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Post by stepper on Dec 30, 2011 20:45:27 GMT -6
It's supposed to be winter - but we're having spring temperatures. Mid 70's! My spring flowers are springing up.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 31, 2011 9:17:02 GMT -6
The 70s! It's not that warm here - high thirties and into the forties. Still, it's much warmer than we should be, and very rainy too. Temperatures are supposed to drop tomorrow though, and they're predicting one to two feet of snow starting tomorrow night.....at least, that was the report as of yesterday evening.
Who knows...with the craziness of the weather lately, today's prediction might have us down at the beach in bathing suits tomorrow.
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Post by Siren on Dec 31, 2011 9:21:21 GMT -6
We're expecting high 60s today - December 31st. Crazy, but nice.
Your spring flowers are up, Step? I think it's more of that weirdness stemming (heh heh) from the drought. The plants finally got some moisture, and are doing their darnedest to multiply, poor things, even if it is the wrong season.
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Post by stepper on Dec 31, 2011 20:18:55 GMT -6
As long as you don't have to drive in it, that'd be an interesting way to start the New Year.
They must be male plants then. Aren't guys the ones who get 'wet' and do their darndest to multiply? Stemming eh? You have a budding career as a comedian!
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Post by Phalon on Jan 2, 2012 7:56:09 GMT -6
It snowed to beat the band for most of yesterday, all night, and it's still snowing. We don't have anywhere near that 1-2 feet they were predicting, though. It's sideways snow; where she blows, nobody knows. Actually, like a lot of our weather accompanied by high winds off the lake, inland is probably getting hammered.
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Post by stepper on Jan 2, 2012 11:05:24 GMT -6
No snow here. Sigh. It got cool again last night - an off shoot of the pattern affecting Phalon I believe, but by the time it makes the trip here it's no longer as cold, and there's no snow.
OH! I get it now! You're wanting to make one of those cemetery trips in the snow again so you're hogging all the white stuff! Really! You could have let atleast some of it come this way ya know.
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Post by quettalee on Jan 2, 2012 15:34:18 GMT -6
It got as far south as Jeffersonville, Indiana today. We had just enough flurries to cover my windshield, which now is completely gone from everywhere. It sure is wintery-feeling however. Windy, gloomy, and cold!!!
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Post by Phalon on Jan 3, 2012 7:23:48 GMT -6
Pfft! I wish! I need new skis - or at least new used skis, or old used boots. I've been nursing these boots (which I bought new) along for a few years now; the skis' bindings are old-style, which you can't find boots to fit anymore. The boots I have split between the binding attachment and the sole, so they remind me of chomping alligators. My roller-ski boots would fit new used skis with the newer-style bindings, so the search is on.....in the meantime, I guess I'll just chomp through the snow, alligator-style.
We've got all that this morning too. Snowin' and a-blowin' all day yesterday, and through the night - at least until I went to bed around midnight. LX got a whoo-hoo moment this morning, (snicker-snicker), when her friend called her around 5:30am and told her not to worry about getting up. I thought it was odd for a child (mine), who eeks out every second of sleep before her alarm goes off, to be up and whoo-hooing a half-hour before she normally gets out of bed.
No school, apparently, was the cause of the whoo-hooing. Uhm....dear, sorry for ya, but your friend is wrong. Apparently, the friend, whose aunt works for the school district outside of town, which is the school district the friend used to go to last year, called her and told her school was cancelled.
It's a b!tch to think school's been cancelled, then be told it hasn't.....at least if you're a kid, and especially if it's the first day back after winter-break. It's a different story if you're the mom.
Whoo-hoo!!!!
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Post by stepper on Jan 4, 2012 17:39:32 GMT -6
Aww. Phalon! I had no idea you were having those kinds of problems! What do I tease you about if you aren't spending your usual inordinate amount of time in the cemetery?? Maybe you could try going virtual skiing and steer your way to a cemetery - if anyone ever created a game that would do that.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2012 5:50:47 GMT -6
I guess I'd feel worse if I couldn't ski in the cemetery and there was actually snow to ski on in the cemetery - it's 44 degrees out already this morning!
I guess the Almanac people were wrong; this was supposed to be an exceptionally snowy winter. Unless, of course, it's saving up for the "Big One", and it'll dump down all at once.
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Post by stepper on Jan 6, 2012 21:46:24 GMT -6
We're having late spring temps - but the weather guessers are saying it'll get cooler and we'll maybe even get rain on Monday. I can live with both - cooler temps and rain.
I hope you don't get the 'Big One'. That wouldn't be a lot of fun for anyone - especially so soon after the Christmas school break.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 11, 2012 7:34:46 GMT -6
It's still exceedingly warm here during the days, but the nights are getting colder. We've had heavy frost in the mornings all this week. I went roller-skiing yesterday morning and with the frost on the track it was almost like x-country skiing....almost, but not quite.
Ok, it was nothing like skiing in snow.
