Aqua – December 13, 2021
Not much snow to be seen anywhere around.
SORE FEET ON ORGANIC COWS FIXED – HAPPY COWS!
Double dipper
I am a double dipper. Got TDAP in my right arm, covid booster in my left. Walked two miles back home from the pharmacy and drunk four full glasses of water. Got to hydrate!
Upcoming Moon Cycles
Upcoming Moon Phases:
Day | Month | Day | Phase | Moon-Rise | Moon-Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saturday | December | 18 | Waxing Gibbous π | Tuesday 9:34 am east 80° |
Tuesday 9:54 pm west-northwest 282° |
Sunday | December | 19 | Cold β Full π | east-northeast 75° |
west-northwest 287° |
Thursday | December | 23 | Waining Gibbous π | Sunday 1:26 pm east-northeast 64° |
Sunday 12:59 am west-northwest 296° |
Monday | December | 27 | Last Quarter π | Thursday 4:46 pm east-northeast 72° |
Thursday 4:21 am west-northwest 290° |
Friday | December | 31 | Waining Crescent π | Monday 7:53 pm east 95° |
Monday 7:28 am west 268° |
DOW | Month | Day | Phase | Moon-Rise | Moon-Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monday | January | 3 | New π | – | – |
Thursday | January | 6 | Waxing Crescent π | Sunday 12:37 am east-southeast 116° |
Sunday 1:08 pm west-southwest 244° |
Monday | January | 10 | First Quarter π | Thursday 4:30 am east-southeast 105° |
Thursday 4:54 pm west-southwest 258° |
Thursday | January | 13 | Waxing Gibbous π | Sunday 6:48 am east 88° |
Sunday 7:08 pm west 275° |
Monday | January | 17 | Wolf πΊ Full π | east-northeast 68° |
west-northwest 293° |
Saturday | January | 22 | Waining Gibbous π | Tuesday 1:51 pm east-northeast 67° |
Tuesday 1:25 am west-northwest 295° |
Wednesday | January | 26 | Last Quarter π | Saturday 4:59 pm east 86° |
Saturday 4:35 am west 277° |
Saturday | January | 29 | Waining Crescent π | Tuesday 7:26 pm east-southeast 105° |
Tuesday 6:58 am west-southwest 258° |
DOW | Month | Day | Phase | Moon-Rise | Moon-Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | February | 1 | New π | – | – |
Saturday | February | 5 | Waxing Crescent π | Tuesday 1:28 am east-southeast 111° |
Tuesday 1:54 pm west-southwest 251° |
Tuesday | February | 8 | First Quarter π | Friday 3:59 am east 96° |
Friday 4:20 pm west 267° |
Saturday | February | 12 | Waxing Gibbous π | Tuesday 6:53 am east-northeast 74° |
Tuesday 7:14 pm west-northwest 288° |
Wednesday | February | 16 | Snow β Full π | east-northeast 63° |
west-northwest 297° |
Sunday | February | 20 | Waining Gibbous π | Wednesday 1:21 pm east-northeast 73° |
Wednesday 12:57 am west-northwest 289° |
Thursday | February | 24 | Last Quarter π | Sunday 4:26 pm east 96° |
Sunday 4:01 am west 267° |
Sunday | February | 27 | Waining Crescent π | Wednesday 7:07 pm east-southeast 113° |
Wednesday 6:37 am west-southwest 249° |
DOW | Month | Day | Phase | Moon-Rise | Moon-Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | March | 3 | New π | – | – |
Sunday | March | 6 | Waxing Crescent π | Wednesday 1:04 am east-southeast 104° |
Wednesday 1:28 pm west 259° |
Thursday | March | 10 | First Quarter π | Sunday 4:05 am east 81° |
Sunday 4:25 pm west-northwest 282° |
Monday | March | 14 | Waxing Gibbous π | Thursday 7:08 am east-northeast 65° |
Thursday 7:31 pm west-northwest 296° |
Friday | March | 18 | Worm π Full π | east-northeast 67° |
west-northwest 291° |
Tuesday | March | 22 | Waining Gibbous π | Friday 2:33 pm east 88° |
Friday 2:09 am west 275° |
Saturday | March | 26 | Last Quarter π | Tuesday 5:55 pm east-southeast 111° |
Tuesday 5:25 am west-southwest 251° |
Tuesday | March | 29 | Waining Crescent π | Friday 9:02 pm east-southeast 116° |
Friday 8:28 am west-southwest 243° |
DOW | Month | Day | Phase | Moon-Rise | Moon-Set |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Friday | April | 1 | New π | – | – |
Tuesday | April | 5 | Waxing Crescent π | Friday 2:16 am east 88° |
Friday 2:37 pm west 274° |
Saturday | April | 9 | First Quarter π | Tuesday 5:15 am east-northeast 69° |
Tuesday 5:37 pm west-northwest 293° |
Wednesday | April | 13 | Waxing Gibbous π | Saturday 8:32 am east-northeast 64° |
Saturday 8:56 pm west-northwest 295° |
Sunday | April | 17 | Pink πΈ Full π | east 79° |
west 278° |
Wednesday | April | 20 | Waining Gibbous π | Saturday 1:59 pm east 98° |
Saturday 1:34 am west 265° |
Sunday | April | 24 | Last Quarter π | Wednesday 5:43 pm east-southeast 116° |
Wednesday 5:11 am west-southwest 245° |
Wednesday | April | 27 | Waining Crescent π | Saturday 8:51 pm east-southeast 112° |
Saturday 8:21 am west-southwest 246° |
35 years to life
35 years to life
They call then lifers were I work. People who put their whole career in with the state, from college to their retirement 30 odd years later. The organization man, as they say. While I have worked at the same job, downtown for more the 14 years now, I can’t imagine being there 30 years or living the life I’m currently living forever. I figure do my best every day today, save for a better tomorrow, and that some point make the leap.
