Text 25372, 195 rader
Skriven 2006-11-21 10:29:44 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25365 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Election
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Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 TA>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If the weather permits you might enjoy the medorite shower
 EH>>>>>>>>> tomorrow
 TA>>>>>>>>>>>>>> evening.

 EH>>>>>>>>>>>>> It won't happen here, we are getting storm after storm
 EH>>> rolling
 EH>>>>>>>>> in. I
 EH>>>>>>>>>>>>> have all but forgot what the night sky looks like without
 MG>>>> cloud
 MG>>>>>>>>>>>> cover. :-\

 EH>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>>>>>>> I suppose that I shouldn't mention that it's still 65 and
 EH>>>>>>>>> beautifully
 MG>>>>>>>>>>>> clear then, eh? That would probably be in poor taste on my
 MG>>>>>>>> part.  :)

 EH>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, that is in poor taste. :-)

 EH>>>>>>>>>>> It's 45 and wet (dark too) here at the moment.

 EH>>>>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>>>>> Poor baby. Desktop weather says it's 54 and fair here now. I
 MG>>>>>> haven't
 MG>>>>>>>>>> been out yet so I'll believe it when I do go out. :)

 EH>>>>>>>>> My weather applet on my desktop says it's 50 and rainy here at
 EH>>> the
 EH>>>>>>>>> moment. Looking outside, it looks wet.

 EH>>>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>>>> You wouldn't have wanted to be here today, it got up to 90. I
 EH>>> don't
 MG>>>>>>>> really mind hot weather, but I hate hot days with chilly damp
 EH>>>>> nights,
 MG>>>>>>>> plays hell with the sinuses.  :)

 EH>>>>>>> I am not a hot weather type of person. During the summer it gets
 EH>>>>> close
 EH>>>>>>> to 90 (even over 90) and I stay inside as much as possible with
 MG>>>> my AC
 EH>>>>>>> and fans.

 EH>>>>>>> As much as I am not a cold-wet-and-dark type person, either, I
 EH>>> still
 EH>>>>>>> prefer actually having 4 distinct seasons during the year.

 EH>>>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>>>> We have four seasons, it's just that all four of them are good. :)

 EH>>>>> Yeah, your 4 seasons are warm, hot, warm, and warm. ;-)

 EH>>>>> Ed

 MG>>>> and the problem with that is?

 EH>>> Seeing Santa ringing a bell in front of Safeway in 80+ temps and
 EH>>> sunshine is a bit odd.

 MG>> Fear not; Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons have bought or run out of
 EH> town all
 MG>> the old Safeways. :)  It very, very rarely gets into the 80s during
 MG>> December, it hovers between the 50s at night and the low 70s in the
 EH> day.

 EH> Wow! I remember a Safeway being not too far from where my Aunt and Uncle
 EH> lived. Of course, that was over 30 years ago.

 MG>>>> Our trees leaves turn colors and fall off,
 MG>>>> it just stays warm while they're doing it.

 EH>>> We have green trees even in winter. They're called evergreens. ;-)

 MG>> It's funny that most people thing that palm trees are indigenous to
 MG>> California (they're not) the actual indigenous ones are oaks and
 EH> pines,

 EH> Yes, I know. The ubiquitous Southern California palm is a recent imigrant.

 MG>> in fact the only place Torey pines are indigenous is San Diego county.

 EH> Yep. My mother tried to grow one up here. It grew very slowly and almost
 EH> died. Fortunately it we planted it between our house and the neighbor to
 EH> the west, so it was sheltered from the cold winter winds.

 MG>> Did you know that the Spanish brought palm trees here (North America)?

 EH> Not all fo them. ;-)

 MG>>>> If an overwhelming need to
 MG>>>> see snow over comes us we can always go to Julian (a gold rush
 MG>> town in
 MG>>>> NE SD county),

 EH>>> We get very little snow in the lower elevations.

 MG>> Neither do we, but you have more elevated places than we do. :) Having

 EH> Mountain Rainier is only 70 miles from here. The Sound is only 5 miles
 EH> from here.

 MG>> seen the Rocky Mountains from both sides of the Eisenhower Tunnel pass
 MG>> California is really lacking in the mountain department. Shasta is
 EH> very
 MG>> nice and the Sierras are beautiful, but along the coast here we have
 MG>> hills that people who don't know any better call "mountains" :)

 EH> That's like when I was in Pheonix all those years ago. Camel Back
 EH> "mountain" was a joke. You could drive up to the top in less than 5
 EH> minutes.

 MG>>>> I'll admit that no such need has ever overwhelmed me

 EH>>> I'm with you, leave the snow in the mountains. :-)

 MG>>>> (I've never understood the nostalgia associated with needing to put
 EH>>> your
 MG>>>> car to bed with an electric blanket so it'll start the next day and
 EH>>> then

 EH>>> They do that in Alaska, not here.

 MG>> We did it at NTC Great Lakes and they do it in Montana as well. :)

 EH> Oh yeah, Montana is colder than here.

 MG>>>> needing to shovel the driveway just in time for the snow plows to
 MG>> push

 EH>>> I have only shoveled snow off my driveway once. That was 30+ years
 MG>> ago.

 MG>> I have never shoveled snow here.

 EH> LOL!

 MG>>>> it right back in). We generally get 6 weeks of rain a year which
 MG>>>> invariably reminds locals why it's a bad idea to build three major
 MG>>>> shopping centers and numerous hotels in a riverbed! The rain usually
 MG>>>> comes during the whole month of Feb and either the last 2 weeks of
 MG>> Jan
 MG>>>> or the first 2 of March. There are also those 2 weeks of hell in
 EH>>> either
 MG>>>> September or October that we call the Santa Anas in which the wind
 EH>>> that
 MG>>>> usually flows from the ocean on to us turns around and blows from
 EH> the
 MG>>>> desert on to us. (Tim no doubt fares worse under them than we along
 EH>>> the
 MG>>>> coast do) :)


 EH>>> We don't get Santa Anas around here. ;-)

 MG>> You must get the Chinooks in winter, but you probably welcome them
 EH> then. :)


 EH> Yep, the Chinooks are welcome winds most of the time.

 EH> We just had a lot of flooding north and east of here. Where I live there
 EH> is no real chance of flooding.

 EH> The main reason for the flooding was unseasonally warm weather and more
 EH> rain than usual.

 EH> Ed

I'm very happy to hear you didn't get flooded. :)

-- 
L'Chaim

Mimi

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