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Post by Phalon on Dec 15, 2005 23:21:30 GMT -6
A balmy forty degrees today- snow so fast and slick. A perfect ski: perfect music, perfect rhythm, perfect glide. Just jeans and a long-sleeved t-shirt, but pushed up over my elbows and feeling risque with all that bare skin showing.
Damn, it was good.
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Post by Siren on Dec 17, 2005 11:08:02 GMT -6
Here I be, amigas. It's been a busy week. Thanks for missing me, G. That's a nice feeling.
And what about you, Gaggie?? What a whirlwind of yuletide doin's you are! And you MADE a wreath?! How awesome! Atta girl. I, too, am just about done. Made my list, and checked it twice. All gifts are bought and accounted for. The tree is up, the cards are in the mail. All that remains are a couple of loaves of strawberry bread, some cranberry/walnut sauce, and a batch of brownies to be made.
This week, I'll put on my favorite Christmas movies, and slowly wrap my gifts. Not that I'm good at it, and not that the results are anything but plain, but I love that task, and make it last as long as possible. My sis, GG, and I cannot resist a display of wrapping paper, and are constantly buying more. I have more than I'll use in the next 10 years, and keep buying more. I loved your post about gift-wrapping, Gams. I'm right in there with you.
And Gams, I'm glad you're savoring the season. I vicariously get my exercise through you, though, somehow I don't have your biceps to show for it. This morning, a light winter mix is falling, but they say it won't last. Our wimpy little winters would make you northerners laugh. But any snow at all makes Okies' horrible driving habits even worse. And if we actually get several inches of snow, an uncommon occurrence here, it's a calamity - businesses closing, car accidents everywhere.
Scrap, thanks for your weather post. I've wondered what it's like for folks to have Christmas where the seasons don't change much. I read that the tv mogul Aaron Spelling hires a snow machine to give his family a white Christmas morning every year - and they live in LA! I don't know if that's true, or even possible, but it's a nice thought. ~Siren
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 19, 2005 1:45:11 GMT -6
I am thinking of getting the cross countrys skis out. Maybe taking myself out to a quite place. That is good for my soul.
I need to now stop or, at least, slow down now. Take in the winter landscapes around me. Notice life.
I went shopping at some big retail chains today but was not able to find much so, I went to the local small shops and that was fruitful. They are so nice and knowlegeable. Very nice.
I am tired now. Good and tired. Goodnight winter world.
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 19, 2005 23:11:43 GMT -6
dr suesish(sp) winter is here the air is cold --time for snowy tales to be told i wish i had a ski to slide--but i would fall on the good old backside
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 19, 2005 23:15:22 GMT -6
shopping is fine its a glad thing to do but people this time of year are rude to you they push and shove they even try to kill they are worse then the credit card bill i love the season and the tidings glad but shopping now is very sad i am tired and done in and i am waiting for the fun to begin .....merry christmas
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 19, 2005 23:17:38 GMT -6
okayiam finewthat went into shock at latest birthday and was in recovey but she is fine now but still seems to speak in the third person to much.....think there is something wrong with her?
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 21, 2005 1:34:00 GMT -6
Gabbin doesn't think there is anything wrong with Ok. Was the birthday shock from your own b-day or someone elses? Perhaps it doesn't matter as b-days can be shocking either way.
Welcome back old broad.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 22, 2005 1:28:57 GMT -6
Siren - wimpy little winters? Hubs talks of the near artic conditions of blizzardry and sub-sub-sub below temps during basic training at Fort Sill, in comparison to my basic training in blazing desert like heat, but with the humidity of the deep, deep, deep rain forests and bugs just as large during my basic training days in Alabama. And I had to walk twenty miles to school, uphill both ways in deep, deep, deep twenty foot snow drifts when I was a kid. But then again, he walked twenty miles to school in deep, deep, deep rain forest humidity when he was a kid.
Sheesh, that was deep. Deep...something.
Okfine - sorry for your shopping experiences. Sounds painful. I do like Gabbin - Only small stores with nice people. Nice people, though, can talk you into buying almost anything - like roller-skis and x-country skis, and convince you that you can keep your backside in tact.
Fortunately, I have little tact, so I never worry about my backslide.
I skied. Three days in a row, and wanted to make it four. It's been so unbelievable this year; so very pretty and peaceful; I haven't run into a single soul on the trail yet - I mean that figuratively - sheesh. I saw some bluebirds the other day and stopped to watch. A downy woodpecker was among the group and I thought of Earl.
I miss Earl and my others. The storms that tore through here Thanksgiving weekend ripped our bird feeder - pole and all - right out of the ground and smashed it to pieces, and I haven't replaced it yet. I saw Earl the Woodpecker looking all forlorn the other day wondering where it'd all gone. (Sniff and eye roll at the same time.)
