BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 10:25 AM

Keep them coming!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Sep 21 - 01:21 PM

more volcanic activity, or so we are informed.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:28 PM

and Canada has a federal election going on.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 21 - 08:34 PM

Also the 1 in 500 that have died from Covid should find a way to Check out from Mudcatters world wide.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 06:47 PM

Spring is springing here in Oz. The grass is riz, and all that......birds are frisky......

It's a nice time to be here, and to be checking in.

One thing.....with all the lockouts and shutdowns, my sewing room has seen some recent activity.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: robomatic
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 07:02 PM

And we are rapidly experiencing lower temperatures and high breezes which will lead us through a short Fall straight on to Winter. Today enough frost on the windshield to require scraping with the credit card.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Andrez
Date: 22 Sep 21 - 10:02 PM

As if we havent had enough going on with drought, bushfires, Covid,and lockdown/s plus antivaxxers rioting over the past three days!

Here in the southern part of Oz yesterday we had an earthquake that was felt across three states. Fortunately, unlike Christchurch in NZ, no one was inured or killed.

Looking on the bright side at least the earthquake gave the media something else to talk about for a change :-)

Cheers,

Andrez

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Sep 21 - 03:39 PM

meanwhile, I wonder how far Skarpi is from
the port town in southeastern Iceland
where Valli ('Wally') the Walrus climbed up onto a pier
and held court for a day or two.

The police had to cordon off the pier from the human sightseers.
Every so often, Valli would 'make a noise' of warning if people got too close for his liking.
Saw some still photos of Valli with his mouth shaped in the
noise-making position ... looks like he was saying something rude.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Oct 21 - 10:41 PM

Never mind Where's Wally/Valli,
where are all the Mudcatters?
Keep checking in, everybody.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Oct 21 - 05:47 AM

i am ,ok

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Oct 21 - 11:20 PM

After watching various named hurricanes this fall take aim at Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, the usual route, we're in the wake of Hurricane Pamela that landed on the southwest coast of Mexico and drifted northeast and into Texas. The storms are lined up so the places they're traveling across are getting one rain shower after another (this is the "train" or "railroad" effect). Three to four inches so far in some areas.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Oct 21 - 10:57 PM

Storm season officially started here on 1st October, and so far it has lived up to that name - a tornado in the N.S.W. central west a couple of weeks ago did a lot of damage, while two nights ago another storm has left, as they say in the media, a "trail of destruction in its wake". That one was in Armidale, just an hour north of us......and last night we thought for a while that we might join them, but fortunately the storm blew itself out and moved away. It has, however, left winter temperatures behind it.

It seems that when summer coming in meets winter going out, the weather can get a little bit volatile.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Oct 21 - 09:17 PM

keep checking in!!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 21 - 09:32 AM

Fall weather has arrived... Today will be take all the AC units out of windows day. Also trade hats, get out the berets day. Things are nice, here. Now. Pourvu que ça dure, je dis sans accent corse, since VA is about to have an election that is not projected to go well.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 01:17 PM

The Mudcat has observed another birthday (1 October)
and another year is coming to an end.
Let everybody know how things are?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 04 Dec 21 - 07:13 PM

well we got (Ómikrón) as we call it here in Iceland, ten people got it
I have had three injections and all we need is Ó-mæ-god taken over the omicron, a Gray joke.
The world is up and down and we had an eruption this year and they are still waiting for another bigger one could happen today.
To day I started to teach my grandchildren to play ukulele and what a moment, they are 3 and five years old.
well the winter has a arrived, and it´s snowing one day and raining the next, cold heat some thing is very off in the weather systems.
All the best over the holidays, all the best from Iceland .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 04:40 AM

Here in Juneau, Alaska we have lots of snow, with more expected, the kind of snow I like: dense, creaky and sparkly. So that part is good.

As for the virus, Juneau has been in much better shape than Anchorage (which is in south central Alaska, while Juneau is much farther south). Juneau has an over 80% rate for people who have had at least one shot. We have not had covid death in quite a while.

On the other hand, I know several antivaxxers here in town, so we're not home free.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 09:23 AM

about 90% have two shots Iceland , and they are about to finish the third one, but there are some several antivaxxers yet around, but to get them the Government has proved to use a special car that drives around to the shots
for those who won´t come where lot of people are or foreign people who don´t know yet how to reach out for help.
I think Ebbie said the right words, the world is not home free, not for a few years more, this fourth wave here in Iceland is going down, but the fifth the omicron wave is just starting up, I hope and pray that people get less sick of this omicron case.
All the best all. Skarpi Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 10:05 AM

We've had a particularly mild fall here in North Texas; the two freezes were just barely there (reaching 32^o but no lower - putting a tarp over the garden overnight was enough to keep several crops growing and producing). In my garden I still have three types of peppers (green bell, jalapeño, and poblano), one yellow bent-neck squash, and Swiss chard. The chard will tend to survive mild freezes. The garlic is sprouting now and will be ready to harvest next May. I have a few others recently moved into the greenhouse (some small flowering shrubs call bat-faced cuphea, and a basil plant).

