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[LBTC]

Chicago - that's a beautiful, bright and cheerful quilt! Anyone would love to receive it!

Oak - here's some butterflies to lift your mood. I'm hoping there's no basis for it so they'll just pick it up and fly all the bad stuff away.

CC - Life is pretty good, I must say. other than a wierd knee.

Hugs and butterflies all around,
~T~

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Beautiful quilt- she will love it!

Oak, I hope you feel better soon.

It's been raining all day here, but it was around 50F degrees out, so I went for a 4 mile walk in the rain. Glad I did- my muscles, hip joints and legs feel good now. It's hard to find good weather days in the winter for walking and biking...gotta grab whatever comes up.

[Biciclista]

boy that's the truth. nice weather windows are smaller and smaller when you only have 8 hours of daylight to "dance" in.

Chicago, the sight of all those squares that need to be connected is very very scary to me!
good luck!

[salsabike]

Only 12 more days till we start getting more daylight again!

[Duck on Wheels]

8 hours??? We have about 3 And it only hit 14F outside today. We have that squeeky kind of snow that when walked on sounds like squeezing a bag of potato starch. Glad I live down here by the fjord, not up in the mountains where it's -30! But it all balances out in the end. We have no nighttime in June/July, with 70F which is comfier than 100. The cold you can always dress for (wool over wool over wool ... and then something windproof).

I've started packing for California. Tuesday Weld is down from the attic. Empty suitcases. Gifts all wrapped. Now to start counting up clothes. Only a week, so won't need many. Tuck an empty soft-sided suitcase in on top for all the stuff we've mail-ordered to Mom's address. Some of that is bike clothes, so I won't need to pack too much of that either. Finished a committee report today. Finish oral exams tomorrow. PhD defense event on Friday, then maybe a spin class on the way home. Saturday when I take off I'll be almost up to date at work

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

We're having some ice 'issues' today. Woke up to 1/4" of ice like glass on everything, and completely encasing my car. I yanked open my car door and I'm warming up my car now for about 20 minutes, then I should be able to scrape that off the windows. I see one of my tires is almost flat too....gotta go take care of that somewhere once the ice is off....because I also have to take Pearl to the vet in 2 hours.
Tonight we are supposed to get another 3/4" of ice on everything so I don't even know how I'll open my car door after that! Nasty- I'll take snow any day. Already canceled our plans to go out tonight to play music.
I broke out my YakTrax boot crampons (thank god for them) so I don't break my neck now when I go out for the tire and the cat trip. Even the rough gravel driveway is as slippery as glass right now.

[Biciclista]

wow! nasty weather you're having! i'm glad you have those gizmos for your feet. its supposed to go below freezing here this weekend too
nothing to report here sorry zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Bruno28]

So about a week ago I'm getting ready to take Mr Bruno to the airport at some ridilculous hour in the morning and my doorbell goes. My neighbour is at the door asking if my car is locked - it's on the driveway with the engine running to de-ice the windows.

Apparently someone had just stolen his jacket with his house keys in the pocket from his unlocked car. He had only gone back into the house for a couple of minutes to pick up something he had forgotten. This is at something like 6.30am in a totally residential, quiet nighbourhood.

That evening the police came to my door to ask if I'd seen anything. Apparently there's been a series of car thefts in the neighbourhood from people leaving their cars to defrost with the engine running. People do it all the time around here.

I now know it's illegal to do this and insurance won't cover you if you leave the keys in the ignition. Well that's me learned a lesson. Poor neighbour had to have all the locks on his house changed. Luckily he had taken the car key into the house with him.

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone here leaves their car unattended to defrost.

Having nice neighbours can lull you into a false sense of security about how safe your neighbourhood is.

[Blueberry]

Having nice neighbours can lull you into a false sense of security about how safe your neighbourhood is.

This is SO true! Someone in our neighborhood just got robbed for the 2nd time in 10 days. UGH!!! And we live in a good area too. Seems crime is just on the rise everywhere - at least around here

At least the 2nd time - someone saw the guy breaking in the door and called the cops. They got a look at the suspect, chased him, and in his haste to escape he dropped most of what he stole - including all of their Christmas presents from under the tree.

CA

[Biciclista]

This is a common occurance here too. but insurance generally covers for stupidity!!!

[Bruno28]

but insurance generally covers for stupidity!!!

I guess they have to take into account that you're americans. Oh, oh....I'm in trouble now

[Zen]

Now for something entirely different


I've been wanting to do that for ages.

[katluvr]

Hello all! Seems like I have not been here for ages...1st out of town then back to work just in time to be out again for GI bug! But all better now!
Looks like I have some reading to catch up on. Toooooo bad I am swamped at work (time off = catch up time at work).

No cold or snow here. Very balmy in Florida. We do have rain now and a "cool" front moving in. Should be in teh 70's for the weekend. Perfect weather for a Holiday Party (my house). IT is too small for all to fit inside so we need nice weather so people can spread out to the outside!

[LBTC]

ah, Florida. My boss is there right now....

Here it is right around freezing. There was that little skiff of slippery this morning, but it's okay now. I've had that 1/4" or more of ice on everything before.....at -30 it doesn't come off the doors of the car no matter how long you run it. Only the passenger door would open for a week. heh. That was further north, though. It wasn't common there, and even less so here.

The leaving your car running thing is, of course, illegal, but in a lot of colder communities, for a long time, the police would be very lenient about it. In our old town that was true until someone's car got stolen and that stolen car drove into a group out running, killing one person and badly injuring another. They had pretty low tolerance for it after that.

I've never been clear on the details, though. If the car is running but locked, is that legal?

So far it's been pretty casual being DH's co-worker / supervisor. He's been doing little things here and there that I've wanted to fix / do since I started. It's cool. The boss phoned today and said to send him early once he's got his regular tasks done. He didn't tell me the same thing. hahahaha

Oh, well. Better get back to it.

Happy Thursday, everyone,

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[crazycanuck]

Ahhh..only 4 days left of work until we are on de road Get me out of hereeeeee.. It's a way coolio but very long drive from perth to sydney..Check it out MSN or Google maps.

it's a boooooteaful day here & the weekend looks Great weather for the open water swim tomorrow morning! YAyyyyyy..

ahhhhh