BS: Open Mike has lost her home & contents 2008

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 02:27 AM

good to hear about the plants & bath.                                                                     

A few years back friends lost part of their backyard in one of our big bushfires, & posted pics of little green shoots on burnt land a short time later.

sandra
my little brother is 6'6" & always wanted a bath to stretch out in!

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 10:29 AM

Forgive my ignorance but what is 1/2" drip line and why are you stretching it up the creek?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 10:41 AM

Sounds like Laurel is using creek water, running through three lengths of hoses with tiny holes in them (so water will seep trhough to the soil around the plants), to irrigate her plants. Good idea, that!

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 11:40 AM

AHHH. Where I come from they are called soaker hoses.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 02:17 PM

Rap....

Mike Doellman
PO Box 4905
Pocatello, ID 83205-4905
USA

Ummm....

Mike Doellman
PO Box 4905
Pocatello, ID
USA
83205-4905

No? Or are your optical sorters different down south?

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 02:34 PM

I've always put the country last:

Gnu
Moncton City Jail
Moncton, New Brunswick
          D233 S981
CANADA

Like that.

If they can't figure it out let 'em sort it by hand, I say!

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 12:35 AM

Ha! Gotcha, Gnu!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: open mike
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 02:22 AM

drip line is poly tubing
http://www.dripirrigation.com/drip_irrigation_info.php?products_id=263
it doesn't have holes in it until you poke them in to set little connectors in for tubes which carry small amounts of water to each plant.
I laid it in the stream so it would carry water by gravity feed down
to the plants below which have survived the fire, but my water system
was burned up so i am trying to keep the lilies, tomatoes, and herbs alive.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 08:03 AM

Good to see you doing something, rather than sitting around moping, OM - my thoughts are with you.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 08:56 AM

I admire your ingenuity and ability to take back control of your life.
Stay strong, lady.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 05:33 PM

I'm sitting here in my office, listening to the planes and copters dropping retardant and water on the wildfire on the hill immediately west of town -- and the Library. Great view, and that's ALL I want of it.

The hill doesn't seem to have a name, so we're calling it "Old Smokey." But I can identify with Peace and Open mic about wildfires. This is not the first one I've seen first hand, but it's the closest, being maybe 1.5 miles away.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:59 PM

We had a close call last year at Wolfe's Neck Woods during the Labor Day holiday weekend. It was bone-dry and some moron pitched a cigarette butt into the duff on the side of a trail. Luckily, I was out doing a quick patrol and smelled wood smoke where there shouldn't have been and we caught it before it burned much more than a dollar bill-sized area or went underground.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Alice
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 07:39 PM

On news here now, a wildfire at Red Lodge, MT, houses and cabins will burn in canyon, as it is inaccessible right now. Evacuating people. It is 3 miles from the ski resort and moving toward town.

Sounds like a good start on the irrigation, Laurel.
I love claw foot tubs! Most relaxing bath, an old one in a house I used to rent, wish I had it in this home.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 06:44 AM

Only 4 days left to bid on the Phillips/Morse DVD folks.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 10:50 AM

Yesterday 7,900+ acres burned just west of here -- like 10 miles west. Homes were threatened, but they managed to use a road as a firebreak. Some hundreds of acres of wheat when up though.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 01:14 PM

Well, Rap, first off, it's gnu with a lower case g.

I guess our optical sorters aren't quite as smart as yours because ours sort from bottom right to left after the postage is confirmed. As far as "letting them sort it by hand", I would rather my cheque arrived post haste in this particular case.

As for the lockup, I haven't been there in years and years. Well, I'm pretty sure anyway. I would think that I would at least remember getting out.

Anyway, the cheque for Seamus' book and for SINS' book is in a PROPERLY addressed envelope and shall be through the optical reader tomorrow evening, thence speeding it's way to you. There are other things I would like to bid on, but I am at my limit for this month.

Lastly, cash that sucker as fast as you can. I am serious. With the price of gas dropping, the Canuck Dollar just might follow and pennies count... well, I count them.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Irene M
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 01:17 PM

Have just had a thought. (Yeah, OK, you felt the earth move.....)

