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2-3 inches here as well. The kids were delighted -- it was enough that they could break out their sleds.
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My sister in Birmingham was dealing with five inches of snow on Saturday. Wow! Apparently some folks around my home town had frost this morning!
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freezing here this AM but sun in out and temperature is on the rise. Lots of smoke in the air from fires in Southern California even though we are over 100 miles north. Continued prayers for all.
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Sending good wishes to the people of Alabama as they vote today.
Please let good sense and moral whatnot prevail.
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I sure wish we could send some of this cold, snowy weather out to California where the moisture is desperately needed. Thinking of all those affected by the fires right now.
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jedijudy
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Please let good sense and moral whatnot prevail.
Hallelujah! Good sense did prevail! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I understand a lot of Republicans (including some of my family members) chose not to vote, which probably helped the numbers. However, I wish those who didn't vote (including my family) would have dared to vote contrary to their party affiliation in order to express their strong beliefs about the horribleness of Moore's actions of the past.
Here endeth the Purgatorial reading! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Turnout is key. We have seen what happens when people don't vote, from laziness or passivity or just believing that their vote doesn't matter. It always matters, and it is vitally important for each and every of us (as the past year amply proves) to vote in every election, always, from now until they shovel us under. Alabama had a 40% turnout, mindboggling for an off-year election with only one contest, but that's what did it.
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Well done Alabama
As a matter of interest, because I'm confused, are Bannon and Thwump buddies agasin?
On a more important question, shaking the foundations of the universe et cetera, and because I'm doing some work on Bob Dylan (oh what a surprise ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) ) ... but hosts I promise this is a mere generalized inquiry not homework ... I not in 1964 he wrote "and landed fully blast." I would say "landed full blast." As in "all cylinders firing and ready to go."
Do y'all (!) think it was a Dylanism (it looks to me like a somewhat extempore setting despite being in print) or a US usage?
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Brenda Clough
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Well done Alabama
As a matter of interest, because I'm confused, are Bannon and Thwump buddies agasin?
I would doubt it. Lyin' Don hates losers, because he's always futilely hoping to be a winner. And he loathes being made to look foolish, or look like a loser. And now he is and does! All Bannon's fault, and Crooked Don is not one to forgive or forget.
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On a more important question, shaking the foundations of the universe et cetera, and because I'm doing some work on Bob Dylan (oh what a surprise ) ... but hosts I promise this is a mere generalized inquiry not homework ... I not in 1964 he wrote "and landed fully blast." I would say "landed full blast." As in "all cylinders firing and ready to go."
Do y'all (!) think it was a Dylanism (it looks to me like a somewhat extempore setting despite being in print) or a US usage?
I personally would say it is a typo. If you are unwilling to accept that, then yes I guess it's a Dylanism. "Fully blast" is not an American usage. There's also a problem with =landing= full blast. In theory, as with airplanes, when you land you want to power down, slow down the engines, etc. You blast -off-, to get up off the ground into the air. You do not land full blast unless you are honing to explode on contact. But I would be fully willing to assume that Mr. Dylan is not so picky.
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Congratulations, Alabama!
Good sense and moral whatnot did indeed prevail*.
How many more by-elections like this do you need for the Moron-in-Chief to be in really deep doggie-doo?
* although I could worry about the 48% who did vote for the racist bigot.
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Zappa
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
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Originally posted by Zappa:
Well done Alabama
As a matter of interest, because I'm confused, are Bannon and Thwump buddies agasin?
I would doubt it. Lyin' Don hates losers, because he's always futilely hoping to be a winner. And he loathes being made to look foolish, or look like a loser. And now he is and does! All Bannon's fault, and Crooked Don is not one to forgive or forget.
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On a more important question, shaking the foundations of the universe et cetera, and because I'm doing some work on Bob Dylan (oh what a surprise ) ... but hosts I promise this is a mere generalized inquiry not homework ... I not in 1964 he wrote "and landed fully blast." I would say "landed full blast." As in "all cylinders firing and ready to go."
Do y'all (!) think it was a Dylanism (it looks to me like a somewhat extempore setting despite being in print) or a US usage?
I personally would say it is a typo. If you are unwilling to accept that, then yes I guess it's a Dylanism. "Fully blast" is not an American usage. There's also a problem with =landing= full blast. In theory, as with airplanes, when you Yeah and you want to power down, slow down the engines, etc. You blast -off-, to get up off the ground into the air. You do not land full blast unless you are honing to explode on contact. But I would be fully willing to assume that Mr. Dylan is not so picky.
It's from his collected lyrics, but very much back in his ad hoc days (this from 1964), so I suspect its a transcript of an ad lib ... and yes, I got the incongruity of landing full blast!
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I'm going to see Star Wars today!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Yes, I know. It opens tomorrow. Daughter-Unit got our tickets about three months ago, and we just want to be among the first in My Fair City to see it. Besides, we have waited long enough!!!
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I'm going to see Star Wars today!!
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Me, too!
