Where is Spring ?
Carol Christoffersen
the ground. Left work early Tuesday in hopes of getting up my hill before
it got bad....no such luck. It took us forever to get home. Yesterday,
woke up to find it was still snowing and I just sent my boss a note and
went back to sleep. Now, they're calling for more snow, but don't know
when or how much. Supposed to rain Saturday, so that should wash a lot
of it away. I have a whole bunch of daffodils coming up in the garden
and they're getting covered over. UGH
carolc
david
Christoffersen, which stated...
i think i read a news bulletin on CNN, carol... spring has been cancelled.
i hate to be the one who has to give you this bad news, but somebody's
gotta' do it, i guess...
david
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david dsk...@usa.net
gruffydd
has to go somewhere. what about all them poor buggers further down the line
that will get all that wet, about 6ft deep in their garden? not do their
roses any good, will it?.
seriously though, the snow has not yet finished. I suspect that we here will
get some after my birthday in April
Bette
>From: caro...@hotmail.com
>Three days before Spring officially starts, and we have 15" of snow on
>the ground.
Hi, been thinking about you and all that snow! I'm sure you've heard what we
are suffering in Calif.? ;>)
Hopefully it will break thru the drifts before you know it. And none too
soon., huh? Bette
Michael Fanner
> i think i read a news bulletin on CNN, carol... spring has been cancelled.
> i hate to be the one who has to give you this bad news, but somebody's
> gotta' do it, i guess...
Well they lied. Spring is here in spades. Well it's warmer amyway.
Tomorrow we can expect heavy rain, which is like heavy snow but warmer and
you don't ahve to shovel it away.
Heavy rain tomorrow, more of the same on Saturday and rain but with the
'heavy' missing on Sunday. When I heard this unfortunate forecast I vowed
to take The Awesome Thing for a thrash this evening before the bad stuff
overtook our lives. Guess what? Too late. It's here. Early for sure. but
very definitely here.
Bummer.
--
Mick.
Bob Flora
"Michael Fanner" <michae...@onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
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And this is why the new Rolls comes with an umbrella mounted in the rear
door. <chuckle>
--Bob--
Michael Fanner
> And this is why the new Rolls comes with an umbrella mounted in the rear
> door. <chuckle>
That's more to do with BMW having a few thousand umbrellas to get rid of.
--
Mick.
Carol Christoffersen
Darn! Well, at least I'm hearing it from a friend :-)
carolc
Carol Christoffersen
My hubby's birthday is April 11, and I got him a catamaran (used). It's
been covered with snow since we brought it home.
carolc
Carol Christoffersen
Don't blame me, blame my friends in Canada, that's where the white stuff
comes from.
carolc
Carol Christoffersen
Sure, Bette....rub it in :-)
Just wait, when your thermometer reads 100+, we'll be at a comfortable
70 degrees (I hope)
carolc
**Dalin**
Christoffersen) wrote:
And I got David a remote controlled helicopter for his Feb. birthday
and it's still in the box awaiting a spring day and firm ground. But
it gives them something to look forward to, doesn't it? :)
Dalin
Jim Everman
> and it's still in the box awaiting a spring day and firm ground. But
> it gives them something to look forward to, doesn't it? :)
> Dalin
Warm spring day, good. Firm ground, BAD!
Any bets on how long he can keep it airborne first time? (Is it radio
controlled, or something else?)
The first time Cathe saw a radio controlled helicopter (about 6 yo)
it was in the back seat of a friend's car. She looked rather puzzled
so I asked why.
She said, "I always thought they were big enough to ride in..."
Another friend was giving a demo flight in a shopping center parking
lot one day and lost control (rare - he was GOOD). He told me later
that all he could think of was to try to crash it away from the crowd,
but he regained control before it came to that, and landed it with
very shaky hands.
The crowd went wild! They thought it was all part of the show.
Jim
**Dalin**
wrote:
Ummm... I don't really know what I got him, yes it's radio controlled,
but not terribly expensive. I think maybe it's a beginner's model?
When I said firm ground I meant not ankle deep in spring floods that
we get here. But soft ground in case it crashes. Not a parking lot.
