Chatty Charley thread for the week of February 11th 2008

I am home due to the extream cold weather...and may have another Snow Day Wednesday..

I'm sure your weather is colder, but we are experiencing cold weather as well.

It's been snowy off and on since Thursday and more to come tomorrow night.

We came back from Arizona last Wed. night (into Manchester, NH), just in time for the Thursday storm!

So what is extreme to you. I live in the Great White North and last week most days didn't get above -30C/-22F and with the wind chill it felt like -40C/F and BTW everyone just deals with it and goes to work. Now that's what I call knowing your alive.

Wow. I thought 7 degrees was bad. We are in a heat wave compared to you guys.

Took our son to Legoland for the first time... It was sunny and warm... shorts and T-shirts weather.

Makes up for the last month of rain, gloom, and mudslides I guess...

T-shirts and shorts........I can only wish. Here in western Michigan we got blasted with cold weather got down to -20 with wind chill and the counties around here declared a county emergecy and shut down all highways and raods due to white out from the storm.......t-shirts and shorts I wish......

Our local weaterman was telling everyone on Friday that this past weekend was going to be perfect to get outside and do a bit of lawn and garden work. His assessment was right on the money. Highs were in the 70's the weekend. It was an absolutely perfect weather day for a bit of gardening in shorts and a T shirt.

(My Garmin map version 2008 update which arrived on Friday had to be put on hold until evening hours.)

Now they are calling for up to 10 inches of snow tonight switching over to "mixed" tomorrow. it is still only 7 degrees here..School closes here if the wind chill is sustained at -21 because a lot of the kids walk up to 1.5 miles..brrr

I guess it's all up to what you are accustomed too. Here when it goes up to -20 people start taking their winter coats off and spend as much time outside enjoying the fresh air. We've only had one snow day (last year)in the past 20 years and that was only a half day when a blizzard of 8 inches and wind of 60 mph caused the hole city to be in a white out. The next day it was back to normal. As for cutting the grass that starts sometime in May.

If you're interested in seeing something truly COOL take a look at this vid. BTW it's not me doing the experiment

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=25033200960&subj=5...

In the 70's, except occasionally goes into 80's. Winter lasted one month, 45-60 degrees, and spring is now here.

Took my C340 to Chicago last weekend, and let Emily lead me about with splendid results. We ended up one evening at a Greek restaurant, Yanni's, that offered the most exquisite meal I've ever eaten in my life, at a fairly reasonable price. Nice work, Emily. We stayed away from the skyscraper canyons and had no trouble at all, even when the temperature dropped well below zero (F).

Ok, here is an idiot (me)! How do you put a file on YouTube? I tried the other night (with beer in me, which is probably the issue) and it kept asking me for my email. Then finally, after multiple tries, it returned me to the upload screen, but I didn't see a place to browse for my file and upload it.

Asianfire....

Ask your kids. They will show you how.
Piece of cake for them.

joemac

The problem is that she tells me that I am in IT and should know...rofl

After several days in the teens with sub-zero wind chill, and after eight inches of snow (unusual for this area), it finally warmed up to the 40s.

Spring next month.

I'm going up to Lake of the Woods on the Canada/Minnesota border and they had actual temps of -40 degrees there. Not looking forward to that kind of cold. Kills a car battery in no time.

Go Lakers Go

LAKERS.....is that a HS Soccer team?????? Sorry I just had to.

Ha Ha !

Brrrrrr! It's 2 AM in here in West Palm Beach and currently 72°F... and they're talking about dropping all the way down to 66°F. BRRRRRR!

P.S. I miss chatty Cathy!

Just got back from 4 weeks hanging out at the beach in New Zealand where we had great summer weather. Was back in CA in time to ski 3 feet of fresh powder last week and today took the kids and dogs for a walk wearing shorts and Tevas. Life is Good

Hey everyone, been MIA for a while, just wanted to say hey and that it's 1 week till Iron Maiden! Woo-Hoo! And 54 days till the cruise to the Mexican Riviera! Told ya I'd be back Miss Poi

I know it hasn't been that bad of a winter this year in the New York metro area but I'm tired of it anyway! Come on Spring--I'm a waiting for ya!