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Son and DIL went last night. A friend in tasmania went the previous night to a showing at 11:30 pm. She made a dress with top in proper colours and skirt made of material printed with photos from film.
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You do not land full blast unless you are honing to explode on contact.
I imagine if you made as fast a descent as you possibly could, then fired thrusters at max in order to decelerate and had the thrusters railed until the moment you touched down, you could describe it as "landing full blast".
You've just got to be very precise about the moment you cut thrust.
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I'm a little surprised at the local Spanish language cinema, which is the only one left that still has auditorium-style seating (I loathe stadium seating). They're showing Star Wars dubbed in Spanish beginning at noon. There's only one showing in English with Spanish subtitles, and only one showing in 3D dubbed in Spanish.
I may go to one of the dubbed-in-Spanish showings if there's not too much of a crowd.
La Fuerza sea con ustedes. (Need I translate?)
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"La Fuerza" looks a lot less aggressive than "The Force" which I was never entirely happy about. But does it carry the same echoes in Spanish, anyway?
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The ad blurb in Spanish uses the phrase El despertar de la fuerza . . . (The awakening of the force . . .)
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Here in the Phoenix (Arizona) area, we just broke our four-month dryspell. A thunderstorm which started around 4:00 a.m. was the first rain we've had since August.
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Ian Climacus
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Is that usual? 4 months without rain? I don't like it after 2 weeks of no rain.
Can I ask for some local knowledge? I'm headed to Austin, Texas for a conference in early February. I will probably visit universities in Florida [near Orlando] and Atlanta in the week-and-a-half I have afterwards.
I was also thinking of visiting the Kennedy Space Centre while in Florida, and visiting Savannah and New Orleans. Does this sound reasonable? Would you recommend them, or somewhere else? I have a few offers to visit unis up north but I'd like to stay, relatively, south and enjoy some time off too. What do I like? History. Walking. Food. Water (staring at ![[Smile]](smile.gif) ).
My thanks. Gracias is the limit of my Spanish. Could definitely not see and comprehend La guerra de las galaxias, unlike Amanda.
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Yes, the Space Center is worth seeing. Find out if/when there's going to be a launch; if you can be anywhere near at that moment it's spectacular. Be warned however that there's not much else in that area of Florida. Space vehicles are always launched from in the middle of a nearly uninhabited wilderness.
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Is that usual? 4 months without rain? I don't like it after 2 weeks of no rain.
It's quite common. This is the desert. It's one of the things I love about Arizona.
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Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
Is that usual? 4 months without rain? I don't like it after 2 weeks of no rain.
Can I ask for some local knowledge? I'm headed to Austin, Texas for a conference in early February. I will probably visit universities in Florida [near Orlando] and Atlanta in the week-and-a-half I have afterwards.
I was also thinking of visiting the Kennedy Space Centre while in Florida, and visiting Savannah and New Orleans. Does this sound reasonable? Would you recommend them, or somewhere else? I have a few offers to visit unis up north but I'd like to stay, relatively, south and enjoy some time off too. What do I like? History. Walking. Food. Water (staring at ).
My thanks. Gracias is the limit of my Spanish. Could definitely not see and comprehend La guerra de las galaxias, unlike Amanda.
If you do go to Cape Canaveral, Even better, if you have a car and can venture a few miles north to Oak Hill is Goodrich Seafood on River Road, which is very close to the style of old waterside crab Shacks. Dixie Crossroads in Titusville for local seafood is also passable.
Most of Florida south of Gainesville was settled after the introduction of railways and air conditioning with the exception of Saint Augustine, founded in 1565 by the Spanish. While there's a whiff of Disneyland about it, enough of the colonial buildings remain to justify a stop if you're heading north along I-95. More old Florida flavour is possible if you head west out of Saint Augustine along route 16, then turn north along route 13 on the east shore of the Saint John River, following a winding riverside road with lots of weeping willows until you arrive in Jacksonville, and can return to the Interstate.
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jedijudy
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Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
I was also thinking of visiting the Kennedy Space Centre while in Florida, and visiting Savannah and New Orleans. Does this sound reasonable? Would you recommend them, or somewhere else?
Yes, the Space Center would be a good place to go! Also, Savannah is a beautiful little city with an amazing historical district and tours of some of the old homes there!
If you like being in the outdoors, while you're in Orlando, you may want to go canoeing in one of the springs. Canoeing from Rock Springs to Wekiva is a real treat, and something I miss from when I lived in the Orlando area! And there are many more springs to visit!
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Ian Climacus
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
If you like being in the outdoors, while you're in Orlando, you may want to go canoeing in one of the springs. Canoeing from Rock Springs to Wekiva is a real treat, and something I miss from when I lived in the Orlando area! And there are many more springs to visit!
Sounded wonderful. Past-tense.
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Wildlife include alligators...
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I'm still tempted.
Thank you all for the great suggestions. Looking forward to it. Never been east of Denver in the US. Sounds like lots to do.
Thanks for the geography lesson too, Pigwidgeon!
