Ice blossoms
10-02-2019, 07:14 AM
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I was working at a small hospital and we had an emegency prepareness drill. I was in charge of taking the corpses to a make shift morque. My real live corpses were pretty appalled that once someone put a toe tag on them no one bothered to observe them again. I assured them that had it been more than a drill I certainly would have reported their breathing.
10-02-2019, 10:47 AM
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LOL, don't you love emergency preparedness? I worked for an civil engineering company that was part of FEMA response and so we had to participate in the various drills and be prepared with all sorts of emergency stuff.
One of my other assignments was to fill out the check sheet and as I went passed the engineers that didn't follow the procedures and stayed at their desk that they were dead now and they should tell their wives and children that today they died at work... I was the evil Catbert to their Dilbert...
Worked with engineers for a long time, also worked for a large public projects company and was very aware of the Seattle Fire Code (as it changed while in my tenure in charge of specifications). Used that knowledge plus my quilters eye to be able to be a fire safety person in other companies and whether that clearance was correct for that pathway and other things.
Specifications preparation is sort of like typing the phone book over and over again, very much meaningless but you have to be very precise. Could draw a correlation to quilting here but I'll just gloss over that! Gives you a different feeling when you are in a hospital or airport or road or whatever that you have a small part in its creation.
One of my other assignments was to fill out the check sheet and as I went passed the engineers that didn't follow the procedures and stayed at their desk that they were dead now and they should tell their wives and children that today they died at work... I was the evil Catbert to their Dilbert...
Worked with engineers for a long time, also worked for a large public projects company and was very aware of the Seattle Fire Code (as it changed while in my tenure in charge of specifications). Used that knowledge plus my quilters eye to be able to be a fire safety person in other companies and whether that clearance was correct for that pathway and other things.
Specifications preparation is sort of like typing the phone book over and over again, very much meaningless but you have to be very precise. Could draw a correlation to quilting here but I'll just gloss over that! Gives you a different feeling when you are in a hospital or airport or road or whatever that you have a small part in its creation.
10-02-2019, 12:20 PM
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I am frequently sending pics of blocked fire doors to retail establishment headquarters. Sadly, not one has responded.
I've been in a burning building without light. I got off lucky. Others not so much. That is an area I am passionate about. And perhaps on this board I should remind folks that the seamstresses who died at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were the ones whose deaths brought about better factory conditions for fire fighting and escapes. 160? girls and women died in about 1/2 hour. Locked doors and fire escapes that broke when loaded and bad communications killed most.
I've been in a burning building without light. I got off lucky. Others not so much. That is an area I am passionate about. And perhaps on this board I should remind folks that the seamstresses who died at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory were the ones whose deaths brought about better factory conditions for fire fighting and escapes. 160? girls and women died in about 1/2 hour. Locked doors and fire escapes that broke when loaded and bad communications killed most.
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10-27-2019, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Iceblossom
Lovely pictures, Leon.
I've been asked before about my name, like most of my stories it is long. I grew up from ages 10-23 in Alaska, my Dad was in the Army and that's where we ended up. It was the 70s -- in Alaskan terms I am pre-pipeline, the pipeline era was arguably the end of the wild west, there is no where further we as a country can really go except under water. Because of the pipeline workers and the military bases in the Anchorage area there was about one single female for every 6-7 single guys, you get used to being special. And then I moved down here to the Seattle area where it was more unusual for two 15 year old girls to go on a remote hike in bear territory and things like that, and I was just another girl.
In 2000 I began playing the game Everquest, it's a live role playing game played with other people to kill dragons and such. Turns out I met my husband playing that game in February 2001. My primary character was a Barbarian Shaman named Iceblossom -- as beautiful and sharp as a crystal and a flower of her people. You can say I identify with part of her
I became active on gaming forums and adopted Iceblossom as my on-line persona so have been using it for a couple of decades now. Not all Iceblossoms are me but if it involves popular culture (books, movies, music especially) or quilting, it probably is/was me.
When I go to fan outings (or quilt shows or whatever), or just if I'm meeting up with someone, I have various hair clips that are crystal flowers -- aka ice blossoms as well. That combined with a long ponytail helps to find me out in a crowd.
I'm always surprised when I am asked for a screen name and it is already taken.
PS: Did you see my grandbaby is named Leon? Just born about 2 weeks ago.