As second highest bid for the bracelet, I now owe someone $81.

I think I have answer to sending money all over the globe.

Jacqui C, I am about to PM you.

Irene

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 01:25 PM

it doesn't have holes in it until you poke them in to set little connectors in for tubes which carry small amounts of water to each plant. I laid it in the stream so it would carry water by gravity feed down to the plants below which have survived the fire, but my water system was burned up so i am trying to keep the lilies, tomatoes, and herbs alive.

Laurel, you sound like a natural for the Mudcat Gardeners group. It has only a few members so far, but it has been a great place to park photos from Bobert, Leo (MMario) and my yards. We'd love to see your progress after the fire. Do you have a digital camera?

I worked as a USFS firefighter for several years, and also in the timber management/reforestation end of things (when it wasn't fire season) and I always enjoyed watching the succession of plants colonizing a burned area, and as you get further from the date of the fire the range of plants is amazing. Fireweed, grasses, wildflowers, shrubs (blueberries and huckleberries, elderberry, etc.) and the sorts of trees that return to provide the understory where the species that will eventually be the climax species in succession get started. I compared the various stages in a lot of burned over wildfire and clear cut areas around the district. The wildlife that follows that succession is also pretty interesting.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 09:24 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 11:12 AM

Visit above the line - a Song Challenge posted by Laurel.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 02:58 PM

Been there...but it takes me months to write a song.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Peace
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 04:59 PM

I'll get to it on Thursday, SINSULL. Busy as all get-out right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 01:25 PM

i have posted some pix of the fire and its damage at
www dot myspace dot com / laurelwoodsorrel

and hopeto have pix of the re-generation fo new ligfe
there a.s.a.p.

Laurel

thanks all..
i did post a comment on the O.M. auction thread...too.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 02:30 PM

Link to Laurels page I clicked on the My Pics...and didn't find any pics....???

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 02:37 PM

SingOut! note....with links to Mudcat!

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: open mike
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 01:53 PM

there is an album of pix called fire july 2008 on myspace
i can see it...does anyone else have problems viewing it?

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Alice
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 02:06 PM

i could not see the photos

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Marion
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 02:45 PM

I was able to see the photos, but I had to log into my myspace account first.   Also, FWIW, Laurel and I are myspace friends - I'm not sure exactly how the privacy settings at myspace work, but if you're logged in and can't see the photos, it may be that they're only available to Laurel's friends.

Marion

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 09:00 PM

It told me I had to log in, but I don't have a myspace account, so I didn't see them, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Aug 08 - 10:53 PM

Yup, must be an account thing, cause I don't have one. Not planning to get one either. Sorry, sis.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 06:25 AM

laurel, as the pics are apparently only available to myspace members, maybe you could send some of them to [e-mail] so he can post them on the Mudcat photosite where everyone can see them

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 04 Aug 08 - 07:02 AM

Yes, I had the same problem as everybody else but would love to see the photos.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: ragdall
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 06:00 PM

I'm not a myspace member, either, and couldn't see the photos.

Laurel, you can get a free account at Flickr for up to 200 images. http://www.flickr.com/ Nobody has to be a member to see photos there.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 07:01 PM

Just to keep you all updated, I mailed a check (the first of what I hope will be many) to Laurel yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 08:07 PM

Copies of the photos on Flickr Mudcat group at least temporarily.
- Phil
http://www.flickr.com/groups/mudcat/

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 10:24 PM

Thanks, Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:23 PM

Not sure why this thread was closed, but I am reopening it.

I want to thank all of you that are using Paypal. It is working fine, and I am about to send a check to Laurel. The addy is still available and I hope this is the first of several. Thanks for all your generosity.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 12:13 AM

I didn't know (remember?) that there was a Mudcat Flickr group, and I've now added it to my Mudcat links.

Lots of good pics there, Phil, thanks for posting Laurel's pics.

sandra (getting older!)

