Chuck Ellis
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Hi Peter, Are you far enough inland that Hurricane Fiona won't affect you too much.... from news it's moving north and will hit the Canadian coast line in a few days.
Thanks Chuck.Hi Peter, Are you far enough inland that Hurricane Fiona won't affect you too much.... from news it's moving north and will hit the Canadian coast line in a few days.
Truer words never said... I sat through Typhoon Karen on Guam in 1982... she blew right up the mouth of the harbor, sank 2 Royal Korean gun boats that were in repair and sans engines... just rolled the over and sank at the docks... washed all the tugs up on shore at the other end of the harbor, destroyed a few cars that were parked at the admin building and flooded my radio room on the ground floor of the building...She moved a number of cars that were parked next to the admin building across the parking lot and they all looked as if they had been shot with 00 buckshot.Hurricanes are no fun to be in. So, take care.
Wow! A storm against which all others will be measured.Truer words never said... I sat through Typhoon Karen on Guam in 1982... she blew right up the mouth of the harbor, sank 2 Royal Korean gun boats that were in repair and sans engines... just rolled the over and sank at the docks... washed all the tugs up on shore at the other end of the harbor, destroyed a few cars that were parked at the admin building and flooded my radio room on the ground floor of the building...She moved a number of cars that were parked next to the admin building across the parking lot and they all looked as if they had been shot with 00 buckshot.
On the civilian part of the iuland nearly wiped out the towns of Tamuning and Agana, and did wipe out Inarajan... leveled it as the eye passed over.
Back on the base, it blew about a foot of gravel into the swim pool just out side my barracks and over on Anderson AFB they lost one wall of a typhoon proof building. Officially the sustained winds were 186 mph, but when I made a run up to COMNAVMAR to pick up the base messages (with the radio room flooded we handed off our inbound traffic the admiral's base) one of the radiomen there told me the last wind reading they had before the machine blew away was 206 mph.
and because of this storm my favorite beer bar (as a matter of fact the only beer bar) on the submarine base , "Andy's Hut", was destroyed.Truer words never said... I sat through Typhoon Karen on Guam in 1982... she blew right up the mouth of the harbor, sank 2 Royal Korean gun boats that were in repair and sans engines... just rolled the over and sank at the docks... washed all the tugs up on shore at the other end of the harbor, destroyed a few cars that were parked at the admin building and flooded my radio room on the ground floor of the building...She moved a number of cars that were parked next to the admin building across the parking lot and they all looked as if they had been shot with 00 buckshot.
On the civilian part of the iuland nearly wiped out the towns of Tamuning and Agana, and did wipe out Inarajan... leveled it as the eye passed over.
Back on the base, it blew about a foot of gravel into the swim pool just out side my barracks and over on Anderson AFB they lost one wall of a typhoon proof building. Officially the sustained winds were 186 mph, but when I made a run up to COMNAVMAR to pick up the base messages (with the radio room flooded we handed off our inbound traffic the admiral's base) one of the radiomen there told me the last wind reading they had before the machine blew away was 206 mph.
I hope they and their new home are safe and secure, Chuck.Glad you weather the weather well...
Now we get to worry about our daughter and husband that has just closed on a new house in Ft. Meyers, Florida area.... they closed Monday and are scheduled to move in before October 1st... looks like IAN will be hitting just about Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. They're both working today and not sure about tomorrow... she is manager to a condo complex and he is a chef working at the country club in Ft. Meyers.
Ditto!I hope they and their new home are safe and secure, Chuck.
Honeycrisps
They’re primarily a premium fresh fruit apple, Ted, although there’s an industrial bakery here in the Valley that makes a “Honeycrisp” branded pie as part of their line. At least one local cidery makes a specialty cider along the same lines.Glad to hear there was minimal damage. Do Honeycrisps make good cider? applesauce? I’m guessing you have all the fruit you can use during harvest season.
You might want to take that quest in another direction Ryan. Maybe the garlic family ?Are the BEST eating apples imho deliciously sweet tart. A lot of folks use them for cooking but I'll sit down and try to find out if one apple keeps the doctor away, how many honey crisps does it take to keep everyone away?
Maybe the garlic family
Luckily the Johnson grass took over
We had a volunteer "patty pan" squash this year that's been outdoing all the other summer squash. Also a white pumpkin that I SURE as heck never planted (it might be a stray outcross, not sure.. but it's in the melon patch so I'm not sure how it got there). Sometimes the stray volunteers are the best plants, I usually leave a few unless they're really in the road just to see how it goes. Makes for sort of a wild garden.. but hey.. plants is plants.Low and behold we had some ”volunteer“ pumpkins show up out on our creek bank.