All I remember about it is that it is 2 channel, will go up to a
height of 75 ft. and a distance of 500 ft. I think!
Dalin
DAE
I don't know where you live but here in NW Indiana we are hitting 60 as I
type. Tonight though it goes down to 29 and tomorrow it will rain/snow and
continue until at least Monday. Oh well, enough for Spring. Now I'll wait
for Summer.
Don and his Devil
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**Dalin**
tomorrow night and 6 on Mon. Chance of snow every day.
Dalin
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:45:46 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
wrote:
DAE
Whatever you get we usually have had it about a day before, but not as
severe. Fortunately Lake Michigan is North of us rather than West of us.
Don and his Devil
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**Dalin**
Is the painting done in your home? Do you like the colors you picked
once you see them up on the walls?
Dalin
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:04:59 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
wrote:
DAE
Everything is done. New curtains, drapes and other things that needed
attending to. Now I can just sit back and see if the checks bounce:-))
The colors are all light and change as the daylight changes. The skylights
in the living room seem to have a way of doing this. The bedroom colors
also change as the light changes. Only the kitchen doesn't change. The
basement, which is finished, is the only room that the color stays the way
it was meant to. It was the previous owner's family room and is quite
large. He even has two fake windows backlit so you could have a romantic
dinner (ha, ha) if you chose to. You wouldn't know they were fake until you
turn the lights on and see the frosted glass that covers the concrete walls.
Now I'm starting to plan the outside flowers and statuary that I would like
to put in.
Don and his Devil
"**Dalin**" <lj...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Butterkup
> tomorrow night and 6 on Mon. Chance of snow every day.
>
> Dalin
TeeHee!
Tonight
Partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds
10 to 15 mph becoming northeast 5 to 10 mph after midnight.
Sunday
Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Spring has sprung.
The grass has riz.
I wonder where the birdie is?
The bird is on the wing.
But that's absurd...
The wing is on the bird!
Sue
**Dalin**
changing colors as the light changes. The wallpaper we just put up is
like that.
And you've finished just in time to concentrate on the outside. :)
Good luck with the flowers. I plant them, they die. <g> All but a
few across the front of the house where we have spent a fortune on
soil, fertilizer, pine chips etc. Even so, every time we plant a bush
there it dies. I think you're going to have a very fun spring with
your garden creation. :)
Dalin
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:39:55 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
**Dalin**
wrote:
I knew you'd show up to gloat! Just wait, your time is coming. <g>
Dalin
>
Butterkup
summer camping in North Carolina. Yeah, in a pigs ear.
sue
**Dalin**
wrote:
Go for it! Hey, if not the summer, maybe a month or six weeks? I was
thinking that with the trees cut down behind your property it could be
a pretty hot summer for you at the fort.
Dalin
>
Butterkup
of the road. HUH? What light? Our bathroom light that I had left on
before we left. Shoot, guess I will have to buy curtains for the bathroom.
sue
> >
>
**Dalin**
wrote:
Now that's a real shame! I've always envied people who had no need
for curtains and could let the outside in.
Dalin
Butterkup
The real shame is that Stan can no longer use the porcelain forest.
sue
TexGal
80s and expected to continue.
Sorry about your snow...
Donna
"Carol Christoffersen" <caro...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Three days before Spring officially starts, and we have 15" of snow on
Butterkup
sue
"TexGal" <tid...@pdq.net> wrote in message
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**Dalin**
wrote:
Just move him around to the front of the cabin. LOL!
Dalin
>
Butterkup
sue
>
**Dalin**
wrote:
>> >> >> >> > Sunday
My goodness, he is a shy one, isn't he?
Dalin
Butterkup
sue
**Dalin**
wrote:
Now just who would do that to poor old Stan? Hmmmmm? <g>
Dalin
>
Jim Everman
> >> >> >sue
> >> >> Just move him around to the front of the cabin. LOL!
> >> >> Dalin
> >> > Uh....the gators would see him.
> >> >sue
> >> My goodness, he is a shy one, isn't he?
> >> Dalin
> > Yeah, could be because he has been caught on video more than once.
