looking out my kitchen window this morning 9 a.m. 35 degrees
Isn't that a kick! how do you get rich in Canada? Making and marketing winter underwear!
Stanfields is still my favourite brand of longjohns. There used to be a really good source of them where hamburger lives. Good old "S&R, the discount department store" (their radio ad is still burned into my head after nearly 30 years away!)
Pdog - what kind of dog is he?
Wilso - I didn't think there was reef there either - I just knew about the northern waters.
Quote:Heeeeyyy, the temps are going up! It's 3 right now.
Burrrrrr... no wonder you wear furry neglige's.
We call them stocking caps, too, or watch(man) caps.
PD -- I'm glad you've found happiness in the midwest. Seattle isn't for everyone, that's for sure.
The Vermont Country Store website has Stanfields, but they're cataloged as a union suit. Cozy!
Quote:First made in 1906, Stanfield's Unshrinkables from Canada have been the underwear of choice for North Country loggers and miners ever since. This lightweight, fine-knit version of the original....
Brand_x - that nightie will haunt me for as long as the missing underwire! hehehe.
I'm looking to buy some silk long-underwear. I need the lightweightness of silk.
Silk long underwear is niiiice. Truly warm, truly soft (of course), and stronger than you'd think, too. Land's End used to have very reasonably priced versions -- I'd get them at the outlet in Madison for under 10 bucks, not sure of full price.
I've got some silk long johns. I think I got them at the L.L. Bean outlet a long time ago. They were great when I lived up north.
There was FROST on everything this morning when I got up. At first, I didn't know what it was, wondering why the ivy in my backyard looked so 'dusty'. Where in the hell am I??!! I didn't move down here for this.
Uh oh. That's not good, eoe.
It's different if you like (to some degree) frost and snow and cold.
Nice to see your kitchen eye view, Dys!
Funny, Dys, I didn't know they had mountains in Uzbekistan....
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just went out to the shed; it's a real BALMY minus 16 C. last night it was minus 26 C and yesterday it did not go above minus 20 c - BUT THE SUN IS SHINING BRIGHTLY in the cloudless sky. the steam is rising from lake ontario and with any luck we'll be able to walk on the lake in a couple of weeks. hard to believe that in another seven to eight months we will likely be sweltering in plus 30 C weather and be cranking up the air-conditioner. the canadian immigration officer who praised canada to us never made any mention of this - can we sue ? hbg
Minus 16? Minus 26? Oh brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. At least this lets you walk on water.
About the lawsuit, you could bring it up at the Hague. Let's see, current temperature there is 9C (48F) and there's a chance of rain. They'd probably be extremely sympathetic!
I spoke to soon! We are in the midst of a winter rain storm. Virtually unheard of here. Everything is coated with ice, driving is insane. Last night, ambulances were called to over one hundred injury accidents. My car is encased in a thick ice. I'll have to chip my way in. YUCK...
It looks like you got our frigid temperatures Hamburger... The east has the weather we had last week and now we have your typical weather. No Fair. I'm praying for a chinook.
A chinook? I happen to know what that is (thanks to an NPR story about how the temp in someplace like SD rose 50 degrees in an hour and then fell back). The military helicopter has the same name.
We're at right around -0- tonight. And there is a breeze. It should make for an interesting NFL football game this evening. -rjb-
I thought a chinook was a salmon or something.....
I have to start letting my car warm up before I drive off in it.
There is also a chinook salmon.
Really, the NPR? Generally chinooks last a wee bit longer, sometimes for days. Warm, hot wind will blow in and give us a windows of beautiful weather.
A couple of years ago, we had a terrible winter. The temperature sank below -35 to -44 for weeks on end. But during it all, we had a couple of days when the thermometre rose to ten above.
I was staying in the mountains a few years ago, quick chinook blew in. I watched an amazing thunder and lightening show, in middle of January. It lasted about 1/2 hour. The ensuing rain storm caused aver 4 inches of ice to build up on everything. A few hours later, the chinook blew in again and melted everyting in sight.
it's freezing here
find out everything about the
CHINOOK here; also called THE WARM WIND FROM THE WEST. hbg
