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Completely irrelevant to OW but possibly of interest to those of you with pet pooches and it's a nice story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59104489

krwood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:38 pm Interesting they are keeping a such close record of the anchor hawse on these pages (while anchored in Queenstown, Ireland). A cross in the hawse is on the way to having an elbow and then a cross-and-elbow. And indeed it is quite troublesome to sort. Read all about here: https://books.google.com/books?id=SpcUo ... se&f=false.

I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).

USS Yorktown always recorded the state of the hawse when anchored with the port and starboard anchors.
Clear hawse, elbow in hawse and cross in hawse, often accompanied by which cable is on top, are then recorded for each watch.

studentforever wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 5:20 am Completely irrelevant to OW but possibly of interest to those of you with pet pooches and it's a nice story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59104489

krwood wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 9:38 pm I also noticed the ship they are with - the USS Miantonomoh has an interesting (if short) history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863).

That is the weirdest ship I have ever seen! Looks like a tiny floating oil refinery at first glance.

The ironclads are a strange looking bunch!

Randi wrote: ↑Sun Oct 31, 2021 12:39 pm

Happy Halloween!

Nice one Randi!
The sun's at it again this Hallowe'en:
Massive solar flare barreling toward Earth this Halloween. By Brandon Specktor 1 day ago
The category G3 storm could cause some satellite navigation problems, and auroras as far south as Washington state.
The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a strong geomagnetic storm.
The storm — which ranks as a category G3 on the Space Weather Prediction Center's (SWPC) 5-tier scale — is expected to reach Earth late on Saturday (Oct. 30), with effects continuing into Halloween (Oct. 31), according to a SWPC statement...

I'm not sure that it did anything too amazing: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/auro ... e-forecast

Halloween greetings from Creepy McCulloch ...

Happy Birthday!!

Thank you everyone for the library-themed cake and tea! Based on the birthday I had, the tea is a London Fog and the cake is an Apple-Studded Brown Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. With cinnamon-maple ice cream on the side. Everybody have a slice!

Thank you
Delicious - and calorie-free!

arboggs wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:06 pm Thank you everyone for the library-themed cake and tea! Based on the birthday I had, the tea is a London Fog and the cake is an Apple-Studded Brown Butter Streusel Coffee Cake. With cinnamon-maple ice cream on the side. Everybody have a slice!

Oh wow! When will you have another birthday please, April - I could do with some of that cake every week. Clearly will have to do some remedial work on the tea since London Fog is not so good with milk or lemon

Moose on the loose. How would your two year old feel about a moose dropping into his daycare?

Why did you have to change classrooms, Johnney?
A Moose broke the window, Mummy.
Now Johnney, what have I told you about making up stories .....

That story also answers the question: how many men does it take to lift a two year old moose?