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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Just a gripe about the weather
« on: April 21, 2008, 03:47:54 PM »
In sixteen days our outdoor swimming pool opens for the season, in seventeen days our minor soccer season starts. It is too bad that we have had about ten inches of new wet snow since Saturday isn?t it ? the school busses were cancelled today due to weather.

The pool is going to be particularly chilly this year.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2008, 03:51:11 PM »
That's global warming for ya!
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2008, 03:51:59 PM »
It's chilly here too, Diane. I (also) blame global warming.
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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2008, 08:32:00 PM »
Curious. I didn't get the blame this time.
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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2008, 08:34:05 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 21, 2008, 03:47:54 PM
In sixteen days our outdoor swimming pool opens for the season, in seventeen days our minor soccer season starts. It is too bad that we have had about ten inches of new wet snow since Saturday isn?t it ? the school busses were cancelled today due to weather.

The pool is going to be particularly chilly this year.


My daughter (in Toronto) said it was getting warmer - has she been telling fibs (she wants me to go for a visit)?
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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2008, 12:52:13 AM »
The weather here (Texas) has been a bland 70-85 degrees Fahrenheit. It's been sunny and beautiful for the past few weeks. We have had a tornado or two or five just to keep it from becoming too monotonous.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2008, 03:14:28 AM »
It's 8:10 PM and now we have over three feet of snow!

We can't get a vehical to the road. Three dead calves so far. It is not so cold but there is quite a wind chill factor.

Vulture - Toronto is much further south and two time zones east of us.

Roll on spring.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2008, 02:56:49 PM »
I have never seen so much snow come down so fast. On one side of my mini-van the snow is up to the side of the wheel hubs on the other, where it has drifted, it is halfway up the driver's side window.



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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2008, 03:03:48 PM »
We're really busy worrying about Vulch at the moment, Diane. We'll get round to you in a bit.
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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2008, 04:02:31 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 22, 2008, 02:56:49 PM
I have never seen so much snow come down so fast. On one side of my mini-van the snow is up to the side of the wheel hubs on the other, where it has drifted, it is halfway up the driver's side window.




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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2008, 09:30:23 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 22, 2008, 03:14:28 AM
It's 8:10 PM and now we have over three feet of snow!

We can't get a vehical to the road. Three dead calves so far. It is not so cold but there is quite a wind chill factor.

Vulture - Toronto is much further south and two time zones east of us.

Roll on spring.

When is Spring, Diane? In the UK, it's Mid-Summer's day around 21st June. Will you have time to sqeeze Spring in?
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2008, 10:02:25 PM »
Thanks for paying attention to me Vult during your own present crisis.

We have five mosquito infested months we call summer, about two weeks of slimy mud we call spring, two to four weeks of fall - which is my favourite and the rest of the time is winter.



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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2008, 05:48:23 AM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 22, 2008, 10:02:25 PM
Thanks for paying attention to me Vult during your own present crisis.

We have five mosquito infested months we call summer, about two weeks of slimy mud we call spring, two to four weeks of fall - which is my favourite and the rest of the time is winter


Whilst I realise Toronto is further south and two time zones away, is this the kind of weather my daughter wants me to move to?

Summer, if we get one here, can sometimes last for a whole month. It can even make it until the school holidays and allow one to enjoy balmy days picnicking with the children (or, in my case, grandchildren). If the summer is short, then you spend the school holidays indoors listening to the rain lashing against the windows mingled with the groaning of 'I'm bored'......

What do you do with your brood during the mosquito season?
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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2008, 05:51:30 AM »
Altogether now....
"Oh Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command..."

This lets Diane off the hook, as a daughter she is clearly not obliged to toe the true patriot line.
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Vulture

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Re: Just a gripe about the weather
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2008, 05:52:43 AM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 22, 2008, 03:14:28 AM
It's 8:10 PM and now we have over three feet of snow!

We can't get a vehical to the road. Three dead calves so far. It is not so cold but there is quite a wind chill factor.

Vulture - Toronto is much further south and two time zones east of us.

Roll on spring.

I've just re-read this, Diane. Why did the calves die? Because of the cold or complications at birth?
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