The Daily for Monday Jan 11, 2021

[Himself]

Good Morning DAILYITES:  I hope all of you are well.  Rich:  Thank you for the Fleet report. Roy:  Thank you for keeping me in prayer as I await results. ( I feel fine!)   Thanks for all who posted on this thread.  I hope all are in good health. 

[Dismomx5]

Good morning! a quick check in before I get some work done around this house! Thank you Rich for the thread, and Roy for the lists.

I shall hug my hubby, but puddles are frozen today. Now, at the local little pond on Saturday, my 'boys' took the grandkids skating. One son went through, but it's really only a foot or so deep where he fell in, so no issues but for wet clothes and a boot full of water. He managed to hand off his daughter in order to get out, so she only had a slightly wet foot. Heritage treasure day, eh? That might be my hint to go down and look at the bell collection from DSis/my bus trip around Europe in the 70's and that is still boxed from when we moved here in '89. Once I have a look, I'll then move the box to the donate pile.

I love the quote. Our premier is feeling that right now, methinks.

I'm going to look into the alternate meal for dinner. I already had chicken on the menu, so it shouldn't take much to move it to a thai flavour.

@surfcitygirl thank you for your sunrise. We need to cherish moments like these every day.

I'm hopefully going to be booking a '23 NCL Epic cruise today. I'm not fond of NCL as a rule (although I enjoyed our southern cruise on the smaller Dawn), but youngest DSis has chosen this one as her retirement cruise, and I love cruising with my sisters and their husbands. On Norwegian, I find food to be meh, and general communication to be non-existent, but entertainment is good. And any day on a cruise is better than a day at home, right?

Prayers for those that need them, and blessings to all.

Be well. Stay safe. Be kind. Wear a mask! 😷

 

[jodi58]

Good morning to all!

 

No puddles here, all frozen.

 

My grandson went skating for the first time yesterday , he’s  2 1/2. Better late than never!! 😉 😄🏒

 

Stay safe everybody!,

 

 

[Overhead Fred]

Mitzi had a hankering for bacon and waffles this morning, so of course I obliged! I think we may need to skip lunch. Whenever I make waffles, I always make a huge batch and freeze the extras. We can then just pop them in the toaster for a quick breakfast treat. 

 

Today in 2019, we were in Cozumel. We didn't do an official excursion, but had a fun time wandering around the town.

[highland cruiser]

Good morning.  Lots of puddles here.  Expecting some flooding in rivers and streams today through Wednesday.  Tomorrow will be the worst.  Will also hug my hubby.  Won't tell the grandkids about a girl hugging a boy today...our 6 year old granddaughter will try to hug her 10 year old brother!!  We are off to a great start this morning...don't want to change it.  🤣

Thanks for all the updates.  Stay safe everyone.  

 

[Vict0riann]

Good morning, all, and thank you, Rich and Roy for the Daily news.  

 

We had some good news last night - in BC, drug stores will be vaccinating the "general population".  We are going to go into our local drug store and try to find out if we over-80's are "general population", or perhaps we are the "heritage treasures" who will be done separately.  Timing is everything.  

 

Rain again today, so I imagine there will be puddles... 😄

[Sharon in AZ]

Good morning everyone!  Thank you for the Daily Rich. Thank you for your lists Roy and meal pictures and sunrises. 
 

There are no puddles here to splash due to our drought. I would love to have the meal suggestion but we have too many leftovers in the fridge. 
 

Have a great day everyone!

[bennybear]

Good morning and thanks Rich, Roy et al! 
@cat shepard that wine sounds great!  Love Paso Robles!  I also think it is a wonderful area to visit.  
We were fortunate to see another snowy owl yesterday! 

[Seahorse99]

Wonderful photo of the snowy owl

[puppycanducruise]

@bennybear great photo!

[kazu]

3 hours ago, ger_77 said:

FYI, our dear CC friend Kakalina's poem has received 133,000 views on Twitter as of this morning - isn't that wonderful?

 That is wonderful Gerry and well deserved.  It’s a lovely poem ❤️ 

 

Good afternoon all,

 

Just a quick one to wish everyone well.  A bit busy here today and harried as I have my dog going to the vet tomorrow.  He has a growth on his nose and I hesitate to say the C word but it is very possible 😢 Hopefully it’s nothing but better to be safe than sorry.

 

Thanks Rich as always for the Daily and Roy for the lists and Cat & Summer for the wine and drink descriptions.

 

I miss @gigianneon the Daily. 😢 

No puddles here but ice is dropping off the roof.  😱 

Prayers for everyone on Roy’s Care list & those that need them and a toast to everyone on the Celebratory / Shout Out list.  Stay safe everyone and don’t forget to wear your masks please 😷 

 

[Cruising-along]

Good morning all!

From the wet, wet PNW.  If anyone needs a puddle to splash, we have plenty to share with you. We're under flood warnings through Wednesday night.  My moss is growing moss.

 

Not a fan of mushrooms, and haven't thought what to make for dinner tonight. I joked to DH last night that a sure sign that I've been cooking too much is when I have to run the dishwasher as often as I have lately.  Maybe some Panera sandwiches take-out is in order tonight. 🙂

[Quartzsite Cruiser]

2 minutes ago, Cruising-along said:

Good morning all!

