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Post by daveh on Feb 6, 2012 22:03:56 GMT -5
"In Flanders Fields" was written by a Canadian in WWI and Dieppe was raided by Canadians in WWII. That's good enough for me. The last poem just makes it better.
Mickey, is anuraks a Canadian spelling of anoraks, or just a typo?
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 6, 2012 22:41:12 GMT -5
"In Flanders Fields" was written by a Canadian in WWI and Dieppe was raided by Canadians in WWII. That's good enough for me. The last poem just makes it better. Mickey, is anuraks a Canadian spelling of anoraks, or just a typo? Dave, It's my keyboard's spelling. It is not too bright. It has been corrected. Mickey |
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 8, 2012 7:44:36 GMT -5
Had to Google "toques." Some kind of knitted cap? I want a pic of you wearing one, Mickey!!  Ol(anxiously waiting )Roy OK Roy. You may now exhale. Here is the picture. I admit that the pompom was photoshopped in as, in traditional fashion, they have a habit of disappearing. The actual colour of the tuque is navy blue which was obtained from a very rare muskox of that colour. It eventually mated with a yellow male and they had a green offspring. Undoubtedly in preparation for the promised warming climate and consequent greening of the arctic, a la A.G.  Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Feb 8, 2012 14:39:35 GMT -5
I bought some "fishing gloves" recently - forefinger and thumb have fold back section - quite easy to operate the camera, and yet keep tha hands fairly warm.
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 8, 2012 14:56:51 GMT -5
I bought some "fishing gloves" recently - forefinger and thumb have fold back section - quite easy to operate the camera, and yet keep tha hands fairly warm. No fishy smelling thumb and forefinger is ever going to befoul my K-5. Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Feb 8, 2012 15:27:41 GMT -5
Nor mine, Mickey, for two reasons 1) I haven't been fishing with the gloves 2) I haven't got a K-5. I did think of climbing K-2, but it looked a bit high, and too cold as well. I used to have a k-9 but that was several years ago.
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Post by olroy2044 on Feb 8, 2012 23:15:40 GMT -5
I think you would look quite fetching in green, Mickey. ;D
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 9, 2012 6:01:31 GMT -5
Roy,
It is spelled with an "R". Retching.
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Post by olroy2044 on Feb 9, 2012 11:48:29 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by grenouille on Feb 12, 2012 16:03:46 GMT -5
Normally in the SW of France the climate is pretty mild in winter, we hardly have any snow at all, if it snows, by mid morning its gone.
It has never been this cold for the last 50 years, we had a heavy snow fall and it has stayed for the last 2 weeks, with temperature hitting minus 11. the canel in our district is completely frozen.
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Post by grenouille on Feb 28, 2012 12:23:12 GMT -5
That's it , we had 20°C in the courtyard to-day, difference of 31° just a few weeks ago!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2012 23:23:06 GMT -5
We seldom get snow here that stays on the ground more than a day or two--often gone by afternoon. But 30 miles from here, in the mountains, in a normal year they have 15 to 20 feet of snow on the highest peaks. This year there has only been an inch or snow or so on three occasions and it was alway gone by the end of the day. They are forevasting up to three inches tomorrow morning but I would be surprised if we get that much. Today I was in the yard raking leaves and pruning a lilac bush that already has buds. The temperature was about 45 F--about 5-10 degrees below normal for this time of year. We had our last really cold stretch in 1990 when in December the temperature dropped as low as -25F and stayed below zero for more than a week. You know it's REALLY cold when you take in a breath through your nose and feel the hair in your nose go still and freeze during the breath.
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 29, 2012 6:10:42 GMT -5
You know it's REALLY cold when you take in a breath through your nose and feel the hair in your nose go still and freeze during the breath. W. W. Wayne, You know it is really cold when you speak to someone but your words never reach him/her. They freeze as soon as they leave your mouth and drop to the ground not to be heard until the next thaw which could be months away. If they shattered when they hit the ground all one hears when they melt is gibberish. Now that is cold!  Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Feb 29, 2012 11:22:01 GMT -5
For those who use centigrade -25oF is -31.666666666666668oC, if the converter is correct.
(I'm not sure it is correct - why after that many recurring 6s should it suddenly go to 8. I think ....667 is a more likely finish.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2012 12:27:45 GMT -5
You know it's REALLY cold when you take in a breath through your nose and feel the hair in your nose go still and freeze during the breath. W. W. Wayne, You know it is really cold when you speak to someone but your words never reach him/her. They freeze as soon as they leave your mouth and drop to the ground not to be heard until the next thaw which could be months away. If they shattered when they hit the ground all one hears when they melt is gibberish. Now that is cold! Mickey I'll bet you can tell a heck of a fish story, Mickey! |
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