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clersal
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posted 22 May 2002 05:08 PM

Since we always talk about it why not a thread. It is a bee-u-ti-ful day. 20 and sunny.

No bugs as yet.

[ May 22, 2002: Message edited by: clersal ]

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dee
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posted 22 May 2002 05:15 PM

But clersal, don't people talk about the weather when they've got nothing else to say? I don't see that as being a problem on this board.

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'lance
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posted 22 May 2002 05:32 PM

I don't know -- in Canada, it seems another form of the usual wry observations people do make about this wacky country. You could probably do a whole essay on "what we are really talking about when we talk about the weather," though it might not run to too much more than "aren't we crazy for living here? Still, it could be worse, it could be snowing."

But waittaminute... it did, this morning, in Calgary. Perhaps I'm crazy for living in Calgary, anyway, in preference to Vancouver.

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dee
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posted 22 May 2002 05:41 PM

Just you wait, 'lance... I remember getting snow in August when I lived in central Alberta. Skiing was really great that year.

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clersal
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posted 22 May 2002 05:57 PM

We usually talk about weather when it is awful so I thought we could talk about it when it is nice. I have lots to say but everyone says it before I do.

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DrConway
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posted 22 May 2002 06:04 PM

Well, it's mostly mild these days but we get some sudden downpours that last for a few hours.

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'lance
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posted 22 May 2002 06:07 PM

Normal for Vancouver. Actually, according to the farmer I was visiting on the southern Island on Monday, they've had about half the normal amount of rain there this year.

I'm in Edmonton at present, where it's sunny, clear and cool. Perfect early-April weather. I picked a good time for my work trip out of Calgary.

In the last few years, of course, talk about the weather has an undertone of worry, usually unstated.

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clersal
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posted 22 May 2002 06:07 PM

You Westerners.....

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Slick Willy
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posted 22 May 2002 06:12 PM

Sorry. I spent a nice afternoon in the hammock and actually drifted off for about a half hour. Sun dappling through the cherry tree, blooming by the way, and listend to the babbling of the stream and the bumble bees going about their business.

If I wasn't the boss I would have fired myself for being such a slacker.

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'lance
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posted 22 May 2002 06:16 PM

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You Westerners.....

Somehow, I imagine that no matter how long I live here -- and regardless of the fact that my father's side of the family is from here -- I'll never be truly of the west. In B.C. I'm an Eastern immigrant, come to take British Columbians' jobs; in Alberta I'm a flaky West Coast type.

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Timebandit
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posted 22 May 2002 07:04 PM

I just don't believe this.... 4 days of gale-force wind, dust everywhere, I'm talking actual soil drift, saw the black drifts with my own eyes only yesterday.... Now it's pissing rain, still have the wind and it's started to hail ferfucksakes..... And its damn cold out there, too....

Oh, well, keeps the housing prices low... Yeah, that's it, that's why I'm still out here....

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kamiks
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posted 22 May 2002 09:56 PM

SW...don't rub it in. I made my students stand outside for 10 mins and go for a run while I faced the sun for a few mins...I told them that they wouldn't grow if they didn't. (why do I tell such lies?)

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Michelle
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posted 22 May 2002 09:59 PM

For the same reason I tell my kid that if he doesn't stay in bed, a great big monster will jump out of his closet and eat him.

Before everyone calls Children's Aid, I was JOKING, of course. Not that I haven't been tempted, though, after the 50th excuse for getting out of bed. heh.

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kamiks
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posted 22 May 2002 10:04 PM

That would be a great new thread...lies we tell our kids...I tell my kids (my students

) that i have to lead them out the door and say good bye to them because the great big portable zamboni will suck them up into it's vacuum...(just to prevent the pushing and shoving that generally accompanies dismissal...

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Timebandit
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posted 22 May 2002 10:26 PM

Does it work, kamiks?

I tell my 4 yr old she has pixies in her hair that make tangles, so it's not me she should be mad at when we have to brush 'em out.

Okay, weather update --- It is blizzarding. Yup. Snow. All over the place. My lawn is white, white, white.