Paying My Respects to the Lake Champlain Bridge
Notes on the Re-Run for Thursday, December 22nd.
It was almost two years ago when they blew up the old Lake Champlain Bridge…
— Andy
Yesterday, I drove up to Chimney Point, in Vermont outside of Addison to witness the sad but historic passing of the Champlain Bridge. The massive 80-year old span was imploded into the frozen lake, after two piers where discovered badly damaged, and was determined to be likely to fail catastrophically without a controlled demolition.
It is sad to see such a historic landmark go. Nobody really wanted to see such a landmark go up into a pile of rubble. As I stood there on Chimney Point, I stood next to many farmers and other local residents who had been alongside of and over the Champlain Bridge thousands of times. It’s such a big landmark, that stands out over the landscape, with it’s arches reaching 130 feet above the flat landscape around. Pictures simply don’t do justice. Many had grown up seeing it’s majestic spans and beautiful archways, and just assumed it would always be there. Some of the oldest residents might even remember back 80-years ago to 1929, when the bridge was under construction.
It was truly a community event. I swear every person from the very rural Addison County, VT and surrounding areas had to have been there. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many pickup trucks with dairy-farming related bumper stickers, men and children with muck boots on, Carharts and seed-hats. It was such an amazing group of people, with such a complicated mix of emotions about the demolition of the bridge. People where sad to see it go, but also hopeful for the new bridge. Some where cynical that something ever as great could be built again.
The wintry weather made the span almost invisible from the site about 3,000 feet away from the bridge where I was looking at. Chimney Point had probably the best viewpoint of the Champlain Bridge on a sunny day, your back would be to the sun, and with a back drop of the Adirondack Mountains. You could see the bridge fade in and out like a ghost as the snow squalls blew out and blew in. What you could see was so massive, so beautiful. Yet eerie, because all that was left was the lightest silhouette of the old bridge. The silhouette was so light, that it was hidden from the camera.
Then there was the loud bang, right at ten in the morning — a thunderous roar lasting less then a second or two, that shook the ground and sent ice soaring a foot into the air on Lake Champlain, even as far away as we where. The energy wave forced upon the lake and the surrounding landscape shook the parked cars so hard that it set off car alarms. It was not like listening to a firecracker going off, but more like a wave of energy coming at you. In the wintry blizzard-like weather, you barely saw the bridge fall, but it was still the most remarkable feeling at you felt the thousands of tons of steel and concrete hit the waters of Lake Champlain.
Vermont 127 and Vermont 17 where one way during the day to allow for parking, so leaving everyone had to drive by the fallen bridge. The once majestic bridge was little more then just a pile of rubble sticking up from the frozen lake in a wintry fury of the snow. I looked like something out of a war photograph, although it was much bigger and much more realistic. It was a bit scary that we as a society could convert such a massive and beautiful structure to just a pile of rubble.
On the 400th Anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s discovery of Lake Champlain and the fertile plains that surround it, it’s sad to see such a man-made landmark go. Yet, it’s also a reminder of how man made landmarks come and go, and only natural wonders like the mountains and the lake remain. While people since 1929 have looked out across the lake at Chimney Point at the engineering marvel of Champlain Bridge, much of the rest of the landscape remains unchanged since the day Samuel de Champlain first made his voyage in 1609.
A new bridge will replace the first Lake Champlain bridge, and service the automobile, truck, pedestrian, and bicycle needs of the 21st century, but it will be little more then an impermanent landmark that must someday fall and be destroyed like the first Lake Champlain Bridge. Nobody can foresee the demolition of the new bridge, in some future century, but it will ultimately be gone just like the first bridge is now gone.
(this picture taken just north of the bridge was taken in March 2006).
Blue – Bridge
Yellow – My View
Green – Where I Parked
View Champlain Bridge Demo in a larger map