> >sue
> Now just who would do that to poor old Stan? Hmmmmm? <g>
> Dalin
Gators got camcorders?!
Jim
Carol Christoffersen
I remember seeing signs saying "The only difference between men and boys
is the size of their toys". I don't know about David, but if Chris says
one more word about sailing, I'm gonna scream! :-)
Carolc
Carol Christoffersen
and compfy, I'm freezing my butt off walking across campus in wind and
snow! carolc
"TexGal" <tid...@pdq.net> wrote in message news:<c3l99i$u...@library1.airnews.net>...
Carol Christoffersen
carolc
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**Dalin**
Christoffersen) wrote:
At least with Chris's toy you get to play too. :)
Dalin
Butterkup
sue
Butterkup
"Jim Everman" <eve...@Anet-STL.com> wrote
> Gators got camcorders?!
>
> Jim
Quick, Jim!
sue
Jim Everman
> > > sue
> > Now just who would do that to poor old Stan? Hmmmmm? <g>
> > Dalin
Several fine McDonnell Douglas products come with IR Night Vision
Gear built in. One of the guys had a video tape of some tests being
done on a base somewhere on a dark night. I mean, "can't see my hand
in front of my face" dark.
So, if you ignore the tests being conducted, you can see a guard lay
down his rifle, somewhere on the other side of the taxi way. He
fumbles around a bit and then an arc of very bright white comes from
him and forms a brightly glowing puddle on the ground...
Jim
**Dalin**
wrote:
How embarrassing for the poor guard. I hope no one could see his
face!
Dalin
Butterkup
"Jim Everman" <eve...@Anet-STL.com> wrote
> Several fine McDonnell Douglas products come with IR Night Vision
> Gear built in. One of the guys had a video tape of some tests being
> done on a base somewhere on a dark night. I mean, "can't see my hand
> in front of my face" dark.
>
> So, if you ignore the tests being conducted, you can see a guard lay
> down his rifle, somewhere on the other side of the taxi way. He
> fumbles around a bit and then an arc of very bright white comes from
> him and forms a brightly glowing puddle on the ground...
>
> Jim
that's funny!
sue
TexGal
seen snow and/or cold like that and I bet you've never had warm weather in
March. :))
Love you,
TOS
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TexGal
Donna
"Carol Christoffersen" <caro...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Jim Everman
> >down his rifle, somewhere on the other side of the taxi way. He
> >fumbles around a bit and then an arc of very bright white comes from
> >him and forms a brightly glowing puddle on the ground...
> > Jim
> How embarrassing for the poor guard. I hope no one could see his
> face!
> Dalin
I don't think the guard was ever aware of it. The night was much too
dark for anyone to see him otherwise and no one realized he was on the
recording until later.
Jim
Carol Christoffersen
beautiful Spring season. The temperature this weekend is supposed to be
60 degrees, so that's warm enough for me.
Love you too,
Me
"TexGal" <tid...@pdq.net> wrote in message news:<c3ofht$i...@library2.airnews.net>...
DAE
I noticed you mentioned "Pine Chips". That is a big no no. Termites love
them and then will love your house. Use the Cedar Bark. That repells all
of those weed eating critters.
Don and his Devil
"**Dalin**" <lj...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Don, it all sounds absolutely wonderful. I like the idea of the
> changing colors as the light changes. The wallpaper we just put up is
> like that.
>
> And you've finished just in time to concentrate on the outside. :)
> Good luck with the flowers. I plant them, they die. <g> All but a
> few across the front of the house where we have spent a fortune on
> soil, fertilizer, pine chips etc. Even so, every time we plant a bush
> there it dies. I think you're going to have a very fun spring with
> your garden creation. :)
>
> Dalin
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:39:55 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Dalin,
> >
> >Everything is done. New curtains, drapes and other things that needed
> >attending to. Now I can just sit back and see if the checks bounce:-))
> >The colors are all light and change as the daylight changes. The
skylights
> >in the living room seem to have a way of doing this. The bedroom colors
> >also change as the light changes. Only the kitchen doesn't change. The
> >basement, which is finished, is the only room that the color stays the
way
> >it was meant to. It was the previous owner's family room and is quite
> >large. He even has two fake windows backlit so you could have a romantic
> >dinner (ha, ha) if you chose to. You wouldn't know they were fake until
you
> >turn the lights on and see the frosted glass that covers the concrete
walls.
