BS: Winter is here

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 19 - 04:57 PM

I lived on the US Canadian border for 8 years so I know what 40 below feels like. It feels like !@#$%6

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Dec 19 - 06:14 PM

And the storms just keep on coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 03:11 PM

Where I live and drive my car,
it's all about ice, at least it was this morning.
Seems to be warming up enough to change
from sleet to a very cold rain.
Of course, when night falls, it will all re-freeze.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 19 - 02:15 PM

brrrrrrrr.

But the storms may stay away from us for a little while.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 19 - 01:41 PM

Getting a break from the repeated stormy weather,
which gives everybody a chance to breathe.
In fact it's so clear and dry
that the blue sky in eastern Massachusetts
recalls the skies over the state of New Mexico.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 20 Dec 19 - 01:55 PM

We've had so much rain over the last few weeks, it's getting scary.
Our local river (the Wensum) and the lakes and pools are overflowing.
Crops are starting to rot in the saturated land.
I fear for the wildlife (apart from all the waterfowl of course, who are loving it!)
The wind has been so strong our external TV aerial on the chimney stack has been dislodged and the signal is ropey. A chap is coming this weekend to attach it a bit more firmly.
What's really getting me down is the darkness and lack of sunlight. Very depressing...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 08:33 AM

The news on television early this morning:
a school team was headed for
an ice hockey match.

The match was cancelled.
The winter storm had
turned the parking lots and roads
into skating rinks.
There was video footage of the
school bus for the hockey team,
losing traction in the parking lot
and smoothly sliding directly to the SIDE ...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 09:04 AM

Mr. Cat's view on Events

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Dec 19 - 07:54 PM

Life is interesting on the freezing-temp line.
A bit of a razor's edge.
During daylight hours, heaven be thanked,
it was safe enough to be out driving about.
But as soon as sunset approached,
the most imperative thing was
to get home, get the car safely put where it spends the night,
and get inside, warm and dry,
before today's rain and slush re-freezes.

At least there will be less precip here tomorrow.

How did everybody in Northern New England
/maritime Canada get through today?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 02:18 PM

One night below freezing so far. It was in the 70s [F] earlier in the week...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 02 Jan 20 - 04:22 PM

A couple of days ago we had 12 degrees Celsius and bright sunshine. The wood pigeons and great tits started piping up, thinking Spring had arrived. Buds appeared on our honeysuckle. I got rather worried, as Nature is thoroughly confused.
Now it's down to 6 degrees with a very chilly wind, and freezing temperatures are forecast over the weekend.
The climate is completely up the creek isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 06:51 AM

Its a warm but wet 58 degrees F in DC this afternoon, warmer Sat.
Winter is coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Jan 20 - 08:14 PM

It got up to 52 F in my part of RI. I saw two small flying insects on my front door. I told them they are too early. This is a fake spring, not the real thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jan 20 - 03:04 PM

We can see sunshine.
That's no small thing.

Even in the part of the world
where they have summer now,
it's no mean feat to see the sunshine ... God have mercy on them.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 03:28 PM

Snow today. Lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 04:57 PM

Winter's here, with bracks and mollies. Fist and mog, and ricy woads.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 06:42 PM

Thanks for waking me up, John MacKenzie.
Here's what I twigged:

macks -- macintoshes
brollies -- umbrellas
Mist and Fog
Icy Roads

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Jan 20 - 08:28 PM

At 1:30PM, north of DC, I went to my HMO...had to wait 30 min. When I came out out it was snowing like crazy at 35F... not much sticking, but Winter is here...right at freezing at 8:30 pm. Up to 40F tomorrow. Colder for several days, then back into the low 50s next week.

I have snow shovels where I can get to them. Lots of Winter left.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 10:40 AM

Well keberoxu, you may regret your comments, as here is the full ouevre, written by my late lamented friend Ursula Wadey.

Spooner Rides Again

Winter's here with bracks and mollies,
Fist and mog on ricey woads,
Up the hills the litter grollies
Speak to shred their useful loads
Flannel cherries seem uncertain'
Guaging rails have caused delay,
Turn the heat up, draw the curtains,
Home, sweet home is best today.

