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| Winter [message #6809] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 18:53  |
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Winter
Smooshes!
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| Re: Winter [message #6811 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 19:03  |
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I agree. Someone should do something about this cold weather. It was 22 degrees here this morning. It got up to 46, but it's only 7pm now and we're already down to 38...
*turns the heater up just a little more*
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^ Except socks. Socks are an anarchy zone with a lot of dogs for some reason.
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On the feet, or socks that happen to escape the laundry basket? *fretting for poor socks*
[Updated on: Wed, 03 December 2008 19:03]
Smooshes!
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| Re: Winter [message #6813 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 19:32 |
 b_twin_1
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Well... sorry to hear it has got a touch chilly over there. Will it cheer you up to know it is 76F here at the moment?
Oh, and my pelargoniums can survive 26F so maybe yours will too? **fingers crossed** (It would free up the space... **cough**)
My roses all have wool beds so the *odd* occasion when it sinks to below 0C (30F) then they are all snuggly warm. I'd send you some but .... darned quarantine!!
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: Winter [message #6818 is a reply to message #6815 ] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 20:31 |
b_twin_1
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| bookgal71 wrote on Wed, 03 December 2008 19:59 |
It might be warm in Shepparton, but I've been wearing my coat all week further down south in Melbourne. Even my heavy winter coat...on the first day of summer! All wrong. It is a little warmer today but from the way the ants are scurrying around, I think we're getting another storm soon.
Tipsy Imperial Concubine is a fabulous name for a flower. But I was expecting it to be more red and yellow and pink and blowsy looking : ). Still, the real one is pretty too.
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LOL it is supposed to get to 25 today in Melb! (And if you are really lucky it will be 28 tomorrow ... with showers...)
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: Winter [message #6825 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 21:03 |
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Well yesterday it was rumoured it got to 30 dec C and today it is 28 deg C
Thats 82 F
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| Re: Winter [message #6839 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Wed, 03 December 2008 22:31 |
skating librarian
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A church lady I know brings all the geraniums from the window boxes in for the winter ... where they bloom non-stop in a sunny window.
And then there was the woman in Montpelier (VT's state capital) who (during the last recession) decided to help the State save money on landscaping by sending all the geraniums which lined the walk up to the capitol to good homes for the winter.
A gas station in Bernardston which no longer used the south facing garage bays had a huge geranium which basked there, flowering beautifully all winter. It was at least 4 feet across, and three feet high.
Wishing you non-sequel best sellers which will bring in enough to finance the conservatory!
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Winter [message #6854 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 01:17 |
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Almost snowed here today. You can smell it in the air. First big snowfall of the season, any day now.
I was going to chastise all you downunder-ers for complaining about your weather but then I remembered my Uggs. I can't live without them in the winter. So I'll be good.
A neighbor just gave me a huge cactus that has to be inside for the winter--well, it's really an indoor plant period. I don't know what it is but will look it up.
Mesquite has fallen asleep across my legs and his whiskers are tickling me and he's having a ferocious dog dream--it's so cute (he just snarled) I could bite him. Oh I love dogs.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Winter [message #6859 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 01:34 |
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Diane in MN
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We had a surprise snowfall last night--instead of a few snow showers, we got about five inches. It wasn't too much trouble to deal with--very dry and powdery--and very pretty, and will probably result in our temps being VERY cold tonight because of the albedo. (I like this word but would not have thought of it on my own; the weather guy was talking about solar reflection and albedo this afternoon.) In fact we are in for a series of little Alberta clippers bringing us cold air from the Canadian prairies, and maybe a little more snow, so we won't forget it's December.
The dogs like the snow but they aren't used to cold weather yet; the puppy, of course, has no clue at all and unless he's distracted by having the Alpha Bitch out there, just focuses on his cold feet and tries to walk without putting them down. High temp today was about 20 F, with wind, and they didn't stay out long even in the sun.
I was just reading in some Sunday supp or other about how you can probably keep an olive tree going in England these days because our winters have got so much warmer . . .
But they probably didn't say what kind of olive tree, right? There is a Russian olive that grows HERE. Who would guess?
