OT: Springing into Spring - Our Football Fortunes Hope Eternal

[Alaskawildkat]

First it was stpaulcat optimistically checking in with encouraging commentary regarding the season ahead and then this morning Alvious piled on with posting of a thread titled, "Why do I feel like we're actually going to be pretty good in football this year?

Evidently with Spring comes revitalization. Yesterday on a visit to Lake Tahoe I even found Rocky out searching for Bullwinkle to add Moose karma. (Scroll down to 2nd to last photo, assuming all photos post)

Spring begins to arrive this morning along Lake Tahoe's East Shore Trail below the still snow covered mountains:

 

[Alaskawildkat]

 

[Alaskawildkat]

@1630Boston said:

What kind of squirrel is that?

There are two types of squirrels that predominantly habitat the Lake Tahoe basin. One is a tree squirrel known as the Douglas Squirrel or Chickaree. The other is a ground squirrel known as the Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel which is the one pictured in my photo. It belongs to a larger group of Sierra Ground Squirrels.

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

Hey Alaska, those squirrels don’t look much different that the ones climbing trees in Mount Prospect.

 

[Alaskawildkat]

OK, here is some unique history related to the Chinese Woodcutting Camps that included the Lake Tahoe area.

A temporary exhibit currently on display at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City features the Chinese Woodcutters whose efforts made mining of the gold and silver possible by supplying the vast quantities of wood that were necessary for operation of the steam engines that powered the mining equipment.

These photos were taken last week while visiting the Carson City Mint building and the Nevada State Museum in which it is located. Scroll down for the story regarding the 1893-S dime found in an abandoned camp and its historical significance.

Among the relics and artifacts from the once existent Chinese wood cutting camps were these coins:

Another display included in the exhibit featuring the Chinese wood cutting camps were these artifacts which included the finding of a small jar with Chinese lettering that shared a poignant message.

The message is as applicable and instructive to us today as it was to the small groups of men organized into the Chinese wood cutting camps - "Profit Together."

 

[hdhntr1]

OK, here is some unique history related to the Chinese Woodcutting Camps that included the Lake Tahoe area.

A temporary exhibit currently on display at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City features the Chinese Woodcutters whose efforts made mining of the gold and silver possible by supplying the vast quantities of wood that were necessary for operation of the steam engines that powered the mining equipment.

These photos were taken last week while visiting the Carson City Mint building and the Nevada State Museum in which it is located. Scroll down for the story regarding the 1893-S dime found in an abandoned camp and its historical significance.

Among the relics and artifacts from the once existent Chinese wood cutting camps were these coins:

Another display included in the exhibit featuring the Chinese wood cutting camps were these artifacts which included the finding of a small jar with Chinese lettering that shared a poignant message.

The message is as applicable and instructive to us today as it was to the small groups of men organized into the Chinese wood cutting camps - "Profit Together."

Hope springs eternal at the beginning of Baseball seasons as well and for many teams (such as White Sox this year) then quickly dashed. No if you had actually seen a moose rather than just Rocky...

 

[IGNORE2]

Hope springs eternal at the beginning of Baseball seasons as well and for many teams (such as White Sox this year) then quickly dashed. No if you had actually seen a moose rather than just Rocky...

Damn Sox plus my new consulting gig in Ft Myers has me wanting to give up and become a rays fan. But like my bear fandom, I can’t get it to grab hold. Can’t force myself to learn about them.

I’m doomed - Sox, Bears, either NUFB or NUMBB (hopefully never both again…), Bulls, Hawks…

At least I get to enjoy the Cubs for awhile…

 

[Alaskawildkat]

Hope springs eternal at the beginning of Baseball seasons as well and for many teams (such as White Sox this year) then quickly dashed. No if you had actually seen a moose rather than just Rocky...

Speaking of Spring with its renewal of hope, this week in Alaska saw a surprise snow storm. It looked like we would be seeing May plowers instead of May flowers.

In any event, I missed all the fun.

Tomorrow will be heading back to Alaska after having spent several days here in Hawaii in conjunction with a scheduled Hearing that ended up with a successful resolution.

Here are views from Thursday of a Full Moon seen alongside Oahu's Dormant Koko Head Crater.

 

[Figrating]

Rick Steves has nothing on Alaska.

It will take a few moose stampedes to suggest NU is going to have a decent football season. No bigger homer than myself, but NU is rebuilding and paying some dues. That's right, more dues. And more to follow.