In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by rue:
Enjoy the dry!
Do you have a link for your area forecast? It would help me track your weather better and get a 'feel' for what it's like.
As for me, I'm enjoying retirement rain or shine. What I'm most enjoying is the time to FINISH what I start!
You can see if this works
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weatherbritish-columbia/new-westmi
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Fwiw the latest drought monitor is considerably improved: OR from severe drought to just dry/ drought, UT and almost all of CO to just abnormally dry. The only place that still sucks is NM just south of CO.
It would be nice if the drought monitor showed excess water too, NE is getting hammered with record breaking flood
As for us... one more storm was supposed to sprinkle but our fair city was in the path of a vigorous storm cell and we got about 1.5" in about an hour and a half. Not complaining!!
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Quote:Hey thanks! It looks on the somewhat cool side but mostly dry. You can stop feeling like a mushroom!
Originally posted by Brenda:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weatherbritish-columbia/new-westmi
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Quote:Lucky you getting rain! Here was diddly squat. Not that I'm complaining about any rain falling anywhere. I was just hoping for one last area-wide hurrah! to close out the season.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Fwiw the latest drought monitor is considerably improved: OR from severe drought to just dry/ drought, UT and almost all of CO to just abnormally dry. The only place that still sucks is NM just south of CO.
It would be nice if the drought monitor showed excess water too, NE is getting hammered with record breaking flood
As for us... one more storm was supposed to sprinkle but our fair city was in the path of a vigorous storm cell and we got about 1.5" in about an hour and a half. Not complaining!!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Hi Jack,
I was around six or seven. School metric then at home and around my parents friends all Imperial.
I know we had social study classes, I just don't remember anymore what they were specifically about.
Assemblies we had to sing "God Save the Queen" and of course the national anthem. After that songs were a mix of things. Don't remember when I first learned pieces of "America the Beautiful". Hope that is the right title. Learned pieces of "God Bless America" from hearing Kate Smith sing it at the start of Philadelphia Flyers hockey games. *L*
Bummer for you. Rain is normal for BC, which is pretty much a whole temperate zone rainforest. So, I enjoyed the sun today(Monday) and will Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather site is now calling for rain only on Saturday which won't be so bad.
I struggle through metric when I need it these days. It's not that big a deal to switch from SAE to Metric wrenches when I'm working on my car. Since I'm not a chemist, I never really have to think about units of weight or volume, let alone converting them. Every car I've owned shows MPH, as do all of the street signs.
For me, and I assume most Americans, using the Imperial system doesn't really matter all that much. I'm sure it made classes in College more difficult than they needed to be, but I did great in the science classes... it was college Algebra and Trigonometry that I couldn't wrap my head around.
I don't know. I just get a little pissed when I think back on all of those wasted years learning nothing that would help in real life, yet they never bothered to try to at least teach both systems to us in an effort to ween us off the vastly inferior Imperial system. It wouldn't be much consequence if this were still the 70's and everything was still pretty insular, but in this global economic world we find ourselves in today, American's really have been set up to fail when it comes to basic units of measurement and our inferior understanding of them compared to the rest of the world.
Still fairly lousy around here. Lots of rain, cold nights, barely warm enough to bother going out days if you don't need to. I'll take it over what we've had this winter though. It's finally over. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Hi Jack,
I was around six or seven. School metric then at home and around my parents friends all Imperial.
I know we had social study classes, I just don't remember anymore what they were specifically about.
Assemblies we had to sing "God Save the Queen" and of course the national anthem. After that songs were a mix of things. Don't remember when I first learned pieces of "America the Beautiful". Hope that is the right title. Learned pieces of "God Bless America" from hearing Kate Smith sing it at the start of Philadelphia Flyers hockey games. *L*
Bummer for you. Rain is normal for BC, which is pretty much a whole temperate zone rainforest. So, I enjoyed the sun today(Monday) and will Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather site is now calling for rain only on Saturday which won't be so bad.
I struggle through metric when I need it these days. It's not that big a deal to switch from SAE to Metric wrenches when I'm working on my car. Since I'm not a chemist, I never really have to think about units of weight or volume, let alone converting them. Every car I've owned shows MPH, as do all of the street signs.
For me, and I assume most Americans, using the Imperial system doesn't really matter all that much. I'm sure it made classes in College more difficult than they needed to be, but I did great in the science classes... it was college Algebra and Trigonometry that I couldn't wrap my head around.
I don't know. I just get a little pissed when I think back on all of those wasted years learning nothing that would help in real life, yet they never bothered to try to at least teach both systems to us in an effort to ween us off the vastly inferior Imperial system. It wouldn't be much consequence if this were still the 70's and everything was still pretty insular, but in this global economic world we find ourselves in today, American's really have been set up to fail when it comes to basic units of measurement and our inferior understanding of them compared to the rest of the world.