When the frosty pavement was sunlit though, it sparkled like millions of tiny white twinkling Christmas lights just as the snow sparkles in sun.
Hey, I can pretend, can't I?
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Post by katina2nd on Jan 12, 2012 0:43:43 GMT -6
Temp' hit 108F here one day last week *gasp* yesterday and today it's been around 70, with the nights cool enougt to make you think winter was just around the corner instead of almost five months off .................. oh well, nothing like a little variety I always say.
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Post by Siren on Jan 12, 2012 23:11:36 GMT -6
Wow, Kat, that is some change in the weather! Just think of those triple digits as an excuse for a "coldie", and the cooler nights as an excuse for Bailey's Irish Creme & coffee. Cheers!
Good seeing you!
Cold weather set in yesterday. Supposed to get down to 20 tonight. Had brief snow flurries at my mom's yesterday. I wouldn't mind if it snowed. It's cheerful, I think.
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Post by quettalee on Jan 13, 2012 0:06:08 GMT -6
Bitter cold here tonight--17 right now. We had an arctic blizzard here today for about two hours. It was snowing sideways with the wind. It started out as rain during last night so to ground was too wet for much accumulation. Then it stopped long enough this afternoon for the temp to drop about 20 degrees. Then it snowed another two inches--that stayed--and then it was too cold to keep snowing.
The wind didn't stop, tho! It was brutal on the walk out from work. Hope you got enough white stuff now, sis, to do some real skiing!
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Post by Phalon on Jan 13, 2012 7:19:12 GMT -6
Katina! (gasp!) I don't know how you, Scrappy, Stepper or anyone else who lives where the temperatures reach above 100 degrees can stand the heat. I know it's partly an acclimation thing, but I'm sure I'd melt in those kinds of temperatures. I can't even imagine it....maybe it's because I work outside.
Except when the weather is like this, of course. We got that arctic blast too, Q. Actually, it didn't get that cold...cold enough for the rain to change over to snow late yesterday afternoon, though, and it hasn't stopped snowing or blowing since. Snow day today (and with the day off for Martin Luther King Jr's birthday Monday, it means a 4-day weekend for the girls). I was supposed to meet some friends for breakfast this morning, but with the snow and wind blowing as hard as it is, it looks like there won't be breakfast, or skiing either for that matter. Snow removal is probably the only thing that's going to get me outside today.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 14, 2012 8:36:46 GMT -6
Still snowing, but no blowing, except that done by machinery.
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Post by stepper on Jan 14, 2012 9:18:18 GMT -6
It got quite cold here last evening - but we're up to 40 now. And unfortunately, it looks like my snow decoys didn't work. The only white stuff around here is t-shirts. On the other hand, I would not appreciate so much snow that I needed a snow blower. I don't think I could find one inside of 300 miles. Our record of no meaningful snow since 1985 continues.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 15, 2012 9:22:14 GMT -6
Maybe that's why you don't have snow. It's too smart to fall for the old decoy trick....uhm....whatever that might be. Snow shovels? Hat, mittens, and carrot begging for a snowman to be put onto? Sleds and toboggans? Try spreading a blanket on the lawn and laying out a picnic spread instead. Weather is a big proponent of reverse psychology; it never does what you'd expect.
Here, for example, it's sunny without a cloud in the sky. Absolutely beautiful with all the snow sparkling; the kind of snowy day you just have to go out and enjoy. Step outside though, and you'll have second thoughts - it's only 11 degrees out there!
The temperature isn't stopping the birds, though. Almost the whole gang is at the feeder; chickadees, nuthatches, titmice, and juncos are out in full-force this morning. Busy little things they are, and if I do anything outside today, it'll be refilling the feeders, I'm sure.
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Post by stepper on Jan 15, 2012 14:29:26 GMT -6
I’d try all your suggestions at the same time if I could Phalon, but I might be taken in for psychological evaluation if I do. Not everyone here shares my fondness for snow. It amazes me how birds cope with bitter cold. We wrap up and layer up and build abodes with heaters. How do the birds cope with several inches of snow that fall over days of inclement, blustery weather? How do they find enough food? Except for the lucky ones that visit homes of people who faithfully put out food, how do they manage? I should have paid more attention when I was in school, but I don’t know how they do it. Feathers just don’t seem like they’d do enough on their own. When it’s that cold out, I wouldn’t even want to go out to fill the feeder. I’d do it, but I wouldn’t want to. |
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Post by Phalon on Jan 16, 2012 9:18:59 GMT -6
What? You don't want everyone to know you're a closet snow-lover? (thinking if somehow there are blackmail possibilities here)
I did end up going skiing yesterday. It was supposedly 7 degrees with the windchill factored in, but I swear it didn't feel that cold at all. Track-skiing though, is more a workout than a peaceful glide, so there's sweat involved.
