Show me the person who believes that “no two snowflakes are alike” and I’ll show you the person who hasn’t seen enough snow.
November.
Show me the person who believes that “no two snowflakes are alike” and I’ll show you the person who hasn’t seen enough snow.
November.
Lots of the white stuff here in Edmonton.
My rabbits aren’t happy as they’re still in the process of changing colour. They’re a lot more careful about coming out to feed right now, as opposed to a week ago.
It came down yesterday. It was good weather for staying inside and bottling beer, which I did, while listening to the opera program on CBC. This time it was a classic recording of Puccini’s Turandot featuring Birget Nilsson, Franco Corelli, and Renata Scotto.
Wow, that ventusky site is great. Thanks for the link Kate.
New one to me, but there is
https://www.windy.com/?44.277,-80.277,7
which I use all the time
There’s hardly any snow in Calgary, maybe an inch. Didn’t have to shovel because it blew away off the sidewalk but the wind howled away all day Sunday. In this city if one doesn’t shovel the snow off the sidewalk within 24 hours after a snowfall, one could be fined if some chick Karen reports a complaint to the City. We work for the City here.
Sunday, amongst 100 jobs here, I transplanted a plant known as a “Christmas Cactus”, it has about 25 or 30 buds on it and will bloom huge white flowers pretty soon. Also have a twin plant which, when in bloom it will have fuchsia colored blossoms. Awesome!
Where’s that photo from?
I like the blue tree-like Christmas lights featured in the pots. Think I’ll try the same, there are several pots nearby the bird feeder outback.
Nancy,
Those blue tree lights are ridiculously expensive, at least they were last year when I, too, wanted some. I miss my Christmas cactus, which I had to leave behind along with other house plants when we moved from Alberta to B.C.
I suspected as much. They say B.C. means “bring cash!”
All I see around here during the Season are LED lights. Time for some retail therapy…thanks!
I don’t have much use for the LED lights as they cause so much interference that access to a number of the amateur radio bands is severely constrained.
One for the amateur radio fellas then. I’ve some little solar thingies– they’re weak in winter, so who cares, they’re good enough.
Nancy Ross – I inherited a Christmas cactus, and it sprouts lovely coral blossoms twice a year. It reminds me of my aunt, who tended to forget about its existence (the droopy plant is a stubborn survivor.) So far, we’ve had frost, but no snow yet. (Vancouver Island)
UYes, they bloom twice a year, like clockwork, don’t they. November and I think, April. They ought to call it an Eastermas Plant because it blooms near Easter sometimes.
I knew someone who had a Christmas Cactus for 20 to 25 years. If it survived, it should be about 40 years old by now. The stems were woody, it was so old. When in bloom it had at least 50 blossoms, what a show! Blossoms were red!
I’ve always done indoor gardening and used to have plants all over the house but now I keep a ‘sofa’ table near 2 adjacent picture windows with all the plants in one spot. Plants like it so far so good.
A visitor once asked me, “Nancy, how do you do it, Jennifer kills everything?” I laughted and replied that one has to water the plants and give some “Miracle Grow” on occasion. Sometimes they croak on me when hit with bugs so out they go. What fun and games. Used to make macramé hangers and pots in a ceramics course. More fun and games.
NR, my mother had one of those for decades. It would bloom before Christmas and again around Easter. I haven’t thought of a Christmas Cactus in a very long time.
Hey, Very Young Fella,
I like your sign….from Mum!
A sign for all that is right and true and good and kind.
Mum, made it to 99. My brother and I were there to visit her a month before she passed and she knew both of us. It was uplifting to say the least. As we live 2000 km from our original home.
@ 2:07 pm @ Yow Guy,
99 yo is something else. Longevity runs in families.
Imo, you should be known here as young-old white guy or for short, yow guy!
Bookmarked. Great site.
I am in Florida for the winter and listening to that tropical storm outside, howling wind and rain hitting the windows and skylight.
I might go back to Vermont in Feb for some ice fishing, if Biden loses, or he happens to win and doesn’t lock down the country.
My wife told me that I never include her in my pass time so I asked her to come ice fishing but she declined as she stated that sitting in a boat all day wasn’t her cup of tea.
Hugh, what bait do you use to fish for ICE????
Imagine what it would be like to clean one’s catch…..
The corrupted politicians and media would have you believe it is global crisis as the cause…notice how global warming keeps morphing as the evidence does not compute…
We’ve had plenty of global warming, err, climate change, in my part of southwestern Ontario. It was in the 20s on the weekend. Hubby and I snuck in some patio time at our local on Friday. In November!
Enjoy it while it lasts. What’s in Lake of the Woods (Regina yesterday) will be blowing through the next 48 hours. Calgary is -10 C, but blue skies post the weekend blow.
Does enjoying it while it lasts mean cleaning the carpets? That’s what I will be doing because I can open all the windows to accelerate drying time. Christmas planters for sale everywhere. Can’t do it while it’s 19 degrees.
Great Leader’s carbon taxes are working! We must double the carbon tax!
What do you mean “leaders”? They are marshmallow fellows to the media.
Reporter: Watch today, I’ll get Trudeau to do a cart wheel.
Editor: Great, try to get him to say he hates his white skin too while your at it…
Reporter: No problem.
Kamala Devi hasn’t even assumed office and yet has succeeded in rolling back global warming! Imagine how much she will attain when she becomes numero uno.
Dream big nightmares — er, dreams, comrades!
I can’t get out my front door this morning the drift is so deep but hopefully the side door will be less blocked, but then I’m retired and have a freezer full of food so I don’t have to go out any time soon. Somehow this new period of global warming seems a lot like a typical prairie winter that I grew up with. Perhaps the period of warming is over and the earth muffins just don’t want to admit it.
Money corrupts…they’re flim flam agents now…business as usual…suckering…ops…persuading the masses that taxing you deeper and deeper is good, while spending in idiotic ways.
Oh Canada!
Our Great Leader mentioned to his loyal, bought and paid for media this morning, that he is looking forward to talking to China Joe about global warming. I’m sure people in the Prairies are excited about that.
“Hewwo, Joe? How thoon can you canthew Keythtone?”
Beautiful sunny day here on southern Georgian Bay shoreline at 23C. My oak tree leaves are finally starting to fall with all others on the ground ready to rake before snow. Spent part of the day putting the motorbike away for the year.
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Calgary is getting socked with the wet white stuff right now.
I’m praying to get through today and tomorrow safely on these roads!
Then there’s the shoveling too, Alex B!