"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: Winter [message #6873 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 06:16 |
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My daughter loves the icy frozen puddles. Slippy, and slidey. fun if you're 3 1/2!
and on my (external) balcony at home is a geranium (pelagonium, whatever) that's been there since I got pregnant. OK, this is probably the coldest winter so far since then, but it's not come inside (it was left by the lady-who-lived-next-door, who thought I needed cheering up in the grey and grim autumn we had when I was pregnant, and it's been there ever since). It's not huge, but it's not dead either! And in the summer it gets beautiful red flowers (I love red geraniums. pelagoniums. whatever they are called now).
Bibliovorous.
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| Re: Winter [message #6875 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 06:22 |
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Lucy Coats
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§ Tipsy Imperial Concubine. No, really:
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Blast. There I was, being all good and not spending money in the credit crunchy thing. But I just couldn't resist her blandishments and she went straight into my barrow. I wonder when she will arrive. She can go in the greenhouse (heating on and off quicker than a lady of the night's drawers--I paraphrase loosely here so as not to offend)with the chocolate cosmos which is NOT flowering, thank the good Lord.
I too hate this frelling cold (thank you for frelling, Robin, which I now use on every possible occasion) and am typing this in fingerless gloves, wrapped in a blanket. Luckily I have a labrador on my feet for extra heat. She doesn't do the WHOMP thing with the socks, but she does do the dervish whirl when I try to put a lead on. The dinmont merely barks maniacally all on one note and gets all hysterical on me. He has gone a bit weird since the yorkie pup stared bouncing on his head.
Lucy xx
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| Re: Winter [message #6876 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 06:58 |
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how many dogs do you have,lucy.i love the pic of the puppy bouncing on his head[giggles].
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Winter [message #6879 is a reply to message #6876 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 07:23 |
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Lucy Coats
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| holmes44 wrote on Thu, 04 December 2008 11:58 |
how many dogs do you have,lucy.i love the pic of the puppy bouncing on his head[giggles].
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Well, unlike SOME on this forum, sadly I currently only have two--the dervish lab and the mad dandie dinmont. If you'd like to see some dandies behaving badly (ie normal), have a look here. http://www.ddtc.co.uk/dandiegallery/dandies-behaving-badly.h tml However, what with the neighbour's yorkie (the bouncer), the granny's mini wirehaired dachshund, and the daily visiting Golden-Retriever-Of-Ultimate-Idiocy we are quite a full house and garden. The new working cocker and teckel pups arrive in the spring. I fear for my poor plants. Sigh.
Lucy xx
"'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart."
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| Re: Winter [message #6882 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 07:51 |
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I actually want snow! It's so grey, drizzly, depressing, nasty - ugh! Also I've taken in my balcony-plants long ago - not that there is any place for them inside, mind you, and I frankly doubt they are getting adequate light were they are now, but outdoors they would be most certainly and completely dead.
Also I need minus C badly on Monday. Yesterday we had a note slipped through our post-what's-it cheerfully announcingg that our fridge and freezer will be changed on Monday, so please have them emptied. They will arrive between 7.30 and 16.00 (4 pm). Oh, great, thanks for the warning - our fridge and freezer are full! It will be cold enough for the fridge things, hopefully (I do not want a freakishly sunny day on Monday! do you hear, weather powers!) on the balcony, but the freezer stuff?
(Grumble, grumble, groan)
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Winter [message #6888 is a reply to message #6884 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 10:56 |
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L.R.K.
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Thanks, Krystolla, for the great tips! I'll certainly see what we can do - surely we have a cardboard box somewhere? - although we have a lot of stuff... Also, I'm hoping for minus - if they are supposed (according to the weather forecast) to have -5 in Eskilstuna (which is 200km or so from Stockholm), I don't see why we are supposed to have only 0 C? Anyway, better safe than sorry, so thank you again!  (I've actually printed out your post - with a memory like a sieve... )
Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Winter [message #6897 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 12:20 |
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Robin wrote: | Quote: |
except maybe hellhounds and I need to think about going out later ourselves instead of freezing our butts off
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I think you need Wallis (and possibly Grommit) here, to invent for you an automated morning process that a) checks the outside temp, wind speed and precipitation levels for you, b) makes the cup of black tea, c) depending on the outcome of a. either puts the cup of black tea and reading matter of choice on a hoist up to your bedroom or tips you out of bed straight into outdoor gear and puts the hellhounds' leashes on via a mechanical arm that opens their cage and only allows exit through a collaring process, d) has another mechanical arm that gently prods you into awareness of whichever option has come about. How does that sound?