[ May 22, 2002: Message edited by: Zoot Capri ]

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clersal
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posted 22 May 2002 10:43 PM

When it thundered I used to tell my daughter that it was just the people upstairs that were moving. It worked so well that I eventually had to point out that there were no people living upstairs.

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SamL
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posted 22 May 2002 11:04 PM

Errr. . .kamiks, don't you teach 11-13 year olds?

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Michelle
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posted 22 May 2002 11:12 PM

HAHA, that's the funniest one yet! (Clersal's that is)

Has anyone seen that Far Side cartoon where the father tells his crying children that the monsters in the basement are going to get him if he doesn't stop - and then pulls some kind of contraption that makes a boxing glove bang on the inside of the basement door? I nearly died laughing at that one!

[ May 22, 2002: Message edited by: Michelle ]

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kamiks
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posted 22 May 2002 11:42 PM

yup. 11-13 year-olds...they don't believe me.. I find that sometimes spinning outrageous yarns helps them accept some of the rules that I have in class (like lining up to be dismissed). Humour helps avoid lots of hassle and classroom management issues. The fact that the kids think I'm a little strange keeps them quiet and wondering what will happen next.

We also have imaginary pets in class (due to the fact that we can't have real ones) --a Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig named....PIG (unoriginal, I know) and a cantankerous cow named Betsy. Less muss, no fuss. immensely useful during lessons.

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shelby9
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posted 23 May 2002 12:39 PM

I have resigned myself to the fact that no matter where I live in Canada - eventually the weather will suck. This has been the coldest Spring I recall in Ottawa, and now, as I pack furiously to move to Edmonton, they are under threat of forest fires and drought. Lovely. And it ain't all that warm there either right now, which is odd.

The bizarre weather I understand, to a point. But what is with that wind?? I hear all of the West has gale force winds out there! My Dad says it knocked out his cable and the hydro more than once. Sheesh. Enough with the breeze already! What causes that anyway?

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clersal
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posted 23 May 2002 12:42 PM

Another bee-u-t-i-ful day here. Sneer, sneer.

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Timebandit
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posted 23 May 2002 03:07 PM

Couldn't see even a blade of grass first thing this morning.... But now the snow is mostly gone.

At least we got some moisture!

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audra trower williams
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posted 23 May 2002 05:20 PM

moving this to "out and about" ...

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clersal
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posted 23 May 2002 05:52 PM

Moving day at Babble.

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clersal
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posted 23 February 2003 01:25 AM

Watched the weather report tonight with great interest. Huge storms announced. For our part of the woods an estimated 40cms is promised.
I'll believe it when I see it. So far, all clear on the Western, or rather Eastern or maybe North Eastern front.
Tarana has snow. Montréal has snow. Ottawa has snow. We have zilch. Hopefully tomorrow will be magical.

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oldgoat
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posted 23 February 2003 01:53 AM

I just drove tonight from Kinmount to Oshawa. God, it was horrible. Blizzardy, whiteouts, you couldn't see the road.

Hey clersal, re read your first post here. It'll help keep you optimistic.

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clersal
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posted 23 February 2003 09:22 AM

It is snowing. I don't see 40cms outside. Not a blizzard. We shall see. T'aint the snow that bothers me old goat it is the -35's I hate.

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Michelle
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posted 23 February 2003 09:28 AM

Here's what the view is like from my window this morning after freezing rain all night long:

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Catalyst
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posted 23 February 2003 09:49 AM

We got the freezing rain here, too. Followed by large (by Essexistan standards) amounts of snow. I have decided to skip going to the meeting I was supposed to attend in about 14 minutes. The snow is taller than my boots, even where it is not drifted. And although a certain fellow and I did uncover my porch from the drifts of snow covering it, we haven't yet dug his car out. Also, Essexistan does not normally clear residential roads. I think it might be safer walking to work tomorrow. I am gonna be leaving extra extra early. But I am ever so grateful for the shovelling help I have had this morning. I'll have to think up a reward for later

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lagatta
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posted 23 February 2003 11:37 AM

Oh, isn't that pretty, Michelle! So now we see the playground equipment your son uses in more clement weather.