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 23, 2005 23:30:06 GMT -6
Careful, Gams, you might strain your face doing all of that at once.
We have a very nice snowpack. I like driving amongst the tall pines with blobs of snow on them, pulling the branches down.
I need to get the old Cross countrys out.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 24, 2005 13:27:49 GMT -6
The kids have been fed. I have two; how many did I feed? I can't remember; I lost count somwhere between the "I'm allergic to milk" and "I can't have anything with sugar or corn syrup" conversations.
Finally today, the girls were able to go outside - along with every other kid that's been stuck in the home for the last few days due to the weather, and they all seemed to end up in my kitchen somehow.
Rain. Pfft. On Christmas. Double Pfft.
A slushy brown Christmas this year. Gone are the six inches of snow - or nearly gone. Nearly fifty degrees today!
I went for a walk on the beach this morning. It was nice; peaceful music, and unusual that the lake at this time of year matched the mood - calm.
The pier was still too icy to walk out on though, and I couldn't get out to the lighthouse. The shoreline was a landscape of frozen waves.
Did me good to get out - some quiet time to myself before the chaos of tonight and tomorrow. Looking forward to that too, though - just different moods for different occasions.
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Post by Gabbin on Dec 24, 2005 22:44:49 GMT -6
I was able to get out for a walk today, as well. Very good for the soul. I wish I could have walked out to the frozen lighthouse with you-that sounds nice.
I walked my usual route beneath a ridge. Today there were a lot of deer around. I would think at least 30. The hurds come down this time of year. They have big black button noses and eyes. They freeze and watch me the whole way. This is a bit unerving cuz some have big antlers. However, they didn't charge me in revenge for a certain elk-I don't want to talk about that.
There is a wonderful layer of snow here; very seasonal. I am excited to kick back tommorrow and do nada.
I would love to spy on each of the board members tonight in their cozy family settings-kinda like Scrooge did through the windows. Huh, I never realized he was a voyeur and would have been arrested nowadays.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 25, 2005 12:00:12 GMT -6
Ooops, I meant 40 degrees yesterday; not fifty. A bit colder today, but still rain. Wish it were snow. Rain in winter is just ick.
Boll, Gabbin. I never thought of Scrooge as a voyeur either...until now. Jeepers Peepers.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 27, 2005 23:32:06 GMT -6
Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day. May I suggest spring?
Is it spring? The calendar says no; winter just officially started last week, but the temperature outside says spring.
Gone is the snow; only the piles from the plows remain. Briefly thought about raking leaves today, but Pfft. No. Too wet.
Sigh. Good thing the girls didn't get snow stuff this year - skis, snowboards, sleds and the like. LX got ice skates though, and we've been waiting for a clear day to go to the rink. Hopefully soon.
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Dec 28, 2005 1:01:12 GMT -6
It is spring in parts of the world . That is always a comfort to me ,to think that it is always spring somewhere ,that it is always winter somewhere, that it is always day and always night---somewhere. I guess the secret is to find---SOMEWHERE.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 1, 2006 1:43:36 GMT -6
Two weeks; rain nearly every day. Two weeks stuck inside turning to mush without being able to be outside except for my one walk on the beach.
Friday, Hubs came home from work early. It hadn't rained since that morning and he saw that gleam in my eye. "Go, go; it's supposed to start raining again soon."
Dutifully, out came the helmet and the knee-pads, which I have not needed once all year, but feel obligated to wear. Actually, I've missed the knee-pads; big ones - I'm sure the biggest Hubs could find when I first got the roller skis because living with my graceful self for twenty years, I'm sure he thought the bigger, the better. These big knee-pads...pulling them up, I feel like Xena in the opening credits of the show as the camera travels up from her feet and she adjusts her knee-high boots. LMAO. Rolling eyes, but yeah, that's what the knee-pads remind me of. (I hate ending a sentence with of.) That's what I'm reminded of when I put them on. (pfft, a bit better, but not much).
Back on the roller-skis and I realized how much different it is than cross-country: more balance required, harder...faster. Much, much faster. In the thirties, and cold in a just a t-shirt and jeans. Still can't get used to that, Gabbin - wearing only a t-shirt in winter. It works though; soon I was hot, and thankful for the thin shirt and bare arms.
It was good to get out again. And sweaty. Good and sweaty, and it is good to be sweaty. No more blahs or mush - all washed away with sweat.
Hubs was right; it rained Friday evening, then changed to snow. Big, wet flakes, and this morning there was a pretty covering of it on the trees and grass. It didn't last long though. More rain today and the ground is bare again.
