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A good cry on the train

 
 
Francis
 
  1  
Sat 15 Nov, 2008 07:03 am
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
Such is life.


But life can be wonderful, can't it?
patiodog
 
  1  
Sat 15 Nov, 2008 07:36 am
Why does it suddenly feel like Jane Austen and Milan Kundera are having a pillow fight in here?

Just slept for 10 hours, interrupted at 2 hour intervals by godknowswhat, but easy enough to slip back to slumber. Contemplating what to do with the frozen day here.

A couple of musts. Dogs need taking to park. House needs light cleaning.

A couple of shoulds. Leaves should be raked, mulched, and piled for next year's compost. Should hop on the squeaky spinny machine and get the heart going.

Some likes. Would like to lift some after the spinny thing, if back will permit it. Would like to go to movies -- may have to go alone, since it's a weekend and all friends are coupled and wife/friend is out in Seattle for work, wonder if anything I'd care to see and haven't is showing anyway.

Probably a good day to take a long walk and prepare mind and body for winter, which right now is running its fingers along our spines and soon enough will run out of patience, grab a hank of hair, and have it's way with us.

I fully expect to be rummaging through all the summer tools to get to the snow shovel before the month is out.
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jespah
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 10:27 am
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:
...However that meeting occurs in a project office in MINEOLA. (Oy)...


We used to live in Mineola. We left it relatively neat when we moved out, and got our security deposit back and all.
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sozobe
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 10:41 am
@dlowan,
Same here -- I'm always the relatively taciturn one. (Yes, me! Stop chortling.)

Patiodog, superlative description of winter, truly. There was a time that I loved snow. I don't know if the problem is less snow (when I was a kid, it would start falling in late November and then melt sometime in March -- the snow level would fluctuate but it was pretty much always there) or me. But I'm now glaring at the bare trees and doing depressing calculations of how much time is left until buds will appear. It's a long time.
dagmaraka
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 10:57 am
@sozobe,
nah. the spring is coming! i've been saying it since august...but it sounds better than 'the winter is ahead'.
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Foxfyre
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 11:05 am
I'm still a winter person. I love the crisp air on cold mornings and the quiet following a snowfall. I like the way I feel when I am not too warm. I love not feeling guilty that I am not doing yard work or if I decide to stay in to do something selfish that makes me happy.

(I have reasons to love other seasons too. October is actually my favorite month of the year.)
patiodog
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 01:26 pm
I love winter when it's in the 20s -- cold enough for no mud (and that the dog poop freezes solid overnight and is picked up as nice stinkless solids in the morning) but warm enough that you can go out with only a couple of medium-weight layers without real concerns about frostbite.

By mid-January in WI, though, it rarely gets above the teens and December's 3 or 4 freeze-thaw cycles have left layers of ice on sidewalks and roads, and it ceases to be amusing.

But mebbe this winter will be better. We're on flat ground on a busy road with a wide driveway, so there won't be any of the fighting with the steep driveway ice-dam between the stone wall and the telephone pole on the narrow, unplowed street that's marked the last couple of winters.
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High Seas
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 01:30 pm
@Foxfyre,
Wow, 20 pages gone since I last looked in here. I take it our boy is alive and well. Btw, I was born in October (as was Lola) so that may (may) be a factor in that preference, Foxfyre Smile
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margo
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 05:08 pm
@Joe Nation,
Quote:
It was great to talk to a person for a couple of hours without once thinking you needed to solve a problem.


This is just how I've been feeling lately!

But...spring is here, summer's coming. I have 2 concerts to go to in the next couple of weeks.....(and one of them is in Adelaide!)
Joe Nation
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 08:33 pm
@farmerman,
January.

I'll be on the lookout for you.

Joe(I've collected a Mason Jar full of bedbugs for you to take home)Nation
Izzie
 
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Sat 15 Nov, 2008 09:24 pm
@Joe Nation,
Good Luck in Gods Love Delivers run...

have fun mate

Iz (off to zzzzzzzzzzzzz) zzzzzzzzzz x
Joe Nation
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 06:34 am
@Izzie,
Hope you had a lovely sleep, IZ, filled with lovelier dreams.
BTW I thought the train correspondence post was a scream, meaning really funny. I don't think Americans use that word that way anymore. We should make up a list of words to bring back.

The day is turning out of it's bed nicely, the overnight rain has cleared away, leaving only clouds for the 10AM run. The winds are running straight out of the West at 17-20 mph but that shouldn't be a problem as the course in mostly North/South.
And it's my favorite way to run the Park, the last mile and half is mostly downhill.

Joe(vvvoorroom)Nation
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ehBeth
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 06:42 am
@margo,
margo wrote:
Quote:
It was great to talk to a person for a couple of hours without once thinking you needed to solve a problem.


This is just how I've been feeling lately!


I've had that opportunity twice this week and it was just the most marvellous experience. I could feel my shoulders detaching from my ears.
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Joe Nation
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 06:58 am
Quote:
I fully expect to be rummaging through all the summer tools to get to the snow shovel before the month is out.

Don't forget to find the ice chopper and to make sure that the handle hasn't got a case of dry-rot. I know that freeze-melt scenario well from living in Oklahoma. I often dreamed, as I bashed away at the 3/4 of an inch of driveway ice, about digging the s.o.b. up in the Spring and installing hot water pipes underneath .... .... those dreams all disappeared as soon as the daffodils popped up.
Now I live in the city. I don't own a driveway or a car, I don't have to shovel or chop or sprinkle salt like chicken feed around the trash can area.

Joe(Somebody else has to do all that, not me. Whee)Nation
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patiodog
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 08:54 am
@Joe Nation,
Quote:
January.

I'll be on the lookout for you.

Joe(I've collected a Mason Jar full of bedbugs for you to take home)Nation


Not from your own bed, I hope.
Tai Chi
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 09:42 am
@patiodog,
p-dog I hope you found those snow shovels. Power went out in the wee hours and we woke to a winter wonderland here. Been out with the snow shovels and tuned up the snow blower just in case as it's still snowing. Hubby's putting winter blades on the car. Oh yeah, it's arrived....
ehBeth
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 09:51 am
@Tai Chi,
Shovels are at the ready here. One at the back stoop, two on the porch, one to carry in the car. Traction aids are always in the car.

Winter, glorious winter.
ossobuco
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 10:26 am
@ehBeth,
I suppose I should get a snow shovel. Haven't used once since '55...
We have only a little snow here at the height of winter and I've managed fine without one. On the other hand, my driveway has a fair grade to it and underlying ice could send me flying. But the driveway's pretty short, and the melt/freeze bit doesn't happen all that much. I don't want a snow shovel...
ehBeth
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 10:31 am
@ossobuco,
A winter without piles of snow would probably make me cry on the train. A good hearty Canajun winter is part of my soul.
ossobuco
 
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Sun 16 Nov, 2008 10:35 am
@ehBeth,
I liked a healthy winter when I was a kid, and the few times after that that I visited ski areas such as Badger Pass in Yosemite, and I loved flying over the Alps in February... but I can well survive without ice on the walk or roads now.
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