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: keberoxu Date: 23 Jan 20 - 07:17 PM ... and now, ice on roads and pavements. |
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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Mrrzy Date: 07 Jan 20 - 03:28 PM Snow today. Lovely. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 16 Dec 19 - 06:14 PM And the storms just keep on coming. |
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: Charmion Date: 11 Dec 19 - 04:46 PM The calendar is European. The weather we get around here is Canadian, it is definitely winter weather, and it starts in November at the latest. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 11 Dec 19 - 11:09 AM Winter is still 10 days away from today by the calender. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Charmion Date: 09 Dec 19 - 09:35 AM The sky in Stratford is gun-metal grey and it's raining. Today's forecast high is about 8C. I can't believe this is the second week of Advent in Ontario. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 08 Dec 19 - 07:35 PM I don't wanna go home. I LIKE December in Phoenix, Arizona. Now August in Phoenix, Arizona is hot enough for Hades, and I leave that to the residents who moved here from India -- I understand that there's a nice little immigrant community from India, and if they like that kind of heat, they can have it. But December in Phoenix is, not hot, but pleasant. The plane goes back Tuesday and I don't wanna go home. At all. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Charmion Date: 07 Dec 19 - 03:00 PM Southwestern Ontario is easing gently into winter, after a really nasty Remembrance Day. The sky is blue today and most of the snow has melted again. The squirrels are out of bed and fossicking around in the snow, looking for my expensive tulip bulbs, I bet. But it's plenty cold once the sun goes down. Tonight the Stratford Concert Choir sings Handel's "Messiah" in a mid-Victorian church that happens to be the largest indoor space in town that is not the Festival Theatre or a hockey arena. The draft from the transept door, which blasts across the orchestra and the front rows of the choir, would freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Most members of the Soprano and Alto sections augment their performance outfits (long black gown, strand of pearls) with sweaters and skiing underwear, but the memo seems not to have reached the orchestra. Last night at the dress rehearsal, the fourth desk violin and viola were obviously shuddering. The men, of course, do just fine in their dinner jackets. Damn them. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 07 Dec 19 - 10:13 AM I hear there is a south 'Western' stormin in by Xmas. It's named 'Rebel without a Claus' staring Clint Noreastwood |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 05 Dec 19 - 03:49 PM A new Christmas song |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 05 Dec 19 - 01:27 PM All I want for Xms is my im peach ment This is the winter of his im peach ment How much is that eletion in the window? City sidewalks, slippry sidewalks whaaaa When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what will I be Will I be pretty Will I be rich Here's what she said to me It's fucked up, my dear Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours to fear Que será, será What will be, will be When I grew up and fell in love I asked my sweetheart, what lies ahead Will we have rainbows Day after day Here's what my sweetheart said I'm for Trump, my dear Whatever will be, will be The future is great again Que será, será What will be, will be Now I have children of my… |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: robomatic Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:26 PM We have had one of the warmest Fall seasons I've experienced in Alaska. Where I live, Anchorage, should have been frozen up over a month ago. Instead we had periods of above freezing temperatures with lots of rain. If the rain had been snow probably would've been well over two feet of the stuff. Less than a week ago the snow started to stick and now it's well below freezing with about two-three inches of the white stuff. Latest entry to Winter I've seen up here. Most of us think it's climate change but maybe disagree on the root causes. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Charmion Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:57 AM Keberoxu — my wonky feet hurt at least a bit all the time now; I even wake up with a dull ache in the ankles. Aqua-fit is about the only thing I do that does not make them worse. By Christmas, I will have accepted and adjusted to winter, but Advent is the season of “Oh, no! Not again! Why me?” I shall soon stop whining. I promise. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 04 Dec 19 - 07:27 AM Looks like a galactic storm |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Dec 19 - 06:26 AM There was me thinking that this was a Game of Thrones thread. Some people are too rooted in reality for their own good :-) |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 03 Dec 19 - 07:07 PM Charmion, I recall your post, elsewhere, saying that the aqua-fit class at the Y did not make your foot hurt. Has that changed? |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Charmion Date: 03 Dec 19 - 06:57 PM Stratford, Ontario, is a winter f***ing wonderland. Especially the icy parking lot I must traverse on my way to the Y for my aqua-fit class. Why aqua-fit, and not, say, cross-country skiing? Because, some thirty years ago, I slipped and fell in another icy parking lot far, far away and smashed my ankle. Then, four years later, I did something similar on an icy street and smashed my other ankle. Now I have wonky feet with extra arthritis. F***ing winter. I’d emigrate, but I’d miss the seasons ... |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 03 Dec 19 - 05:27 PM "the snow has indignantly refused to budge" Indignant? More like gloating, I shouldn't wonder. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 15 Jan 18 - 01:36 PM A forecast model suggests that the Jetstream is going to go diagonal across the lower 48 so that the Western US is cold and the Eastern US warms up... |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 14 Jan 18 - 01:13 PM Gnu? Gnu - u - u - uuuu... are you alive over there in New Brunswick? all there is to report down here is brrrrr, brrrr, brrrrrr. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 08 Jan 18 - 03:42 PM hoping the thaw does not trigger flooding. at least the air doesn't make your face ache like it did yesterday. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 07 Jan 18 - 01:37 PM Cloudless blue sky, brilliant bright sunshine, blinding white powdery snow (more than enough) and subfreezing bitter cold (even more). Temperatures above the freezing mark are to return in the next seven days. Which will make for at least two concerns that I can think of: flooding, and "frost heaves", by whatever name you call them -- ach, the road surfaces are going to CAVE. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Donuel Date: 06 Jan 18 - 04:34 PM At these temperatures the snow is the loudest of the season with squeaks groans and crunching underfoot. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: Joe_F Date: 05 Jan 18 - 06:03 PM I managed to get to the supermarket & back by battling traffic with my shopping cart. The exterior temperature is 4.6 deg F; the interior temperature is 69.3. The difference is proximately due to my landlord's leaving a check for the driver of the oil truck. Bless them, and everybody else up the supply chain. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 05 Jan 18 - 05:16 PM At this time yesterday, Winter Storm Grayson had been here for hours, and was taking its sweet time moving out. The snow has stopped coming down, only the wind remains and yesterday's snow is either under your car tires or in your face, on account of the wind. It's too cold and windy to be outside. Just ask my poor car. It's out there and can't come in. The engine runs, heroically enough, but the alignment shudders at freeway speeds. |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 04 Jan 18 - 10:20 AM Re: winter storm, southeastern New England in the US. Tomorrow is today. Winter Storm Grayson is on top of us. There was just time, early this morning, to get in the car, take a short drive for last-minute errands, drive back, park carefully, and get ready to hunker down for the day. Early morning, the snow was lightly coming down. Now we are socked in. The wind is making the snowfall look horizontal. The snow is coming down fast. Visibility is many times worse. And we only have, what, seven or eight hours to go . . . |
Subject: RE: BS: Winter is here From: keberoxu Date: 03 Jan 18 - 08:28 PM Bee dubya ell? Amos? You still alive? Grayson lowers the boom tomorrow morning up here. |