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Uncle Pete
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Happy New Year! Bonne année!
Even if it is still just past 7 on New Year's Eve here in the Centre of the Universe™* the time is fast approaching.
God bless us all! And save us from politicians of whatever stripe (usually yellow, but YMMV).
*adjust Centre of the Universe™ to match your time zone.
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Happy New Year fellow Canadian types. It is a bitterly cold day here on a certain Island in the Atlantic. Thankfully, the fireworks will be going off at 7:30 pm. I realize it is so that the children can enjoy it but I must say it is a very reasonable time for those of a certain age as well.
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Piglet
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Happy New Year from the mystic East; I'd have posted this at midnight Newfoundland time if I hadn't been out celebrating with friends.
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Happy New Year.
And may lighting strike our illustrious Prime Minister. For once I get to work in the Federally Regulated Private Sector, and I want to start a union drive. It's a call centre, and three other of the company's centres are organized.
But Mr. Stiff Hair repealed the Canada Labour Code provision that allowed for card-check certification, starting next June.
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Welease Woderwick
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Happy New Year folks.
SPK - It just goes to show that Harpo and Marx don't have much in common, after all!
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Uncle Pete
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Harpo, at least, was funny. Harper is just a joke.
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2015
That's an answer from one of my high school math exams, not a year.
This century is just flying along, eh?
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Happy 2oh15. Was -35 until today when it't -8°.
Stephen Harper is actually bald isn't he? That has to be a wig. His are the worst neckties as well. Such a very bad appearance for Canada.
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daisymay
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Happy New Year 2015.
May people be pleased all year ! Enjoy it soon !
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Oscar the Grouch
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Happy New Year.
Almost my first anniversary in Canada. So good....
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Trudy Scrumptious
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Another check-in from the Far East of the Western World here ... Happy New Year everyone!
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Ferdzy
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Happy new year to all! (Except Harper; of course. I hope his is lousy.)
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Piglet
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I take it from sundry posts above that the season of goodwill towards all men doesn't extend to our Illustrious Leader ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
eta: I don't have a vote: he isn't my fault.
[ 03. January 2015, 21:14: Message edited by: Piglet ]
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Canada - Russia gold medal game at the World Juniors in Toronto. I wonder if Harper bought the tickets for the 2 suits sitting behind him. I don't they like hockey. Pretty grim looking. Harper's wig is crooked.
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Piglet
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Has anyone else noticed that the Weather Channel seems to be broken?
All we're getting is pictures with very low-level sound (and TWN is usually much louder than other channels), and the local forecasts are just a blank blue screen.
Is it just over here, or all over Canada?
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lily pad
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No idea about the tv station as I don't have one but I can tell you it is clear and cold with a stiff wind here!
Temperature is -19 degrees Celsius with a windchill of -34 and winds at 43 gusting to 54 km per hour.
Had a lovely walk with the dog this morning but was thankful to have the wind at my back on the return.
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Piglet
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Weather Channel back to normal this evening.
It was v. windy and felt really cold here today, and having got rid of most of the sn*w, we're now being forecast to get a shed-load more on Wednesday/Thursday.
Don't you just hate January? ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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I know what you mean, Piglet, it's so cold here I needed a top sheet last night!
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I hate you, Wodders. Nothing personal.
Just got in the door, and it's -26C here, windchill -38C. That's cold enough for us locals to start bitching about it. Above those temperatures, well, that's just winter.
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Horseman Bree
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Yeah, we had -24 C here with 40 km/h winds, just a mite nippy. people wandering around today with their jackets open in the calm air at -13
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-36°C this morning, warmed up to -24 this evening. I got little bits of frost bite again on both cheeks while riding the bike to work. Eyeglasses wearers cannot cover their faces and expect unfogged glasses. Goggles and sport glasses don't work either. I will personally pay someone a whole heck of a lot of money to invent face coverings for eyeglasses wearers that don't fog up with either breath fog or eye socket and face sweat.
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Welease Woderwick
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When I rode a motorbike on winter days, but not as cold as yours, I used to smear neat dishwashing liquid on my specs and that was pretty effective.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Piglet
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-36° is beyond my experience or even imagination, although I've a friend who's a priest up in Labrador, and she said on FB that it was -45° and -54 with the wind-chill today.
**brrrrrr**
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Horseman Bree
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Sounds about normal for most of the Prairies and the Boreal Forest.
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Piglet
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Had a snow-day today - first of the season.
Unfortunately that also means we've got snow.
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Augustine the Aleut
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Just back in the motherland from godless Florida, and greatly refreshed by my -16°C walk to get my morning baguette.
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CBC radio broadcast an interview by the great Peter Gzowski with the recently-passed Don Harron, whose character Charlie Farquarson is also obviously passed. Sorry to hear of another of the old guard of good broadcasters and literate people go.
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Horseman Bree
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Howling winds and -25 temps on Saturday, now we have +6 and steady rain. Managed to get the drainage clear to keep the water out of the basement door, so this must be the "January thaw".
Temps in the -5 to -10 range forecast for the next week.
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Piglet
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We're getting a (probably) very brief thaw at the moment - the water's gushing merrily down the hill outside our house.
Probably won't be enough to get rid of very much of the snow though.