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jedijudy
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Honestly, gators aren't a big deal. We respect their territory and they pretty much ignore us.
Gator hints...
- Don't feed them.
- Don't try to pet a gator.
- Don't pick up baby gators, no matter how cute they are. Mama is nearby.
- And, as my mom learned the hard way, don't try to whack a gator with a broom when it's lying on your canal bank. They can jump high and fast.
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Ian Climacus
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Wow: brave woman, your mum!
Thanks for the tips. I guess if it is popular, the danger must be low. It does look stunning. And something I'd love to do.
We have saltwater crocodiles here which are a bit nastier. I guess I tarred all Crocodilia by my knowledge of one...
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jedijudy
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Wow: brave woman, your mum!
We loudly used a different term for her action. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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jedijudy--
Then *you* are wise and brave!
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...comfortably watching the "King Family Singers" on Get TV retro network. (Broadcast, but should be online, too.)
Anyone else remember them? Huge family (listing said 39 people--that's multiple generations). Singing and dancing and playing instruments. This is a Christmas special--from the 60s, I think. They were a big deal, back then. I think some of them might still be performing.
Anyway, I loved them and their TV specials as a kid, and I'm thrilled they're on tonight.
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to all!
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I don't remember the "King Family Singers" (though I do remember the 60s -- no, really I do).
However I love the "King's Singers." One of our classical stations interviewed them and had them perform in their studio (I was lucky enough to hear the broadcast twice). I've been even luckier to hear and see them perform twice in person.
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[claim-to-fame alert ON]
Claim to fame no. 1:
When we lived in Orkney, we had the King's Singers at the St. Magnus Festival one year, and I was doing front-of-house at the Festival Club after their concert. One of the committee members said they wanted Festival sweatshirts and gave me the (not at all unpleasant) task of fitting them for them.
Claim to fame no. 2:
I was at the wedding of the parents of one of the current King's Singers - his father was organist of the church round the corner from the Cathedral when we were in Belfast. In fact, D. may well have played the organ on that occasion. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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mt--
Yes.
Piglet--
Cool! But not the group I'm talking about.
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Golden Key
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Official King Family site.
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Golden Key
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Pigwidgeon--
Sorry, didn't see your post first time through. Cool! I remember the 60s, too. I was too young to get involved in anything, for which I'm truly grateful.
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Piglet--
Cool! But not the group I'm talking about.
Sorry - I thought they were who Pigwidgeon was talking about in the post above mine.
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No problem. I inadvertently caused the confusion, because I originally only saw your post, and not Pigwidgeon's.
Apologies! ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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The folks along the southern shore of Lake Erie who wished for a white Christmas have a lot more than they bargained for! Erie, PA broke a record with 53 inches of snow in 30 hours, and I imagine the snowbelt in western NY has similar totals. I'm about 40 miles south of the lake itself, and we've only had about 6 inches since Christmas Eve. At least schools, etc. aren't in session at the moment, but the people up along that lake are going to have quite a headache digging themselves out from this.
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I was in PA for Christmas at my daughter's, with my brothers. Fortunately we were not in that part of the state and escaped with a dusting, and no problems.
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Originally posted by Salicional:
... 53 inches of snow in 30 hours ...
And I thought we were badly hit, getting about a foot on Christmas Day.
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The NWS is now pegging Erie's snowfall total at 60 inches since Christmas Eve. Five feet! I mean, it's not like people who live in a snowbelt are unprepared for big dumps, but plowing the roads clear of that much snow is a herculean task. City crews and the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation are working around the clock with every piece of snow-removal equipment they have, but people are still being warned to stay off the roads. Most every business in town is closed. Fortunately the snow is expected to taper off today.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Meanwhile in Phoenix we're enjoying 70°F days and 40°F nights -- about right for this time of year. The spell of no rain is back, though -- we can sure use some (as could the Ventura, California area -- are you listening, God?).
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That sounds like quite a civilised temperature, ABR, although I really wouldn't want it that warm at this time of year.
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Gosh. That's a lot of snow. How far south on the east does it snow? The Carolinas? I'm finalising my little jaunt around there and pondering hiring a car as per Augustine's post. As I have no snow/ice experience, I'm wary of doing so too far north. Tough enough to drive on the wrong side of the road.
In good news I found a hiking club in NC that has walks on when I am there - hope I can catch a lift and walk with them.
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Moo
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Originally posted by Ian Climacus:
How far south on the east does it snow?
It's not just a matter of how far south; it's also a matter of elevation. You need to check local weather forecasts.
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Brenda Clough
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Assuming you are not high up in the mountains, it will snow pretty briskly in Washington DC in January or February. But that's about it. Going south it's far less; we were visiting friends in central North Carolina this week and I noticed that the houses have no garages -- there is never need to hack your car out of the ice.
Unless your journey is in the deeps of winter, I wouldn't worry too much -- checking the weather sites is always wise, of course.
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And thank you all for participating in the year 2017. See you all in 2018!
Happy New Year!🎆
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