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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COcNfV7SjF0

I don’t see wanka posting… worried..is he ok

That was great. Another funny thing about first timers is they want to sit in front. They don’t realize they will get the brunt of the water when going down those rapids and it’s not warm water. Now their putting camera up along the river at turbulent places and you can see the expression on their faces when it hits them.

Maya and Treefrog…so glad you both escaped the fury of the storms!

Glad non of those trees hit the house or made a widow out of someone. I had a tree frog it my back yard one.  I couldn’t sleep with that dang ribit ribit going on all the time. I asked my son to come over to find the darn thing and wondered when I saw it how such a little frog could be so loud. I decided to let him go. Kinda regretted it. Even one of the neighbors yelled stf up. I think the cats scared it off. It’s surprising there are any trees left in the south. Too bad they can’t put them back. Here during the drought those who don’t water the trees well enough and roots start to surface plus root them deep are prime targets of toppling over when a storm rolls in and aren’t even hurricane winds.

those trees down are at my kids’ places.  nothing down here at treefrog manor too big to pick up with one hand.  here’s a pic of my son dealing with his oak tree that fell out into the street.  (away from buildings and cars, thank god)

Lol I know what you mean. I had something similarly with my daughter in law but instead she went along to learn. She was subconsciously putting fear in my grandson for things she didn’t consider safe. She never told anyone she couldn’t swim but sensed it. The brave girl went white water rafting with my son and his friends with no life jackets and couldn’t swim. They got a bit wild and someone put a hole in the raft she said. Now she can swim. She learned when I taught the grandson. The rest was my youngest daughter who must of been a seal in her last life. Even  got him to go on those crazy water rides. I didn’t worry about him because if she can put a 70 pound dog under her neck by swimming under it and swim her in while calling it a pain in the neck in a cold river with strong currents she could handle a little guy.

As far as turning them into another RNO that may be taking it a little too far to the extremes lol

but Im pretty sure RNO could make quik work removing that root ball once you get the tree cut up into firewood. You might want to pick up a set of ear plugs first though. Be sure and video tape it !

Glad you are ok. Best, Farmboy

All I can say it is a good thing I took my two girls fishing, camping, scuba diving, hunting, mountain trail hiking, etc. So when I ‘borrow’ the grandkids and return them home a little wet, or muddy, or with a few scratches, they just roll their eyes and go, ” Oh dad….” Well, one daughter did freak out a bit when I returned my Grandson with some blood on his shirt and his arms and hands bleeding. But I figured that is just part of appreciating that Blackberry Cobbler and jam all the more when you have a little ‘skin’ in the game. Nothing a bandaid and some Neosporin cant fix.  🙂

Now my son and his wife is a different story. My son had the same benefits as my daughters with all the adventures, but his wife, not so much. She has never been fishing, white water rafting, hiking, or played a game of touch football. She is a little more strict when I take her son out for a few hours. You wont believe the instruction manual she hands me, which pretty much insures we wont have any real fun, even down to the meals. I may take them to McDonald’s, but they have to eat apple slices instead of french fries. Whaaaatttt?? That is so UnAmerican, soooo Wrong ! They can only drink water or juice, no cokes, no coffee ! And there is this ceremony when I return em. There is a clothing check for mud, ketchup, rips, tears, and to see if they still have both socks on and shoes on the right feet. Then there is this physical inspection for bruises, scrapes, scratches, grass stains, dirt, missing teeth, she even looks in their ears.Now the way I figure it, they were breathing when I got em, and they are still breathing and we made no trips to the ER while out and about. Figure that is good enough. I did get the motherly evil eye once when a button was missing off a shirt. She did not seem satisfied in the least with my explanation that   missing button probably saved his life when it got caught in one of the finger holds on the rock climbing wall. And my poor son who understands these things, he just hides in the corner while the inspection goes on. So no help there. And he thinks it a bad idea if I ask his wife if the kids have accidental death insurance. So I have not mentioned it to her. I did tell her, trying to comfort and ease her mind, that I had full liability insurance on my truck so if I ever took them ‘mudding’ and something happened, like say, I rolled the truck, any subsequent injuries they suffer would be covered, up to a million dollars.

