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Skriven 2010-01-14 00:32:44 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: shopping excursions
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->  RH> It was in the single digits here a few mornings recently.  You
->  RH> southerners don't know how to handle it.
-> 
-> So much for global warming too.  But, yes, the houses don't seem to be
-> constructed to take into account that weather can get cold. We've had
-> frozen pipes for several mornings--thawed once it warmedd up, no beakage
-> but others have had broken pipes.  Not enough insulation in houses, not
-> much in the line of snow removal equipment.........
-> 
I've never had a pipe break or freeze.  They don't build houses down South
to handle this sort of weather.

->  RH> I've been using mine too.  Things that normally would go into the
->  RH> crockpot go onto the stove, etc.
-> 
-> We used the microwave a lot our first few days back.  Now that the jet
-> lag is pretty well out of our systems, we're doing more real cooking.
-> Steve poached a salmon fillet for supper tonight.
-> 
Woo hoo. I thought about snagging some fish today but didn't.  

->  RH> Just as well; I didn't know you guys had snow plows down there.
-> 
-> Not really except in the mountains where they get more snow than we do.
-> A lot of our snow removal on the roads is done by the use of chemicals
-> or salt.  DOT has some graders and trucks with plows on them but not too
-> many ae in this area.

Eep.  That would never fly here.
 
->  RH> Quite - one of the three smallest.
-> 
-> How does it compare to HI in size?

Smaller in land mass and total area both.
 
-> -> SPF 50 sun screen?  I usually use 30 but don't stay out long enough
to
-> -> look like a boiled lobster.
-> 
->  RH> Pretty much.  I usually do at least 30.  I can't tan so there's no
->  RH> point in trying.
-> 
-> I try to keep out of it so I don't turn beet red either.  Grabbed the
-> sun screen a couple of days we were out and about to make sure I
-> wouldn't burn.
-> 
Good move.  It sure beats skin cancer.  I even wear some on my face in the
winter.
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