We were expecting freezing rain but fortunately it didn't hit Montreal until the evening so it was big fluffly flakes of snow. Since it is a Sunday morning and very little traffic it is all white - in a city the size of Montreal it soon becomes an evil-coloured stew. Hubert Acquin wrote "Neiges noires".

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 23 February 2003 11:49 AM

I was kind of hoping that the cold front would move down quicker, and keep this storm south of the great lakes where it belonged, OR, that it hang back, and let most of the precipitation fall as rain.

As it turned out, niether scenario took place. We were spared any appreciable freezing rain here in London, but it snowed for about twelve hours. A lot of shovelling? Not so much; my nieghbor across the road just did the lions share of the work with his snowblower.

I'm going to see about buying one for next year. I'm getting into the heart attack from snow shovelling profile age, and I really don't have the time to be hand shovelling anymore.

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Michelle
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posted 23 February 2003 11:52 AM

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I'm going to see about buying one for next year. I'm getting into the heart attack from snow shovelling profile age, and I really don't have the time to be hand shovelling anymore.

Good plan. Or pay a neighbourhood teenager a few bucks to clear your driveway for you when it snows. You can't be too careful - my grandfather dropped dead of a - stroke or heart attack? I think stroke - shovelling the driveway after the doctor warned him not to repeatedly.

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 23 February 2003 11:57 AM

Last year we lost a coworker from a sudden massive heart attack. He had none of the risk factors, either. Didn't smoke, and wasn't over wieght.

And, I don't think he was much older than me. When I shovel today I'll take it slow. I have a scoop instead of a shovel, which means more walking and no throwing.

In conjunction with a snowblower, I think I'm just going to have to make time, and get back into my old routine of brisk 90 minute walks and calisthenics that I was doing before I separated.

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Michelle
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posted 23 February 2003 12:04 PM

Yeah, my grandfather was pretty young too - he was in his 50's. He died about 3 weeks after I was born.

My uncle, who had a heart attack last year, was shovelling the driveway when my Dad and his wife pulled up for a visit. We couldn't believe it. I controlled myself, but my father let him have it. But some guys are just stubborn, you know?

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 23 February 2003 12:35 PM

To be honest, the time factor plays more with me than the heart attack angle. I don't know of anyone in my extended family that's ever had a heart attack.

It's the sudden maximum exertion when you're not used to it that does it, I think. And, we don't get enough snow storms to ever really "get in shape" for shovelling.

I'm typing this, you know, because I'm putting off going outside to shovel what little my neighbor left me.......

[ 23 February 2003: Message edited by: Tommy_Paine ]

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oldgoat
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posted 23 February 2003 02:05 PM

Hey Michelle, see me peeking out from behind that tree?

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Michelle
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posted 23 February 2003 05:10 PM

Oh is that you, oldgoat? Nice binoculars! They must be great for birdwatching!

Thanks, lagatta. Actually, you can't see the ice very well in that picture - I should have gotten closer to the window.

Now all the ice on the branches are covered by the snow that has been falling all late morning and afternoon. Will it never end?

But at least it's breathtakingly beautiful.

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josh
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posted 23 February 2003 05:21 PM

In the last 12 hours, we've gone through lightening and thunder, rain, sleet and now 50 mph winds. Sort of an unstable atmosphere.

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'lance
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posted 23 February 2003 05:31 PM

That sounds curiously symbolic of... something, josh. Now if I could only think of what.

In Shrub's America*, the phrase "pathetic fallacy" has taken on a new meaning.

* I know, it's not really his, god(s)/dess(es) be thanked.

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clersal
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posted 23 February 2003 10:07 PM

Snowstorm is over. Nothing too great. Still it is nice to see the snow although it is a bit cold again -10C. Not too bad. Not 40cms though.

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Timebandit
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posted 24 February 2003 11:57 AM

-50 with the windchill factor last night, and it's all the way up to -35 (without the windchill), and a continuing windchill warning. I think this qualifies as the coldest day/night we've had so far.

We might get up to a high of -22 today... Normal low is -16.

But the days are getting longer and the bunnies are boxing, so the end of winter is in sight... Is there a wistful smiley? I think I need one.

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clersal
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posted 24 February 2003 12:21 PM

Just looked and it is -15C. don't think it will be warmer today.