Still fairly lousy around here. Lots of rain, cold nights, barely warm enough to bother going out days if you don't need to. I'll take it over what we've had this winter though. It's finally over. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Maybe that's the good thing about being in Canada. Everything is labelled in metric but if you look hard enough you can still find Imperial. So, I don't think too much about it when I am grocery shopping. When I get the chance to bake, I still use Imperial then also "eyeball" things as my dad used to say. That just means to take a guess at what you need in a recipe.
My dad was pretty good at it. I can do math but nothing along the lines of trig or algebra and this coming from someone who wanted to be an archaeologist and would have had to had more math classes.
As I said Canada has always known its place in the world from my point of view. We weren't and aren't the biggest power but we try.
High school economics classes and then just my life situation gave me a fair idea on how to operate in the world. Or I like to think so.
Rain heading here for today, so it is heavy coat time for.
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Quote:Hey thanks! It looks on the somewhat cool side but mostly dry. You can stop feeling like a mushroom!
Originally posted by rue:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weatherbritish-columbia/new-westmi
nster/
Well, it is trying to rain today and I am out for a walk.
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Seems to have been pretty busy around here, but I haven't been able to contribute much. I goas far as my energy and my knees take me, which sometimes isn't very far!
With our help, hubby is finally getting his garage workshop in order. We managed to mount the drill press, band saw and table saw (heavy!!! Made in Canada!) on rolling stands, which is very helpful in a small space.
Puppy-wuppy is back to her old self ... I scraped in a bit of "super plus multi-B vitamin" into her food with the idea that B1 is destroyed with cooking so she might be deficient eating cooked meat, and whaddayaknow, she's bouncing all over the place. It's such a pleasure seeing her pogo thru the groundcover and jumping up into the bushes looking for lizards. The ony wrinkle that I can see is that she seems to have acid reflux... go figure!... but I'm trying to manage that with diet.
Still weeding. And weeding, and weeding. I'm going to have to dragoon dear daughter into the effort again, as the weeds are sprouting faster than I can pull them! But the cosmos and California poppy are creating a riot of color in the front yard: Deep magenta to pale purple to pale pink and white cosmos; and pale lemon-yellow to gold, deep saffron, pale peach and old-rose poppies. Such a beautiful display. I hope that my perennials will be ready to take over when these annuals die back, but I seriously love looking out the front window at all of the colors, and the rocks and ornamental grasses ... it's the best of everything I like about fields all in one place.
Well, onward. Next week we're having three large windows replaced, then we can all conga-line back to our original bedrooms, which is another opportunity to go thru suff and give it the old heave-ho. Sooner or later (maybe in about 2 years) all of the big stuff will be done and I can concentrate on potting plants or learning to sew, or something!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seems to have been pretty busy around here, but I haven't been able to contribute much. I goas far as my energy and my knees take me, which sometimes isn't very far!
With our help, hubby is finally getting his garage workshop in order. We managed to mount the drill press, band saw and table saw (heavy!!! Made in Canada!) on rolling stands, which is very helpful in a small space.
Puppy-wuppy is back to her old self ... I scraped in a bit of "super plus multi-B vitamin" into her food with the idea that B1 is destroyed with cooking so she might be deficient eating cooked meat, and whaddayaknow, she's bouncing all over the place. It's such a pleasure seeing her pogo thru the groundcover and jumping up into the bushes looking for lizards. The ony wrinkle that I can see is that she seems to have acid reflux... go figure!... but I'm trying to manage that with diet.
Still weeding. And weeding, and weeding. I'm going to have to dragoon dear daughter into the effort again, as the weeds are sprouting faster than I can pull them! But the cosmos and California poppy are creating a riot of color in the front yard: Deep magenta to pale purple to pale pink and white cosmos; and pale lemon-yellow to gold, deep saffron, pale peach and old-rose poppies. Such a beautiful display. I hope that my perennials will be ready to take over when these annuals die back, but I seriously love looking out the front window at all of the colors, and the rocks and ornamental grasses ... it's the best of everything I like about fields all in one place.
Well, onward. Next week we're having three large windows replaced, then we can all conga-line back to our original bedrooms, which is another opportunity to go thru suff and give it the old heave-ho. Sooner or later (maybe in about 2 years) all of the big stuff will be done and I can concentrate on potting plants or learning to sew, or something!
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
We do still produce good things here in Canada.
Glad to hear doggy is doing even better. Hope she stays on the right track.
Clean up is good.
Flowers not so much. My allergies are trying to wake up again. I can feel it in my eyes.
I am out for a walk in a bit. Got a couple of chores to do today. It is still trying to rain though.
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