BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 18 Jan 24 - 02:31 PM

Grindavík was my hometown I lived there 1990 to 1995, I have been in S&R
47 years now, in that time I was in Grindvík we worked with the 56th
S&R Navy helicopter team in Keflavík, a time I would not have missed.
That team was a long time best in the Navy
The Grindavík Town is dangerous to be in, the Magma is under the Town
and is very shallow, so we will see the will happen. 3 houses are gone.

The people are losing their homes, and the community is broken,
we lost one man in the cracks and he is missing ( Gone ).Earthquakes,
floods, and by war, I lost my Home in 1973 by Eruption in Vsstmann Island, and we had to start over, Iwas nine years old then.

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 01:39 AM

Thinking of you Skarpi. The TV news is just showing video of the magma slowly heading for the small town of Grindvík - at least 2 houses have gone.
A new variant of Covid seems to be ramping up here but so far I have avoided it.
Robyn in New Zealand

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Jan 24 - 07:54 AM

oh yes, Skarpi, I remember the dried fish and the brennivin!
But it is more like "some decades" than "some year" back ...

I can't remember whether you brought it at the 2005 or 2007 Portaferry gathering ...

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Jan 24 - 06:52 AM

Snow, snjór...its winter so yeh snow is here and cold, and rain and wind and south wind and flood from the Clacier, and the Earthquakes goes on and a Volcano in Vatnajökull Glacier might be waken up, and of course
it´s still going on the small town of Grindvík, yesterday we lost a man down the one of many thousand of cracks, he might have gone down 20 to 30 mtr? he have not been found yet, and the magma is rising again so this is not over yet around that town.
But the day is getting longer feet by feet so the spring is near, but first the Þorri is next, that means Rotten shark meet, sour foot and dry
fish with butter and frozen BRENNIVÍN or the BLACK DEAETH drink.
some have taste that in Portaferry gathering some years back ,
so love, be kind, and live the live, day by day, what we have today we might not have tomorrow,
so all the best Skarpi Iceland,

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 24 - 08:39 AM

Who else got snow last night?

Where I am, we got a good four inches of new snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 07:15 PM

Good to hear from you MudGuard!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 01 Jan 24 - 12:40 PM

Skarpi, a peaceful and lovely year for you, too!
And for everyone else as well!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 11:00 PM

Halfway through the afternoon, and we are in the swing of 2024 already. It's sunny and warm, but there are a few storms around.

After my coffee/computer break I will go back to my sewing room and get my Stuff ready for quilt group tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:38 PM

Gleðilegt nýtt ár og megi þið eiga friðsælt komandi ár með ást og friði.
Happy new year.
Kv Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 09:29 PM

A couple more hours, here... dig it!

Leap uear. Can we skip it?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 08:45 PM

Tomorrow is just one day later than today, but it is also a marker as far as the US election year. 2024 is when the US holds primaries that lead up to the election of a new president. We must now focus on having an unremarkable election that features no claims of "stolen elections." It is a time when those of us who have been on the sidelines need to step up.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Dec 23 - 08:05 PM

New Year's Eve for a few hours more.
Happy 2024!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 28 Dec 23 - 10:38 AM

> I feel like I could go plant my spring crops already,
> it is that comfortable outside.

It's not just the temperature: the length of the day is at least as important.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 02:55 PM

I fear December will follow the trend of much of the year and be the warmest on record. I feel like I could go plant my spring crops already, it is that comfortable outside. This part of the North American continent has been in the path of warming from El Niño, so perhaps it will dissipate and allow for more seasonal weather soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Dec 23 - 09:28 AM

Advance wishes for a Happy New Year to Mudcatters near and far.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 23 - 12:10 PM

Stay healthy, everyone! Sorry to read you were ill again, Skarpi!

When my partner and I arrived in Texas in 1982 it was a warm year and we thought it was such a novelty to be in a climate where we could put meat on the porch barbecue grill so had steaks for xmas dinner.

It's not like that every year, but this year, the warmest on the planet, will be another one for grilling the meat outdoors on the holiday. It will be a marinated lamb that will be skewered and grilled for a Mediterranean touch to the meal.