Well, I have a few things to get done before game time so better get with it. Hope you have a great day ! Oh, one more thing about Grandkids and their parents I have learned. Probably not a good idea to be encouraging the grand kids on future employment opportunities such as becoming ‘Storm Chasers’. That one didnt go over very well. Some folks just dont have no sense of fun or adventure. I mean, look at RNO, he turned out ok. sorta. kinda. 🙂

LESTER is weakening and wind shear is toppling it.  We may get some crappy weather from the southerly inflows yet, maybe even thundershowers this evening as LESTER exits… stage left.  Storm Surf’s UP!  East and North shores.  Pretty ragged… not good surfing.

What’s Shakin’, RNO?  Three more 3-magnitude aftershocks in the last hour.  You taking lessons from the Mauna Loa Hula?

TIP: Folks in Hilo put elastic bungee straps around their cupboard knobs to keep stuff from falling out when the mountain ‘dances’.

Farmboy made me hungry.  Now I want Pizza for breakfast.

nice aim, ms hermine!

This satellite will let you see its position from the air.

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/solid-e-tropical-swell-for-the-islands-along-with-stormy-weather-winds-hurricane-lester-moves-west-northwest-a_141082/

First things first:

• Treefrog and family doing ok. Check
• Maya still ok. Check
• RNO still shaken, but not stirred. Seriously RNO, you need to cut back on the amount of ‘bait’ you are using. Even the goats seem bewildered.
• Newtogold and other folks up on the east coast getting soaked a little ?
• Called in my Man Lover’s Meat Extra Cheese Extra Olives,  Pizza order. ( Dont look Goldi ! I did eat some Blackberry Yogurt this morning. )
• FBI says Hillary clicked on ‘porn site’ that was cause of breech of her server. I swear, you cant write this into a Hollywood movie script, they would reject it as not plausible.
• Buygold, that better be a bug flying in front and within inches of the camera lense , OR…???
• Hope everyone can relax, and enjoy this saturday it has been a long week.
• Still looking at Friday’s Silver chart and going “Wow !” Good week for the bugs.

all is well. it wasn’t really bad. pretty mild until about 23:30 thursday when i lost power (and subsequently, phone line). there was a period of about a half hour just after midnight when we got winds maybe 40-50 mph. a spiral band with embedded thunderstorms/mini tornadoes? no significant damage to anything at treefrog manor. a few small branches down, nothing that would take two hands to pick up. i got off easy. my son lost a BIG oak at his place in tallahassee, but he got lucky – it fell away from his buildings and into the street. my daughter has leaves and twigs strewn all over. all in all, we got through it well.
the general area? took some hits, but it wasn’t a killer storm. lots of trees and branches down. power lines down with the trees – some streets blocked. i drove around yesterday and didn’t see much building damage. east and central tallahassee hit harder than the west side. that spiral band?
east of here? perry? cross city? cedar key? they got harder hit.
got power back on friday evening. the milk in the fridge wasn’t spoiled. the phone line didn’t come back on ’till this morning.

Several of my friends on the Big Island have goats.  If one has ‘wild land’ out there, goats are the best way to keep the jungle at bay.

Mowing just got too expensive.

rno

PERSONAL COMMENT:

There is another, lower pile not shown:  “Unemployed”

It is a small pile, and I have since fallen off that pile also (so I don’t increase the ‘unemployed’ numbers.   I’m down at the bottom of the canyon, along the river of ‘forced retirement’ .

I do pity the younger generations.  They will suffer the worst, without a clue as to what to do about it.

Actually, I never picked up the wind and flood insurance policies.  The ranch is on a bit of a slope with no low areas, so standing flooding is not possible there.  And the place has withstood winds since the 70’s with no damage until Hurricane Iselle in 2014… that was when the big albizia trees on the lot fell on the house roof on the prior owners.  Those trees have been removed and that hazard no longer exists, so I’m not worried about wind damage any more.  The house is low and well secured.

All I bought was the lava-zone fire insurance for an outrageous price because I had planned to rent out the place, but Not anymore.  I plan to drop the fire insurance next year.  Lava threat has gone away for now.   All I carry is Liability insurance in case someone gets hurt on the property.