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Kindred
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posted 25 February 2003 02:58 PM

Georgeous sunny days, blue skies, one little fluffy white cloud wandering around - sweater weather. Snow in the high country, but the river is so low you can walk across it on the sand bars, and not even get wet. So for once in my life hoping for rain and snow - lots of it. Which is strange after living in the "car wash" in the Comox Valley for most of the winter - I hear the sun finally shone there last weekend.

Speaking of weather and related topics, I have cabin fever so bad I feel I am at the point of jumping out of my skin - I want to hit the open road and go - follow the wind, I wonder if its my Norwegian ancestory and its getting to that time of the year when we should head over to jolly old england and do some plundering? Or was I really left by the gypsies ? There's a voice inside of me screaming GO GO GO !!

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clersal
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posted 25 February 2003 05:48 PM

I can walk across the lake too.

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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 26 February 2003 05:54 AM

All thanks to the Arctic Ossilation:

Low Pressure Vortex Over Pole Slows Down, Allows Cold Air to Pour Into My Life

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Kindred
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posted 26 February 2003 04:43 PM

And according to my news station its you guys in the east who are driving up fuel prices heating your homes. Darn.

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clersal
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posted 26 February 2003 06:34 PM

Ya wanna trade places?

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Adam Smith
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posted 24 March 2003 09:28 PM

Speaking of weather, it was nice here in manitoba, but it's getting cold again.

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SamL
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posted 25 March 2003 11:38 PM

Warm. Bloody warm. 20 C today.

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clersal
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posted 26 March 2003 12:53 AM

Didn't get that warm today. Still it was mild and ended up sunny. Snow is really going to go away.

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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 26 March 2003 06:01 AM

Last friday I was standing outside with only scraps of dirty snow from a few stubborn snow banks to remind me that just a week before the overnight temps were still about -10º, and the snow sat with a rather premanent expression on it's face.

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Michelle
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posted 26 March 2003 07:47 AM

The snow is almost all melted here, except in a few places where it was piled high in snowbanks from ploughing. It's so nice to see the grass again!

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Timebandit
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posted 26 March 2003 11:51 AM

I came home to nearly no snow last week -- quite a surprise because it was still -20 during the day when I left... Temps are staying a little above average, and most of the snow is gone. The back yard has some significant mud holes, which the wee grils are making much, much worse (and loving every minute, of course).

So glad spring has finally arrived!

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Timebandit
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posted 27 March 2003 07:19 PM

I may have spoken too soon... The forecast was for rain showers today, but it's snowing to beat the band out there... Funny thing is, when I was walking home an hour ago, it was too warm to wear gloves. So here's hoping it melts before nightfall!

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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 28 March 2003 03:24 AM

You have to keep your gaurd up for days like that, Zoot. Some poet didn't call April the "cruelest month" for nutin'. A few warm days gets your hopes up, and you let down your Winnepeg face against the cold.

Saw a robin here finally, just the other day. A pair was de-grubbing my grass. My prefered method of pest control.

I do believe I saw a Turkey Vulture on the drive home yesterday morning, sitting in the very top of a very tall tree-- my guess staking out a preferred location to be first at the political career leavings of incumbant London City Councilors......

It is early for Turkey Vultures, though, so I doubt my sighting a bit.

Skunks are about. Saw one while I was on Rebbecca's porch the other day.

And some nasty varmint uprooted many of my just about to bloom crocii. First time that's happened in that particular garden.

Dag nabbit. Time to break out the blood meal.

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janew
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posted 29 March 2003 08:37 AM

It's gloomy and cold today but I saw a robin and these pussy-willows a couple of days ago.

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Trisha
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posted 29 March 2003 07:55 PM

Thunder Bay had a light blizzard yesterday, most of it melted today so now we have dirty brown and white muck all over. I hate this time of year.

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 30 March 2003 08:33 AM

Ye must fool the weather gods by saying things like "Oh, good, it's snowing. I was afraid winter was over, but it's good to see it hang on like this."

We look for spring in birds that return, but I note that our winter contingent of dark eyed junkos have left for their summer grounds up north now.