Leaving for the Daytona 500 Thursday. I can't wait. Go Junior!!

I recently (due to health reasons) have started to get into bicycling. I purchased a "decent" bike and now I am considering entering the 5 borough, 42 mile bike tour in NY in May!...(its a tour, not a race!). That gives me a couple of months to get in shape. The bike is a 21 speed comfort bike...relaxed riding position, ample saddle with suspension on the fork and seat... made by GIANT.

Anyone else here ride a bike?

Now that's a bike ride.

I haven't been on it in decades. But I still have some vivid memories

Should be nice mid 70s day and mid 50s at night, come on down and enjoy the fl weather.

I did that ride in 2006 with my then 1 1/2 year old in a bike trailer, wound up doing most of the ride with Anthony Edwards (Dr. Greene from ER) and 3 of his kids.

Saw your icon got married. You going to change your icon to a pic of him and his new bride? That could be cute

Did I forget to mention todays high was 78°F in the Palm Beaches? Forgive me, contiguous 48.

I have a sport touring bike by Univega. It's about 20 years old, and I wore out the rear rim, which I replaced with a new rim. I must have 15000 miles on that bike. I used to ride 800-1200 miles a year. That was during the months March to November. I don't like to ride in cold weather.

Finally my bad knees are starting to bother me, so I am walking more at the golf course instead of riding a bike.

The most I ever rode in one day was 120 miles. For training I ride a few 12 mile rides, then some 16s. Then a couple of 22, then 35. After that I ride a few at 60 or so. Once I can ride 60, 100 miles a day is about the same: it just takes longer!

I like to ride the quiet county roads in Ohio. There are plenty of them, and they are generally well paved and maintained.

Just in case all you dog lovers haven't heard UNO the Beagle won "Best of Show" at the Westminster dog show last night for the first time, but I bet knowing this breed not the last.

Yeah, I heard that on NPR today. I love beagles.

Yaaaayyy, my Colorado 400t finally shipped today!

These kids got it so easy today, we never ever had cold days and walked just as far, 10 inches of snow would have done it though.

Bob

Remember, it was the first win for the breed in the history of the show (I believe), so it could be a while til it happens again.

Beagles are the best. We have 1 pure bred beagle and a beagle shih-tzu mix. Along with an ankle biter and a pure bred lab.

Miss POI will be spending time with her kids today but will be working this evening. I volunteer at my preschoolers school once a month and today is that day. I have a full moderation queue to take care of tonight, so if you have a file that is not up on the site yet, it will be published after 5:00 this evening.

Thanks for your understanding.

Miss POI

Go 16

Anyone going to try and spot that doomed satelite before they blow it out of the sky???? I'll try.

If anyone is interested (or their kids), the spiderwick chronicles movie is really good. My daughter and I saw it today.

Go to "heavensabove.com" to "see" if and when and where the satellite will fall or will be blown up.

Great site here, when I learn how to I'll be making some Aussie poi's. I'm from Queensland. It's fine hot and windy here atm.

last night; good movie. Pacing was a little slow and the movie was quite long but there was some awesome acting. Brad Pit as Jessie James, Casey Affleck as Robert Ford, and Sam Rockwell as Charlie Ford all did a great job. Sam Shepard played Frank James and had a good screen presence even though he was only in the movie for about 20 minutes.

Anyone else see it?

Welcome to this forum. Love your accent . Tried to find Australian English for my GPS voice, but only found American and British English in the Garmin file (nuvi 200). Do you have a GPS voice with your own accent?

I've seen old pictures of Jesse James and Brad Pitt looks nothing like him. It irritates me when historical movies don't make an effort to be somewhat authentic.

Don't worry be Happy Springs Around the Corner

It's time-release rain.

And we're due about 4" more of it today...with 20-40mph winds, gusting to 50; and temps falling to the single digits above zero resulting in dangerous wind-chills.

AlGORE! I want some of that global warming, and I want it NOW!!!

Maybe on your 650, but I can't find spring on my 360... I have looked.

We are about to get nailed again tonight.