Rain in the forecast for the next three days, and I'm having a hard time believing it is winter.
And that is my Whining into Winter post for today. Sigh.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 1, 2006 23:21:41 GMT -6
I am glad that you got out on the skis, Gams. Yep.
I am hoping to go skiing tommorrow. I love winter and snow.
May I just sit back and try to unwind? Try try try. How many points is a try? I believe, in rubelby it is 5. Some number close to that.
Welp, I am starting to tucker out, which is always a warning to typing errors.
Okay, I shall now make the rounds. Follow me....
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Post by Phalon on Jan 1, 2006 23:43:12 GMT -6
Where you go, I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow. I will follow you; will you follow me?
Is that the same song; or a combo of two or more. Just wondering. Whatever - it's now stuck in my head.
Wheeled skiing again today. Yes!
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 1, 2006 23:58:44 GMT -6
I shall make sure that all curtains are closed tight tonight.
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 0:38:11 GMT -6
It thundered here last night --a very odd thing to have happen on new year day --somehow it made me miss spring. but eveyone else in my familey is hoping for snow ,so i quess i have to go with the majority and hope for it to. But oh how nice a warm spring sunny day feels on your sholders .
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 0:48:55 GMT -6
re dec 21--- it was my birthday--the candles caught the cake on fire . but the firemen we really cute but now i am to old to care
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 0:49:18 GMT -6
*were
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Post by Joxcenia on Jan 3, 2006 0:54:29 GMT -6
Click on to the right of your posts to edit them... or not.
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Post by okayiamfinewthat on Jan 3, 2006 0:58:06 GMT -6
thank you--i am not computer minded --i confuse them its so bad
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Post by Joxcenia on Jan 3, 2006 1:29:27 GMT -6
You're very welcome... just cross your fingers, click on a button, and kiss the internet goodbye.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 5, 2006 23:22:10 GMT -6
We had thunder and lightening here too; a very odd thing to happen in January. Rain and sleet and just nasty, nasty with an unrelenting wind outside now.
I prefer snow.
Started my annual why-was-I-saving-this-it's-time-to-throw-it-out cleaning spree. Triggered today as one heap of stuff on my desk toppled on to another heap and sent the whole mess crashing to the floor, which the cats further had a paw into strewing it across the room.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 5, 2006 23:30:25 GMT -6
Hello Ok. I am sorry about your b-day. You sure sound a bit draggish. Let me know if I can help ya sing some pick-me-up song or something like that. That is why we are here. And don't worry about the typos and such, we can follow very well.
Okay, well, winter. I did finally get out to Cross country, I think, today. I decided to take my telemark equipment out and....oh, heck, I wanted to start a boring ski post.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 5, 2006 23:32:21 GMT -6
Yo weren't sure you got out to ski? How did that happen? I need my dictionary again....
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Post by Phalon on Jan 5, 2006 23:33:21 GMT -6
No, no, no. Don't stop. Oh god, oh god, don't stop.
Post your ski post, Gabbin. I wanna read; I'm withering away in the rain.
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Post by Gabbin on Jan 5, 2006 23:45:02 GMT -6
I thought better of it and will just continue to ski stick it here.
Well, I had my telemark equipment out and that is not really cross country, or is it? I am not sure.
Here is my sedate post;
So, I got out my Telemark skis today. They are back country skis-much heavier and really really long-I had forgotten how long. I bet these things are over 6 feet. I got them for 30 dollars and a garage sale. I need to upgrade them now. They are so long I cannot do that uphill duck waddle thing. However, they are wax skis and I like the control better than waxless.
I put on my old lace-up boots and headed out-they look like hiking boots.
Anywho, at the top I stopped and stood for a while and took in the sounds. There weren't any. It was like being on the moon (no sounds on the moon, or people, really). That is just an awesome experience. I wish you all could have been there, but, then it wouldn't have been quite as you all would be snickering or sneezing and such. Hee hee.
I wanted to write about the snow and trails in boring detail but, will spare you today.
The teles are skis I used to take to the ski areas. I just cannot believe it now. The skis have changed so much. The new bindings this year are amazing.
So, I think, "ha!, I have so much control now over my wily cross country skis, I shall just jet down this hill" Whamp! I crash and cannot believe it. So, I did the natural thing; I headed for a steeper hill. Man, I love the downhills. Yippee.
It was very nice to get out and move about although it wasn't heart pumping...it helped a bit.
I know, I know, I am not writing with much kick of late. Give me time.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 5, 2006 23:51:32 GMT -6
I can never believe that; the absolute absence of sound. It is truly an amazing thing to me to be out in the woods and hear nothing; I love it. You're right, Gabbin; it is an awesome experience.
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