nice photos Fredwina.
alert alert; it's snowing here.
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nice photos Fredwina.
alert alert; it's snowing here.
Ello from the burbs of Sydney :)
We drovvvvvveeeeee for 2 1/2 days straight (we can take our time going back though!!!) & saw a dingo, emu family etc etc. The drive through central NSW was really interesting!
Tomorrow we do the Bridge Climb & fly to enzed on tues:)
Okay, this weather just isn't funny anymore. Yikes!
Agreed. I'm starting to worry I won't be able to get to work on Monday. *sigh*
Hey CC, glad you made it and had a nice trip!!
It's 1F here with a -23F windchill, we usually don't get this kind of temp until February. :(
Snowing VERY hard here now....says we're going to get a nother 3-7" today.
23F degrees.....we're bundling up to walk into town for Sunday breakfast. :p
maybe snowshoeing later....?
We're still having typical summer weather - driving rain and wind :rolleyes:
Still - not long till I'm in -20 conditions!
The warm muggies - very still air, day highs in the mid 70's have been forced out by the north wind. Today only supposed to be in the 50's with a freeze this evening. But no worries, supposed to be 75 on Christmas. Welcome to life in the semi-tropics. Never pack away all the summer clothes.
55 and sunny. but more rain tonight
I managed to upload photos from my cell. These were taken after therapy:
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Oy. It's snowing again. We got about six inches last night, with a nice little cover of freezing rain over it. We just shoveled the walk. Then I went outside with the camera chasing a red-breasted sapsucker and a pileated woodpecker (Woody!) for pix. Then it started snowing again. If only they cleared the roads here...
My camera was a regular old "snail mail" kind, so I can't post pics, but here's what each of those birds looks like, from the Cornell bird site:
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Wow! Beautiful snow pictures!!! And Lisa- I LOVE the holiday cactus! I almost did the same thing with my key lime tree - will have to next year!! Wish our weather would make up its mind - we were almost 70 on Friday, and we're headed for 19 Monday night.
CA
Here's the 16 or more inches of snow we've gotten since Friday, and it's still coming down. The picture is my deck - you can see the snow depth on the picnic table. I've already shoveled my driveway 7 times.
Deb, That is beautiful! I miss snow! I lived in Cambridge for the Blizzard of 78, and except for the cabbage that we were reduced to eating for a few weeks because the Star Market had run out of everything else, I had a blast!
Wow Deb, that is a lot of snow! You have us beat by about 5" right now....but giant flakes are falling bigtime at the moment...more is still coming, and it's starting to get dark now (and only 4:00!).
We'll see what the morning brings.
....Is that a flying saucer there coming through your woods? :eek:
I suspect it's a reflection from the window, but you can believe in flying saucers if you want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Off to shovel yet again.
Suspiciously like the pic of the "ghost" over the bed in the other thread. Must be a day of weird lights in pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
It's cold (20F) here, but no snow anywhere or in the forecast. I'd just as soon there be snow, if it's too cold to go outside. I've been in bed all day anyway, trying to recover from this cold/sinus/flu/whatever it is I have. I haven't even felt well enough to sit up and knit, and I don't feel guilty about being in bed, which is a big indicator of how sick I am. I think tomorrow will be better, though! :)
Karen
Aw Karen, hope you feel better soon! Being sick is miserable. :(
Get out, I was there too! I was holed up in a dorm at BU, right across the river from you. What were you, two years old then?Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
My best memory of that blizzard was walking across the Christian Science Plaza and sinking up past my waist in snow! :cool:
No I was 10, and school was out for three weeks. People were XC skiing right over the cars, which you could tell were there by the antennas sticking through the snow. I have fond memories of that storm, probably because I had no responsibilities except feeding my hamster and my cat.Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
Here, however, it rained all night and my roof leaks. Still. (like it's going to just "heal?")
I was in college in '78 too, but at Oberlin. I remember walking to a friend's house for dinner. I walked through a portico I knew was there - I could tell I was on the sidewalk - but couldn't see the pillars. When I got to my friend's house, my eyelashes were frozen together. :eek:
The house last night just before the snow started:
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And tonight, after about 9 inches fell:
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Ahhh..lovely to see the snow!