LESTER close pass will be about 24 hours from now.  Hurricane watch is still posted for Maui and Oahu, so we are not out of the woods yet.  Even the fringes can be damaging.  Latest NOAA forecast says:

HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND
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WIND: Hurricane conditions are possible over 
Maui County on Saturday with tropical storm conditions 
possible as early as late tonight. 
Hurricane conditions are possible over Oahu Saturday night.
 
SURF: Large swells generated by Lester will build 
across Hawaiian waters tonight and Saturday. 
Surf generated by these swells will peak 
during the weekend across the main Hawaiian Islands, 
becoming very large and possibly damaging 
along exposed shorelines.
 
RAIN: Heavy rains associated with Lester 
may impact Maui county and Oahu 
Saturday and Sunday.
 

105 winds but looks like it’s gonna miss the Islands. Surfs up. Looks like you lucked out Maya. I still thinks you should keep your hurricane and flood insurance. The southern states get that all the time, then it changes direction,  then stop listening, then a storm finally does hit.

I never made it to the Blue Ridge or oceans there. I was in the Marieta north I think area looking at houses.  Quieterbut a few I liked till I found what nurses made compared to here. I heard a nurse bought a house I almost did. Nor the laser show. That sounds like fun. As far as the grandkids I have a hard time leaving anywhere without the kids wondering where and how long yet alone take the grandkids kids. All this BS with Homeland security has had a opposite effect on the next generation a far as flying because most were so young when the towers went down and they made it worse. One Homeland security B tried to tell my daughter she needed a passport to go to Aruba in Florida. They were changing it but not till the next year. Making he feel like she couldn’t go. She seemed to like her husband. I’m glad I was there and laid into her. She said as far as next year she knows. I said then why did you lie to her like that! She just had this smirk on her face. I wanted to take the grandson because there’s no real waa es there but they wernt so sure about another country. The other grandparents kept him. They were hiring people like that off the street from pizza boxes and  other common sites.

Love the grandkids but when I take time off its well deserved so all I can say is it’s their parents turn. 🙂 I can do drivable trips with them. They have two light shows at Disney that’s like movies in color and the Famtasia one boats come out in the water and battle the fairy town bad guys in top of the light show. Quite a show for the young ones. Butt it’s not as good as putting up a blanket with a bucket of chicken or bacon wrapped fruit lol that doesn’t cost as much either. Gope that doesn’t change. Disney was a joke if you reserved seats. They have this scam watch the show at a table with food. Well I paid for that to find first you have to stand in a line to get the verification. Then a few hours before the show you have to go back to pick your seats  first come first serve which take a hour to find out there just pull out chairs in lines. Then you have to come back again before the show to be seated and they just hand you a box of food. We’re all thinking the same thing and they make sure you can’t get your money back on the same day. It’s easier to just pick a place and go early than standing in lines all day you could be in the park for that. I went alone so they wouldn’t have to go through that. So the laser show sounds better. Maybe I’ll find the time to head that way but like you say in cooler weather. I did Florida in summer for daughter for Disneyworld and it’s quite something to get acclimated  to when your not used to it. When we got back it was hotter here but felt cooler.

The 19 million dollar a year second string quarterback who is causing all sorts mischievous this week. If you say earn 30,000 dollars a year it would take you 633 years to make what he does in a year.

“As none other than Milton Friedman declared in the late 1990’s, the 1930’s were consistent with nothing but tight money conditions in the real economy no matter how much reflation occurred. The economy was growing, but it wasn’t growth. The level of employment in 1939 was but equal to the peak in 1929, despite a decade’s worth of population expansion along the way. Factory employment in September 1939 was 7.6% below September 1929; factory payrolls were 13.8% less in comparison of the same two months.

Again, this should all sound frighteningly familiar. Employment around the world has never recovered despite this “recovery.” Central banks are mystified as to why inflation won’t respond to their repeated and theoretically impressive prodding. And most damning of all, interest rates in the 2010’s have behaved as if it was the 1930’s again, not in terms of the size of the collapse but an almost perfect replica of the global economy’s inability to restore growth. The yield curve and money rate shriveling, all around the world in stunningly remarkable proportions, are not additional “stimulus”, they are signaling a depression.”- Jeffrey Snider