Hanasian wrote:
It was quite chilly this morning.
If you want to know what chilly means, Han, you need to talkt to Scandinavians (or Icelanders). Strayans are totally incompetent on the subject.
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| Author: | Hanasian [ August 8th, 2018, 5:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
It was quite chilly this morning. |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 8th, 2018, 9:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
Hanasian wrote: It was quite chilly this morning. If you want to know what chilly means, Han, you need to talkt to Scandinavians (or Icelanders). Strayans are totally incompetent on the subject.
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| Author: | Hanasian [ August 10th, 2018, 9:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
Gandolorin wrote: Hanasian wrote: It was quite chilly this morning. If you want to know what chilly means, Han, you need to talkt to Scandinavians (or Icelanders). Strayans are totally incompetent on the subject. ... or not. Enjoying Friday! |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 10th, 2018, 10:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
Refilled the bird bath adjacent to the entrance to our (the third of four counting from the street) stairway of our apartment building. And a smaller one that someone placed in front of the bushes on the other side of the meadow recently. And a couple of really small ones more towards the street next to trees. And the ones next to the entrances of the first and second stairways. Had filled up the bucket I use close to capacity, close to the 10-liter (about 2.5 US gallons) marker. The 12-liter marker is so close to the edge that it only has theoretical value, impossible to carry down half a flight of stairs to the elevator without spills (and wet stair steps are definitely something nobody wants to encounter, especially some of the younger folk above us who do manage markedly higher velocities, especially going down - that could cause a very nasty tumble!). |
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| Author: | Menegilda Brandybuck [ August 13th, 2018, 3:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
LotR is the best!!!! |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 13th, 2018, 1:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
While standing in line at the cash register of my favorite gas station (these have mutated into mini supermarkets that sell gasoline and diesel almost as a sideline!) I overheard a conversation between the cashier and a customer ahead of me (they seemed to know each other privately) about the latter's car - the "baby blue" color, to be precise. When I exited the mini supermarket, I noticed that the car in question was a recent-model Ford Mustang with a 5-liter engine. That immediately took me back to the early 1973 period when I was in driver education in my high school, and was allowed, with my learner's permit, to get some driving experience when somebody with an unrestricted driver's license sitting in the front passenger seat - like my mother. Her car at the time was a 1969 model vinyl-top Mustang with a 302 cu.-in. engine, or the ancestor (car and motor) of the baby-blue thingy I saw today. For that time, this side of dedicated muscle cars, a 302 Mustang was in the US a small, nimble car with a relatively big engine (Europens would have laught their behind off at every adjective except for the engine displacement). Looking back, it had some serious deficits: diagnonal-ply tires (radial-ply, mostly by the French company Michelin, was just starting to dent this primitive near-monopoly), rigid-axle and leaf springs in the rear - ugh! My current (2001 build) 2.2 liter (134 cu.in.) front-wheel-drive Opel Astra is a formula 1 racer by comparison in handling. In a straight line (why did that motor sport originate in the US, I wonder - NOT!) the V8 rumble and (only slightly better, mind you!) straight-line acceleration - well, I was 17 at the time; basically still a puppy. 
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| Author: | Hanasian [ August 14th, 2018, 2:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
My wife is the best! |
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| Author: | Menegilda Brandybuck [ August 14th, 2018, 10:33 pm ] |
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I want a dog |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 15th, 2018, 1:52 pm ] |
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Spent quite a while past midnight yesterday watching several interesting documentaries. So basically this very early morning. |
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| Author: | Evil.Shieldmaiden [ August 28th, 2018, 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
We finally got one day of rain, but it wasn't enough to make much difference in the forest fire situation, although the cooler weather is helping. Speaking of cooler weather, it feels like autumn is just around the corner. I'm going to be removing some of the flowers that have finished blooming this week. It seems early to me, but what do I know? |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 29th, 2018, 12:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
Temperatures since April of this year have been varying (and mostly too hot, end of message). While variations in heat (especially towards the upper degrees) have been bad, the massive lack of precipitation (no matter what the temperatures were) seems certain to be a negative record in terms of drought. I could care less that in some certified desert areas there has been no precipitation for decades or centuries. We are way north of the equator, such crap hot weather does not belong at our latitudes (but then maybe our weather is totally f**ked up by now ...) |
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| Author: | Evil.Shieldmaiden [ August 30th, 2018, 7:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
BC has had the worst forest fire season in history. Last year we were lucky and didn't have anything of note but, 2018, saw 44 fires on the Island. I hope this is not a harbinger of things to come. |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ August 31st, 2018, 12:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
The term "evergreen" has certainly stopped being applicable to our drought-starved fir trees. They have already shed tons of needles, but still the proportion of yellowish needles still attached to the trees keeps increasing. |
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| Author: | Gersemi [ September 2nd, 2018, 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
I'm really stressed out. 
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| Author: | Menegilda Brandybuck [ September 2nd, 2018, 8:10 pm ] |
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Why, Gersemi? |
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| Author: | Gandolorin [ September 5th, 2018, 10:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The Little Details of Everyday Life |
In the last few days we appear to have had some rain (mostly during the night) which actually left some puddles in the usual places. And our meadow actually has some green spaces (but still easily half of it looks parched ...). |
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