Slow and sneat and poggy fatches,
Rip your deadlights, choose your yolk,
Torn out wire too often catches,
Winning spiels can be no joke,
Do you KNOW your schooling kissed 'em?
Haughty noses sometimes drip;
Puggish slump and slapping piston,
Might succumb to Arctic nip.

Take your breasts and brave a shakedown,
Watch for letter when it's wit.
Lift your killer flap with caution'
Bums from pobs might score a hit.
Fullidge Wherry closed this morning,
Billy Visity is poor,
Par Cark's full, I give due warning'
Do take care to dock your lore.

As for windscreen bosher wattles,
You may find these friends to tea,
While, alas, the normal throttles,
Don't respond to tots of pee.
You may meet the treason's stubble'
Only if your rules are tight'
Let your diligence rebubble;
Day in stores, you'll be all right.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 12:50 PM

New discoveries in space may surpass everything this winter.
Space is mostly space and is the perfect place to show off
the season of dying, revealing life's challenging long wait
to finally find the antidote to the emptiness of existence.
Living
More than a google of frozen rocks astroids comets and planets
harbor the seeds of life for their long wait to wake up with
a consciousness vast or slow, big or tall, hot or old, all
feeling a glimmer or giant glompse of the universal word "WOW"
Loving
Somethingness gradually pushes out the nothingesque at its peak.
Its not complete until it finds the past present and the possible
future path to sharing life before nothing resumes its slow return.
Lookin at you kid, you are like all life celebrating the great unknown
Living

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 01:26 PM

Bill yesterday we did the same thing at the same time

except I'm getting a slit and split and a couple of vanilla eurolifts for dessert. My visit was off Rock ledge. Parking was $8!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 05:16 PM

We just had us a snow squall.
Here and gone, just like that --
they DO get your attention though.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jan 20 - 09:18 PM

I lived in Buffalo (Niagara Falls to Fredonia) and saw a lake effect blizzard pile snow 5 to 6 feet deep in just 3 hours. So I'm relatively jaded to people's claim of what constitutes snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jan 20 - 02:20 PM

and it's too frigging COLD.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Jan 20 - 07:17 PM

... and now, ice on roads and pavements.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 06:20 AM

"In the winter of our discontent when a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his tenper, possessed of some talents, having the example of military nazi habits - despotic in his ordinary demeanor - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the porn queen of popularity - to join in the cry of danger to liberty - to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion - when right doesn't matter to elected people - to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day - when no one in his party casts a profile of courage - it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion and division that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind'"


When right does not matter we are lost as a nation of laws or families for freedom.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 07:10 AM

If you have any old V neck cashmere sweaters that you find worthy of retirement, use them as the most comefortable and warm undershirt in your life.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 20 - 01:58 PM

The next storm is supposed to be one of those
wet and warm deals.
Maybe it won't be warm in Newfoundland, heaven help them,
but it's supposed to be a rainy balmy thing in southern New England.
With threats of flooding ... i HATE flooding ...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:38 PM

… the sun is still setting early.
It will be a relief when it's five o'clock in the evening
and not yet after dark, but that will be a bit of a wait.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 20 - 03:47 PM

My sister up in Scotland was on the phone this evening and said one day last week they had a 'hot' day (12 degrees Celsius!!) with sunshine, and she sat on her patio 'sunbathing'. Good Lord, no wonder she has hairy legs. That temperature would have me swathed in thick woollens and a warm scarf.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Feb 20 - 06:59 PM

Still here.
Although it's Groundhog Day
and for some strange reason,
the forecasts said spring would come early.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 06:02 AM

Can we have a little bit of your winter?

35 degrees Celius (95 in the old money) and 85% humidity here. Trying to build up to a storm, but not trying hard enough. We need the rain, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Feb 20 - 07:08 AM

Hrothgar, you can have all our rain with pleasure! The fields in our village are still quite flooded and the farmer has been keeping his stock in the stockyard (producing tons of slurry!) The river Wensum is nearly over the banks, and our little village bridge is only about two inches above the waterline. Our garden is producing liberal amounts of moss.
At least it's not all that cold (about 10 degrees Celsius)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Feb 20 - 01:59 PM

We have had summer temperatures this week.
There has been no winter.
This is our winter of
disrepute.