From the wet, wet PNW.  If anyone needs a puddle to splash, we have plenty to share with you. We're under flood warnings through Wednesday night.  My moss is growing moss.

 

Not a fan of mushrooms, and haven't thought what to make for dinner tonight. I joked to DH last night that a sure sign that I've been cooking too much is when I have to run the dishwasher as often as I have lately.  Maybe some Panera sandwiches take-out is in order tonight. 🙂

If at all possible, please send some of your rain to Arizona and southern California.   ☔

[Cruising-along]

1 minute ago, Quartzsite Cruiser said:

If at all possible, please send some of your rain to Arizona and southern California.   ☔

If only I could!!  

[Horizon chaser 1957]

Good morning, all! Well, I will certainly hug DH today, and with the rain returned and over 1/2 inch overnight, finding puddles to splash is guaranteed. I love polenta, but DH doesn’t. Going with the polenta theme though, I may make cornbread Dinner will be hearty chicken soup, remnants of last nights roast chicken, and cornbread would be a good side.

A year ago today, the World cruise brought us to Devils Island, the notorious French Prison site. We’ve been there before, and done the somber tour of the crumbling buildings that housed so much misery in their day. This time we took the path around the perimeter of the island, looking at flowers and animals and perilous beauty of rocks and surf. There is a plethora of warning signs, indicating why the most efficient prison walls are not man made. It was beautiful, but the pressing heat made the drinking water station at the tender pier a welcome relief!

And at the end, the elevator mats of the Amsterdam welcomed us home. Happy Monday!

Edited January 11, 2021 by Horizon chaser 1957

[Marmot@Sea]

Good Morning.

 

Another drenched West Coaster reporting in.  Lots of rain and more rain equal great puddles here.  There has been flooding in some areas of the valley with people having to leave their homes this month.  Just a normal wet gray January.

 

Ellie enjoying one of the puddles that we can find walking on the trails near our home.

 

 

After a long wet day perhaps a pot of beef barley soup and biscuits are the order of the day.

 

Val

 

P.S.  Count me in as another who will hug their dh today.

[lindaler]

Thanks Rich. Hi everyone. The wind has been so constant here that it is no fun to walk. And they haven’t had puddles here since last April. At least that means no snow to shovel. 

[Copper10-8]

Starting on the evening of the last day of the cruise, it becomes a really busy time for the hardworking men and women of the Housekeeping Dept. under the leadership of the assistant housekeepers, junior housekeepers and room inspectors (depending on what class of ship you find yourself on). Teams of HK staff will start roaming the stateroom corridors with handcarts to begin picking up pax luggage placed there. This will go on until after midnight because some guests, for whatever reason, will ignore the request to place their luggage outside by 12:00 AM. HK Staff will use crew, plus designated guest elevators (the ones with blankets hanging against the walls for protection against damage), to take the luggage to the A-Deck marshalling area.

 

Prior to all that, other staff will have "unfolded" the metal luggage cages (they have been folded up and stacked in that same marshaling area since departure day) and will have placed them side-by-side in position by the break doors and going back, being very careful not to place them on the painted yellow lines which, among other things, is the pathway for the pilot under escort once he/she comes onboard in the early morning hrs on arrival day.

 

The racks/cages will be individually marked with numbered and colored tags (the same ones you receive to place on your luggage). The loading of the cages with the luggage will then commence and will be a precise process because of the way the cages are removed in the morning - by priority - by the longshoremen. On numerous occasions I have escorted the outgoing Victoria, BC pilot to the pilot break after midnight (4:30 standby that same morning for the Seattle arrival) and have seen the HK staff still hard at work stacking luggage. Great job by those boys and girls from Indonesia!   

Edited January 11, 2021 by Copper10-8

[JazzyV]

Good afternoon Dailyites.

I like the quote. No polenta cakes for me; trying to cut back some on carbs.

All us Steelers fans here are embarrassed by their performance last night, sigh. On to Hockey season!

At least the sun is shining today, for a change.

 

Vaccinations are slow here in PA. I'll be in the 1C group, which who knows when that will be. Sad to hear that almost 60% of some long term care staff are not accepting the shots.

 

Prayers for the care list and shout outs for the celebration list.

Stay safe, social distance, and wear your mask.

 

[sailingdutchy]

Good Day Daylyites . We have been doing quite a bit of Travel Challenges with our family and friends on an other website to pass the time  but I have been keeping a close eye on CC of coarse and have been thinking a lot of the wonderful crews that have now been at sea for months and months without being able to go ashore , wander around or do their personal shopping . 

 

Today I would like to share a number of pictures of a fantastic tour we had with the Chief Engineer of one of the ships ( think I should not divulge that ) down under in the heart of the ship the place that it makes it all tick .  We were with six of us 5 Electrical and Mechanical engineers and one Civil. 

Everything was incredibly clean but it was quite noisy . An amazing experience . 

 

I have also been thinking of all the wonderful Hotel Staff , most of whom are now at home maybe doing other jobs or waiting and hoping like us to soon be able to get on board again .................

