Holiday Happenings

So, Saturday we had the big holiday dinner (Beef Wellington, lobster tails, real mashed potatoes, etc.), which was excellent. That morning the Race Around the World was held, which was about 2.3 miles in length this year. The weather was pretty windy, and to hear some folks spin the tale it was a veritable hurricane. Not so, you could see all the outbuildings from the station. With that stormy weather that lasted into Sunday, we did have elevated temperatures. The all-time maximum temperature record, since humans have been measuring it here, used to be 7.5°F was set on December 27, 1978. Well, on December 25, 2011 it hit 8.1°F. It certainly felt warm outside, and made me want to “set the goal” of hitting the all-time coldest temperature on record during this winter.


We have not gotten any more details concerning the transition to Lockheed starting 1 April, 2012, but there is supposed to be a meeting to start the turnover process sometime during middle of this week.

“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
~Catherine the Great