One year ago (28 Jan 2009) 12 inches of snow fell and I live-blogged a triple chant.
One year later, I can hear the chant and remember how much fun shoveling the driveway was. I also have a composer to go with that delightful triple chant: Jonathan Bielby.
It's sung on this webcast
Labels: Anglican chant, St Thomas (New York), weather
All Starbucks stores (even those in close proximity to Episcopal cathedrals) were closed for several hours yesterday for some training. Here's an excerpt from an article about the closure in the Houston Chronicle
Luong is a regular at the Starbucks at Westheimer and Post Oak Boulevard, and employees had warned him about the closure. But 45 minutes after they locked the doors, he still was shivering outside, hanging out with a dozen other people who consider the coffee shop their second home.Claudia Feldman and Jeannie Kever. "Starbucks' break brews frustration" Houston Chronicle 27 Feb 2008, emphasis added
I just want to point out that it was 60 degrees Fahrenheit (16 Celcius) in Houston when Starbucks closed yesterday.
Brrr!
Elsewhere in Houston, for those who may be unfamiliar with the distribution of Starbucks stores in the city, are two stores located across the street from each other. I visited both on Christmas Day, 2007. One was closed.
At evensong tonight for the Feast of St. Luke we sang Psalm 67.
I'm not sure why we sang 67, but that doesn't metter much to this story. Actually, it makes this story much less effective. It's just that 67 isn't listed in my prayer book, so I'm just not sure where it came from. It is associated with evensong in the 1928 prayer book in as far as it is an alternate to the Nunc after the second lesson.
Anyway, Psalm 67 is also being sung at my wedding, so for me it was a Lukan Psalm convergence at my last evensong as an unmarried man tonight.
May God be merciful to us and bless us, *
how us the light of his countenance and come to us.
Let your ways be known upon earth, *
your saving health among all nations.
Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
let all the peoples praise you.
Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, *
for you judge the peoples with equity
and guide all the nations upon earth.
Let the peoples praise you, O God; *
let all the peoples praise you.
The earth has brought forth her increase; *
may God, our own God, give us his blessing.
May God give us his blessing, *
and may all the ends of the earth stand in awe of him.
p.s. It's windy outside. It'll be 78º on Sunday.
I got caught in a very small isolated storm system this evening. I was impressed both by its power and by its small size when I scoped it out on the radar at home.
Sunday's forecast seems unchanged.
I've always thought that my own wedding will be one of the easiest weddings I ever do. And this is true of the service (I think), but not of the preparation.
And so begins the storm before the calm.
Looks like a strong storm system will pass through our part of the Midwest on Thursday, but forecast highs for Sunday are up to 78º and sunny. I've even seen one forecast with the high up to 81.
Gee golly.
The projected high is up to 74º the low, 54º.
What was previously a 60% of rain has diminished to 20%.
There seems to be a superstition that precipitation, particularly rain, upon one's wedding day is bad luck. But if you think about how seldom it rains compared to when it does not, it is actually more rare to have rain during one's wedding. Even more so during the wedding liturgy itself (while this understandably could be less than desireable if a couple has elected to hold their wedding outdoors).
Here's hoping.
13 Feb 2007 16:16 The public radio station just turned back on. Sleet continues. Water droplets seem to be frozen to the window. The Winter Storm Warning, while still in effect, is not being updated. The short term forecast published four minutes ago offers this:
THE SLEET...MIXED AT TIMES WITH SNOW WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL BEGIN TO OCCUR...RESULTING IN WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL AND NOT VENTURE OUT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
13 Feb 2007 15:46 I just noticed the public radio station is off the air. Either that, or it's some extended piece of musique concrète that I was unaware of.
13 Feb 2007 15:14 It's wet and slushy here. The preciptation goes in and out of an icy rain and something harder. Temperature is starting to fall below freezing, so things may ice up substantially in the next few hours. The trees have been coated with ice most of the day.
By the sound of things, emergency vehicles have been very busy in my area. The big airport stopped letting flights depart about three hours ago.
13 Feb 2007 06:49 I have been asked by my employer not to attempt to come into work.
12 Feb 2007 23:35 All is quiet under a sheen of new wet snow. The air hovers just above freezing. Right now, I am on the dividing line. The National Weather Service is predicting snow to the north (which is where I am potentially headed tomorrow, as travel is forecast to be "very hazardous to impossible") and nasty stuff to the south. But:
ANY SHIFT IN THE TRACK WILL HAVE A LARGE IMPACT ON THE AMOUNT AND TYPE OF PRECIPITATION RECEIVED ACROSS [THE AREA]. WE URGE EVERYONE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM.
12 Feb 2007 20:55 And so it begins. Some freezing rain is brushing against my window.
An exerpt from the text of the warning:
A MIX OF SNOW AND SLEET WILL FALL OVERNIGHT TONIGHT, WHILE A MIX OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...AND SNOW WILL FALL AT TIMES DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY. SNOW WILL DIMINISH TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT GUSTY WINDS WILL CAUSE BLOWING OF ANY SNOW THAT FALLS. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS OF OVER A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE TO FORM FROM THE FREEZING RAIN DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY. THIS COMBINED WITH THE EXPECTED WINDS COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES.
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