-=> Quoting Richard Webb to Nancy Backus on 13 Dec 11  13:52:35 <=-   
      
    NB>> Yeah, that was probably a bit cool to try to grill... and if the   
    NB>> wind picked up any more it might have been a bit raw...   
      
    RW> YEah and I really don't like to have to worry about an open   
    RW> flame getting taken where I don't want it while the charcoal burns   
    RW> down to cook on it. If I've got to stand over it and watch it due to   
    RW> high winds I'd rather not.    
      
   There is that too.  :)   
      
    NB>> I kinda like having a nice coating of snow for Christmas...  maybe   
    NB>> an inch or so... lacy trees and bushes, elegantly dressed for the   
    NB>> day...    
      
    RW> IT doesn't really matter to me, I can decorate my mind for   
    RW> the holidays with 70 degrees and blue skies just fine .   
    RW> Still remember hanging out at my cousin's in southern   
    RW> California one year on Christmas day.  I'm sitting in this   
    RW> patio swing, shorts on, cold can of beer in my hand, he's   
    RW> got shorts and sandals on and he says "but don't you miss   
    RW> being back home at Christmas, that world of white outside   
    RW> and ... "   
    RW> REmember he grew up an Iowa boy too.  I look at him and ask   
    RW> "If you msis it so bad why are you here?"   
       
   Lots of reasons why people aren't where they might be... ;)  I have a   
   friend here that usually is "dreaming of a GREEN Christmas"...  moving   
   somewhere where that might be a likelihood isn't an option for her,   
   though...   Besides, your cousin was probably just yanking your   
   chain...!     
      
    NB>> Ice isn't my cuppa, either...  :)   
      
    RW> NOpe, really have a strong dislike of it.  I drove a   
    RW> newspaper customer bats enough after one bad winter fighting his icy   
    RW> sidewalk and steps on the top of a hill to where before the next winter   
    RW> he decided he'd rather buy his at the store.  Making that dime a day   
    RW> walking along the cliff top which was his front yard on the ice to   
    RW> deliver his newspaper wasn't worth the agro to me.  I seriously detest   
    RW> ice underfoot.  One of the reasons I moved south.   
      
   I was never all that keen on it, but after breaking and dislocating my   
   ankle in '05 because of slipping on a pile of ice outside the church   
   door, I'm just that much more leery of it...   
      
    NB>> Last forecast I saw for here has the temps getting into the 50's   
    NB>> by the end of the week... with rain...  Just a little warm for   
    NB>> mid-December, I'd say...  :/   
      
    RW> YEp, I'd say so.  We're about normal for this time of year   
    RW> so far, maybe even in the precipitation department.   
      
   We actually got those warm temps... and now it's back to normal.. ;)    
   Even got a dusting of snow overnight.  Sun's coming out, though, so I   
   don't expect it to last too long this time... ;)   
      
    RW> I'd rather we get it gradually though isntead of the way we   
    RW> caught up on our moisture last spring around here.  I'm sure the folks   
    RW> in that Alabama corridor would rather get it gradually too.   
      
   Yeah... and up into the Hudson/Catskill/New England area as well.    
   Flooding's no fun at all...  and neither is draught conditions...   
      
   ttyl         neb   
      
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