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| Frost [message #2706] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 19:47  |
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 AJLR
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Frost
Brrr!
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Frost [message #2710 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 19:58  |
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great job on connie. we have had frost for a month now and one day of snow last week but they are forecasting snow for tonight[6 ti 12 inches] grrrr not ready for snow yet.
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Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Frost [message #2711 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 20:00 |
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Susan from Athens
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So first frost... We've just graduated to closing all our windows at night, and wearing socks in the house. I am actually contemplating exchanging my sandals for shoes, but I'm not sure I shall. It's been a very mild autumn here so far, ridiculously so, and the temperature is supposed to go back up to 29 degrees by the end of the week.
So your speeding puppies are having fun with each other, as well as at your expense? Guys, grow up a bit! No jerking Robin about.
And as for the atoll, shame on you for wanting to import foreign species such as roses and chickens, don't you know environmental disaster ensues? 
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Frost [message #2719 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 20:12 |
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^^^ I’ll learn to live without Finale. Mozart did it. Beethoven did it. Verdi did it.
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Are you sure? *says nothing else about the time-traveling composers*
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As it is I just want someone’s guts on a plate. I don’t know whose, but I’d be willing to start with some unknown Word programmer responsible for large choking wads of spurious code.
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Indeed. I will start assembling your army. (They don't call me warlord for nothin', you know.) We'll get right on that destroying Word programmers thing for you.
I hopehopehope things get sorted out on the computer front tomorrow. You have suffered greatly for your blog readers.
Smooshes!
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| Re: Frost [message #2725 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 20:34 |
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So sorry you fell and hurt your shoulder! Well, so sad the hellhounds brought this about. Mesquite can pull me off my feet--I have to be very careful walking him.
We had snow here about a week and a half ago. It warmed up again, but some days are really cool, like down in the low 40s. We have the heat on already. When the kid was growing up, we had many a white Halloween. It was kind of cool.
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"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Frost [message #2726 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 20:35 |
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I wouldn’t TOUCH a Harley, thank you very much. I had Harley leathers because a quarter century ago they were the only motorcycle leathers going. I had a Kawasaki motorcycle. Harleys were going through rather a bad patch in my motorcycle days: I believe they’ve improved since.
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Haha, I'm very sorry for suggesting it! I'm no fan of Harleys myself, and if you are curious, I hear that they still leak oil and have sundry other issues. Kawasaki makes some lovely naked bikes, and I'll probably buy one when I'm ready to move on from my Nighthawk (but shhh! don't tell her - she's still my baby). Was yours cruiser, sport, or standard -style? (yes, I need more details, of course! Just pretend you're at a Tim Hortons parking lot on a Wednesday evening and we're all standing around checking out each others bikes).
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| Re: Frost [message #2729 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 20:41 |
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Julia
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But last night when I went to bed at [errrmmmumblemm]
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Oh, this sounds so familiar... I too go to bed at [errrmmmumblemm]... When/if my mother happens to inquire about the amount of sleep I get, [errrmmmumblemm] definitely is a major part of the conversation. I'll never understand my friends who will call their parents at midnight or later-- Not only would I be waking them [and my brother and sister as well], but then they would be unhappy that I am awake then too. I try not to mention the fact that rehearsal will run till midnight or so. Also steer clear of the 9:00 conversation "Okay, goodnight. Hm? What? Aren't I tired? Ummm. Sure? It's still really early-- I've a meeting in half an hour, and I'm just beginning a paper now-- I have hours and hours before I go to sleep". Nah, I generally leave that out, and just say my " goodnight, I love you, talk soon" thing. Sigh. Oh well. I am a college student. I'm not allowed to sleep.
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I had a lovely lesson on Connie
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YAAY! Hooray! Good things! Happiness! Rejoicing!
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If this had happened eight months ago I’d be thinking about binning the blog. As it is I just want someone’s guts on a plate. I don’t know whose, but I’d be willing to start with some unknown Word programmer responsible for large choking wads of spurious code.
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Hmmm. Glad that it isn't eight months ago, then.
Bwahahaha... now you can't leave us. [I'm trying for some clever turn of phrase accompanied by maniacal laughter... but it isn't working. So I guess I just have to revert to the usual ridiculous but happy Julia who is glad that this has become something that Robin isn't going to give up on. Or something like that. Hugs and chocolate all round.]
