It rained and it snowed and it rained and it snowed and a fair amount of the time over the past week or so it did both at once. I heard more than one person around town incautiously mention spring.
Oh ho.
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Never mind this; the NWS says there’s a MONSTER coming
March 7th, 2010 by Savannah · about weather
Finished: Kiri
March 7th, 2010 by Savannah · about knit
I mentioned in a previous post that I’d resurrected this long-banished knitting project and taken it up again, my enthusiasm reinvigorated by learning to knit from charts.
Well, now it’s done.
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Bathroom tiles
March 2nd, 2010 by Savannah · about house
The tile project went fairly smoothly, aside from some puzzling areas where the mortar lifted the paint from the walls.
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Knitting lace is more seductive than you might think
March 2nd, 2010 by Savannah · about Kaylee, knit
This is a project that I began more than five years ago, when we were spending some time in Seattle and I needed some knitting. That was before I learned to use charts, and I got hopelessly bogged down in the written directions. With less than 20 rows on the needles (and those much-frogged and re-knit), I stuck the whole thing in a bag and tried to forget about it.
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The moon goes down as the sun comes up
February 8th, 2010 by Savannah · about local
While the recent full moon was spectacularly large and bright, a few days later some clear mornings gave lovely moonset views. At this time of year, the moon skims on or just below the ridgelines across the bay, angling down behind the trees as the morning light fills in.
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One moment the sun was shining
February 8th, 2010 by Savannah · about weather
Kaylee was basking in the window and I had a hat on to shade my eyes while working at my desk, since the sun shines in under the eaves at this time of the year. All of a sudden it went dark, dark enough that I reached for my desk lamp without even thinking. And then I looked up at the window, out across the bay towards the mountains.
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2010 Oooguruk Development Project Ice Road
January 26th, 2010 by Steve · about North Slope
Ice road building on land is similar to any road bed laying operation in that you need to have a solid surface to lay it on and once spread, it needs to set or cure, regardless of whether you are using asphalt, cement or ice as your material. On the North Slope there are environmental regulations that require a subsurface soil temperature of -15 F at 12 inches depth and 6 inches of snow cover to protect the permafrost and vegetation before you can start working on the tundra.
In recent years along the coast here it has been mid-December before those conditions are met and construction can begin. While there are no regulations as to when you can start on the sea ice, you do need enough ice thickness to support your equipment. Timing for that can be quite variable and sort of depends on the depth of the water that you want to cross. If you stay in the shallows you can usually start in early December as the ice grounds out but going deeper means starting later. The map shows the Oooguruk Drill Site about seven and a half miles northwest of the Oooguruk Tie-In Pad in 5 to 7 feet of water.
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One piece done; another begun
January 25th, 2010 by Savannah · about knit
And here are the rest of the photos of my 198 yards of Heaven now that it’s done blocking.
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