Stay comfortable everyone, whatever your weather (or volcanoes)!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 08:12 PM

Well, here we go again, have been down with Covid, thought it was the Inflúensa
And the eruption near Grindavík town started and is still on.
All the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 22 Nov 23 - 11:58 AM

Molde, í Norge, what are you doing there
All the best Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 23 - 04:33 AM

Currently in Molde, Norway, waiting for the weather to clear.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 06:35 PM

The Mudcat is back!
And that Iceland volcanic eruption is now "imminent."

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 23 - 01:17 AM

Just checking in on Mudcat itself!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 10:48 AM

Skarpi reminds me that my home state still has a volcano cam pointed at Mt. St. Helens. And it has been much more active this year with the number of earthquakes (click on "Volcano Updates" tab for details).

Meanwhile in this year of El Niño and with the aftereffects of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption in the South Pacific, our November feels more like October. Still days in the 80s as we near the American Thanksgiving holiday season.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 08:36 AM

I was thinking of you, skarpi, with the news.

It might finally be autumn, here in central Virginia.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 06:17 AM

Well all, what a week. Earthquakes very big and hard and the
Lava magma is moving up and is now right under a little town Grindavík, not far from the Blue Lagoon. We will know in few hours
what is going to happen next. All the people were moved from
the town and at the moment noone should be in the town.
So I live 700 km away from this so I am fine, but this is a part of what has been happening last two years, eruptions,Earthquakes
and not knowing whats going to happen is not good for the people.
So there is a live stream on YouTube, and through the media also
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 06:03 PM

My mother's Singer treadle is next to me as I type. Many memories of it in use, latterly (some decades ago) when I decided to make kites. One Of These Days, I'll look into reconditioning it for Herself's use and amusement.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 03:54 PM

Good to hear from you, Skarpi!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 23 - 05:07 PM

Mudcat birthday is Sunday Oct 1 (correct me if I'm mistaken, please)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Sep 23 - 05:11 PM

Mudcat's October 1st Birthday is coming up soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:50 PM

There was a Singer treadle machine on the family homestead as well, where I grew up. I remember it well.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 06:55 PM

Keep those check-ins coming!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 07:23 PM

I knew nothing about the South Pacific volcanic eruption,
it totally escaped my attention.

Hunga Tonga reminds me of Beatrix Potter's Two Bad Mice,
Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 10:39 AM

refresh for the holiday (in the US and Canada)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 04:08 PM

How many Mudcatters are in the path of
Hurricane Idalia?
The news says it is a fast-moving hurricane at least,
that is not as bad as a slow-moving one.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 11:04 AM

The filter/search is very particular.
I tried searching for this thread using "worldwide"
but the search didn't locate this thread because
it's supposed to be "world wide" instead.

We've heard from gnu recently, good news:
anybody else want to check in?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 11:39 PM

Yesterday for the first time this season I went out in summer gear but lotsa' folk have been wearing summer gear for a while. A couple of weeks back I remember a trio of young women all in summer gear, one of whom had whitey-blue legs, I think she was cold, rather than not yet tanned!

My neighbour popped in after work a few nights ago, she was wearing a thin summer dress & she was a bit cool coming back on the 9.30 train but didn't really need her jacket.

sandra in a balmy 26 degrees Sydney early afternoon (78 in the old numbers) we're heading to 30 (86)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Aug 23 - 12:23 AM

life goes on in the Land of Oz. I'm mainly well, the weather is beginning to warm, tho why some young (& older) folk wear summer gear I do not understand cos I am an Olde Pharte & always wear a light jacket!

I've just booked accomodation for a festival at the end of September, & last week paid for a festival at the end of October & confirmed my accomodation booking for that festival.

Long Live Live Music!!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: rich-joy
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:52 PM

Good to hear from you, JennieG!
I still have my Grandmother's Singer treadle (with receipt) from the early 1920s, sadly stuck in a container and hopefully not rusted away yet. I'd love to have it accessible in my shack, but I'll have to chuck out lots of other stuff first, haha, like "too many" books :)
My Uke is here in the shack, but unplayed - and buried somewhere :(
I am still hoping to get back to posting to the Australia-NewZealand Songs thread - one day!!!

