Comments on: Friday Cat Blogging

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:28:25 +0000

Alaska and the Yukon are getting your weather, Badtux, and they don’t really want it. That high pressure ridge really should have moved after a week, but it has been there for more than a month. All of our weather is coming down from the North, when it should be coming from the West.

We are freezing and you are running out of water. Our tourist economy is going down the tubes with your agriculture, and people still claim there is no problem.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:12:42 +0000

It was 75F and sunny here.

Which is the problem. It is supposed to be 55F and rainy here, this time of year.

This is going to be a dry year for the Central Valley…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:17:12 +0000

Down here leaving a pet or a child in a vehicle when it’s hot will get you in trouble and it is reported a lot. Nice to know they report it in Australia. The mouth is the only way dogs have to dispel heat, and Malamutes have evolved into nearly perfect heat trapping animals. The most you can do if you have to take them to a warm climate is to have them shaved regularly.

They are working dogs, they want to move, not sit around.

I, too, am truly tired of the constant roller coaster of this winter, Hipparchia [and no touch typist need to be a cryptanalyst to recognize a single key shift]. They are calling for a serving of ice pellets locally, just for a change.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:10:50 +0000

yotred = your mystery word of the day 😉

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:09:50 +0000

today was lovely, tomorrow will be nice, but there’s anther one out there headed this way. again. I’m yotrd of it, but it would be good weather for those 2 malamutes! (although not for long enough to suit them).

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:30:00 +0000

I just got back from a shopping trip, and when I was leaving the Supermarket, I saw a guy tying up 2 Malamute’s outside in the hot sun!! They were panting so hard, I truly thought they would explode! I went back in the Store, asked for the Manager, explained, he looked and we called the RSPCA! The manager got some competition form they had, and when the guy was at the checkout, he told him he was the 100th customer that day and he had a chance of a good prize, he just had to fill in the form, which he did! 😆 I was pleasantly surprised actually, in these day’s of *Not my problem!!*. 🙂 Nice one! I had to leave, so I don’t know what happened once the RSPCA finally arrived. At least they had the guy’s details. Heh!! What kind of a f’kin moron would have Malamute’s here, in this Hades weather?! He should be shot just to stop him polluting the gene pool! He was covered in tat’s, in singlet & shorts, bearded & smoking. You know the type Bryan. 😉 I’m sure you encountered them in your LEO day’s. 🙂

It’s pretty rare that I am both truly disgusted, and pleasantly surprised by people simultaneously. It’s kinda difficult to process. *shrug*

I’ll find out from the Manager when I go there next and a few day’s or so. Should be interesting. 🙂

*sigh* There are days when I truly hate Human’s, and I wish I was back in my old job.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:31:10 +0000

Sounds like it’s time to get ice cleats for your shoes, and chains for the car, which, of course, no one in Houston would ever consider stocking.

The real danger on the roads is the clowns in the SUVs that think that 4WD will eliminate all of the slipping and sliding. They end up in the ditches, but they may take others with them.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:28:21 +0000

And now NWS says for Tuesday in Houston “chance snow.” I suppose “chance” must be one of the proverbial dozens of Eskimo words for a kind of snow … or better than “snow by design”?

The weirdest experience I ever had bicycling to/from work was about two decades ago. When I biked to work; there was no precipitation. It snowed while I was at work. The real challenge was when it iced over just before my bike ride home…

But really… snow?… Houstonians did NOT sign up for this!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:47:17 +0000

I felt some ice pellets when I was outside last night, but was more concerned about the clown who slammed into a light pole about 2:10AM causing my lights to go out momentarily.

If the power had stayed out I would have executed him on the spot, and not just because his horn was stuck on and he did nothing about that. Given the time, the chance that he wasn’t drunk was near zero. With no other cars on the road and six lanes to drive in, hitting a light pole is a rather strong clue.

If it’s really cold and a dog goes through the ice, you haul him/her out and they shake a couple of times and they are dry. At 20° and above you have to stop and start a good fire, because the undercoat will get wet. You have to dry out to continue or hypothermia will take over. That undercoat is also the reason the dogs need cold temperatures, because it’s like a down parka and just traps heat.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:06:05 +0000

35°F and mostly sunny here today. I didn’t stay up for the low last night; when I went to bed at 2:00 A.M. it was 30°F. We saw very little precip here.

Those poor dogs…