Summing up the year for the holiday letter will include a description of the four days of super-sub freezing days last February. Not something to repeat if at all possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 21 - 09:34 PM

No, indeed, Stilly, last year's ice storm in Texas will live in infamy.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 05:17 PM

Then there is Oslo, Norway,
where a corporate Christmas party was held in a restaurant
and it turned into a COVID-19 super-spreader event,
Omicron included. It's in the news.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Dec 21 - 06:06 PM

There is early optimism that Omicron does not have worse outcomes than Delta. Its just more catchy. More break through infections perhaps but vaccines are minimizing its effects.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 03:17 AM

Every once in a while I go to the Fox channel to see what they are saying. My stomach can't take much so I don't linger. But today this one new (? haven't seen her before) said something that made sense.

She said that as viruses mutate, in order to survive they tend to become less lethal. And therefore, it makes sense that Omicron will be less potent, even if more easily transmitted.

I am not a scientist- is this the case?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 04:59 AM

here in the Land of Oz we are in summer - a very rainy summer! Bureau Outlook shows more wet weather likely this summer ... Bureau of Meteorology's Summer Outlook shows eastern Australia is likely to be wetter than average, with an increased risk of tropical cyclones, heavy rainfall and widespread flooding ...

We have very high rates of double vaccination, tho not in all areas, but anti-vaxxers are here too as are other assorted nutters like those who want "Freedom". Recently 2 of these Freedom seekers held up posters protesting about the loss of their 14th amendment rights.

Dunno why they thought "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws" applied here, we are the land of Oz, not the US of A.

Dunno if they can even think, can't remember who said this recently, but it certainly applies in this case - We don't have enough villages for the idiots we produce.

Yes I do - they can't think.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Dec 21 - 08:09 PM

Another pandemic Christmas holiday coming,
and as others have said,
we are not out of the proverbial woods yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 07:23 PM

keep those check-ins coming . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Dec 21 - 09:02 AM

Iceland

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Dec 21 - 09:43 AM

Things are steadying, weather warmed but is getting colder. Nice to know, now that I'm back on a more even keel, that I'm not doing this stupid diet for nothing.

Charlottesville, meanwhile, has no city government.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Dec 21 - 08:34 PM

How are the Twelve Days of Christmas going?
for those who have them going, anyways

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Dec 21 - 09:07 AM

Omicron is surging in southern Ontario and the provincial government is pushing booster shots for everyone over the age of 18. Schools will close for Christmas and probably stay that way in January. People are still travelling, but the government has asked us to stop going abroad. The borders have not closed to non-essential traffic and the aircraft are still flying, so I would call that official announcement nothing more than a pious hope.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Helen
Date: 18 Dec 21 - 01:28 PM

This is how I am at the moment:

COVID & Music: drawing circles on a map

It's regarding the state I'm in, i.e. me personally and the state of NSW, Oz.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Dec 21 - 06:29 PM

some businesses are still asking customers to sign in, but as I have a sensible phone, not a smart phone I can only sign in if they still provide pen & paper or an ipad.

I still put my mask on before leaving my apartment, as I learnt from bitter experience during lockdown to carry spare masks in my handbag, shopping bag & shopping trolley when I had to buy a paper mask from the closest shop after skulking down the street with a red, bare face. I stood in the doorway & called & the man who knows me allowed me to scurry in, grab a mask & return to the sign-on folder at the entrance!

Sydney's streets & shops are full of naked faces, but there are lots of masks, too. Shops do not seem to have removed their QR codes & there are many places that still need masks & sign in, including medical & allied health premises.

NSW urged to reintroduce COVID-19 restrictions COVID-19 restrictions after state sets new national record of cases. KEY POINTS # NSW is relaxing rules at the same time as cases are hitting record numbers. # The head of the AMA calls that "bizarre timing" # NSW Health will no longer routinely carry out genomic sequencing for the Omicron variant ... Dr Khorshid said living with the virus did not mean letting it rip like in NSW, where instead of the curve being flattened, it was almost vertical.

"It's very bizarre timing from the New South Wales government to pull out a mask mandate just when you are seeing an incredible spike in cases that matches what's happening around the world," he said.

He said mandatory measures were urgently needed to protect the healthcare system and workers who had been "stepping up for an awfully long time now". (read on)

sandra (masked & socially distanced - my new signature)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Helen
Date: 18 Dec 21 - 08:55 PM

Totally agree, Sandra.