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I was just reading in some Sunday supp or other about how you can probably keep an olive tree going in England these days because our winters have got so much warmer and I’m thinking, if I had an olive tree, it too would be spending the nights on my kitchen floor.
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Ours has been outside up until now, but will be moving in its pot into the (bubblewrap-lined) frost-free greenhouse this weekend, along with the fig tree. The two citrus trees are already in there - it will be a tad crowded, but what the heck...they can always cuddle up together.
Only two and a bit weeks till the shortest day - bring back the light I say!!
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Winter [message #6900 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 12:44 |
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^ Except socks. Socks are an anarchy zone with a lot of dogs for some reason. Socks house toes, which wriggle; feet smell gorrrrgeous to most dogs; socks have the play characteristics of a tuggy toy; people in socks provide a noisy interactive tuggy toy; chase games may be incorporated... socks are definitely in the top ten of all time toys as chosen by dogs... Sofas are rarer, though once when I asked people to bring their dog's favourite toy to class next week, someone did ask if they could bring the sofa...
‡‡‡ Hellhounds, especially Chaos, are manic at the best of times. But they go into red-shift blur in cold weather, remanifesting long enough to sink their teeth jollily in your thigh (Chaos) or run up your chest like you’re a tree and he’s a cat (Darkness). Then they Doppler-effect into the distance again. Such a great description - the physics of hellhound locomotion - I can see a learned paper in this 
§ Tipsy Imperial Concubine. No, really:
Gosh! I love these rose names - this is on a par with Cuisse de nymphe for my all time favourite!
§ with optional Bandar-log. The presence of Bandar-log would explain certain strange noises in the middle of the night, and more muddy footprints, surely, than even two hellhounds can be responsible for. I wipe their feet! I do!
Aha! So that explains it! I thought it was a tear in the space time continuum allowing booted tribbles to access my home, particularly after wet/muddy/snowy spells, but now I know! It's Bandar-log
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: Winter [message #6916 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 15:46 |
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We can't have more than two dogs here without a kennel license. Arf.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Winter [message #6927 is a reply to message #6902 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 17:13 |
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Lucy Coats
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| southdowner wrote on Thu, 04 December 2008 17:57 |
| Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 04 December 2008 12:23 |
Well, unlike SOME on this forum, sadly I currently only have two <snip> The new working cocker and teckel pups arrive in the spring.
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Doubling the numbers Lucy! Like the Ancient Mariner, I warn you, it's the start of a slippery slope. I'm waaaay ahead of you there ... and I can point you to a local chapter of Dog-Owners Anonymous any time you want!
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Thank you, dear Southdowner. I shall put that down on the list of Emergency Remedies for Dire Situations. Such as all my shoes and socks being chewed. Mind you, it was the kitchen last time. I've got quite used to the frilled splintery bits round the skirting boards and fireplace and cupboards. How much worse can it get than that. Actually, don't answer that one.
Lucy xx
"'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart."
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| Re: Winter [message #6935 is a reply to message #6929 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 17:52 |
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Lucy Coats
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| shalea wrote on Thu, 04 December 2008 22:27 |
| Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 04 December 2008 17:13 |
...How much worse can it get than that. Actually, don't answer that one.
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I know you said don't answer that one, but this is funny enough that I have to re-read it occasionally just because: Dogs in Elk.
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OK. You win. Hands down. Thank the good lord we don't have elk carcasses round here. There are some mercies in life.... Pheasant carcasses, yes. It would be hard to get a dinmont inside a pheasant carcass though. His badger crunching jaws would make short shrift of it before there was any idea of taking up residence. Going to bed now. If I have doggy nightmares, it will all be your fault, Shalea. <g>
Lucy xx
"'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart."
http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com
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| Re: Winter [message #6964 is a reply to message #6809 ] |
Thu, 04 December 2008 20:55 |
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Oh ick. I couldn't get to the end...
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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