The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

We've had 49 earthquakes in Finland this year so far, the strongest was a 2.0.

http://www.helsinki.fi/geo/seismo/maanjaristykset/suomi.html

I think I've once read about the foundations of one house getting a crack in an earthquake.

Surprisingly we have (minor) earthquakes here. I would urge everyone to look into adding earthquake insurance to their homeowners policy. Mine is only a few dollars a month. My parents, in Virginia, had a large earthquake a few years ago and many houses were destroyed. Those people lost everything. FEMA did help a little, but wouldn't it be better to be covered?

Thus ends my public service announcement of the day.

 

[vehve]

Our home insurance covers space debris, like a satellite dropping on the house, but not a nuclear incident

 

[vehve]

Kiusa is on her period, and she is not happy to be forced to wear pants.


Vaiva, parts of whom can be seen in the background, on the other hand is happy to wear her coat. We're trying some heat treatment on her with a Back On Track coat to get her back muscles sorted out.

 

[chickwhispers]

When I was a kid one of my mom's sayings was "if you don't behave, I'm going to smack you into next week." I think I was about 10 before I figured out she didn't really have that superpower.

My Blue Marans also just started laying again after an all summer strike! Now I just wish my older EE would start back up too! I think they both have not laid an egg since before Easter!

I was reading up on Alaska, The land of Quakes and the Home of the Snow... and the largest quake was 9.2

It did a whole lot of awful damage.
Alaskan you better put a lot of rubber padding on everything!

Vehve are those quakes centered by you or are they "arms" that are reaching you from Alaska?

 

[vehve]

Here's our color range now, with Viiru gone we lost a shade of tan between the darker and lighter tan colors.


@chickwhispers I think the place mentioned in the last column is the station that recorded it, but the coordinates seem to all be in Finland. I think they don't report them on that list if they've only registered an epicenter abroad. So we're pretty stable, apart from the country still rising a bit from the sea. I think that in the Oulu region, they're getting about half an inch higher every year. It's less here in the south. Finland gets a slightly bigger landmass every year.

This is where I am located:
N 60° 10.3349'

E 24° 32.6659'

 

[chickwhispers]

Oooh love your colors! And your egg holder! I want one but I don't have a lot of counter space. Maybe I can post my egg colors next week. I like take egg pictures, they look so so so incredible edible? OK can't think of better words this morning It's early and I don't have enough caffeine - yet.

Well it's good you are fairly stable. And actually good you are rising, considering "they" say the water levels are rising as well.

We are along a fault line of some sort here in the Midwest. at the center the last two that ran through here were in the 4.5 range I believe. strong enough to feel up here but not strong enough to do any damage.

 

[vehve]

About a year ago, there was an interesting news story in a paper here, Google and Microsoft were placing data centers in Finland, so the writer wrote how Finland's new competitive edge is that we have a boring country. It's geologically and politically stable, and the colder climate brings down cooling costs significantly.

 

[chickwhispers]

With all that stability going on, so are you saying you're like a chicken in the auto commercials?

 

[vehve]

With all that stability going on, so are you saying you're like a chicken in the auto commercials?

Haha, I love that commercial. I've even tried doing that once, it really works. Alas, I'm not as smooth on the dance floor.

By the way, did you see Jaguar's answer to that commercial?

 

[chickwhispers]

Oh yeah. As a chicken keeper I never knew they were so well balanced. But they are! so cool.
Me on the dance floor, not so much anymore.
I would love to take dance lessons and get my groove back.