The maple trees are in full flower here. I didn't need to look to verify that. My watery eyes and sinus' let me know.

Achoo.

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Michelle
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posted 30 March 2003 09:45 AM

It's been grey and wet the last couple of days here. But it's still pretty spring-like. Knock on wood. As soon as I say that, we'll get hit with a snowstorm. But if today is any indication, "in like a lion and out like a lamb" will be a good description of the March weather here in Kingston.

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Timebandit
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posted 30 March 2003 02:59 PM

Our squirrel came back! He was out on the balcony, into the nuts and squirrel mix we left for him. I was beginning to wonder if he'd abandoned us.

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Rebecca West
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posted 30 March 2003 04:48 PM

Well, the dusting of snow we got last night is gone, but there was a very cold wind from the north this morning when I took the baby out for a stroll. I was really hoping I'd be able to put the mitts and hats and the snowsuit away for the season soon, but we were really bundled up against the chill.

There were a surprising number of people downtown today - I think there was some event going on at the John Labatt Centre - and alot of them looked under-dressed and shivery cold. I think when you see -2C on the Weather Network, your brain just doesn't want to take it in. It was good to get out for a long walk and all, but I think I would've saved it for a warmer day if I hadn't really really needed to get more cat litter.

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Michelle
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posted 30 March 2003 05:55 PM

I spoke too soon this morning. It snowed around noon. But none of it stuck to the ground, thank goodness.

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Adam Smith
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posted 31 March 2003 03:27 AM

This thread has almost been going on for a year. Anyway, I didn't even go out side today, well yesterday now, so I don't know the weather.

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Kindred
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posted 31 March 2003 05:18 PM

Here in the interior of B.C. its warm and sunny, flowers are all starting to push up through the ground, and some are even close to blooming. Trees are budding, the grass is green and the river has risen slightly. Still frosty at night sometimes, but this is pretty good - beats the hell out of blizzards. Oh golf courses are open now and kids are out on the playing fields warming up for soccer and baseball - time to light up the barbie and soak up some rays.

My sympathies to all of you who dont live in Gods country I dont really mean that - (Gods country) - seeing as B.C, stands for "Bring Cash".

IF we could move Regina here, or move our weather there - I would be happy.

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Timebandit
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posted 31 March 2003 10:23 PM

It was perfectly nice in Regina today... Sprinkled a bit in the morning, but that's all right. A very nice day, weatherwise.

I don't want to move Regina out to BC... Too many danged mountains. They get in the way of the view.

(That, and if our weather were better, housing prices would go through the roof. I thank the biting cold for an affordable funky old house!)

[ 31 March 2003: Message edited by: Zoot Capri ]

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Kindred
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posted 31 March 2003 10:28 PM

I totally agree - and driving along some the roads with those trees closed in on both sides kind of freaks me. Lets move our weather to Regina then ! And maybe a lake as well that you can swim in - then it would be perfect. I miss Regina so much and all the great people there - and the music. If my dog ran away here he would be out of sight in second ...

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clersal
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posted 31 March 2003 11:00 PM

How about moving your weather to Québec. -10C already. Still snow on the ground. No flowers, no buds on the trees. Ah ha I have a frozen lake though. Definitely swimmable in the summer.

Dog is loose too and doesn't get lost.

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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 15 April 2003 06:15 AM

Well.

Supposed to be a high of 27º today. A little cooler tomorrow, but then Environment Canada forcast says freezing rain for thursday.

The weather network forcast is dramatically different, forcasting rain with a high of 13º.

Be interesting to see which one is correct.

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Michelle
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posted 15 April 2003 08:44 AM

Spring! Spring!

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz -
I wonder where the birdies is?
Oh, there's a birdie way up high...
...he dropped some bird stuff in my eye!
But I'm a big girl, I won't cry;
I'm just glad that cows don't fly!

Speaking of which. I'm in Toronto, staying with Andrean, looking for work and for an apartment. So we're walking home yesterday from grabbing a few groceries for supper - and darned if I some nasty old bird doesn't drop a tiny bit of bird poop on my shoulder!

But I hear that's supposed to be good luck - so maybe I'll find a job or an apartment today. You figure?

