Thursday, October 7. 2010
and final catch up...
When you are on a roll, you might as well get it all up...Lisa will have 3 entries to read now, that should keep her happy for like, oh a minute and a half!
My parents brought their bikes down to CA from Victoria. They figured they might ride them more here where it is flat. God knows I won't be riding them, even with weight lose my behind ain't fitting on that seat!
We had a family outing this weekend. I am not sure what mom was up to. I think she is saying "aren't I cute" to my father and I think he is thinking "If I don't look at her I don't have to answer"
Yep, this us, all the little chidlets in the back.
We went down to the air show at Miramar. It was something the rest of the family wanted to do, but not necessarily my type of thing. It was hot. What else can I say but there was food!
We had bought "upgraded" packages so we only had to walking 3 miles each way in the blazing sun to get in. I think it took me a couple hours just to get cooled down!!
There were planes...
There was a guy who did things with a helicopter that I did not think could be done.
There were Harriets and the napalm demonstrations were "way cool" and Hornets and Raptors and all kinds of neat things...Including, in a bit of Canadian Pride here, the Snowbirds. Who did amazing things up there....
But as far as an impressive plane goes the Blue Angels were neat too!
I had to laugh as I had never seen so many expensive (very expensive) telephoto lenses in one place before!
My sister, the white one, stayed outside in the sun all afternoon. Can you perchance tell??????
Everyone flew back home Sunday afternoon. Leaving Bazza and I almost two weeks by ourselves, which as much as we love them, we were really looking forward too. Although, it figures, the next mail day after we shipped the large box of things to the islands a ton more showed up. Which meant they had to go by post and it took him several hours to sort it all out, repack it etc...
We have everything from car parts.....
To 8 new sinks...The only big thing that is missing now is my new cooktop which I better hunt down soon.
My friend Heather thought that she liked the look of my low calorie leek and potato soup. But i have to tell her it tastes much better with fat in it. Anyways, here is the recipe Heather. Or at least as close as I get with recipes!
Buy a couple bunches of leeks, clean and chop them. Put in a large pot with some peeled and diced potatoes. 4-5 maybe? I like potatoes so I put in a lot. Cover with water, throw in some salt and pepper and boil until soft. I usually keep the lid off and let some of the liquid boil down. At that point put in some 1% milk. depends how much you have in the pot, a couple cups maybe and let it simmer until everything is nice and soft and gooey. Maybe another 20 minutes or so?
I put in some fresh dill about this time and if you like caraway you can put some of that in. A bit of chicken bouillon helps it as well. When done I mix in a couple tablespoons of butter or margarine and some low fat sour cream as well. Let it all blend together.
It is going to taste good, and low fat but quite raw. Always better the next day!
My parents brought their bikes down to CA from Victoria. They figured they might ride them more here where it is flat. God knows I won't be riding them, even with weight lose my behind ain't fitting on that seat!
We had a family outing this weekend. I am not sure what mom was up to. I think she is saying "aren't I cute" to my father and I think he is thinking "If I don't look at her I don't have to answer"
Yep, this us, all the little chidlets in the back.
We went down to the air show at Miramar. It was something the rest of the family wanted to do, but not necessarily my type of thing. It was hot. What else can I say but there was food!
We had bought "upgraded" packages so we only had to walking 3 miles each way in the blazing sun to get in. I think it took me a couple hours just to get cooled down!!
There were planes...
There was a guy who did things with a helicopter that I did not think could be done.
There were Harriets and the napalm demonstrations were "way cool" and Hornets and Raptors and all kinds of neat things...Including, in a bit of Canadian Pride here, the Snowbirds. Who did amazing things up there....
But as far as an impressive plane goes the Blue Angels were neat too!
I had to laugh as I had never seen so many expensive (very expensive) telephoto lenses in one place before!
My sister, the white one, stayed outside in the sun all afternoon. Can you perchance tell??????
Everyone flew back home Sunday afternoon. Leaving Bazza and I almost two weeks by ourselves, which as much as we love them, we were really looking forward too. Although, it figures, the next mail day after we shipped the large box of things to the islands a ton more showed up. Which meant they had to go by post and it took him several hours to sort it all out, repack it etc...
We have everything from car parts.....
To 8 new sinks...The only big thing that is missing now is my new cooktop which I better hunt down soon.
My friend Heather thought that she liked the look of my low calorie leek and potato soup. But i have to tell her it tastes much better with fat in it. Anyways, here is the recipe Heather. Or at least as close as I get with recipes!
Buy a couple bunches of leeks, clean and chop them. Put in a large pot with some peeled and diced potatoes. 4-5 maybe? I like potatoes so I put in a lot. Cover with water, throw in some salt and pepper and boil until soft. I usually keep the lid off and let some of the liquid boil down. At that point put in some 1% milk. depends how much you have in the pot, a couple cups maybe and let it simmer until everything is nice and soft and gooey. Maybe another 20 minutes or so?
