BS: Check in Mudcatters world wide

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 24 - 07:15 PM

Good to hear from you MudGuard!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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.