Patti

[Zat0pek]

Originally Posted by MoMoNoMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZrf0PbAGSk

That was GREAT!

[Ruth Wysocki]

Originally Posted by patti

Oh gooooooddd!

Mygoodness seeing the mudslides on the news...awful and reading the stories int hepaper..(online)...just devasting.

Ruth, do you happen to know Laurie Binder at all?

Yes, I know Laurie, but haven't seen her in years.

[billgull]

Wishing you and yours a very Merry and Blessed Christmas and a New Year
filled with much happiness, good health and prosperity!

My biggest present is to have our daughter home from Medical School in
Ann Arbor until Monday, 3 January 2011.

[Leftfielder]

Happy Holidays to Patti, The Mayor, and all the rest of the community here for our first post Dyestat Christmas.

[Ruth Wysocki]

Hope everyone's day is off to the same great start mine is! It is absolutely gorgeous here, and much appreciated after all the rain. Drove around looking at Christmas lights last night and saw some amazing displays. Got to spend time with Michael (me on the bike & him running). Now the boys are out with dad for some last minute shopping. I've got dough rising for cinnamon rolls, chili started in the crockpot for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. Candlelight service at church starts at 4:30. Now sitting back with a cup of tea and an Andrea Bocelli concert video on TV and my dog by my side. All is good!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

[wineturtle]

To One and All,

Ho Ho Ho!!

[OrvilleAtkins]

I walked along Wilshire Blvd this morning, the only morning that there is no one there.
I just watched "Miracle on 34th Street". Time for a nap.

I wish Everyone a Very Happy Holiday Season!

[Spider]

Merry Christmas! It seems that folks are well -- Ruth has avoided mud slides, Patti has avoided blizzards, and Orville is napping.

Christmas has always seemed busy in the medicine-biz as half the staff is missing but all the hospitals are all open. So a while ago I realized that if I did true industrial level shopping on top of work, I'd need about a month in Tahiti to recover every year. Herego, a few years back we changed to a system where we buy for the kids but not the grownups (insert Humbug here). But it's been a good system. I think it lets us focus on food at Christmas, more than stuff. Which is great as the lovely Mrs Spidey is a foodie, and I am now digesting Chinese stuffed-chicken (stuffed with rice with mushroom and sausage) with sundry side dishes and a good glass of white.

Hope your Christmas is as good as mine. I meet the long-run gang tomorrow AM to try and jog this off.

[wayne b]

Most of the snow has now stopped here. I'd guess we have somewhere between a foot and 18 inches, with drifts up to 3 feet. Winds are still fierce.

[wineturtle]

The snow has now stopped here also. My local Weather Underground reports about 12 inches yesterday and another 2 or so overnight, with drifts up to 3 feet. Winds are still strong 16-18 mph average, gusts to 35 .
Lots of lightning in the late night hours of yesterday. They called yesterday Snow with Frozen Fog*-a term I do not remember hearing before. Temps near 20 f , back to bed for an hour or so-just because I can .

*FrozenFog

Mike Simonsen mikesimonsen at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 27 11:14:18 EST 2004

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Being up in the wee hours when most people are asleep gives us astronomersan opportunity to see things that most people miss, like a meteor shower,aurora or the sunrise. Sometimes it's unusual meteorological events.Just after midnight this morning I had to close the dome, in spite of thefact there wasn't a cloud in the sky and virtually no wind. The culprit:frozen fog.When the humidity approaches 100% and the temperature and conditions arejust right, the sky begins to snow without the presence of clouds. It alwayscatches me by surprise because I just don't expect snow when there isn't acloud in the sky! It's a pain for astronomy, but it is every bit asbeautiful as the northern lights.Frozen fog doesn't fall really, it just appears and then gently settles onthings. You can literally watch it form before your eyes. Like magic, itjust comes out of nowhere. It has a very sticky nature, so it tends to stickto everything it touches; trees, bushes, houses, hats, gloves...Watching it precipitate under the icy blue glow of a full moon was quite atreat. I held my hand up in front of the moon and watched frozen fog turn myglove into a pure white, flaky decoration bathed in moonlight that lookedgood enough to eat.When the sun comes up the landscape has been transformed into a wintryparadise, sprinkled with pure white, glistening fairy dust. Most people getup and assume it snowed last night, but I know better. It's magic...frozenfog.Mike SimonsenC. E. Scovil ObservatoryImlay City, MI, USAhttp://home.mindspring.com/~mikesimonsen/