Tuesday: A day to: Mop up!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we
can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: Youffraita
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: FloridaSNDad
Sunday: loggersbrat
Since last week’s Storm Photos diary here at IAN, we’ve pretty much had mostly sunny weather and no precip. Which has give us all a chance to cleanup and repair storm damage (of which we here at Rancho EJ had very little, for which we are extremely grateful.)
I want to share a few more storm photos from earlier in January, so here goes:
And finally, a gorgeous Eastern CA photo of the newly-heavy Sierra snowpack:
More rain expected around start of February. But not forecast to be as heavy as late-December through mid- January’s 3-week deluge, the heaviest 3-week precip total since 1862!
xoxoxo,
EJ
Update: Terrible, terrible news of the 2 mass shootings in CA over the weekend: in Monterey Park (near LA) and Half Moon Bay, very near SF (and one of my very favorite coastal towns; also, suffering from recent major flooding.) ❤️