In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Out for my walk in a bit but I need my umbrella as we are warming up on the south coast of BC. Sitting at 3C and suppose to hit a high of 8C by about Wednesday. Lot of the snow already gone but the worries now will turn to snow melt and possible flooding in certain areas.
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That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.
At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.
Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.
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So, I usually put out some valuable recyclables - clean cardboard, CRV's and such like. But someone's been thieving them out of my recycle-bin, which is in the alley. That's been kind of irritating, becasue the waste hauler makes money on recycling, and the money they don't make comes out of the fee we get charged.
But THEN, rather than return the valueless recycling to the bin, they've been leaving it out in the alley, and that makes a real mess I end up having to pick up. And that's gotten REALLY annoying! So I just now changed my pickup location from the alley to out on the street. Hopefully that very visible, very public location will slow down the thieving and mess-making.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.
At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.
Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.
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That's cold and no thank you on the ice. Just got rid of all that nasty ice on the sidewalks around here.
Think there was snow for my area last winter but not as much and the storms weren't as bad either.
I hope you are right. I'm just glad that my area is warming up to more normal temps.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, I usually put out some valuable recyclables - clean cardboard, CRV's and such like. But someone's been thieving them out of my recycle-bin, which is in the alley. That's been kind of irritating, becasue the waste hauler makes money on recycling, and the money they don't make comes out of the fee we get charged.
But THEN, rather than return the valueless recycling to the bin, they've been leaving it out in the alley, and that makes a real mess I end up having to pick up. And that's gotten REALLY annoying! So I just now changed my pickup location from the alley to out on the street. Hopefully that very visible, very public location will slow down the thieving and mess-making.
I hope moving your recycling bin works for you Kiki.
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All outside chores done for today and as I said much warmer. Didn't need to wear gloves or my boots today. Also got some garbage taken down as I have been putting it off for just a little bit.
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Quote:aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:warm up to snow?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.
But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.
Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.
But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.
I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.
Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.
And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.
Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.
I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.
The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.
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Quote:aaarrrrrgh. When I typed cold, my new phone changed it to good. I corrected the original post now.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:I don't have a favourite temp JSF. But I am no fan of the cold now that I am getting older.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I also had a question mark in your exchange, but likely not the same reason as you.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:warm up to snow?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Temp sitting at -4C. Got to warm up a bit more if it is going to snow.
Brenda had said the temp was 10 degrees F. And that it was good. And you agreed. Before covid I usually said my fave temp was between -10F and 10F.
And now Brenda says it is 25F.
None of that sounds cold to me.
But yes, snow is more difficult when it gets too cold. Up at cloud level is colder than ground temps, so snow falls up to about 40F. Lower temps make it harder to encounter an even colder front which causes the precip.
Today I noticed the Fox River was frozen over in Green Bay, I hadn't been paying attention. Probably not enough to walk on. Fox is one of the largest rivers in WI, and historically was a critical and crucial navigable waterway - for transport and trade to the frontier west of the Mississippi.
But now I recall that yesterday 40 people got stranded on an ice shelf which detached and blew almost a mile away in the Bay of Green Bay. 5 agencies had to assist in the rescue.
Those temps may not be cold for where you are but they are for Southern BC.
And the bit about warming up to snow was what my dad always told me and he was from cold, snowy Southern Alberta.
Too cold and the sky won't do anything, warms up and you get snow, warms up more and you get rain. Which is what we will be getting this week.
I heard about the people being rescued from the ice. Didn't say what they were doing on the ice. I guess they wanted to see if they could walk on it.
The folks on the ice were Ice Fishing. Spread out over the whole shelf. Those nearest the crack were able to jump across quick, abandoning their fishing gear. But those who ran from farther found a 10 foot gap, and were stranded.
After my second bout with covid, I don't feel warm much anymore. I used to be a furnace all the time. No gradual change of body thermostat for me, covid sucked the warmth right out of me. I used to wear shorts all winter, down to about -10F or else when fresh snow was taller than my socks. Now wearing long pants, jeans since at least mid-Nov or so. Now that days are growing longer, temps are dropping.
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JSF: Was is you that posted about Boost/Ensure?
Thanks for the tip! I don't know why it took me so long to think about it, but I've had a hard time maintaining an adequate diet, and it finally occurred to me that it might help.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That's nice Brenda. Nothing but ice everywhere you look around here. -1 F tonight.
At least we'll have a few days this week that creep up just over freezing.
Pretty cold winter compared to the last one for sure. Hopefully it evens out and we don't have a nightmare February like how we wrapped it up last year though.
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That's cold and no thank you on the ice. Just got rid of all that nasty ice on the sidewalks around here.
Think there was snow for my area last winter but not as much and the storms weren't as bad either.
I hope you are right. I'm just glad that my area is warming up to more normal temps.
I'm glad to hear you don't have to walk on that ice anymore.
Yesterday, my aunt and I decided that she wouldn't be bringing my grandma with her when she came by to pick up some phones and a new laptop battery I got for them. It was a good thing too, because I had no idea my entire driveway had turned into an ice rink the night before. My grandma fell trying to leave my house the day after Christmas when it was totally dry, and had I not been right behind her to catch her and have her land on top of me it might have been a nightmare. She still managed to get bruised up from that one. We don't even know what happened. I think her legs just gave out.
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