A collection of stories from the life of Michael Burke. He worked for the Forest Service in Alaska, California, and Oregon. He lives in Oakland, OR. His wonderful wife, Celia, passed in May of 2021
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
APRIL SNOW
I can not recall this amount of snow in April. Half inch measured this morning. There were many spring days in years gone by mixed with rain, sleet, snow and hail but never any accumulation of snow like this. Hope fruit tree blossoms make it. Should move the fire season back a day or two.
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FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY
It is four years today when Celia left this word, something I think about every day. It is not all sorrow as I think back on her humor, w...
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It is four years today when Celia left this word, something I think about every day. It is not all sorrow as I think back on her humor, w...
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In my early days with the Forest Service we were called upon to fight fires with little choice in the matter, especially on our days off or ...
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One of my most memorable Thanksgivings was when I lived in Eugene from 1991 to 2000. My two children were with me on Thanksgiving of 1992...
Hopefully, water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children don't follow this strange occurrence but I am not betting against it.
ReplyDeleteSome say we're just in an interglacial period of warmer global temperatures lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The Future Ice Age is expected in 8,300 years, not TODAY.
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming & global dimming are both parts of climate change that trap the heat in & also do not let the heat in.
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