see how many things I'll find this time...
Got the breakfast cart up and running...lunch is being prepped as well
Have a good one!!
Good Evening...
Well, everything is ready for me to get those reports done...computer all put together and ready...4 boxes worth of surveys and account books at my disposal...et cetera....
Same up this way...sun all day while to the north of us..more dull gray clouds and snowflurries...depending on how the wind sets up across Lake Huron we could see sun or snow squalls...we saw a few of those set up a few days ago here...a couple of years ago London got buried under close to 6 feet of snow in a day ...
Quentin; sounds like a Zippity Doo Dah Day for you in your house. Stay warm if you go train watching.
Respectfully, Cannonball
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Wow....so much difference in our morning here from Larry's NY site...Sky is totally blue, clear and plenty of sunshine. Temps warming. 19 for low when I looked earlier this morning. To be in a slight warming trend line now.
Nasty, nasty, nasty this morning, although you wouldn't know it here at the house, where it's merely cold and blustery.
"Up on top of the hill," in areas where the roads border large fields, the winds are running at 25 MPH with gusts to 40 MPH (actual measurements), causing drifting and poor visibility - blizzard conditions.
We were sent to one such area this morning for a car off the road. After I got home from that, at least two other vehicles went off the road in the same area.
Good day to stay home...
Weather here is just the same as ever...dull and ccold...and snowy....high of 30F expected...low of 25F.......like to see some sun on occasion....
Another day of fun at the office...4 boxes distilled down into 2 binders and a couple of Powerpoint things...yay....
Well, off I go to Get-R-Done
happy friday.breakfast is ready.juice and coffee are ready too.busy night at work.sending matt to school.might go see how the Napoleon,Defiance and western is doing on repairing the track after a nap.
A nice dull snowy day was had by us today....cccold and windy as well...sigh
I've manged to find another box of reports that needed distilling as well...grand total....4 boxes...
Spent the day at the office getting some stuff sorted out and ready for the grand project..and seeing whether or not my new office computer was going to work with some older software....which it did...phew....
Modelcar Larry, am I remembering correctly the official weather service standard location for temp pick up is: 5 ft. off the ground surface. For years my brother tended an official weather "station" on the property where our Esso Station was and I seem to remember that figure.....
Larry, am I remembering correctly the official weather service standard location for temp pick up is: 5 ft. off the ground surface. For years my brother tended an official weather "station" on the property where our Esso Station was and I seem to remember that figure.....
tree68 I think we've done Gatorade via IV - no reason we couldn't do coffee. The upper sensor for my home weather station showed -19F overnight. The lower sensor is much closer to the ground and only got down to about -10F. Several projects today. Better get to work.
I think we've done Gatorade via IV - no reason we couldn't do coffee.
The upper sensor for my home weather station showed -19F overnight. The lower sensor is much closer to the ground and only got down to about -10F.
Several projects today. Better get to work.
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