Helen (masked & socially distanced and hand sanitised to within an inch of my life - also MY new signature)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 04:43 AM

oops, I forgot the sanitiser which I always carry & use.

cartoon I saw a few months ago. Interviewer speaking to applicant -
Your resume doesn't mention 2020 - what did you do then?

Wash my hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Dec 21 - 08:47 PM

Ebbie asked a good question on this thread --
I wonder,
is the answer on the New News About the Pandemic thread? (another long thread, I must allow)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 13 Feb 22 - 04:19 PM

Halló all, I know that Omicron is still on along with Delta Covid 19,
I also know that lot of people are protesting all the bans and all that, but does not all the millions of people who have lost their lives in this pandemic tell some facts ? but then again people are free in this world.
So take care, all the best Skarpi Iceland .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Feb 22 - 11:30 PM

Hi skarpi! Good to hear from you.

I am still being careful, but not staying in. I play mah jongg, but wear a mask. And it got cold. We had a bad storm a couple of weeks ago and it's been cold so there is still snow, and I drove to Richmond and Orange (about an hour each trip, one way, different directions) - there is a *lot* of tree damage. A whole lotta trees.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 05:05 PM

Great to hear from you, Skarpi!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Feb 22 - 06:20 PM

I just pulled up COVID statistics for Iceland - it looks like you're getting hammered there now also. None of the pages I visited made a distinction between original COVID, Delta, and Omicron.

Stay healthy!

Testing demand is low enough in my area that some sites are closing for now, with the provision that they can open up quickly if needed again. That has become standard operating procedure (SOP) here. And most of what is hitting here (North Texas) is Omicron. Now we're hearing about a sub-set of Omicron, but I don't have enough information to know if it is going to flare up again. Even though this is Texas a lot of people (the majority, I would say) are wearing masks still, and keeping their distance in public places. But we have super spreader events like huge football games and regional rodeo stock shows and more, to keep spreading it. You can pretty well put those who attend crowded stadiums without masks in the group that doesn't believe it is a problem or they should have to restrict their activities. That's why it keeps spreading. They come into contact with others who are vulnerable later on.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 12:39 PM

Now that the Mudcat is back,
check in!
Easter is a week away . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Apr 22 - 06:32 PM

Australia's National Folk Festival is 2 days away!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 22 - 09:41 PM

... Easter, Passover are on the way.

And here in Massachusetts,
it is almost Patriot's Day, a state holiday.
(Remember the Marathon)

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 10:52 PM

It's Eastertide and we have a winter storm advisory going on,
with wind, and snow/rain mix.
Life in the foothills of the Berkshires.
How's the weather where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Apr 22 - 11:53 PM

Sunny, warm, a bit muggy at times. I have two heat pump units in the house and so far the small one that serves the office, sun room, and kitchen (where I am during the day) is set to cool. It comes on a few times a day (not like during the summer). The other larger heat pump serves the rest of the house and by night it's cooler so it isn't needed yet. Sparing the electric bill.

My solar clothes dryer (aka clothesline) needs work, the posts are beginning to wobble. Using this won't keep waves from erasing low islands in the Indian Ocean, but it is my own butterfly effect that might help prevent a nuclear meltdown in Texas.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Senoufou
Date: 19 Apr 22 - 03:13 AM

The weather here in Eastern England has been incredible for the past week. Very warm, clear blue skies and light breezes. Our village is starting to prepare for the Jubilee Weekend by planning several events. (An outdoor picnic in the grounds of the Village Hall, for example) Our local garage owner, the lovely Richard, has offered to pay for masses of bunting and other patriotic decorations. I'll be looking out my collection of flags to hang on my front windows.
We all fervently hope the dear Queen will be strong enough and able to attend the celebrations in London.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: Charmion
Date: 19 Apr 22 - 12:31 PM

It’s snowing in southwestern Ontario. Last week it rained, and the week before featured bright sun and temperatures in the high teens (Celsius).

In other words, a normal April.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Apr 22 - 03:17 PM

First Day of May one week away.

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Apr 22 - 04:53 PM

you are thinking on a very small scale ;-)

It's Christmas Eve in only eight months !!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: skarpi
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 05:34 PM

Well I thought I would skip Covid but no it got me in the end, and I was told that
This would be soft, but I have been so sick, jesus if this is hard, what have the others gone through. Please take care this is not over yet
All the best from Iceland Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jun 22 - 06:00 PM

Get well soon, Skarpi.

One day I would like to swim in Iceland's Secret Lagoon - looked great on the TV when an English celebrity chef, Rick Stein, visited.