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Og, King of Bashan
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Although I grew up despising Nebraska football, I am super excited to watch the Husker game with me daughter and in laws tomorrow. It pains me to say it, but Go Big Red!
The other plan for tomorrow is to go to Bass Pro Shop and score discount orange cold weather gear before the Broncos game on Sunday night, to which I have tickets.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Mama, have you ever tried Trader Joe's chevre/ dried cranberry log? Absolutely to die for.
I love that -- I’ve served it at home and taken it to parties.
Yes! It's wonderful and I serve it at Christmas. Yum!
Loth, the baby brocconcini is a new one for me (but apparently not for my phone, which autofilled it right away). I will look for it.
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Lothlorien
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Mamacita, I make the same mistake every time I go looking for it. They are called BAMBINI BOCCONCINI. Of course, what else? ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Oh, and tomorrow I turn 48. PAR-TAY!!! (hack cough choke)
Happy birthday! And I hope you're feeling better.
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Kelly Alves
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Getting there. Thanks, Ruth. And Happy Birthday in advance. ( or was it yesterday?)
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Piglet
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Forgot to say the other day - happy birthday Kelly. Hope you're feeling much better.
Happy birthday Ruth too. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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jedijudy
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OK. Who sent all this cold to us? Hmmm? It is 60 degrees here, and it's after 1:00PM!!!!
I think it might snow.
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Brenda Clough
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Today's high has not hit 40 degrees. It is to be hoped that next week the cold will moderate.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
Today's high has not hit 40 degrees. It is to be hoped that next week the cold will moderate.
Slight tangent, but what do you all think the chances are of the TFO getting the USA converted to Celsius at last? Many of our readers are probably wondering why you think 40 degrees is cold, Brenda.
I understand the story is that we were on the brink of converting during Ronald Reagan's presidency but that Reagan couldn't understand the Celsius system and so the change was abandoned.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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( adjusts thermostat. Thanks for the reminder)
Dear Chicago peeps-- I just discovered a pizza place that does Chicago deep dish. And that delivers! (Blue Line Pizza.)
Not as good as the real thing, but definitely not West Coast deep dish
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Brenda Clough
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Does the Celsius system rate for sexual attractiveness? No? Then does it make money? If not, then I think it's fair to say that it will not obtrude upon the TFO's notice.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Bring back thermometers with naked ladies on them -- that should do it.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
... It is 60 degrees here, and it's after 1:00PM!!!!
I think it might snow.
My heart bleeds for you. It's 18°F here. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
Just as well someone gave me a furry coat* whose owner doesn't need it any more.
* fake - I'd really rather not wear a real one - but nice and warm all the same.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by Piglet:
My heart bleeds for you. It's 18°F here.
Yeah, yeah. I'm feeling the love. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
We do have pseudo snow of a sort! It's Richardia brasiliensis, which looks like light lavender snow. It's a weed, but I love it, and so do honey bees! Bees are some of my favorite creatures!
Purple snow.
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Salicional
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Snow, snow, and more snow here: the real, non-purple kind. Part of me likes it because it actually looks like December now, but part of me doesn't because I have to drive 25 miles to play in a concert this afternoon.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Concert here too this afternoon, the third and last of the Christmas season for our choral group. No snow -- temperature is predicted to be 70 degrees F. The most serious hazard we'll have to cope with are repairs being done to the main road leading to the concert venue due to a water main break earlier this week.
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Piglet
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Environment Canada's offering us another 10cm (about 4 inches) of snow tomorrow, which will be a pain, but still not a huge lot by local standards ... ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Lothlorien
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Come down here Piglet. No snow for a change. Rowen's way has had several snowfalls in December, a bit higher than where she lives.
However, Sydney is in for a couple of days of 36° C and a promise or perhaps a threat that the afternoon sea breeze from east will be wiped out by heat from west. That will raise the temperature somewhat and in the west of the city, it will be hotter again. I am just about to water the plants on my balcony and will put the balcony blinds down this afternoon.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Dear Chicago peeps-- I just discovered a pizza place that does Chicago deep dish. And that delivers! (Blue Line Pizza.)
Not as good as the real thing, but definitely not West Coast deep dish
Yay! There are many variations of Chicago Deep Dish, so as long as it's good, who needs to be a purist? Also, Blue Line is a good Chicago name (says the purple line girl).
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Originally posted by Salicional:
Snow, snow, and more snow here: the real, non-purple kind. Part of me likes it because it actually looks like December now, but part of me doesn't because I have to drive 25 miles to play in a concert this afternoon.
Chicago is about to send you more. (probably 4" here with more coming overnight).
It's one of those flour-sifter snows. Nothing heavy, no bitter wind, just a slow and steady downpour of white stuff, hour after hour.
PS: Safe travels!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Also, Blue Line is a good Chicago name (says the purple line girl).
I knew you would like that! ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Just in case you were wondering there is no snow here is southern India...
...it is cool though, well under 30C
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
Chicago is about to send you more ...
Oh, is that where it came from? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Actually the 4-inch forecast was a big, fat lie - we got at least a foot.
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JB
Independent Thinker
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This was quite a weekend.
