In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Additional quotes are from JSF's link.
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https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/breast-cancer/
being overweight or obese in young adulthood (between the ages of about 18 and 30 years) DECREASES the risk of premenopausal breast cancer
but
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being overweight or obese throughout adulthood INCREASES the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer
greater weight gain in adulthood INCREASES the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer
And since most breast cancer is POST menopausal
Quote:overall being overweight or obese increases the risk of breast caner.
breast cancer is more common after the menopause.
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It definitely sounds like fall up in the more northern US and southern Canada!
I hate winter, btw if it involves snow+cold. To me either one is more tolerable without the other. Snow just makes everything except being inside more ... difficult. Going out, driving, and walking, and just getting around involves so much more than simply doing. And being cold is sheer misery. Either snow, or cold would be so much more tolerable wihtout the other.
And then there's the very short days up that way. Down here in SoCal day length doesn't change all that much. But up there it really makes a difference! Down here in SoCal the longest day is about 14.5h, and the shortest day is of course 9.5h. But up near Portland the longest day is 15.75h and the shortest day is a mere 8.25h! And then there's all the winter storms to add to the gloom. How dreary. 
Still, one pays for all that green summer and the beautiful blue summer twilights somehow.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
It definitely sounds like fall up in the more northern US and southern Canada!
I hate winter, btw if it involves snow+cold. To me either one is more tolerable without the other. Snow just makes everything except being inside more ... difficult. Going out, driving, and walking, and just getting around involves so much more than simply doing. And being cold is sheer misery. Either snow, or cold would be so much more tolerable wihtout the other.
And then there's the very short days up that way. Down here in SoCal day length doesn't change all that much. But up there it really makes a difference! Down here in SoCal the longest day is about 14.5h, and the shortest day is of course 9.5h. But up near Portland the longest day is 15.75h and the shortest day is a mere 8.25h! And then there's all the winter storms to add to the gloom. How dreary.
Still, one pays for all that green summer and the beautiful blue summer twilights somehow.
Yeah... I think it's just a "grass is greener" thing.
I absolutely despise winter for all the reasons you stated. At least right now I have projects indoors to work on that will keep me busy and keep me from getting depressed. Working on that kitchen all last winter through spring made the time fly when otherwise it would have felt like forever like it always does.
Then summer comes and goes in an instant.
But we don't have scorpions or deadly spiders or 3 inch long mosquitos thanks to all that cold and snow. I hate bugs, but I don't know if I hate bugs more than our crap winters because I've never been around the truly horrifying ones.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I find the days are getting shorter faster and I have turn on lights earlier in the living room.
Got a little space heater I was given for Christmas a couple of years ago that I can turn on if I feel too chilly in the evening which is nice.
Looks like it is going to rain off and on all day.
Yeah. Heating is one of the very few reasons I sometimes miss the apartment lifestyle.
My house is pretty much wide open, being a tri-level. I'm only able to close off two of the bedrooms from the rest of the house, but by doing that I also close off 1/3 of the heat vents in the house as well.
A space heater could cost me a fortune to run since I'd be heating the whole house with it. As expensive as natural gas is going to be this winter, it would still cost more to heat the place with electric.
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I can see a house like that being difficult to keep heated in winter.
Been hearing about a rise in heating up here to for home owners.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
It definitely sounds like fall up in the more northern US and southern Canada!
I hate winter, btw if it involves snow+cold. To me either one is more tolerable without the other. Snow just makes everything except being inside more ... difficult. Going out, driving, and walking, and just getting around involves so much more than simply doing. And being cold is sheer misery. Either snow, or cold would be so much more tolerable wihtout the other.
And then there's the very short days up that way. Down here in SoCal day length doesn't change all that much. But up there it really makes a difference! Down here in SoCal the longest day is about 14.5h, and the shortest day is of course 9.5h. But up near Portland the longest day is 15.75h and the shortest day is a mere 8.25h! And then there's all the winter storms to add to the gloom. How dreary.
Still, one pays for all that green summer and the beautiful blue summer twilights somehow.
Got cold and wet today and for tomorrow. Then dry out on Monday. So for where I am it is rain with odd dry days. Though as I've posted they are starting to see snow up in the Interior and warnings are being posted that people driving up to the Interior need snow tires on their cars.
Have to wait a while longer to see what winter will look like around where I am.
Yeah, the gloom of shorter days is a drag and there have already been a couple of storms roll through towards the end of September and there will be more of those.
True enough.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I can see a house like that being difficult to keep heated in winter.
Been hearing about a rise in heating up here to for home owners.
Yeah. It's everywhere. At least we're not in the UK. They're going to pay 6 times as much this winter than they did last winter.
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Quote:What is so magical about a "first" pregnancy ending in abortion, as opposed to a second, or third? Isn't it just the total number of years being pregnant and breastfeeding the important factor? I see no biological mechanism for that "first pregnancy" trope. And since 30% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions, have "they" also studied the effect of THAT? That's beyond a woman's control and is certainly a very common experience.
JSF: Having first pregnancy just for the purpose of interrupting it via abortion is what actually INCREASES the risk.
Link a credible study, or be done.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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It seems the energy "supply chain" is effed up just about everywhere... here, the UK, the EU, northern China ... all for different reasons.
In the EU, it's because they refused to let Nordstream2 online, and - of course- didn't sign any long-term contracts with Russia, so now that they're facing a cold winter the spot-market supplies are very tight. Also, wind and solar are not, as it turns out, reliably reliable.
In the UK, apparently the lorry (truck) drivers delivering gasoline to the petrol (gas) stations are half non-citizens of the UK (mostly underpaid Poles and Romanians) so after Brexit they no longer have visas to work in the UK. so ... phfffft! There they went! Also, Britain had a year where the wind didn't blow, so they used up their natgas surplus to power electricity generation, and now the cupboard is bare and the spot market is... well... tight.
*There was an interesting discussion on The Duran about tapping and storing gas reserves. Gas in not like oil and coal: You can't store it very easily and "save it for later". Being a gas, it takes up huge volumes to store, which requires geological-sized formations to keep it in. Here in SoCal, SoCal gas used to store gas in depleted oilfields buying in in the summer and when it's cheap, pumping it underground and hen withdawing it in the winter. Until they had a major blowout near Porter Ranch, which was the simple result of them NOT having blowout protectors on any of their 100-odd onsite wells. Worst gas leak in USA history: think Deepwater Horizon excpet on land, with natgas.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/utility-paying-up-to-2418b-in-settle
ment-for-worst-methane-gas-leak-in-us-history/ar-AAOV2m3
I don't know what's going on with northern China. They have plenty of coal, but it's brown coal. I guess their problem is they sanctioned coal imports from Australia and now they have to scramble for supplies.
I think the problem in the USA is that hedging has polled the price of gas up, making utitilies reluctant to buy.
In the Mideast, war and sanctions are calling the shots.
So, panic buying is the order of the day, mostly due to policy failures and (in some cases) technical failures. It's predicted to subside in the next month or two.
SIX: Invest in a heated blanket, maybe!
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Pity would be no more,
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I can see a house like that being difficult to keep heated in winter.
Been hearing about a rise in heating up here to for home owners.
Yeah. It's everywhere. At least we're not in the UK. They're going to pay 6 times as much this winter than they did last winter.
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Very true. I've got friends in the UK and this winter is going to be miserable for them. If they are lucky it will be mild.
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