> >
> >Now I'm starting to plan the outside flowers and statuary that I would
like
> >to put in.
> >
> >Don and his Devil
> >"**Dalin**" <lj...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> >news:4063c18e...@news.east.earthlink.net...
> >> That IS fortunate because I know you get it pretty bad.
> >>
> >> Is the painting done in your home? Do you like the colors you picked
> >> once you see them up on the walls?
> >>
> >> Dalin
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:04:59 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Dalin,
> >> >
> >> >Whatever you get we usually have had it about a day before, but not as
> >> >severe. Fortunately Lake Michigan is North of us rather than West of
us.
> >> >
> >> >Don and his Devil
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >"**Dalin**" <lj...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> >> >news:405f948e...@news.east.earthlink.net...
> >> >> No spring here yet in central NY. Going down to 28 tonight, 14
> >> >> tomorrow night and 6 on Mon. Chance of snow every day.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dalin
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:45:46 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >Carol,
> >> >> >
> >> >> >I don't know where you live but here in NW Indiana we are hitting
60
> >as I
> >> >> >type. Tonight though it goes down to 29 and tomorrow it will
> >rain/snow
> >> >and
> >> >> >continue until at least Monday. Oh well, enough for Spring. Now
I'll
> >> >wait
> >> >> >for Summer.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Don and his Devil
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >"Carol Christoffersen" <caro...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> >> >news:c8ebe406.04031...@posting.google.com...
> >> >> >> bsc...@aol.com (Bette) wrote in message
> >> >> >news:<20040318113947...@mb-m07.aol.com>...
> >> >> >> > >Subject: Where is Spring ?
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > >From: caro...@hotmail.com
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > >Three days before Spring officially starts, and we have 15" of
> >snow
> >> >on
> >> >> >> > >the ground.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Hi, been thinking about you and all that snow! I'm sure you've
> >heard
> >> >> >what we
> >> >> >> > are suffering in Calif.? ;>)
> >> >> >> > Hopefully it will break thru the drifts before you know it.
And
> >none
> >> >> >too
> >> >> >> > soon., huh? Bette
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Sure, Bette....rub it in :-)
> >> >> >> Just wait, when your thermometer reads 100+, we'll be at a
> >comfortable
> >> >> >> 70 degrees (I hope)
> >> >> >> carolc
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
**Dalin**
And our town gives free bags of pine mulch from the Christmas trees
that they have ground up. Do you suppose we don't have termites here,
I've never heard of anyone getting them. But at any rate, this
summer I'll go back to the bark chips or cedar bark. I think the
cedar is the one that looks so orange, isn't it? It's not a color I
like.
Dalin
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:04:02 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>
DAE
No the cedar comes in brown bags. I don't know what the colored ones are,
but I think they are pine bark. Check with your Nursery and they could tell
you. My information comes from a Master who was in the gardening business
all of his life. He had thousands of acres planted in all kinds of veggies
and sold to the biggies like Campbell Soup. He also has about greenhouses
that work year around. They are and have been planting starter plants for
us to buy when Spring comes for sure and the danger of frost is gone
(normally about May 15th).
I hope this helps.
Don and his Devil
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**Dalin**
we spread a light layer of pine chips on top of the bark chips we have
always used in the past. But I don't know what kind of bark chips
they were, the bag was always just called bark chips. But I
definitely will check with my nursery and order the cedar chips. And
the cedar will make the garden smell nice. :)
I wonder if the cedar will keep the neighborhood cats away? They love
to dig in those bark chips!
We don't plant here until June 1st. It's always such a long wait!
This morning coming back from the store I noticed little green shoots
coming up where we planted day lilies. It's the first green I've seen
anywhere and what a welcome sight!
Dalin
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:50:47 -0600, "DAE" <done...@comcast.net>