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Joybell
Date: 07 Aug 08 - 08:36 PM

My thoughts have been with you, Laurel. A donation may take a little longer -- but it will be there.
Had a passing problem of my own. Good luck and happy thoughts,
Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: gnu
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 06:23 PM

Thanks Mick.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: open mike
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 12:09 PM

i should've put captions to those pix
and rotated correctly..the one (sidewards) tree
used to be a beautiful redwood.

the melted aluminum is beautiful in a strange way.

the burned bridge has been repaired now

and i can get to the (former) house site without having to
4 wheel drive thru a creek

yesterday i got a motor home--so will have a roof of some sort
over my head after all..

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 03:02 PM

GOOD!

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 06:30 AM

great, mate

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 07:01 AM

Great news.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: open mike
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:34 AM

thanks to my mudcat frienda a family
i will now be able to replace my
music system--c.d. player, amps, etc.
will send details of what you helped
to get!!

Laurel

i found a unit which both plays and
makes copies of c.d.'s a "dual deck"
type affair...this should prove quite
helpful..i plan to reproduce my radio
shows -- i have hosted 2 since the fire.

July's show had lots of fire, smoke, ashes
in the songs,,,and also survival, hope and
remembering to be thanks ful for blessings
we have. Today's show had some songs about
natural disasters, floods, hurricanes, and
also homelessness, and loss. perhaps i will
offer some copies to the mudcat somehow....
we shall see. i do not really havre a home
base yet from which to do such projects...
am gewtting electricity restored on my land
soon and then after clean up can re-turn.

if i can stand it..it is pretty bleak there
with grey and black being the pre-dominant
color scheme, but green sprouts are appearing
at the base of some of the broadleaf trees,
and grapes, bracken fern and bulbs are coming
back again...

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 01:57 AM

life continues, with music!

In Australia we have plants that need fire to germinate, dunno whether that's a common plant behaviour.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 04:08 AM

Good to hear that things are starting to look up, Laurel, even if it's only the beginnings of it all. Love to you, out there..

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:26 AM

Laurel - the beauty will be watching the way that Nature takes back her own from the fire over time.

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 10:09 PM

Laurel,
What about the little things that are gone - a favorite tea caddy or a picture? What can we replace from our own larders that will fit in a motor home and make life more liveable? In need of a Billy the Bass or a dancing chicken or a favorite tea cup? Little, familiar things make your home cozy. Anything?

If I lost everything, I would want a woven cotten blanket to snuggle up to at night and strong coffee in the morning.

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Open Mike has lost her home and contents
From: open mike
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 05:26 AM

well, i do want to sent giant hugs and thanks to all my mudcatter friends. i got a great check today from Rapaire and plan to use this
to replace a big thing.....my sound system, amp. for gigs,,,and mike stands...also there will be another gift coming from big Mick and that will help to replace my sound syst3em....c.d player, speakers, etc.
it seems only fitting that my music friends should provide musical
help!! as for the little things--the community here has been SO, SO
generous-there is a huge free store where donations have come pouring in.

i do happen to think occasionally of my cook books, and music books, and i had some funny drinking glasses that looked like cowboy boots and some shot glasses that looked like mini- frosty mugs....

the hardest to replace will be the 200 year old danish sour dough starter and the amish friendship bread/cake starter...although there may be some of each floating around somewhere..

perhaps when it comes to be secret santa time i will put out a plea for tree ornaments, but i willnot have room to put a tree in teh motor home anyway....alas, all life has changed, for now. I often end sentences with "for now" these days....i am bouncing between my 2
daughters' homes, most of the clothes i wear ar unfamiliar to me, and
even the cell phone i have is a recent acquisition, as i slammed mine in the car door because i was not used to the new law requiring hands free devidce and ear phones and i got out of the car and it dragged
along....strange bed, strange room, a stranger in a strange land...

one thing that remains constant is that i do my radio show each month and also will drive the bookmobile for the library...and that this mudcat family is here each time i log on! thanks for all support and
caring hearts!!