OT - Jim - got your snow shovel?

I might get some tonight! what a PITA

It's not even Halloween! The weather here today was not nice: high winds and torrential rain, at times. The kids are worried that it won't clear before Friday, and I'm trying to figure out how many layers I can fit under their costumes, because it's not supposed to rain, but it is supposed to be cold. The challenges of a Canadian Halloween! :)

Louisa

LOL - that's what I remember of Halloween as a kid - bundled up against the cold - sometimes over the costume. Sault Ste Marie could be brutally cold at that time of the year.

MargW

It's been cold all the way down here in Magnoliaville (aka Atlanta). Cold to the point that there is frost on everything in the early morning. It must be *really* bad up north! At least we haven't had any precipitation -- that usually means an ice storm down here when it get so cold overnight. I was just asking DH last night if we are going to have any more "warmer" (meaning upper 60's F for a daytime high) weather or if winter was here **really** early this year. I DO hope it warms up a bit for Friday night so the kids don't freeze while out and I don't freeze when taking in the H'ween luminarias at the end of the evening!!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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I did a few years trick-or-treating in the Soo. Costumes were hardly worth the bother, unless they were huge enough to fit over the snow suit! Some kids had two costumes--one for indoor parties, and one to go trick-or-treating in.

Best wishes, Ericka

Louisa

This morning, in Central Florida, my outside temp got down to 34.4 F at

6.00 am. This is record breaking for Lakeland! I had gambled and put out 2 plants each of zucchini, crookneck squash and eggplant, in a tub..hoping for a late start to winter! I covered them with a sheet last night, and haven't been out to check them yet. I suspect my little eggplant, which was about the length of my little finger, is NOT happy. It was just an experiment, anyway!

The other tub with lettuce and radish will probably OK.

Gillian

Interesting - This was back in the late '50s. We lived on Pine St, and I went to Queen Elizabeth School. We moved when I was 12.

Lots of family in and around the city.

MargW

I notice that Jim hasn't chimed in yet - I wonder if he is in the part of Ottawa that is without power today?

MargW

It's Wednesday 29 Oct and my broadband connection is back up after disappearing on Saturday morning after a night of thunder & lightning; apparently something on mainland Orkney was zapped by lightning early on Saturday morning and most of the Northern Isles have had no broadband since then. It's been very cold for the last 3 or 4 days plus torrential hail & rain in a F9/F10 wind. However, this morning we had a clear blue sky, which lasted for most of the day, with hardly any wind and just an occasional cloud bringing a short, sharp shower. Apparently there's a lot of snow further south

Wow, wrong time, but I would have lived just around the block on Brown St., right at the end at the bottom of Easterday hill. I was about 8-10 years old while there, but that would have been in the early/mid 70s. I think I went to Washington Elementary.

Best wishes, Ericka

I just realized there was a Pine St in Soo, Michigan. We were on the other side :) We used to take the ferry across the river to shop on the US side. If you do a Google map request, you'll see that Pine St on the Canadian side is on the eastern side of town near Belleview Park.

MargW

Ahhhhh! I was on the US side. I was wondering where Queen Elizabeth School was! ;-) We would also go over to the other side of the river to shop and visit and such. How funny that both had Pine Streets.

Best wishes, Ericka

We have had a few snow flakes but nothing serious. Blame it on global warming. That is where our cows and bulls weighing 1/2 a ton are trying their best to emit as much methane gas and poop as a million or so buffalo/bison that were here years ago or the much earlier 120 ton dinosaur. Do the math folks.....

Fred,

you are on thin iceyou might as well dance.

Well if the methane gas hasn't seeped through the cracks and hampered your agro capablities do you have any idea what kind of veggies would grow best with dino poop as a natural fertilizer??

Fred,

you are on thin iceyou might as well dance.