Back to the future...
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kinzelNo. Sorry. Not back to the future quite yet.
Last night was nice and stormy. For about two hours a stream of thunderstorms went by as if flowing in a corridor west to east about 6 to 10 miles north. We could hear them and see flashes in the clouds... and on wunderground.com (let me know if you want a free year membership, I think I still have a couple left) I could watch the radar showing a gradual movement south of that corridor...which meant we had warning enough to close windows and shut down computers (and sigh, no radar for awhile) but we were safely off-line and having candlelight dinner to the sound of thunder when the power went off and the wind and rain came. After 90 minutes or so things calmed and I could see from sky-flash that China Lake and points south and maybe as far east as Belfast were still getting hit. This morning I hear that there was hail in the area according to local police forces...but last night I would have said there was none here.
Back to Augusta today, it looks like. Getting my mileage in as gas prices in our area of Maine begin to top $3.00/gallon. We've been lucky this summer with gas prices, but that luck is diminishing. Anyone out there have a Scion they want to let me use for a few months? We've been doing pretty well with one car but every so often that second car would be really useful.
For the font fans, it turns out my subscription to Jupiter also includes a bunch of fonts I haven't looked at yet...129 of them. Well, my work is cut out for me, i see...
Meanwhile, for those of you who stickle on commas, check this out. Also, if you don't stickle on contracts go back and check it out.
So, three (3) three on the day lily bloom front. Very few blooms to go it looks like. Guess moving that shed has changed the ecology of the area since we usually have blooms well into September.
Away, away...o.
Last night was nice and stormy. For about two hours a stream of thunderstorms went by as if flowing in a corridor west to east about 6 to 10 miles north. We could hear them and see flashes in the clouds... and on wunderground.com (let me know if you want a free year membership, I think I still have a couple left) I could watch the radar showing a gradual movement south of that corridor...which meant we had warning enough to close windows and shut down computers (and sigh, no radar for awhile) but we were safely off-line and having candlelight dinner to the sound of thunder when the power went off and the wind and rain came. After 90 minutes or so things calmed and I could see from sky-flash that China Lake and points south and maybe as far east as Belfast were still getting hit. This morning I hear that there was hail in the area according to local police forces...but last night I would have said there was none here.
Back to Augusta today, it looks like. Getting my mileage in as gas prices in our area of Maine begin to top $3.00/gallon. We've been lucky this summer with gas prices, but that luck is diminishing. Anyone out there have a Scion they want to let me use for a few months? We've been doing pretty well with one car but every so often that second car would be really useful.
For the font fans, it turns out my subscription to Jupiter also includes a bunch of fonts I haven't looked at yet...129 of them. Well, my work is cut out for me, i see...
Meanwhile, for those of you who stickle on commas, check this out. Also, if you don't stickle on contracts go back and check it out.
So, three (3) three on the day lily bloom front. Very few blooms to go it looks like. Guess moving that shed has changed the ecology of the area since we usually have blooms well into September.
Away, away...o.
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2006-08-08 17:53 (UTC)