1978..I was 6 :o & we were stationed in Victoria :D
We did the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb today & loved being in the middle of traffic /under traffic/over traffic! I thought it would be a waste of $$$$$ but I was pleasantly surpised.
The Sydney Opera house on the other hand..:confused: I still don't see the appeal.
Tomorrow we head to NZ & am hoping it doesn't rain the whole time we're there!!!
One day, i'll be able to catch up with the stuff happenin on TD.
I think I'm finished with my cookie baking binge!! There is no more room in the freezer. After the last bunch cools, I'll make up a gallon-sized zip locs for DH and I to take to our respective offices tomorrow.
Chocorgasms, Toffee, M&M, M&M Chocolate Crackles, Veronica's Oatmeal (w/Chocolate Chips w/Toffee chips), and my favorites, oatmeal w/chocolate chips & pecans!
I meant to make only three batches. Then I went into a frenzy!!! My mother, rest her soul, always made batches of cookies at Christmas, so it's a family tradition. I really can't get in the holiday spirit without baking some.
Do you deliver? :D
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Originally Posted by mickchick
Me too! I made Russian Tea Cakes, and they really bring memories of my mother back. She and I would bake dozens and dozens of Christmas Cookies. I stuck to three batches, and it looks like plenty! I was going to make Thumbprints, but I have no room left. Maybe later.
Oh, I have kitchen envy. I wish I had a kitchen!
That made me laugh out loud, thanks. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Tulip, how can you live without a kitchen? where is your food?
i am back at work today; a total waste of a perfect snow day.
That's awesome! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
*sigh*Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
I've been without a kitchen since I bought this house in August. The renovation finally started in October, and it's getting there, slowly. I do have appliances--very nice ones (new)--in my livingroom. My fancy French-door bottom freezer fridge is plugged in, filled with oh-so-delicious-and-nutritious microwave meals--in the livingroom. I have a big basket on the table that is jammed in front of the fireplace filled with soup and instant mashed potatoes and pretzles and tea and oatmeal and bananas. My stove is a staging area for my paper plates and plastic cups. My dishwasher is next to the front door wrapped up in whatever dishwasher insulation is made of. Sitting on top of it is the new microwave/convection oven, which makes a great place to put my mittens and dog leash, since it's next to the front door. My old (very old--like 20 years old) microwave is in the diningroom on some plastic milk crates. Lovely.
I am less one whole wall, and I have new HVAC, new water heater, new electricity, new plumbing, new recessed lights...but the cabinets are not finished yet. The contractors come tomorrow to finish up the drywall repair and patch the floor where the old wall was, and the final inspections are supposed to be tomorrow, too. Then I have to paint the ceiling and walls. Then it's just waiting on the cabinets, which are supposed to be ready to install in mid-January. Then the concrete countertops have to be made, the sink and stuff installed, the pendant lights hung, and the appliances moved OUT of the livingroom.
Then I'm going to bake a bunch of cookies and drink mulled wine--for a week!
ooooh renovations!!
DH's son is visiting, there's a fire in the fireplace, and I have small twin chickens roasting in the oven right now. Stuffing is made, and green beans, and cheesecake waiting.....mmmmm
What time should we be there Lisa? Your cooking always makes my mouth water. ;)
We should throw tulip a virtual kitchenwarming when her remodeling is done!
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I hate it when I can't find a place to park! ;)
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(Post-ride coffee shop on Saturday)
You still thinking about cookies?Quote:
Originally Posted by jobob
PS OK. I am, anyway. :D
Cookies, pizza, beer - it's all good.
I am impatiently waiting for tulip's after photos. She has shared some really neat plans in the remodeling thread, should make us a bit jealous when she is done.
tulip- I never posted a picture of my finished landscaping but I took your advice and planted something (Katie's Dwarf Ruellia) in front of those Japanese Barberries. They are grassy right now but when it was warmer the pink and violet blooms were nice too. Thanks for the suggestion, it looks more complete. Couldn't get DH to got for bringing the bed any further out, maybe future years. Even with him getting the plants for next to nothing he was tired of spending money.
Back among the living! After about 48 hours solid in bed, I managed to get up AND work out today, and make a beef stew with the roast leftovers hubby cooked yesterday.
The house is a total wreck, and Christmas is in how many days???
K.