Maybe that's got something to do with how the birds stay warm? Their little bodies work so hard to do birdy things that they don't get as cold as we would just walking around outside? I know a lot of birds flock in winter for warmth - even those that are solitary during other seasons. I've always wondered where they go when the wind and snow is blowing so hard it seems it's not fit for anything to be outside.
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Post by stepper on Jan 16, 2012 14:30:27 GMT -6
What? You don't want everyone to know you're a closet snow-lover? (thinking if somehow there are blackmail possibilities here) I have no idea who you are and refuse to tell you where I am.  And just to say this, sane people do not venture out into 7 degree weather! |
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Post by Phalon on Jan 17, 2012 6:40:23 GMT -6
HA! Don't you know those little snowmen lights are fitted with GPS tracking devices that can pinpoint their location with an accuracy of within 5 yards. How do you think Frosty led the children through the town right to the traffic cop? GPS, of course. I know right where you are, you Closet Snow-lover, you.
Venturing outside in 7 degree weather might not be sane to some, but I knew it'd be my last chance to play in the snow. Shortest-lived 10 inches I can remember; yesterday it was 40 degrees. Now we've got rain and mud instead of snow. Seven degrees one day, and 40 the next? Now that's insane.
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Post by stepper on Jan 17, 2012 19:59:00 GMT -6
HA! Don't you know those little snowmen lights are fitted with GPS tracking devices that can pinpoint their location with an accuracy of within 5 yards. How do you think Frosty led the children through the town right to the traffic cop? GPS, of course. I know right where you are, you Closet Snow-lover, you. AH! But what you don't know is that the GPS tracker only works with the Russian spacecraft that didn't quite make it's intended target! When you look for me, you'll end up off the coast of Chile.  |
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Post by Phalon on Jan 18, 2012 9:29:45 GMT -6
Dang, I thought this was Chile....quite cold actually; thermometer claims is 25 degrees. Snow yesterday, and I don't know what the weatherman says, but the sky is predicting more for today - it's just about three shades from black over the Lake.
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Post by stepper on Jan 18, 2012 22:50:33 GMT -6
Down here they spell it chili and they eat it/them. "I" don't, but there are people who do. I prefer to be able to survive a meal and some of those chili peppers are dangerous!
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Post by Siren on Jan 19, 2012 23:18:46 GMT -6
I see it spelled both ways here - chili as in "a bowl of chili" and "chili powder"..chile as in "green chiles". So, who knows?
Weird weather the last few days - cold then very mild. It was near 70 last Sunday, and in the 40s on Monday. Supposed to be cool, then mild this weekend, too, but less drastic changes.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 21, 2012 8:29:35 GMT -6
Oh, pick me, pick me. I know, I know!
"Chile" is the Spanish version of the word for peppers, and often considered the "correct" spelling since chile (or chili) peppers originated in South America. "Chili" is an Americanized version. The dish made from chiles though, as in "a bowl of chili", always ends in an "i".
Weather this week has been fairly cold with intermittent high winds and blowing snow. The temperature plummeted Thursday, and since, we're experiencing the lowest highs we've had all season - it's been in the low to mid-teens.
Yesterday morning, I found a cob of feed corn nestled for safe keeping in the evergreen branches on my front porch railing. Or maybe I scared whatever it was that brought the corn to the porch when I came out the door. Most likely it was a squirrel; I certainly hope it wasn't the raccoon that I've seen prowling the yard lately in early mornings. Squirrels are pesky, but raccoons can be dangerous, (one blinded our beloved Tucker beagle in one eye). Not wanting to encourage critter activity on my porch, I threw the cob out in the yard. It was gone a short time later, and I hope whoever left it there was the one who made off with it.
The snow started during mid-afternoon, continuing throughout the evening. It looked like a beautiful night for the kind of walk Stepper and I were talking about in another thread. It was only 12 degrees though; I thought...very briefly....about layering up, and getting out. Too warm and snug, and quite lazy actually, to get out from under the blanket I was curled up in while reading, to do anything other than think about it.
Maybe today. The sun is shining.
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Post by stepper on Jan 21, 2012 23:06:09 GMT -6
January - and it's supposed to be in the 80's tomorrow. My spring flowers have sprung up, and the roses are putting on early blooms. The problem is they didn't have enough cold so they aren't really healthy. It's almost a month too soon but I'm going to have to cut them back or they will be puny the rest of the year.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 22, 2012 8:49:51 GMT -6
Eighty degrees! Wow. What's it supposed to be down there now?
Nearly everyone here is happy it's been so cold and snowy these last few days. And I'm not talking people like me, who have been waiting all winter for the opportunity to ski, or those like BP who spent half the day and part of the night sledding with her friends down the ravine hill (the other half day she spent at the ice rink; I swear she's impervious to cold). Even people who hate the cold are happy. Too much to lose in this area, agriculturally speaking, if the weather continues to be this much warmer than normal.
The happiness appears as if it's going to be short-lived though - it's supposed to get up into the forties today.
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