-=> Quoting Richard Webb to Nancy Backus on 18 Dec 11  00:39:10 <=-   
      
    NB>> a friend here that usually is "dreaming of a GREEN Christmas"...    
    NB>> moving somewhere where that might be a likelihood isn't an option   
    NB>> for her, though...   Besides, your cousin was probably just yanking   
    NB>> your chain...!     
      
    RW> I'm sure he was.  But, he ended up marrying a gal from   
    RW> eastern Canada, her parents owned a plantation of sugar   
    RW> maples, and he migrated up there to run that operation for   
    RW> them, learned to tap trees and boil down that maple sugar.   
      
   Guess he gets plenty of snow now.. :)   
      
    RW> That same cousin and I put a tobogan through the ice on a   
    RW> creek one fine Saturday afternoon when we were both   
    RW> teenagers .   
      
   Treasured memory, I'm sure...     
      
    RW> NOpe, we're pretty much normal, our low this morning 36 F   
    RW> which was the high for MInneapolis.  Brisk and windy   
    RW> yesterday when we ran errands, i didn't bring along gloves   
    RW> or a head covering and wished I had when I had to get out to pump gas.   
      
   Pumping gas always does seem to make the weather seem worse... breezes   
   feel like gales, and always seems to feel at least 10 degrees colder   
   than it felt when one went out to the car...    
      
    RW> Today isn't bad though, winds are back to 10-15 mph, temps in the 50's   
    RW> when I went out to take some garbage out this afternoon.   
       
   Yeah, we've still been having that yo-yo weather here, too.  It was into   
   the 50s today again, too...   
      
    RW> YEah I know, and we've got both extremes.  A cattle   
    RW> rancher/radio buddy of mine from central Texas is crying for moisture,   
    RW> so much so that he's moved some of his stock up to some land they own   
    RW> in NEw MExico, which before they just leased out to an oil drilling   
    RW> operation, but now he's running cattle on some of it, and he thinned   
    RW> down his herd a bit too even though he wasn't real happy with the   
    RW> prices he got so as to maintain a sustainable herd for the future but   
    RW> cull the excess he couldn't support with the water resources available   
    RW> to him.    
      
   I heard of some of that happening on the news, too.  Shame, really.     
      
   ttyl         neb   
      
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