..... sigh .....

Our days in the Sunshine Coast hinterland are promising to warm up (with one day this week forecast at 32*) but the nights (and my shack) are still chilly. Still, this has been the warmest winter for years that I can remember, with far less firewood purchased than last year!!
As long as bushfires don't come roaring up the valley this summer, I will cope with it all :)

Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 06:36 PM

My sewing machines don't go back that far, but my favorite is a 1941 White rotary. It's cast iron, only sews forward and back, but is like a tank as far as sewing heavy stuff and has a lot of amazingly complicated fittings and feet for ruffles and shirring and hemming and such. They were highly engineered back in the day.

Fall has arrived but cool weather has not. We're at ~99 for the next couple of days, before some rain is forecast. It's a good time of year once we can enjoy being out of doors. Soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 11:41 AM

This weekend the "heat dome" finally crumbled over the lower central US and we had a dramatic thunderstorm wash through the area, tearing up trees along the way. Not a lot of rain here, but enough to give the soil a little spring when you walk on it (across the dead grass because I wasn't going to waste money watering it). It rained again this morning and the high will be in the 80s (we were in the 110 and above range for several weeks).

It's the kind of weather that when you see a neighbor out in their yard you can go say hello and not suffer from the heat and really short conversations.

It is my understanding that in addition to the generalized effect of climate change added to a year when there is an El Niño, there was an explosive undersea eruption of Hunga Tonga that blew so much water into the atmosphere that it will take a couple of years for that to dissipate, increasing temperatures fractionally. Every little bit makes it hotter.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:50 PM

land of Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 08:14 PM

Life is peaceful here in the Small Smoke, as usual. We're having a taste of early summer with temps edging over 30 deg C, but it won't last. A burst of heat is not unusual at this time of year, then we settle back to spring.

Yesterday I spent a fun time at a house museum sewing on one of my 1920s Singer treadle machines; I've done it before and it always generates interest. Many people remember one of those machines in their family but haven't seen it being used. One bag was made, another started which will be finished off here at home - on the treadle, of course!

When I wasn't treadling I was playing with a ukulele group, so it was quite a busy day.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 06:04 PM

Sprained my knee *without* hurting my back so not a total thing.

Not ready for autumn!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 14 Oct 23 - 06:45 AM

Happy belate Birthday to Mudcat, yei and everyone is gone,
It is behind us, well again the world is upside down, now in the middle east again, and its sad to say that the humanity is going
No where always looking in the back mirror, its the
NOW we have to live in, today, the past is gone, the future has not come, so lets live today,
Today I am going to read my school Books yes I am back to school, and I like it, then the gym, and play some music on my guitars,
And my mandolin, and sing along, some songs from all around.
Then its the Loundry lets begin the day washing, coffee and
Breakfast. All the best from me here in the winter Iceland
Skarpi.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 11:36 PM

The Covid is up again in Iceland, not a problem yet, we'll
See later on.
All the best Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Nov 23 - 06:35 PM

The Mudcat is back!
And that Iceland volcanic eruption is now "imminent."

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Nov 23 - 01:17 AM

Just checking in on Mudcat itself!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 10:48 AM

Skarpi reminds me that my home state still has a volcano cam pointed at Mt. St. Helens. And it has been much more active this year with the number of earthquakes (click on "Volcano Updates" tab for details).

Meanwhile in this year of El Niño and with the aftereffects of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption in the South Pacific, our November feels more like October. Still days in the 80s as we near the American Thanksgiving holiday season.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 08:36 AM

I was thinking of you, skarpi, with the news.

It might finally be autumn, here in central Virginia.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 06:17 AM

Well all, what a week. Earthquakes very big and hard and the
Lava magma is moving up and is now right under a little town Grindavík, not far from the Blue Lagoon. We will know in few hours
what is going to happen next. All the people were moved from
the town and at the moment noone should be in the town.
So I live 700 km away from this so I am fine, but this is a part of what has been happening last two years, eruptions,Earthquakes
and not knowing whats going to happen is not good for the people.
So there is a live stream on YouTube, and through the media also
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 03:54 PM

Good to hear from you, Skarpi!