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04-23-2009, 07:45 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 43N Latitude, NY
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Originally Posted by ziggy29
Forecast high for today: 91º.
Current temperature: 97º.
Summer has arrived. The chiggers and scorpions can't be far behind.
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Do I now know what a chigger is?
Trombiculidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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04-22-2009, 08:33 PM
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It is bleedin' 22 April and it is snowing again here in Cowtown, Alberta.
Dang. Can't figure out how to show you a photo of the front yard.
[IMG]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/All%20Users/Documents/My%20Pictures/Kodak%20Pictures/4-22-2009/100_0110.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/All%20Users/Documents/My%20Pictures/Kodak%20Pictures/4-22-2009/100_0110.jpg[/IMG]
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04-24-2009, 11:20 AM
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Spring is finally here. It is going to be in the mid 80's this weekend in Pa. It was a long winter.
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04-24-2009, 02:27 PM
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82F, breezy, blue skies, hear all sorts of birds.
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04-24-2009, 03:34 PM
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Location: North of Montana
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Big fluffy snowflakes melting as they hit the ground at a balmy 34 F.
Send us some chiggers and take the *&%^% snow and cold.
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04-24-2009, 05:11 PM
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05-08-2009, 04:31 PM
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Location: Texas Hill Country
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Originally Posted by freebird5825
Maybe this will help warm up our northern neighbors...
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Maybe this will.
Temperature: 98º.
Dew point: 71º.
Heat index: 106º.
No chiggers or scorpions yet, but summer is here.
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05-11-2009, 09:58 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
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This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
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05-13-2009, 07:34 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Feels like we have stepped back to March here in the PNW. Raining and 47F. Forecast calls for sun and 70's this weekend though.
DD
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05-14-2009, 07:37 AM
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05-14-2009, 09:22 AM
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Yesterday was great. Temps in the mid 60's, partly cloudy.
I was off of work and after we dropped off some excess stuff at Goodwill I took the bike out for a "follow-my-nose" ride and ended up in Mercersburg, PA via all the side roads - no interstates. There I saw a sign that said "McConnelsburg, 10 miles" so I went in that direction. It took me over a mountain that had a nice scenic overlook (sorry, no pictures, I forgot the camera) and I think that was the mountain where we got stuck in the snow on the way to Tyrone, PA one year. Or maybe it was the one where Dad ran the car out of gas at the top of the mountain and we coasted to a gas station at the bottom of the mountain - there was one there. Anyway, it sure looked familiar.
On the mountain road there were lots of signs that said "Trucks 20 mph" and on the way up the mountain I passed a couple of trucks going the other way and could smell brake linings burning when they went by.
Stopped at Mickey D's in McConnelsburg for some fries and set the GPS to find a way home (I have a handlebar mount for it) skipping the interstates and on the way home was tempted to go via Greencastle but there was still the lawn to mow which I had promised to do so I went on home and did that. I did cheat a little and went the last ten miles on I-81, the bike cruises nicely at 75 mph. (WV speed limit is 70.)
Just a really nice day.
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05-14-2009, 10:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Snow again today!
Global warming my a$$.
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East Coasters - Heads Up!
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05-16-2009, 06:37 PM
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05-18-2009, 09:12 AM
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It is the middle of May
And it was 29 F earlier today
Right here in SW PA.
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05-18-2009, 09:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ls99
It is the middle of May
And it was 29 F earlier today
Right here in SW PA.
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I hear ya.
Freeze warnings last week, last night, and tonight. My tomato and sweet pepper plants are safe inside, with all other outside plants gathered together and covered with a painter's clear plastic dropcloth.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr 
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05-18-2009, 12:39 PM
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After thunderboomers and a light show Saturday night, and torrential rain Saturday night and Sunday, it is cooler, clear and sunny. But Saturday night there was a twister about a mile up the road from me, towards the lake. They still aren't sure if it was a tornado or a water spout or nonexistent, although some witnesses said it was on land, a tornado. Here's a photo: http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/sli...86&nextimage=9
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06-10-2009, 07:03 PM
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Very dangerous storms headed our way. Hang on TX forum members...it could get ugly....
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06-10-2009, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by bbbamI
Very dangerous storms headed our way. Hang on TX forum members...it could get ugly....
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Maybe up north. Down here it's dry and highs up near 100 with absolutely no break in sight for the next 7-10 days or more...
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06-11-2009, 07:32 AM
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Rain, rain. Yuck. I did get a 60-mile bike ride in yesterday morning but it's going to be raining all day today.
Note to bbbami: BIL sent an E-mail in which he told of being asked by a woman from Texas what the machine was in the back of his pickup, since she had never seen one. It was a snow thrower he was taking to his brother's in PA.
This hits on what has become an old family joke, since I'd said for years that my original "retirement plan" was to put the snow thrower in the pickup and drive south until people started asking what it was.
So my question is this: Is it true that people in Texas have no use for snow throwers?
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06-11-2009, 07:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Walt34
So my question is this: Is it true that people in Texas have no use for snow throwers?
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I don't know about Texas (though it is a huge state with all sorts of weather, depending on where you are).
Frank just explained to me last week that snow throwers look sort of like lawnmowers and not like leaf blowers. Who knew?  Never saw one as they are useless here in Louisiana.
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