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I would probably have faultlessly obedient hellhounds‡‡ if they didn’t make me laugh so much.
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Initial giggle. Then thinking. faultlessly obedient hellhounds. Hmm...
Does not follow.
And would they be as wonderful if they were faultlessly obedient? [okay, maybe if they ate when you told them to. So faultlessly obedient in certain things. But still.]
Anyway.
I have spent far too long writing this post- far too long [I went away and forgot that I hadn't actually hit post post just preview post/stopped typing. What? Absentminded and easily distracted? Me? No...]
So.
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| Re: Frost [message #2735 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 23:23 |
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Maren
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I asked the vet yesterday about their, ahem, extreme behaviour about Exciting Things, especially other dogs–and in fact they presented a graphic demonstration of this latter with his next patient–and he said, don’t worry about it, they’re still puppies. What are they, two years old? Give them till they’re four. –Four??!??
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Sorry. Lola is estimated to be about four and still does pirouettes and flips for other dogs...and cats, and squirrels, and small children, and people squeeing at her, and people carrying food...
I think some of them just never grow out of it. 
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| Re: Frost [message #2738 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Tue, 28 October 2008 23:43 |
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Mesquite is 6 and he's insane about other people and new things. But maybe the hellhounds will be different.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Frost [message #2740 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 01:04 |
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ConverseRider
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This is my bike. Can't imagine not having a jacket to go with it.
Speaking of frost, we dropped down to the 60's this evening. I had to break out a sweater!
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| Re: Frost [message #2746 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 03:15 |
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Diane in MN
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We've had a fairly warm autumn here until this week, when a respectable cold front blew in and gave us two hard freezes. The "scattered rain and snow showers" we were supposed to have over last weekend turned into steady snow all day Sunday, and even though the ground is still pretty warm it was beginning to stick by the time it stopped. The temperature dropped down below 30 degrees F and I thought my impatiens had had it, but they are slightly sheltered by the front entry roof and they were OK Monday morning, flowers and buds and all. Last night it got colder, with less wind, and I think they really are done for now. Of course, it is supposed to hit 60 F by Thursday and Friday. Weather at this time of year is very changeable.
You are a brave woman to take two young dogs out on flexi leads. I know they don't weigh as much as mine--young Teddy came in at almost 57 pounds today, by the way--but there are TWO of them. That maniac lunging and jumping etc. is *so* not fun when you, the two-foot, are on the end of the lead. The Alpha Bitch does it--she's 3 1/2, and it's not about age, it's about attitude--and it can be a near-death experience for me.
When you find the trick to perfectly well-behaved and obedient hellhounds, be sure to post it--I would really like to know!
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Frost [message #2762 is a reply to message #2740 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 08:54 |
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@ Converse Rider, sweet! Gotta love the Hondas (I posted a pic of my bike on an earlier thread). And Florida - you must be able to ride all year! My bike is waiting for its oil change and gas stabilizer - no more riding until May (or *maybe* April - if we get fluky warm day) for me. It must be warm riding in Florida, did you go with a leather or a textile jacket?
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| Re: Frost [message #2769 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 09:26 |
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My parents dog is... erm 15?... and he only stopped behaving like that when his bones started getting too creaky to jump after things.
and frosty? I slipped on the steps on a footbridge this morning and landed on 1. the backs of my legs 2. my bum 3. my back. Ouch and it's a good thing I have my klutz club membership card.
Louiz.
Bibliovorous.
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| Re: Frost [message #2779 is a reply to message #2774 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 10:54 |
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I'll sit here and giggle for a moment about the concept of perfectly obedient hellhounds before I continue...
| Mrs Redboots wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 10:22 |
Snow. In London. In October?????
And today it is simply glorious, but very cold (so okay, you Americans to whom "cold" is below zero Fahrenheit will laugh - but this is cold for the UK!)...
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Well, this American would probably agree with you! I'm in the southeastern US and was horrified that we actually had a freeze warning last night! (No, we often get our first one sometime in late October, but it meant I had to scramble to clear a space for the potted plants on the front porch to come INSIDE. Except for my two lemon trees, which sadly didn't make it through the summer.  ) It's pretty cold here today, too -- had to wear a coat to work this morning.
