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Post by caseOrange on Jan 3, 2005 7:08:45 GMT -5
It snowed here on Christmas day for the first time in exactly 50 years! And the snow we got was the first we've had--period--since 1993!
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Post by ladyrheena on Jan 13, 2005 8:24:28 GMT -5
I hate snow. It's wet and cold and icky and gets everywhere. So I'm glad I didn't have a white Christmas in Kent.
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Jan 13, 2005 9:00:12 GMT -5
I know I should be careful what I ask for...
I do like the snow, but we haven't had any worth speaking of here in upper central Maryland this season so far. We've only had a bunch of unseasonably warm weather accompanied by dampness, rain and fog. Its beginning to make me edgy 'cause its just so out of place!
VPM
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Post by lollywit on Jan 13, 2005 9:16:57 GMT -5
I totally agree VPM!! Winter is my very best time of the year. All my favourite sports happen (rugby/skiing/ice skating etc) There is nothing like the crunch of snow underfoot. I find swirling snow incredibly calming and peaceful and it makes everything look pretty. We are now about 2 weeks overdue for the first snowfall. I WANT MY SNOW!!!  |
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Post by caseOrange on Jan 13, 2005 23:05:16 GMT -5
I hate snow. It's wet and cold and icky and gets everywhere. So I'm glad I didn't have a white Christmas in Kent. We get snow down here about once every 15 years. It rarely sticks to the ground (which it didn't this year, except for icing over a few bridges). Once you've had about a dozen or so 80 degree (fahrenheit) Christmases, you'll be yearning for a blizzard!  |
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Post by mjm800 on Jan 14, 2005 0:32:02 GMT -5
We get snow down here about once every 15 years. It rarely sticks to the ground (which it didn't this year, except for icing over a few bridges). Once you've had about a dozen or so 80 degree (fahrenheit) Christmases, you'll be yearning for a blizzard!  I have rarely seen a Christmas when it was not 80 degrees or better, and no one (that I know of) here in Honolulu is yearning for a blizzard. ;D We like our Christmas nice and green! |
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Post by ladyrheena on Jan 14, 2005 6:25:09 GMT -5
caseOrange, while I agree an 80 degree Christmas would get kind of sucky after a bite I think you fail to grasp just how much I hate snow. I love the cold. I love ice, and frost, and dew, and rain, and any other form of precipitation you care to name.
Just not snow. ;D
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Jan 14, 2005 8:49:01 GMT -5
Yikes! Ice (and especially black ice-blends so good into the road that you can't see that its there until you're skidding out in circles) and fog are my least favorite types of precip. Well, and hail, too! 4 X 4 is no good against ice (only staying home is!) and you can't see in fog well enough to achieve a decent enough speed to make being out driving worth it. Hail, of course just puts pock marks in everything.
Nah. I'd rather snow in winter and rain in summer!
VPM
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Post by Xenu on Jan 14, 2005 8:56:57 GMT -5
Well, it was almost 70 degrees here day before yesterday, and now its below freezing. Gotta love Tennessee....  |
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Jan 14, 2005 12:08:12 GMT -5
Almost the same in Maryland. Except its only about 40. Seriously thought Noah was going to show up in his Ark with all the heavy rain we got last night!
VPM
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Post by caseOrange on Jan 17, 2005 0:13:31 GMT -5
We love it down here in the same way that people living in northern Canada love a warm day now and then. It's a rarity, so we relish it. And we're always looking for a reason to take the day off!  |
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Jan 17, 2005 2:18:23 GMT -5
As I always say, its a darned waste of cold weather if it isn't snowing.
(Of course, I know I should be careful of what I ask for - I've been quite literally snowed in before. Luckily, due to my food hoarding tendencies, the kitchen was well stocked, we had power and heat, and it only lasted for about 2 days.)
VPM
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Post by ladyrheena on Jan 17, 2005 6:18:08 GMT -5
Food hoarding tendencies? ;D
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Post by ViperPilotMomma on Jan 17, 2005 9:59:52 GMT -5
As I've mentioned elsewhere on the boards, I have an obsession with food. Just like some women buy clothes and some women buy shoes, I buy (sometimes over buy, according to Hubby!) food. My favorite day of the week is when the Supermarket sales flier comes in the mail so I can plan all the food I'm going to buy that week! I love to cook and bake. When I'm not eating, I'm planning (more like scheming, come to think of it!) what I will cook up for the next meal. My current passions are low fat/low cholesterol meals. (I'm on a eat better food for better health kick.) And, contrary to what one may think, I'm not overweight. I'm 5'4" and about 125 lbs (about 56.7 kg metric.) But I digress... BTW, we had a dusting of snow last night, here just north of Washington, D.C. VPM |
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Post by Crashdown on Jan 17, 2005 10:12:20 GMT -5
Over buying food reminds me of my student days. We lived in a house of 4,, (well, it felt like three at times, because three of us didn't really get on with the other guy, but I digress). Anyway, we tended to shop together a lot of the time and with classes in the week, and one housemate at work in his hometown on a Saturday, Sunday was the most convenient day for us all. One housemate insisted that we wait until it was almost closing time to go, so that we'd be able to pick up bread and stuff at a reduced price. He really went to town on this; baguettes, packets of rolls, he would come back with the works. Then, he wouldn't touch any of it. French sticks would lie in the kitchen for weeks, until they became hardened into lethal weapons. We had this one rustic loaf thing that must have been there for months and was like a brick. Week after week he did this and we could never persuade him not to.
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