 

[cat shepard]

@bennybear-love your snowy owl pic.

@kazu- thinking good thoughts for tomorrow’s vet visit 

@sailingdutchy- those pics put my garage to shame. I will have to speak to my team about this.

[mamaofami]

Good afternoon everyone. I spent this morning on the phone with the FDA, CDC, Physer and Moderna trying to get info from them about the occurrence of Bells Palsy in the general population being vaccinated now. It was a waste of time and effort. They are tracking reported cases but the information is only available to Doctors. Physer did speak to my dentist husband to tell him they are tracking the adverse results and are emailing him what they have so we will see if there’s anything I can hang my proverbial hat on. Moderna had a medical specialist who spoke with me.

 

Now that half the day is gone, I will certainly hug my husband who is now putting together an outdoor heater for our patio so he can enjoy some fresh air.

 

We’re expecting temps in the high 40s this week, so hopefully we can visit my NY family who I haven’t seen since June. Two of them received the Moderna vaccine last Friday and are doing well. 
 

I neglected to take out anything for dinner so I guess take out and deliver will be tonight’s meal.

 

Stay safe and wear your masks.

 

 

[Suslor]

Thanks for the daily. Behind on the meal ideas so we are having last week’s chicken fricassee.  DC started COVID vaccines for those over 65 today and it was very easy to get an appointment for tomorrow in the recreation center across the street. DH gets his Friday. He didn’t want us to get them at same time in case one of us has a reaction. Having read and heard about all the horror stories of lines hours long I hope all goes smoothly. 

[Suslor]

26 minutes ago, Copper10-8 said:

Starting on the evening of the last day of the cruise, it becomes a really busy time for the hardworking men and women of the Housekeeping Dept. under the leadership of the assistant housekeepers, junior housekeepers and room inspectors (depending on what class of ship you find yourself on). Teams of HK staff will start roaming the stateroom corridors with handcarts to begin picking up pax luggage placed there. This will go on until after midnight because some guests, for whatever reason, will ignore the request to place their luggage outside by 12:00 AM. HK Staff will use crew, plus designated guest elevators (the ones with blankets hanging against the walls for protection against damage), to take the luggage to the A-Deck marshalling area.

 

Prior to all that, other staff will have "unfolded" the metal luggage cages (they have been folded up and stacked in that same marshaling area since departure day) and will have placed them side-by-side in position by the break doors and going back, being very careful not to place them on the painted yellow lines which, among other things, is the pathway for the pilot under escort once he/she comes onboard in the early morning hrs on arrival day.

 

The racks/cages will be individually marked with numbered and colored tags (the same ones you receive to place on your luggage). The loading of the cages with the luggage will then commence and will be a precise process because of the way the cages are removed in the morning - by priority - by the longshoremen. On numerous occasions I have escorted the outgoing Victoria, BC pilot to the pilot break after midnight (4:30 standby that same morning for the Seattle arrival) and have seen the HK staff still hard at work stacking luggage. Great job by those boys and girls from Indonesia!   

Thanks for crediting the hardworking men and women of the housekeeping staff. I enjoyed seeing the pictures of the baggage process and your explanation of the process, but I’m sorry, I must take umbrage with your calling those who do the stacking the “boys and girls” from Indonesia. They are the men and women of Indonesia. 

[TiogaCruiser2]

As previously promised, I am posting about my Antarctica trip 8 years ago. For now, I am posting on a temporary account. For whatever reason, I am unable to log in on my desktop system (which is easier to use for this type of posting than my iphone.)

 

January 10, 2013 Boarding Day

So the day had finally arrived! I had a nice breakfast on the hotel’s outdoor patio before boarding the HAL bus that would take us to the pier. The drive was about 90 minutes and it took us through large areas of agriculture that reminded me of old Oxnard (California) in the 70s. There were lots of small family farms with their farmhouse on the same land that was under cultivation. Just before we arrived in Valpo, the terrain changed as the road wound down a canyon (much like old Laguna Canyon). There were numerous houses on stilts, brightly painted, that were popping out everywhere you looked. Electric trolleys with their powerlines suspended above the streets and buskers, who ran into the center of stopped traffic to perform mime were some of the unique memories for this town.

 

 

When we pulled into the terminal to check in, every face had a really big smile. There was something really special about this cruise, and we all felt it. Check in went smoothly, and we were soon shuttled onto our waiting Veendam. (The terminal reminded me of Sees Candies.)

 

A few more surprises awaited: the first was that I did not have an assigned roommate. (I had done the single share program). So I had the cabin to myself.  And #2: Captain Petier Bos was Master. Now that was icing on the cake, because DH and I had sailed with him in Alaska twice, and he made you feel like we were all exploring beautiful country together. So to be able to “go sight-seeing” with him as Master was over the top!

 

We had a very orderly muster drill, then our Roll Call had a get together at the aft “pool”.

 

Departure was delayed as we had to take on extra fuel. In addition to the common fuel used, they had to load a cleaner burning fuel for the time we were to be in Antarctica.

While we waited, we had a fabulous view of Valparaiso and her lovely buildings and funiculars.