BUSH DIARY JULY 1993

BUSH DIARY JULY 1993:

July 3, our building is now completely covered in six inch foam panels and brand new blue skin.  This raises the ambient temperature even higher.  It is probably 80 degrees in the apartment and the little steam handle is turned off.  So now we keep the brand new Arctic windows open all the way.   Unfortunately there is no cross breeze so it feels distinctly tropical in here.  I need a mint Julip. 

 

July 4.  We had the annual parade of any and all vehicles including Search and Rescue helicopters and jet only they were at 500 feet.  Nice and noisy.

Tim read the directions on the VCR and now I can record network news which comes on at 3 pm by way of Detroit or Chicago and also Jeopardy.  Yay!!

I am not able to figure out how to do mailing labels on the computer.  Since I am the Northline editor it would be nice to have 60 or so mailing labels.  I hope to get it figured out eventually.

July 15 the HOTTEST day of the year!  It reached 79 degrees.  Granted that does not sound like much but there was not a breeze to be had, the mosquitos were able to land where ever they wanted.  They got inside the buses and the drivers were busy swatting them. Ick, ugh, bug smear on the INSIDE! Outside as well. 

Have been watching the flooding along the Mississippi.  I am glad we went when we did.  Hannibal has its flood gates closed and the place where we got on the tour boat looks like it is miles from shore.

The assembly approved money for raises and stuff.  Time sheet reflects 3% raise, we did not get the 2% merit raise.  Okay, taxes not quite so high. Thanky.

Potluck at work today for GLo Andrew's birthday.  I am taking my usual salad consisting of pineapple bits, banana, shredded cheddar cheese and mini marshmallows.  The ones I had were hard as rocks but they will soak up the pineapple juice very quickly. 

 

Got a letter from a Missouri Cousin.  It has been pretty wet in Missouri had 7 inches of rain.

July 29, the wind is blowing like crazy. Surf is up Spotted the huge ten story thingy on a barge going to Prudhoe Bay, some kind of oil bidness apparatus.  

The Polar Star with bodies on board eighty.  The ship is the largest US Coast Guard ship.  Two guys from the ship came to clinic yesterday with "owies". 

Mom and Dad are in Seattle playing with Carla sightseeing of course.

That is all for July 1993.