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We had lots of snow on Sunday and by last night it was all gone. High winds all day yesterday and heavy rain from mid-afternoon until late in the evening took care of it. I don't like driving at night at the best of times but the 50 minute trip to town last night was hard work. This morning when I let the dog out it looked like a whole different world. It is so dark out now without the bright snow.
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John Holding
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Was handed my first RUTRTW today. (Alas, no frebbies.) Spring must be on the way!
John
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Somebody has put together a google map of noted toboggan hills.
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lily pad
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Love it! Although some hills are still missing. Then again, the 40 cm that we are getting now on top of the 27 from Saturday have created some lovely sledding opportunities right in my front yard.
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Horseman Bree
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And we didn't have any rain! Yay! (although rain doesn't seem to happen much at -17 C)
Brilliant sun, but chilling wind. At least the wind will blow the snow lifted by the blower.
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Piglet
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Typical - RUTR starts, and where am I? In Scotland, where there aren't any Timmys.
Guess where my first stop will be when I hit Halifax airport next Tuesday ...
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Horseman Bree
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And there are TWO Roll-Ups again.
So far, I'm 0 for 2.
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Horseman Bree
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104 cm. in the last few days, and another 20-30 on the way tonight.
Some roads may not be plowed because there is no way to get the snow over the banks that are already there.
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lily pad
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I hear you - we're only getting another 15 cm or so in this storm. We're running out of places to put the snow too. I'm having to step up onto the deck to throw the snow on top of the banks which are over six feet tall now. It's fun to play in though!
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
Typical - RUTR starts, and where am I? In Scotland, where there aren't any Timmys.
Guess where my first stop will be when I hit Halifax airport next Tuesday ...
Starbucks for a Chardonnay?
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Piglet
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That may depend on whether it's as overpriced as their coffee.
104cm and rising, HB??? Crikey! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
We got enough last year that the Council started running out of places to put it, but so far this year (crosses fingers, toes, eyes etc.) we've had very little. When I spoke to D. yesterday he said they'd had lots of rain and wind since I've been away, which is fine because you don't have to shovel those.
that you stay safe, and don't get any power cuts.
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Horseman Bree
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lilypad: quote:
It's fun to play in though!
Our 9-m.o. pup, who is quite long-legged and animated, absolutely adores the possibilities of snow. He seems to be able to throw his own snowballs - at least, that's what I think he chases! he can get up 6 feet of more-or-less vertical snowbank.
piglet: rain is the last thing we need. You can't throw wet snow, it plugs up the snowblower, and the streets (and everything else) become covered in lumpy ice when the cold comes back. This stuff can be thrown about 10 m. or so with the blower, and packs down a bit once it it piled.
But I do have lawn space to put it on, since we're not in a cramped space.
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lily pad
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My dog is very active and does the same with the snow. She is hilarious when I throw snow balls. She's just under 40 pounds with long legs and is a year and a half old. She seems to levitate up and down the big snowdrifts.
I tie her out and have been worried what would happen if the line got caught up and she was dangling and, sure enough, tonight it happened. I was watching her at the time and she was sort of able to scramble back up. I have cut down many of the banks trying to have no sharp edges but she found an area where it was a straight drop of at least five feet down.
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Horseman Bree
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A case of giving her enough rope so she won't hang herself!
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lily pad
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Indeed - problem is that the snow got warm enough that the line would catch in it. Ahh, and look, the radio just said we're getting another 20 cm. Won't that be fun!?!
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Uncle Pete
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I really feel for those poor people in Kitimat and Terrace. Snowfall is one thing and to be expected, but more than 120 cm in 24 hours of precipitation.
Shoppers Drug is taking emergency prescriptions by phone and said prescriptions are being delivered by search and rescue people.
Kinda puts Trawna in the shade, eh? And they haven't even called in the army. Just put on their big person pants and getting on with it.
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Horseman Bree
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And that close to the ocean, the snow is probably the wet stuff you can't shovel or snowblow.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
... so far this year we've had very little ...
I think I may have spoken too soon - they're offering us 30-45cm tomorrow.
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Og: Thread Killer
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quote:
Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Kinda puts Trawna in the shade, eh? And they haven't even called in the army. Just put on their big person pants and getting on with it.
We've dealt with crappy weather for real here too Pete.
The memories of the ice storm in 2013-2014 are still fresh.
Time to put away that old story. Kids not born then will be able to vote for the next mayor in this burb. And the joke isn't true to this city's character, if it ever was.
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Winter can be the best season if you are active. I am nearly a senior (see Hell thread) and I road my winter bike to work at -28° and a -36 windchill. No fear and almost over dressed. We got a nice snow dump last weekend so we are off for 4 days of skiing, including a loppet. Trails are tracked!
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Augustine the Aleut
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quote:
Originally posted by Og: Thread Killer:
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Kinda puts Trawna in the shade, eh? And they haven't even called in the army. Just put on their big person pants and getting on with it.
We've dealt with crappy weather for real here too Pete.
The memories of the ice storm in 2013-2014 are still fresh.
Time to put away that old story. Kids not born then will be able to vote for the next mayor in this burb. And the joke isn't true to this city's character, if it ever was.
Quite right, but it was to (then Mayor) Mel Lastman's.
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