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Tag Archives: weather weirdness
The reoccurrence of me.
I believe this is me returning from my bloggy-sabbatical. You know, the one I forgot to mention. 
Quite the whirlwind summer it was… Almost literally one day. A few days after my last post in fact This is what the sky looked like.
Not so whirly it turns out, as just straight ahead shearing. We had a storm here that rocked everything. It was pretty scary. We did ok, just more branches falling around us, but in other areas around us it was really awful. Check out the video on here if you have never heard of a ” micro- burst” storm. I sure hadn’t. Hope I never have the pleasure of meeting one again either!
Although some residents have speculated that the damage had been caused by a tornado, the storm’s radar signatures definitely matched that of a microburst, said National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Woodcock.
“Microbursts can do the same, if not more, damage than a tornado,” he said. Straight-line winds usually knock down trees from the base, unlike a tornado, which twists and rips trees, he said.
Straight-line winds form when updrafts push water droplets higher and higher in the clouds, where the water can get so cold that it freezes, Woodcock said. “Eventually it’s got so much mass in the top of that cloud that the updrafts can’t support it anymore,” he said, and the water and ice come shooting down.“It takes the air with it,” Woodcock said.
yeesh. So, let that be hereby recorded for blog posterity… More of the GOOD summer next.
I have been lying around with what I suspect is the flu today. Not the GOOD PART really, but it has given me time to upload a bunch of pictures and think about blogging again. The girls and I have been reminiscing about summer in these last few days of vacation before school on Monday. It has been a mostly REALLY good one. We’ve had lots of nice time with family and friends, and adventures plenty. I need to rest my achey-breaky head now– but more words on the way.
Crazy Giant Hedgehog in NJ!!
The Matryoshka family have been busy in the snow! Thanks girls!!! This made us smile BIG!
Cloudy with a Chance of Disney
AHHHHH, yes. Thanks Peg.
Have a happy cloud day!
Did I mention a little black cloud in my last post?? Something like this maybe full of a few paltry curses??
Because what I SHOULD have said was this:
Erm,
The vacation was pretty awesome.
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AWESOME adj.
- Inspiring awe: an awesome thunderstorm.
- Expressing awe: stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins.
- Slang. Remarkable; outstanding: “a totally awesome arcade game” (Los Angeles Times).
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The barf-ghoul haunted us most of the week. Always erratic and unpredictable. Little Rosie suffered a lot of belly achin’ and kept her friend the trusty blue barf pitcher nearby. She even got to visit the super secret Disney park– ER WONDERLAND! It was the nicest hospital trip ever. Orlando Hospital rocks. She is fine… just a bad case of stripes.
In spite of it all–Disney is totally wondrous. We had a great time. There are about a billion photos on my Flickr if you’d like the visions of crazy and fun.
I loved the Pirates attraction. I loved the Horticultural tour Mom took the sisters on at Epcot– it was called “Beyond the seed” a behind the scenes tour and all about their hydroponic program. Fascinating. Epcot rocked in general. We could have spent days just exploring there. Disney-the-world really was all totally fun. Completely exhausting each day, but fun.
We got to be warm, and see palm trees gently swaying and ORANGES just lying all over the ground under trees!
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Back to the real life adventure now… Did I mention this?
What? Back up some?? Sure.
That IS the gnomemobile. And that hunk of my beautiful tree goes on way past the fence. Where that big ol’ hunk of trunk is, is where the FIT would usually be parked.
And do you know why Vampires drive Volvos??
That’s just about it! I have a lot of pine brush decorating my car, and a few scratches. Just a dent in the roof rack. Best car ever.
Best neighbor ever. Only signed up for bird-sitting. Ended up being a tree-mover with her family and chainsaw. Thank you dear Erin.
Here’s what I am hoping for in 2009. In Disney the clouds just look like this. Sometimes they even say Jesus Loves You.
I’ll post some more later. I am back to the yarn shop today. YAY!
This past wonky week.
This week has been good and full of change. Here are some glimpses:
Lots of stitch markers. I will have them up in a proper sort of gallery page when the wizard is back in
town. Please contact me if you are interested hearing more about them.
Also, SNOW!!
Me, Mrs. Wintergarten
and poppet Marigold playing Sisyphus….
Lastly, I had the pleasure of having the greatest class on Saturday. I taught an intro to needle felting class, and had such wonderful, nice folks. We did cookie cutter style, and a sculptural sheep. Such nice people, and it was so much fun! Here they are–
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Tagged classes, needle felting, stitchmarkers, weather weirdness
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January 4th, 2009 Ok, so, do you remember when my girls were little and I’d read to them in the evening from an exciting book? Something from, say, Lemony Snicket? We’d get to the end of a chapter and they’d yell CLIFF HANGER!!!! Which meant that I had to read at least a few paragraphs into the next chapter or nobody was gonna get any sleep…… do you see where I am headed with this? Can you please get on with it? At least a few lines? Thank you.