I know, not great pics, but the Blue Angels have been practicing over my back yard all day. It's part of what I love about where I live.
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I know, not great pics, but the Blue Angels have been practicing over my back yard all day. It's part of what I love about where I live.
I know, not great pics, but the Blue Angels have been practicing over my back yard all day. It's part of what I love about where I live.
Cool..I'll bet they are as loud as Imp's shirts.
On a clear day here, the AWACS patroling DC airspace make a series of contrail halos that look quite surreal. Of course I live in the flight path of Dullus airport so I have 747's buzzing my house all the time...pretty annoying.
On a clear day here, the AWACS patroling DC airspace make a series of contrail halos that look quite surreal. Of course I live in the flight path of Dullus airport so I have 747's buzzing my house all the time...pretty annoying.
We get the screaming death machines in Virginia Beach but not so much where I live.
My folks live close enough to Nellis to get the worst of it.
I only get sirens and choppers.
I live about a half mile from the hospital.
I only get sirens and choppers.
I live about a half mile from the hospital.
A racoon climbing
outtah a hole inna
tree w/the full moon
behind it.
Lotsa mockingbirds.
College hotties
(I NEVER ruin the
illusion by talking
to/at them).
AC
in
Oct.
Palmetto bugs I
don't step on
because I'm afraid
they'll throw me to
the ground.
outtah a hole inna
tree w/the full moon
behind it.
Lotsa mockingbirds.
College hotties
(I NEVER ruin the
illusion by talking
to/at them).
AC
in
Oct.
Palmetto bugs I
don't step on
because I'm afraid
they'll throw me to
the ground.
Coward!
Mr. Pessimist.
Mr. Pessimist.
Wild Bill! We had the Blue Angels do a show here in Hogtown. Early this year. Pretty awsome having jets practically strafing over the treetops ( as long as they're not armed). A Bellsouth coms tower near my hospital served as one of their reference points.
LL's afraid of our state animal?
LL's afraid of our state animal?
Yep, when I am
severely out#'ed.
severely out#'ed.
QUOTE(Plunger @ Oct 5 2006, 09:00 PM) 
On a clear day here, the AWACS patroling DC airspace
Larkspur City Hall closed for pest control
The big top arrived in Larkspur Friday as City Hall went under cover to battle the bugs.
"It looks like the circus is in town," said Larkspur resident Susanne Bersbach, 49, as she stared across the street. "It does, doesn't it? This is so strange."
She was one of the sidewalk gawkers strolling by as Larkspur's administrative wing at the corner of King Street and Magnolia Avenue went under the wraps of a 279,000-square-foot, blue-and-yellow striped fumigation tent to combat termites.
The 95-year-old City Hall at 400 Magnolia Ave., and the fire station next door, began a weeklong closure Friday as crews started treating a termite infestation discovered last month. City services were shifted elsewhere.
City offices for the staff of about 20 will be closed through Jan. 2. Fire officials will operate from the Corte Madera fire station during that time. The library, housed within the City Hall building, is scheduled to open for regular hours Wednesday.
"This is the third year we've closed city offices down over the holidays anyway," said Public Works Director Hamid Shamsapour. "We would be closed with or without this fumigation."
A fumigation crew erected the makeshift tent covering both two-story structures within a
matter of minutes Friday morning. Crews continued working on an airtight seal into the early afternoon.
Shamsapour said the tent would remain on the buildings for one day, "but then they need to put fans inside the building to circulate the air."
Air tests on Tuesday will determine whether the building can be open, according to Shamsapour.
"If it's clear, we plan on opening the building," he said.
City Manager Jean Bonander said fumigation workers began preparations Thursday, drilling holes around the base of the building.
"It's a gas that is dispersed throughout the building," she said.
Bonander, who spent Friday among those "kicked out of our office space," worked at the recreation office at nearby Piper Park. She said employees made sure neighbors were aware of the fumigation.
"We want people to keep an eye on pets and to keep their animals indoors," she said.
The termites were first spotted by a resident who noticed the critters in a crack in the steps in front of City Hall.
Shamsapour said the project's $17,000 price tag, a significant increase from earlier estimates of $5,000, was due to the scope of the problem after an investigation.
"That was the price tag just to do the front of City Hall only," he said. "Further inspection of both buildings turned out that there are termites in all the walls in both buildings."
Designed with an Italian villa influence by San Francisco architect Charles O. Claussen, the Mission Revival-style City Hall on the city's southern edge was dedicated in 1913. Early council meetings were held in what now houses the main room of the library. In 1939, the old fire station moved into quarters next door to provide space for the children's library.
Larkspur resident Helen Heitkamp, a member of the Planning Commission and heritage board, expressed concern earlier in the week about the pest problem.
"The tenting will kill some of them but not all of them," she said.
On Friday, John Ferguson, 69, of Corte Madera had a question as he looked at the covering clamped snug over every inch of the structures.
"Has Christo been around?" he asked, referring to the artist noted for wrapping structures and other objects with fabric.
The big top arrived in Larkspur Friday as City Hall went under cover to battle the bugs.
"It looks like the circus is in town," said Larkspur resident Susanne Bersbach, 49, as she stared across the street. "It does, doesn't it? This is so strange."
She was one of the sidewalk gawkers strolling by as Larkspur's administrative wing at the corner of King Street and Magnolia Avenue went under the wraps of a 279,000-square-foot, blue-and-yellow striped fumigation tent to combat termites.