I put in some fresh dill about this time and if you like caraway you can put some of that in. A bit of chicken bouillon helps it as well. When done I mix in a couple tablespoons of butter or margarine and some low fat sour cream as well. Let it all blend together.
It is going to taste good, and low fat but quite raw. Always better the next day!
Continuing along the random theme here..
In sorting through pictures on my desktop I found a few more from around Hurricane Earl time. I don't even know where these come from now, so if they are yours, I have used them!
It seemed appropriate with all the rain around to put them up now.
In Baughers Bay, we always have lots of old, broken down tugs and commercial boats that the owners of them who live in St Croix or such, bring over here and let sit as the Coast Guard won't let them sit in the USVI... For what that tells you. Well apparently, now we just have to worry about getting rid of them...
This is the dock at Harbourview, where we docked. This is actually the little yucky dock that UBS had, what I just caught in this picture, was look in the water....apparently Simeon's boat is still sitting there fine and dandy!
The job of trying to refloat a charter boat in Soper's hole...
And I might have posted this before, Serendy, (which trivia, we had also looked into buying years ago) was up on the rocks in West Gregory Channel of St Thomas. I hear that they are trying to get a few of the boats off the shore their with federal emergency funds...if they come in!
It seemed appropriate with all the rain around to put them up now.
In Baughers Bay, we always have lots of old, broken down tugs and commercial boats that the owners of them who live in St Croix or such, bring over here and let sit as the Coast Guard won't let them sit in the USVI... For what that tells you. Well apparently, now we just have to worry about getting rid of them...
This is the dock at Harbourview, where we docked. This is actually the little yucky dock that UBS had, what I just caught in this picture, was look in the water....apparently Simeon's boat is still sitting there fine and dandy!
The job of trying to refloat a charter boat in Soper's hole...
And I might have posted this before, Serendy, (which trivia, we had also looked into buying years ago) was up on the rocks in West Gregory Channel of St Thomas. I hear that they are trying to get a few of the boats off the shore their with federal emergency funds...if they come in!
Random, Random
The news coming out of all the Virgin Islands in the last day is incredible. The BVI has had a state of emergency declared, as the amount of rain that has fallen has caused extensive flooding and damage, on top of the substantial amount that was done by Earl and a brief flooding episode a couple weeks ago. Everything is truly soaked and falling apart. I understand that the Baughers Bay water plant has been heavily damaged, and there are many places that don't have water (thank god for cisterns! They will be full) which is kind of humorous considering the problem is way too much water on island.
Most of the roads are closed or dangerous. I understand most if not all of Roadtown flooded and left behind several inches of mud! After everyone was told to stay off the roads, one shoe store on Fleming street decided to have a $5.00 shoe sale of their flood damaged shoes and HUNDREDS of people lined up!
There is a great series of photo's here, on BVI Platinum and you can really see how much damage collapsing retaining walls has caused. These following 4 pictures are from their site, but they have about a hundred up from all over the island.
Collapsed retaining wall...
The ghuts are truly plugged full and not working properly because of it...
And the roads....
This is the worst flooding that has even been in known history in the BVI. And the most rain. I cannot even comprehend the money and effort it is going to take for the land and infrastructure to be put back together again.
The US Virgin Islands has fared no better. Here are a few pictures of the Westin on St John that is heavily damaged with water as well. Their large swimming pool is essentially a mud bath. The damage is greater then what Hurricane Marilyn did in 95. These pictures are from See St John site, and follow the link to see more.
I don't think their tennis courts are useable...
Apparently there is a lot of beach erosion as well...
And this is just what I have seen from my first pass on the internet this morning. I am alternating between glad I am not there and sorry I am not there.
Most of the roads are closed or dangerous. I understand most if not all of Roadtown flooded and left behind several inches of mud! After everyone was told to stay off the roads, one shoe store on Fleming street decided to have a $5.00 shoe sale of their flood damaged shoes and HUNDREDS of people lined up!
There is a great series of photo's here, on BVI Platinum and you can really see how much damage collapsing retaining walls has caused. These following 4 pictures are from their site, but they have about a hundred up from all over the island.
Collapsed retaining wall...
The ghuts are truly plugged full and not working properly because of it...
And the roads....
This is the worst flooding that has even been in known history in the BVI. And the most rain. I cannot even comprehend the money and effort it is going to take for the land and infrastructure to be put back together again.
The US Virgin Islands has fared no better. Here are a few pictures of the Westin on St John that is heavily damaged with water as well. Their large swimming pool is essentially a mud bath. The damage is greater then what Hurricane Marilyn did in 95. These pictures are from See St John site, and follow the link to see more.
I don't think their tennis courts are useable...
Apparently there is a lot of beach erosion as well...
And this is just what I have seen from my first pass on the internet this morning. I am alternating between glad I am not there and sorry I am not there.
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