Do I need one of these?
Posted in Home, Mud Bay & Rocky Point
Yesterday’s snow storm, which doubled down this morning with several hours of freezing rain, is a blessing for the region’s auto body shops. Snow and ice cause wrecks. Ironically, my 1999 Toyota Tacoma is at Bremerton’s Trew Auto Body this week for repair from a non-snow-related accident. I’m in no hurry to get it back. Trew can put some of the storm’s victims ahead of it as far as I’m concerned.
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Posted in Business Beat, Cars, Weather
Front door drift
The knife-edged drift was caused by a strong wind blowing from Dyes Inlet down the length of Mud Bay. When it hit the north end of my house, the wind split and was funneled between the side of the house and the steep hillside that borders the front parking area. At its highest point the drift is 30 inches tall. All that snow had to come from somewhere, and as the photo shows, the flat part of my driveway is almost clear. There’s plenty of snow left on the steep part though, so I’m snowed in at least until tomorrow.
Posted in Mud Bay & Rocky Point, Weather
Big wheel keep on turning
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
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I lifted this entry’s title from the Home.Spice.Life blog. Her (or his) recent post about books read in 2011 was recognized in WordPress’s Freshly Pressed section, meaning it was judged to be among the best posts of the day. Congratulations! My list of books is different.
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Posted in Books & Movies
Times have changed. With automated tolling beginning today on the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, drivers now have to pay to cross Lake Washington on SR 520 unless they ignore the bill for the trip when it arrives in the mail (a bad long-term strategy) or make a late-night crossing. They can also go out of their way to cross the lake on the still untolled I-90 bridge or take an alternate route around it. None of these options would have been acceptable to a guy I knew years ago—the Toll Road Bandito.
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Posted in Economy
Cat patrol at high tide
To avoid any hint of plagiarism, I revised my original photo caption, which quite accurately said “It was a dark and stormy morning.” That’s the Mud Cat in the photo. Normally he likes to patrol on the top of the bulkhead but not this morning. For the record it was a dark and stormy morning.
King Tides are higher-than-normal tides that occur once or twice a year in the winter when the moon is at its closest point to the earth and the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon are acting together.
Posted in Mud Bay & Rocky Point
A time-honored adage says that the worst day of fishing is better than the best day at work. But judging from an email message I received recently, I’m wondering if its authors should have spent more time in the office polishing their lure before heading out to cast their phishing line.
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Posted in Business Beat
I doubt whether anyone is going to guess the significance of the number 2555 to me even if I provide a hint. For those inclined to try, rather than spilling the answer right off I have included it after the jump. The number isn’t my PIN or the balance in my savings account. It is the approximate distance between Bremerton and Youngstown, Ohio, but that would only be important if I were going there. However, “distance” or more specifically “miles” is a good hint.
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Posted in Biking
