Remember the spring of 1980? Although it was 26 years ago, in this part of
the country the memory of the day Mt St Helens blew is ever fresh in our
collective minds. On clear days, as we've had lately, Mt St Helens is
clearly in view, and many days a small plume of smoke---a wisp, if you will---can be seen hovering above the mountain. Letting off a little steam is what's happening but yesterday
I found out (yes, just now!) that the volcano has actually been in a constant state of eruption
for the last two years now, and although it's not spewing massive clouds of
steam or rivers of molten lava it's erupting, in it's own quiet "sneak
attack" kind of way. The photo above was taken a little over a year ago and it's the largest steam cloud we've witnessed so far (the Roommate and I had played hookey and got to witness this sight from the bar-by-the-putting-green at Edgefield, where we had spent the afternoon pretending to play golf and pretending we weren't drinking heavily. Quite an impressive sight, not the golfing/drinking, but the volcano, silly.
Simmer down, Helen, keep a lid on it. I'm not ready for a major eruption right now.
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On a Rusty blog-a-thon note, Our Rusty won his drag competition Saturday night, lip sinking to "She Works Hard for the Money" and showing his junk. His answer to the question portion of the competition was "Magenta is my favorite color in the Crayola box", and still he won! Shocking because the question had something to do about peace in the Middle East.
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And 6 months later I was born. I say this not to depress you but just to state a fact, realy.
Michelle was born the day before. She's OLD!
When "she blew" I was in kindergarten in Medford, Oregon. I remember we got to stay at home because the ash and crap from all the way up north was awful. It was like it was snowing, but alas, us kiddo's couldn't go out and play because we would have suffocated....surprised I'm still here....my parents still drank back then!
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