How will you be spending Christmas day?

@djjd62,

, should read "the roads" not "he rods"

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0460.jpg

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0463.jpg

Jeez...what's all that white stuff. I've never seen anything like it!

I've seen white on the ground a couple of years back when we had that freak hail storm...but on the roof like that?

It looks like those Christmas cards you see that also have no relevance for us.

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that's about 10 cm, the forecast calls for about another 20 cm over the next few days

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@djjd62,

Holy mackerel!....or turkey or goose or whatever!

One of these days I'm gunna see snow at Christmas.

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@djjd62,

possibly 50 cm between now and Christmas - that's a heaping helping of snow.

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@ehBeth,

ENVIRONMENT CANADA

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City of Toronto
4:20 PM EST Thursday 18 December 2008
Winter storm warning for
City of Toronto continued

Snow and blowing snow expected on Friday.

This is a warning that dangerous winter weather conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.

Mother nature is striking southern Ontario with the second in a series of significant snow storms. The first gave around 10 centimetres Tuesday night. The second arrives on Friday. A dynamic storm is now developing over Colorado as expected and will race close to the lower Great Lakes during the day Friday. Heavy snow is forecast to begin in southwestern Ontario overnight reaching the greater Toronto region near dawn Friday morning. Snowfall amounts of 15 to locally 20 cm are widely expected across much of the lower Great Lakes by Friday evening.

we have only been issued a WINTER STORM WATCH - no WARNING yet .
new snowtires installed yesterday - just in the nick of time - shortage of wintertires in canada !
hbg

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@djjd62,

Wow, that's snow, alright, djjd! Surprised

Is that your place in the photograph, btw?

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@djjd62,

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.. should read "the roads" not "he rods"

Did you do what I did, djjd?

... got a new chair for the computer but your fingers reached for the same old place as before? (I'm not kidding, either!) Laughing

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With just under a week to go, here's hoping we hear from a quite a few of the rest of you who haven't posted yet.

Aw, go on! Very Happy

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@hamburger,

hamburger wrote:

ENVIRONMENT CANADA

Quote:
City of Toronto
4:20 PM EST Thursday 18 December 2008
Winter storm warning for
City of Toronto continued

Snow and blowing snow expected on Friday.

This is a warning that dangerous winter weather conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.

A dynamic storm is now developing

I took some photos in that dynamic storm when I was stopped in traffic a coupla times. I'll need to upload them.

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well the snow has stopped

everyone survived, but poor santa bear sitting on the front porch bench, is buried pretty deep

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0464.jpg

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

I took some photos in that dynamic storm when I was stopped in traffic a coupla times.

http://images.ladypb298.multiply.com/image/4:plantspetspeople/photos/104/600x600/9/8-from-the-lakeshore-to-woodbine.jpg?et=B3%2CT%2CY6mRPovzTNxdd8FLg&nmid=151025113

from a little album of yesterday's snow that I put together for Margo

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the tale of the tape

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0469.jpg

8 inches, or

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0470.jpg

20 centimeters

with between 5 - 15 cm saturday night into sunday, and another 5 - 10 cm christmas eve

no dreaming of a white christmas this year, we're bloody living it

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We shall mak the 4 hour drive to the "Place Of Many Crows". Up the hume then cross country. Upon arrival we shall partake of several kilo of prawns and FIL special not so secret dipping sauce followed by a cold bufett luncheon served on the "good" plates. For desert there will be cheesecake, that jelly dish she calls cut glass and probably a trifle. Then read the paper and snooze or chatter amongst ourselves.
I will feel guilty about having so much to eat when so many have so little.

The following day we will drive home again and everything shall be as it was before.

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@dadpad,

Aussie Jingle Bells

Dashing through the bush,
in a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
esky in the boot,
Kelpie by my side,
singing Christmas songs,
It’s Summer time and I am in
my singlet, shorts and thongs

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut !,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Engine’s getting hot;
we dodge the kangaroos,
The swaggie climbs aboard,
he is welcome too.
All the family’s there,
sitting by the pool,
Christmas Day the Aussie way,
by the barbecue.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute.

Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes ’round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.

Oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
Christmas in Australia on a scorching summers day, Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas time is beaut!,
Oh what fun it is to ride in a rusty Holden Ute

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@dadpad,

Sounds wonderful, dadpad!

Now I'm wondering: where is "the place of many crows"?

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@Izzie,

Quote:

Come the afternoon,
Grandpa has a doze,
The kids and Uncle Bruce,
are swimming in their clothes.
The time comes ’round to go,
we take the family snap,
Pack the car and all shoot through,
before the washing up.

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@msolga,

How about up the Hume towards Wagga Wagga!?

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@margo,

Perhaps.

Maybe.

Not sure.

I think dp will have to enlighten us!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagga_Wagga,_New_South_Wales

Code:Wagga Wagga

Place of many crows comes up in the history section.

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