Light Among the Ruins
Every year the State Park that preserves a 17th-century Franciscan ruin lights the ruins with farolitos for one night during the Christmas season. After we got snowed out last year, finally we attended and photographed. We came early to get a good parking place, helped light the candles in the farolitos, photographed while the ruins still had some light, and left before the crowd got so big that all we could photograph was other photographers.
Las Posadas in the Santa Fe Plaza
A Hispanic custom in which Mary and Joseph go from house to house seeking shelter in Bethlehem, rejected and ridiculed by devils (or people personifying social problems one year) until they finally find the appropriate place. In this case the devils used the portal around the plaza as a stage, and the appropriate house was the Palace of the Governors (oldest public building in the US) where Mary and Joseph and the accompanying choir and mariachi band and crowd of the faithful were welcomed with apple juice and cookies.
Both nights we dressed in multiple layers and still felt frozen.
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Nicolemr
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Yesterday we got a dusting of snow, no more, just enough to stick in places. It was gone today.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Thanks for sharing your photos, JB!
Winter is over. We've been in the 80s recently. We still have purple pseudo snow!
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Carex
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When I was a docent at La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de María Santísima near Lompoc we used to hold candlelight tours for our founding day in early December. For me, appropriate costume involved going barefoot, sometimes in near-freezing weather. It was a beautiful place, even if I didn't get much of a chance to admire it from the outside during the events.
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JB
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La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de María Santísima is in much better repair than San Jose de los Jemez. But then, it was abandoned 148 years before La Purisima was founded and at the time Jemez Pueblo considered it an instrument of Spanish imperialism. Some still do.
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Carex
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Then again, La Purisima was rebuilt at least twice, once on a new site following the 1812 earthquakes, and a second time by CCC crews in the 1930s. Because it had been abandoned / sold to other interests in the meantime, no pueblo grew up around it, which is why it is unique among the California Missions (except for one other still in ruins) that it isn't hemmed in by a modern city.
At least that's what I remember of the story from many years ago.
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Salicional
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I envy those of you in the Southwest right now! Here it's 12 degrees with relentless snow. School's been cancelled, of course, so Mrs. Salicional has to entertain the stir-crazy children while I'm at work.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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The rest of you are celebrating Christmas. I believe we're having the Fourth of July. Yesterday, we shattered the all time forever December high temperature. It was 91°!!! With the humidity, it felt like 95.
Can we possibly send you all some of our extra heat, and you send us some coolness? I'm putting in an order for 75°, if you would be so kind. Maybe 50° in the morning.
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Piglet
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It's currently -6°C (20°F) here; I'd still rather have Salicional's 12°F than your 91°, JJ!
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I'm torn...91° is very uncomfortable...but anything below 50° is even more uncomfortable for me.
But then, my blood is very thin!! No need for sassafras tea!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Piglet
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I suppose tolerance of heat (and cold) is very much a matter of what you're used to. I found the summers in Newfoundland very oppressive - the combination of temperatures in the mid-20s Centigrade (high 70s/low 80s Fahrenheit) and high humidity was very uncomfortable.
When we moved to Fredericton everyone said the summers would be noticeably hotter and the winters considerably colder, and I was bracing myself for much more discomfort. As it turned out, because the heat was rather drier in the summer, I found I could cope a bit better (with the help of air-conditioning!); and while we've certainly had colder temperatures in the last week or so than I've ever experienced before, it doesn't seem to be bothering me as much as I might have thought.
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Brenda Clough
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I remember visiting Iceland in August. It was about 60 degrees and so windy you could lean on the breeze. I put on every garment I owned; the stores were selling thick Icelandic woolens and I was seriously tempted to buy. However the natives were happily hiking around in shorts and tee shirts, enjoying the warmth.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I remember visiting Iceland in August. It was about 60 degrees and so windy you could lean on the breeze. I put on every garment I owned; the stores were selling thick Icelandic woolens and I was seriously tempted to buy. However the natives were happily hiking around in shorts and tee shirts, enjoying the warmth.
Pity you didn't. Icelandic woolens are simply marvelous! I bought a sweater in Reykjavik that kept me toasty warm through several New York winters . . . until I made the mistake of washing it.
When I was young, it was considered decidedly non-macho for boys or men to wear shorts, even in the most sweltering heat. Now you see them on everybody even in the dead of winter.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I remember visiting Iceland in August. It was about 60 degrees and ... the natives were happily hiking around in shorts and tee shirts, enjoying the warmth.
You make that sound as if it's somehow strange. 60°F is just over 15°C, which is about the temperature that my cropped jeans and sandals come out.
Re: Icelandic woollies - I knitted one when I was in my late teens and they'd just become fashionable, and it saw me through two winters in Aberdeen, which can be jolly cold.
The second time we went to Reykjavik I bought one, but TBH I rarely found it cold enough to justify it (and I've expanded somewhat since then ), so when we moved here it went to the charity shop.
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Brenda Clough
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An Icelandic woolen sweater can be wonderfully warm. The loose spin tends to make them pill, however (Scottish fair-isle yarn is spun much tighter). Unless you live in a Northern clime you are unlikely to need more than one, and I have one already. It's thick enough almost to stand on its own, and I can wear it only on the most bitter winter days.
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Welease Woderwick
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It's 2 January 2017 so I'm closing this thread and ask whoever wants to do so to start and name a new USA thread when the spirit so moves them.
WW - AS Host.
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