THANKSGIVING IS HERE!

November has been a quiet month up until now.  And now......hold on cuz life gets crazy!

Today I wish you the love and warmth of family.

Wherever you spend your Thanksgiving Day, enjoy it.   Our family tradition, rather than a prayer at the dinner table, is to take a moment, each person, to say what we are thankful for this year.  This year, my daughter and family are in Georgia and my son and family will remain in San Jose, coming up to Mi Wuk on Friday.  We'll have a second Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday where we'll share our thoughts of thankfulness.  

Russ and I will be spending Thanksgiving with his ex-wife (yes really) and his sons and my cousin, in Murphys.  His oldest son has AmyoLateralSclerosis, aka ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease.  I'm not quite sure how we'll work in the "what are you thankful for" conversation this year since Jeff is now immobile.  But, our thankfulness could be that their original family is together for this Thanksgiving Day, something that hasn't happened for nearly 20 years.

Be safe everyone.

WEEKEND WEATHER DETAILS (Thursday - Sunday)

Here are the weather details from my favorite VERY LOCAL weather site:

Today: (THURSDAY, Nov 3, 2011)  A chance of rain showers after 11am. Increasing clouds, with a high near 54. Breezy, with a south southeast wind 10 to 13 mph increasing to between 20 and 23 mph. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tonight: Rain and snow showers likely before 11pm, then snow showers. Low around 29. Southwest wind 17 to 20 mph becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

Friday: A 40 percent chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 38. East wind 7 to 11 mph becoming west northwest. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow showers before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 27. North wind between 9 and 11 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 40. East northeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming southwest.

Saturday Night: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

Sunday: A 40 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40. Little or no snow accumulation expected.

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=38.08052761936274&lon=-120.18562316894531&site=sto&smap=1&unit=0&lg=en&FcstType=text

That long url above is the exact locaton for MI WUK VILLAGE!

WHAT A POTLUCK!

Huge kudos must be extended to ALVENA LEAL and her helpers for coordinating the most well-attended Auxiliary Potluck (and Bingo) event at the Mi Wuk-Sugar Pine Fire Station in years!!!!

I think, in the excitement and amazement, NO ONE took a photo!  If you do have one, let me know so I can put it up here on our blog.

The theme was a Thanksgiving Dinner.  The request was to bring side dishes for a Thanksgiving Dinner.  Over 70 residents and a few guests flooded the room (which was filled to capacity), and we socialized, laughed, reunited and just had a great time.  And the food!  It was delicious and I challenge any restaurant to create tastier treats!  My husband, Russ's, comment:  These people know how to cook.  So true!

Thank you Alvena, for phoning everyone on the roster, rousing such a fabulous turn out and coordinating this event -- with heart.  It was an amazing evening. 

AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA COMING TO *SONORA* IN 2012

That's right.  Check out that map!!!  And put May 16th on your 2012 calendar.  The AmGen Bicycle Tour of California will be coming to the Motherlode, SONORA to be exact, on May 16, 2012.  I'm sure there will be a lot more details coming in the spring.  Just how cool is this!?

PAY ATTENTION.....SIERRA NEVADA WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY

Yosemite - Half Dome From Glacier Point

November 02, 2011    03:25 pm,   Mark Truppner, MML Reporter 

 

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Sierra Nevada from Thursday 5 PM through Friday 5 AM.

Two to four inches of snow accumulation may fall above 4000 feet. Three to six inches are possible above 7000 feet.

Steady winds of twenty to thirty mph are likely. Wind gusts of up to fifty mph are expected over the Sierra crest.

Could this really mean............... snowflakes???  We've put the plow on our Jeep, just to be ahead it.

MI WUK AREA WEATHER FORECAST FOR OCTOBER and NOVEMBER 2011

FYI from http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange/zipcode/95346

My husband, Russ, was looking around the web for weather for our area and this is what he came up with this morning.  Let's check back at the end of November and see just how accurate the Almanac really is.  

2012 Long-Range Weather Forecast for Mi Wuk Village, California

Free 2-Month Weather Forecast

OCTOBER 2011: temperature 66 ° (1 ° above avg.); precipitation 0.8" (0.4" below avg. north, 1" above south); Oct 1-2: Sunny, warm; Oct 3-5: Sunny, warm north; t-storms south; Oct 6-10: Sunny; cool north, warm south; Oct 11-13: Sunny, Santa Ana winds; hot coast, warm inland; Oct 14-16: Sunny, cool; Oct 17-19: Sunny, Santa Ana winds; hot coast, warm inland; Oct 20-26: Sunny; cool, then hot; Oct 27-31: T-storms, then cooler.

NOVEMBER 2011: temperature 59.5° (4° above avg. northeast, 1° below southwest); precipitation 4.5" (3" above avg.); Nov 1-6: Occasional rain and drizzle, cool; Nov 7-9: T-storms north, sunny south; warm; Nov 10-11: Sunny, mild; Nov 12-19: Rain and t-storms, then sunny, cool; Nov 20-24: Showers, mild; Nov 25-30: Stormy, mild.

Annual Weather Summary: November 2011 to October 2012

Winter temperatures will be below normal, on average, with the coldest periods in mid- and late December, mid-January, and early February. Precipitation will be much above normal in the north and below normal in the south. The stormiest periods will be in early to mid-November and December, with mid-January being the snowiest period in the mountains.

April and May will be cooler and rainier than normal.
Summer will be warmer than normal, with near-normal rainfall. The hottest periods will be in mid-July and much of August.
September and October will be warmer than normal, with slightly below-normal rainfall. Expect hot weather in early and mid-September.

WE COULD USE YOUR HELP...........

As a result of last night's C.A.S.T. meeting (Community Assistance & Support Team), a high priority request from our chief, Randy Miller is a 10' x 12' wooden shed.

If you happen to have one on your property that you'd like to get rid of, or if you have materials you'd like to donate for a shed to be placed on on the fire station property, please let me know at blythek@mac.com.

As a part time or full time resident, this is a great way to help out our fire department.

If you have any framing skills to help make this happen, it would sure be fun to see you out there when the time comes to swing the hammer!  (And if you don't have framing skills come on out and get some on-the-job-training.)  When we have the materials, a work day/days will be announced.  We'd love to have you be a part of the TEAM and the history of our great department.