The strangest conspiracy theory is that the coronavirus has mutated to infect elections.
In Iowa, the election results for Democrats is ERROR 404
The Republican results are a earthquake tsunami landslide for Trump,

615 - 2020 electoral college delegate votes for President - Trump
321 - for unknown.

Clearly elections are very ill.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 12:42 PM

The sky is spitting out little bits of sleet,
and the wind is up,
and the clouds are gray and low and coming lower.
Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Feb 20 - 05:21 PM

"The sun spit..."
quote Funny Face

We're gaining 2 minutes of sun light per day.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Feb 20 - 12:16 PM

True enough about the sun,
which is a great relief
after December's darkness.

Today, though, it's all about the WIND
and strained flags on the flagpole
outside the post office.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Feb 20 - 11:13 AM

Carambolage! Ay caramba!

the story says that the cause of all those motor vehicles
crashing into each other
was not the road surface,
but the white-out/zero-visibility conditions.
There was no storm happening at the time,
conditions were clear in the surrounding countryside;
but this one stretch of highway is notorious
for blowing snow and wind.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Feb 20 - 04:25 PM

Today I found myself driving the highways around
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire mountains
(which are in line with the Appalachians),
in the west of the state,
near the state line with New York.

Obviously their winter has been colder than the winter season
where I live.
Around my hometown, it has been a rainy winter.
But in the central piece of Berkshire County,
there is frozen snow around the roads, ice underfoot.
Today is an uncommonly warm dry day, especially for Pittsfield in winter,
and it is MUD SEASON underfoot with
a blindingly blue sky overhead straight out of New Mexico's high mountain desert horizons.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 20 - 07:07 AM

That is a particularly pretty drive

This morning I was looking at antarctica in summer from space.
It has what looks like half the ice it used to have and is totaly brown beneath South America

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 20 - 05:25 PM

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/02/25/antarctica-snow-caps-melting-heat-wave-sater-pkg-vpx.cnn

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 03:28 PM

Going to be bitterly cold, I hear,
for Leap Year Day tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Feb 20 - 10:51 AM

Sunshine AND snow!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 09:10 AM

Of course, when the day arrives that
a nor'easter storm separates all the trees from
the very last of their dying leaves,

my warmest winter coat is at the cleaners' ...

I'll make do with a water-repellent coat
and an extra layer underneath.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Dec 20 - 10:10 AM

This winter will be a HOT MESSNESS DUE TO DISEASE.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Dec 20 - 06:57 PM

Mornings with snow on branches outside my window are such a delight.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jan 22 - 06:22 PM

. . . in the Northern Hemisphere,
and it's cold cold c o o o l d

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Charmion
Date: 12 Jan 22 - 10:07 AM

No bad weather, Keb, only inadequate gear.

I’m wearing merino wool socks these days, 24/7, even in bed. I got them at Mark’s Work Wearhouse, a subsidiary of Canadian Tire (that wonderful source of everything needful), and they are Pepto-Bismol pink. I also have flannel-lined jeans for any outside jaunt at -10C or colder, and mukluks for when things get desperate. I haven’t needed the mukluks since leaving Ottawa, but they’re in the closet just in case.

The dog people of my neighbourhood are fun to watch. They dress both themselves and their dogs for the weather, and few things give me more of a giggle than the pair of greyhounds who live around the corner. Their human takes them out three times a day in matching jackets and shoes, coordinated with their collars and leads.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jan 22 - 10:58 PM

Ah, Charmion, I recognize that CET quote! To his memory.

We are well below freezing over here,
and there are predictions for heavy snow headed our way.
But as the weather was clear today,
I went to the nearest Barnes and Noble branch in order to
purchase some books to curl up and read during the 'snow day'.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Jan 22 - 12:13 AM

Looking at my last post... That was then.

Lost power for 3 days last week, a nasty storm expected tomorrow.

But it is still beautiful.