I've been asked before about my name, like most of my stories it is long. I grew up from ages 10-23 in Alaska, my Dad was in the Army and that's where we ended up. It was the 70s -- in Alaskan terms I am pre-pipeline, the pipeline era was arguably the end of the wild west, there is no where further we as a country can really go except under water. Because of the pipeline workers and the military bases in the Anchorage area there was about one single female for every 6-7 single guys, you get used to being special. And then I moved down here to the Seattle area where it was more unusual for two 15 year old girls to go on a remote hike in bear territory and things like that, and I was just another girl.
In 2000 I began playing the game Everquest, it's a live role playing game played with other people to kill dragons and such. Turns out I met my husband playing that game in February 2001. My primary character was a Barbarian Shaman named Iceblossom -- as beautiful and sharp as a crystal and a flower of her people. You can say I identify with part of her
I became active on gaming forums and adopted Iceblossom as my on-line persona so have been using it for a couple of decades now. Not all Iceblossoms are me but if it involves popular culture (books, movies, music especially) or quilting, it probably is/was me.When I go to fan outings (or quilt shows or whatever), or just if I'm meeting up with someone, I have various hair clips that are crystal flowers -- aka ice blossoms as well. That combined with a long ponytail helps to find me out in a crowd.
I'm always surprised when I am asked for a screen name and it is already taken.
PS: Did you see my grandbaby is named Leon? Just born about 2 weeks ago.
10-27-2019, 03:25 PM
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Officer's kid... Ursa Major for grade school, Arcturus for middle school. If you remember the gate by Ship Creek, we were the last row of duplexes over that way. When we moved off-base we were in the Tudor Road/Lake Otis area and I went to AJ Wendler Jr High (home of the rams!), but then we moved and instead of going to East, I went to Service-Henshew which has since split into a senior high (Service) and junior (Henshew) campuses. I was in music and arts and knew a lot of kids across the various schools.
We were in Kansas prior to Alaska, I was 10 in 1970 and we drove from there to Washington, visited family, and then headed up the Marine Highway, and then driving the AlCan. Two adults, two kids, and two cats in a VW Bus. Went to college in Fairbanks because that was the only campus with dorms, and Fairbanks sort of killed my Alaskan spirit. 60 below is just too cold. 3 hours of daylight from the first glimmer to the last gleam is not enough, especially when you are inside in insulated buildings with minimal windows during that day. I realized when I started thinking of Anchorage as the big city with the bright lights and warm weather that something was seriously wrong with my world view.
And then you learn that in some places of the world, they don't sell anti-freeze -- it's the same thing but they call it coolant!
Anyway, I left in 1983 when I was 23. I'm here in the Seattle area by choice even though I do have family here, they weren't the draw. For me it's the tropics -- it's green all year round!
I've gone back a few times, and as they say it's a nice place to visit
We were in Kansas prior to Alaska, I was 10 in 1970 and we drove from there to Washington, visited family, and then headed up the Marine Highway, and then driving the AlCan. Two adults, two kids, and two cats in a VW Bus. Went to college in Fairbanks because that was the only campus with dorms, and Fairbanks sort of killed my Alaskan spirit. 60 below is just too cold. 3 hours of daylight from the first glimmer to the last gleam is not enough, especially when you are inside in insulated buildings with minimal windows during that day. I realized when I started thinking of Anchorage as the big city with the bright lights and warm weather that something was seriously wrong with my world view.
And then you learn that in some places of the world, they don't sell anti-freeze -- it's the same thing but they call it coolant!
Anyway, I left in 1983 when I was 23. I'm here in the Seattle area by choice even though I do have family here, they weren't the draw. For me it's the tropics -- it's green all year round!
I've gone back a few times, and as they say it's a nice place to visit
11-01-2019, 10:49 PM
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That reminded me of a time we went camping with friends, and the friends brought along some neighbors who were new to our community. We're in the Portland metro area and they had just moved from Alaska. The weather on our camping trip was pretty mild, it was maybe mid-70s. The Alaskans were absolutely miserable. It was much too hot for them. Lol. They lived here for 3-4 years, then moved to Spokane. I was floored. They think it's hot here?? 
11-04-2019, 09:01 PM
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I had never seen ice on plants and trees until I got caught when I forty was closed and I had to spend the night in Austin Texas. It was a site for me to see this. I could not get over it. every blade of grass had Ice.
11-05-2019, 06:36 AM
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We were more likely in Alaska to get hoar frost than the ice, most people have never even heard the term and I get a "beg pardon??". Big feathery crystals covering everything, including the telephone poles and lines.
https://weather.com/science/weather-...rost-explained
https://weather.com/science/weather-...rost-explained
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