Re: Crazy season

River tender is a small, shallow-water buoy tender that refurbishes river buoys--that is lifts them from the water for scouring and replaces them--and can beach at river navigation towers so the batteries of the navigation lights can be can be exchanged and the brush can be cut so the towboats can see the navigation lights, both upstream and down. Deck apes cut the brush, exchange the batteries, and wire brush and repaint the buoys; grease monkeys try to keep the tender out of the mud and more-or-less mobile.
The one I was on was USGS Forsythia. About 113 feet long. Had a crew of 20 or so. 

On Dec 18, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:


What's a river tender?

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of james singer
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:42 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season

Those kinds of experiences can be real shockers, Cyndi. My first billet
out of boot camp was a river tender in Pittsburgh. I arrived in fall,
which was quite nice. Then winter followed. This po' boy from LA was not 
prepared for the endless gloom, cold, snow, and--above all--dirt and
soot. I felt like I'd been thrust into one of Dickens's potboilers.
My wife of 6 months put up with it for about 3 months and went home to
LA; I applied to every school USCG offered. I've heard Pittsburgh has
been cleaned up since then. If so, great! But I doubt they've fixed the
weather.

On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:


Some years ago I spent the first two weeks in December at a class held



in Illinois, not terribly far from St. Louis. For two weeks the sky
was unremittingly grey with occasional drizzles, and they all looked
at me puzzled when I asked if the sun ever came out. Talk about

depressing.

We
have our climate challenges here in the high desert but I try to
remember the good things, like sun in the winter. It is shining
through my window even as I type.
On the other hand, it's obligatory to gripe about the weather... I'm
peeved because it cleared up just in time for Monday, it was wet and
windy Saturday and not all that wonderful Sunday.

Cyndi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Andrea Hodges
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:31 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season

If I was still living up there the crazy in the subject line would be
referring to me. The gray was killing me! It's been beautiful here,
the camellias are all getting ready to put on a show (the sasanquas
already have, reminding me that I need to add some to the garden) and
all of the bedding plants really brighten everything up. Of course
there's also the Christmas lights, many houses of which remind me of
the Griswold's.........
A
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cornergar@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Crazy season



In a message dated 12/17/2006 11:36:11 AM Central Standard Time,
islandjim1@verizon.net writes:
peppers, rosemary, yada, yada, yada
We need some of your yada yada here. It is very gray and what isn't
gray is brown. Thank goodness for Xmas lights. Kathy

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Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Hardiness Zone 10
Heat Zone 10
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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Maximum 100 F [38 C]

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