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| Re: Frost [message #2791 is a reply to message #2774 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 11:37 |
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I'm a Texan - cold here is 60 Fahrenheit! It's been down in the high 40s lately! Yikes! It was 80 degrees one week and then suddenly Fall was here with the 50-60 degree weather...
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: Frost [message #2797 is a reply to message #2762 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 12:00 |
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@ scosborne Well, during the "winter" it can get pretty cold out there at night. I came home one night and my knees hurt so bad from the cold I couldn't move them. But, I was still riding. So I guess, yes, we can ride all year.
Summer is brutal, though. Imagine sitting at a stoplight in all black in 90 degree 90% humidity. Blagh. Don't get me started on the thunderstorms.
When I got her, my bike (her name is Drastic Fantastic, by the way) the dealer only had one jacket my size. And it was textile. For some reason dealerships down here think every female rider must be at least 300 Ilbs and 4 feet tall. I like my jacket, though.
"All you really need is a paperclip necklace; I was worried I had used too many leaving you a trail." - Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World
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| Re: Frost [message #2839 is a reply to message #2706 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 18:11 |
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IE NEVER worked right for me, but Firefox has been quite good. Maybe stick with Firefox?
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Frost [message #2903 is a reply to message #2824 ] |
Wed, 29 October 2008 23:58 |
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| southdowner wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 15:29 |
| ConverseRider wrote on Wed, 29 October 2008 16:00 |
the dealer only had one jacket my size. And it was textile. For some reason dealerships down here think every female rider must be at least 300 Ilbs and 4 feet tall. I like my jacket, though.
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Snork! Luckily I wasn't drinking anything when I read this, since I choked without any help ... and I love the bike
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Hon, I'm from the Panhandle, and most female bikers in this area ARE close to 300 lbs and short! Some are over 300 lbs and tall. I have yet to see one who looks like she is a more normal size. We have Thunder Beach twice a year at Panama City Beach, and I live right off Hwy 231, which is the direct north-south highway to Panama City from parts north. I see lots of bikers around the time of Thunder Beach.
We had a fairly hard frost last night here. Last week at this time, the night time temperatures were in the mid-60s, and daytime highs were in the 80s. Now, boom! we've got freezing temperatures at night and cool days. I brought my aloe plant indoors; I lost one last fall to the very first light frost.
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| Re: Frost [message #2918 is a reply to message #2909 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 02:01 |
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| Diane in MN wrote on Thu, 30 October 2008 01:24 |
Robin said she can't post from Firefox--seems like something for Computer Men to clarify, as I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses Firefox and posts successfully. Might you be looking at quarreling software interfaces?
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I'm starting to think that due to Hellgoddess status her computers are infected with, well, evil forces! Seems as good an explanation as any! LOL
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Frost [message #2919 is a reply to message #2909 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 02:03 |
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I think she meant she can't post to the blog in Firefox. I know I've run across a few things that Firefox simply wouldn't do*. For the most part, I find Firefox works better, except when it simply doesn't, which is what it sounds to me like the issue for Robin is...
*(like RefWorks, for my paper, Firefox was unable to make a bibliography from the different sources[basically compiling a list] - for no apparent reason, it just didn't...)
Edited because my parenthetical was longer than the sentence containing it, so I thought a footnote would be less confusing.
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"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: Frost [message #2920 is a reply to message #2919 ] |
Thu, 30 October 2008 02:18 |
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I wonder if it has anything to do with what version of Firefox one has? I think it was 1.0.0.3 or something like that that kept crashing on me - so I got Camino - but 2.0.0.14 seems to be okay. I haven't upgraded to whatever the newest version is yet.
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Re: Frost
We have woken up here (Midlands) to SNOW on ground, and it's not even Hallowe'en for heaven's sake. Much erring and arrring from villagers on slippery morning walk + lab and dastardly dinmont one, and predictions of a dire winter ahead. My boiler is broken (no plumber till 10th Nov as he is sunning himself in Marbella) and I need a whole new condensing one at a price that makes me shudder and whimper. So am dressed in attractive heavy socks, son's heavy hoodie (hood up), thermals and typing in gloves (am rather proud of the fact that I can). Delighted to hear that you are another AGA owner, Robin. Snuggling my bottom up to it is my only way of getting warm. But as it's half term, I have to fight the kids and husband for the hot end! 
