Everything comes out in the wash

Everything comes out in the wash, but first you have to go INTO the wash. Baby, as always, is on the job.

Satisfied with his findings, he emerges to give the go-ahead for wash, rinse, spin.

Meanwhile, as we kept the homefires burning by keeping up with the laundry, the Coast Guard and other Homeland Security types were hovering overhead in helicopters and patrolling across the Creek in small boats to keep the borders safe as an LNG tanker made its way through the inner harbor under the Mystic River Bridge -- where traffic, as always in these cases since 9/11, was called to a halt -- to the Everett LNG Terminal.

We didn't get the perfect picture to illustrate the enormousness -- enormity? -- of an LNG tanker, but suffice it to say that all of the red expanse (tank) plus steel-grey expanse with red waterline (hull) beyond the McArdle Bridge in the foreground is LNG tanker, headed in left to right towards the Everett Terminal. Green structure in background is lower part of the Mystic River Bridge (note tip of Bunker Hill Monument looming just beyond its center), which rises offscreen to the right.

Coast Guard helicopters were all over the skies overhead this afternoon. 'Must be an LNG tanker coming in, we thought, and sure enough. This particular shot -- standing on the front porch looking up, with column and pediment eave left -- recalled both images seen and scenarios imagined as we drove back down from Maine to Chelsea on that infamous morning when the sleeping giant was once again roused to anger.

Update:  More feline insights on what it's all about at the 93rd Carnival of the Cats at Elms in the Yard.

Comments

[Teresa]

Is THAT what all the helicopter activity is about. They've been flying back and forth out here all day long - not something that happens very often *grin*. We couldn't figure out what it was all about. I shall pass it on to my husband.

[Pat]

awwww... cute kitty... just surfed in off of Michelle Malkin's site
have a happy new year
pat

[plum]

I commute several times a week into town from Cape Ann. Every time the bridge is closed I get a sick feeling in my stomach. So far it's always been the LNG. . .

[be]

During more innocent times when I was too dumb to be afraid of the things, I used to look out for the tankers from my window, run outside, see where they came from and follow them for a while on foot. If the tanker was registered Algerian or (much more rarely) Tunisian, I'd wave and holler things like bonjour, comment ça-va, etc to the sailors.

Don't know if I'd have continued doing this after 9/11 (left Eastie 09/01).

[Patrick McGee]

So, the LNG Speculator/Pirates out here on the Oregon northwest coast tell us the security measures are working beautifully in Boston Harbor and all the way up to Everett, is it?

Is it?

Weve got one site about 20 miles up the Columbia River, "Bradwood Landing/Northern Star Natural Gas", that seems to have a pretty good chance of making it through the siting process.

Should we keep up the fight against it?