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Timebandit
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posted 15 April 2003 12:44 PM

It's cool and raining in Regina. But raining, mind you, and above freezing. We had a gorgeous, hot, summery day on Saturday, and the forecast is for more of the same on the long weekend.

Hey, good luck on the job/house hunt, Michelle!

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lagatta
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posted 15 April 2003 01:04 PM

Sort of damp and neither cold nor warm in Montréal today - they've announced 20c, but I don't think it will get that warm.

I don't think ANY lakes are warm enough to swim in in Québec in the summer, but then, I'm always cold. Nice to look at though.

Michelle, what on earth made you decide to up and move to the big city? Does that mean your son and ex-hubbie are also moving?

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 15 April 2003 08:59 PM

quote:
Speaking of which. I'm in Toronto, staying with Andrean, looking for work and for an apartment.

Hey, close enough for a visit to London.

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vickyinottawa
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posted 16 April 2003 11:38 AM

hmph. 24 degrees yesterday and I broke out my fav. linen blouse. Then we get this massive electrical storm last night, accompanied by HAIL. This morning I awake to 2 degree weather, freezing rain and now it's snowing outside my window.

I know I'm pretty confused these days but this pathetic fallacy has gone too far.

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skdadl
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Babbler # 478

posted 16 April 2003 05:35 PM

It is 4.30 on Wednesday in Toronto, and I thought we were supposed to have something nasty by now.

Instead, we have a strange, dark quiet.

It is soooo quiet.

Help me, Baob. (That's Scots for Beelzebub.)

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clersal
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Babbler # 370

posted 16 April 2003 05:45 PM

Spring my eye. -15C tonight.

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Timebandit
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posted 16 April 2003 06:03 PM

Second time my shoot has been canceled because of snow. I am cross, cross, cross and very cranky. My titles for my other project also got screwed up and I've had to reshoot them.

I'm having a bad week.

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'lance
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posted 16 April 2003 06:45 PM

That really bites, Zoot. Even so, perhaps it won't be another dry dusty summer on these here prairies.

Spring-like and +14 here today. And lucky me, I got out in the field, at least for the morning. Down in foothill country -- took a side trip to Bragg Creek on the way back. Wonderful.

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TommyPaineatWork
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posted 17 April 2003 02:47 AM

Seeing that Easter was late this year, I booked a week's holidays along with the four day weekend. It's almost like having two weeks off for the price of one.

It was my hope to catch some nice weather and get all my yard work done in one fell swoop.

It's still possible, but the start looks a little cool.

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Rebecca West
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posted 17 April 2003 03:17 PM

I bundled us up for winter weather this morning, but the wind was so godawful the baby was howling in pain and shock. The wind off the river was such that I had to hang onto the rail to keep us from being blown in front of traffic. Then, standing at the bus stop the baby continued to wail, as there was absolutely no shelter and the wind bit into her raw face, a bus that would take me directly to our destination went straight past, despite my frantic efforts to flag it down. Some asshole burocrat decided a while back that this bus shouldn't stop there anymore. The bus driver, seeing the baby on my back and the wind whipping us about (me bracing against a tree to keep from being blown over), just stared at us as he drove past us. Grrrrrrrrr.

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Timebandit
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posted 17 April 2003 05:34 PM

Geez, that's awful, Rebecca! I can't believe the driver didn't stop. What a bastard!

We've had the insult of snow in April, but it's pretty much gone this afternoon. Sunny and nice, if slightly squishy under the feet. Supposed to have great weather this weekend.

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googlymoogly
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posted 17 April 2003 06:05 PM

it SNOWED yesterday morning$#!+@*$(*@$*!

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clersal
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Babbler # 370

posted 20 April 2003 05:38 PM

It is hard to believe that three days ago it was -15C at night.

Yesterday evening it was a bit above freezing and a deer crossed the lake.

This afternoon sunny and 25C. I hope the deer realize that perhaps it is not the best time to cross the lake anymore.

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clersal
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Babbler # 370

posted 23 September 2003 12:30 AM

We talked somewhere about seasonal smells.

I put the sheets on the clothes line yesterday and last night when I went to bed the sheets had an autumn smell. Very nice.

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