The 95-year-old City Hall at 400 Magnolia Ave., and the fire station next door, began a weeklong closure Friday as crews started treating a termite infestation discovered last month. City services were shifted elsewhere.
City offices for the staff of about 20 will be closed through Jan. 2. Fire officials will operate from the Corte Madera fire station during that time. The library, housed within the City Hall building, is scheduled to open for regular hours Wednesday.
"This is the third year we've closed city offices down over the holidays anyway," said Public Works Director Hamid Shamsapour. "We would be closed with or without this fumigation."
A fumigation crew erected the makeshift tent covering both two-story structures within a
matter of minutes Friday morning. Crews continued working on an airtight seal into the early afternoon.
Shamsapour said the tent would remain on the buildings for one day, "but then they need to put fans inside the building to circulate the air."
Air tests on Tuesday will determine whether the building can be open, according to Shamsapour.
"If it's clear, we plan on opening the building," he said.
City Manager Jean Bonander said fumigation workers began preparations Thursday, drilling holes around the base of the building.
"It's a gas that is dispersed throughout the building," she said.
Bonander, who spent Friday among those "kicked out of our office space," worked at the recreation office at nearby Piper Park. She said employees made sure neighbors were aware of the fumigation.
"We want people to keep an eye on pets and to keep their animals indoors," she said.
The termites were first spotted by a resident who noticed the critters in a crack in the steps in front of City Hall.
Shamsapour said the project's $17,000 price tag, a significant increase from earlier estimates of $5,000, was due to the scope of the problem after an investigation.
"That was the price tag just to do the front of City Hall only," he said. "Further inspection of both buildings turned out that there are termites in all the walls in both buildings."
Designed with an Italian villa influence by San Francisco architect Charles O. Claussen, the Mission Revival-style City Hall on the city's southern edge was dedicated in 1913. Early council meetings were held in what now houses the main room of the library. In 1939, the old fire station moved into quarters next door to provide space for the children's library.
Larkspur resident Helen Heitkamp, a member of the Planning Commission and heritage board, expressed concern earlier in the week about the pest problem.
"The tenting will kill some of them but not all of them," she said.
On Friday, John Ferguson, 69, of Corte Madera had a question as he looked at the covering clamped snug over every inch of the structures.
"Has Christo been around?" he asked, referring to the artist noted for wrapping structures and other objects with fabric.
Not the first time a town has discovered its city hall is filled with vile insects, I'll wager.
But it's the first time they fumigated to get rid them.
Ha!
QUOTE(greeneyes @ Dec 24 2006, 02:20 PM)
Not the first time a town has discovered its city hall is filled with vile insects, I'll wager.
Here in Hogtown, they keep re-electing them!
Our infestation is one of longstanding tradition.
What Abby sees when she looks out the window:
...aBIG party weekend approaches!
There's a SNOW advisory here today.
I did not sign up for this.
I did not sign up for this.
There's no snow here.
Not a good thing for a Ski Resort.
Fucking weather.
Not a good thing for a Ski Resort.
Fucking weather.
Another January day in the '70s. This is defintely the wormest winter I have seen here and I fear a very hot summer.
We're in trouble folks. I fear major crop failures in the next few years due to weather changes so stock up on canned and dry goods and especially on booze.
We're in trouble folks. I fear major crop failures in the next few years due to weather changes so stock up on canned and dry goods and especially on booze.
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Funny, there is ice on all the ponds here as well as a couple of feet of snow....
I am sick of running a snow shovel, and it's a glorious 4 degrees right now, and it's supposed to get to -4 degrees tonight with a brisk breeze on top of that. Just glad I am not homeless right now!
At least we have had plenty of moisture.
I am sick of running a snow shovel, and it's a glorious 4 degrees right now, and it's supposed to get to -4 degrees tonight with a brisk breeze on top of that. Just glad I am not homeless right now!
At least we have had plenty of moisture.
You kinda expect ice, butt I live ten miles north of San Francisco. Frost on the grass doesn't happen here all that regularly.
Yeah, what will really piss you off is when it frosts after the budding.
I'm always saying that where I come from folks are unacquainted with the concept of weather that can kill ya'.
My sister was complaining about the cold, but I figured that was just 'cause she's a little bitch.
My sister was complaining about the cold, but I figured that was just 'cause she's a little bitch.
Kinda like the computer geek who got his family lost after Thanksgiving. He didn't seem to understand that loafers, slacks and an Oxford shirt aren't proper snow country attire.
If I wanted weather that can kill, I’d move some place that experiences seasons.
If I wanted weather that can kill, I’d move some place that experiences seasons.
I could never see snow again and still die happy.
Better to not see snow again and still live happy.
You'll live longer without snow.
Even longer without ice.
Unless ice is keeping the beer cold.
It's snowing a few miles from my casa.
Heading this way.
I'm already sick.
This will surely kill me.
Heading this way.
I'm already sick.
This will surely kill me.
Hot tea and whiskey time.
An ounce of prevention...
An ounce of prevention...
That's what you get for hanging out with children, they're disease ridden.
That's exactly right. Ms. Prole is at this very moment visiting grandchildren and being infected with whatever it is I'll get next week when she gets back.
As for the snow, several ounces of prevention are in order.
As for the snow, several ounces of prevention are in order.
I'll be drinking to that soon enough.
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