Re: Happiness is

That said,

> there are many other issues I have with McCaine. His love for and > hugging of Bush is enough. Then the nukular came out. I was done.

She said nukular, but you can't even get his name right. No E at the end, Vic.

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val189
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Why - to look ignorant? You have succeeded in that effort, along with display of your vast knowledge of geography, anthropology, logic, erudition...........why not just cool it and end the discussion. Yer licked, lady.

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val189

I can forgive them their ignorance of daily life in Alaska but SUVs (4- wheel drive vehicles) and snowmobiles are their *necessities* for travel in that terrain, as they are in most snow-covered regions of the world. Since the money is spent on items for every-day living, that money is *not* available for traveling. Keeping in mind that resident licenses are *much* cheaper than non-resident, a moose provides a *lot* of meat for a family, which could be a necessity for them.

Not a Palin advocate or supporter in any way, shape or form, but I do know winter travel!

Joan

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Joan E.

Hey Joan This morning I picked up a car seat that plugs into the cigarette lighter--65% off at Canadian Tire!! Now if I can just get a steering wheel cozy knit!! Bring it on, winter.

Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

My new car has remote start! oh boy, those cold morning with 6 AM hockey just got a little better

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

You mean the old green pick-up has passed on??? It so reminded me of mine. I loved it.

Gill

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Gill Murray

Most absopositilutely! I can add layers to keep warm but I can only take so many layers off and would still be hot! :) And there are no forest fires (occasional grass fires) or Santa Ana winds and very little pollution (with the wide open spaces it all blows away).

Joan

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Joan E.

You mean a car seat heater???? DS would like to know about that! Me, I have leather seats so mine already has the heaters. I also have a remote starter and have had one for years. DH was one of the first in this area to install them in vehicles (he used to be a mechanic). Yes, I'm spoiled...kind of...it's an older car. :)

Joan

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Joan E.

It was getting worse and worse mileage and ever since it ejected a spark plug, the engine was doing funny things. Besides, DS was having an awful time trying to shift it and DH wasn't much impressed when he figured out the clutch was going too. We donated it to a charity that will fix it up for some one in need.

I now have a Subaru Outback wagon - bought it used with 23K on it. Runs like a charm. Minor issue with the stereo; it starts scanning randomly. Not good when you're trying to listen to a traffic report or someone needs her pump up music. ;) So, I'll be spend Tuesday AM getting a new stereo under warranty. Maybe I can finish that scarf.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

OH my, I remember the first time I encountered a seat heater. I was car pooling with another engineer and since we all lived so close, we'd just pick each other up.

Cold, cold winter morning, I jump in and nearly jump right back out. The seat is BURNING HOT. Not only wasn't I expecting that, he'd had it running since he left the house. It was so hot I felt like the back of my thighs were burned.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

I don't remember if I ever turned on the heater in this car, which was born and raised in Florida. I did use the defrosters a couple of times, but even that doesn't get used very much. It's easier to just turn the air conditioner up and do all the windows at the same time. I probably should test it just to see if it works. lol

Come on down and feel the heat.

Lucille

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Lucille

The front seats in my Discovery have electric heaters but the passengers in the back have to do without. The front seats get nicely warm and not too hot, the air-conditioning is a boon in these damp, wintery mornings.

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Bruce Fletcher (remove denture

DH's car has seat heaters in back - but there must be a passenger in the seat or you risk blowing out the circuit.

C
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Cheryl Isaak

We call those "bun warmers."

r,d,h,

sue

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Susan Hartman

Bacon cookers!

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Cheryl Isaak

You mean a car seat heater???? DS would like to know about that! Me, I have leather seats so mine already has the heaters. I also have a remote starter and have had one for years. DH was one of the first in this area to install them in vehicles (he used to be a mechanic). Yes, I'm spoiled...kind of...it's an older car. :)

Yes. They say it is the small daily annoyances that stress you out, not the big crises, which you can usually rise to meet. I really do like winter, I don't have a garage at home or a plug-in at work, and plonking down onto a frozen car seat that feels like concrete, and holding on to a frozen steering wheel are definitely daily annoyances, and I find I stay cold for hours afterward. I also bought a seat heater for DD, who between teaching and coaching often spends 10 hrs at school--a warm seat for her drive home, since a hug from Mum isn't possible. Still thinking about that steering wheel cozy--I have this pink eyelash yarn, which if it didn't exactly warm the wheel would certainly lift my spirits! Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

I want the pattern for the steering wheel cozy.... Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

I don't have a pattern---yet. Google project for tonight! But it shouldn't be hard. i was thinking of the leather ones--basically a tube of leather that you lace on, allowing for the different circumferences of wheels, and where the spokes to the centre join. So I thought that knitting a tube wide enough to cover my wheel, and long enough to go all the way around it, would work. (unfortunately, my cunning plan won't allow for Hello Kitty or some similar pattern which would annoy DD when she drives my car.) I would have to sew it on, which is why I am thinking I should do this now while it is still warm enough to spend 20 min in the car with a bodkin. Most of the commerical ones I see are rounds of fluffy material with elastic to provide for the sizing issues.

My car is purple (her name is Prunella) so fuschia eyelash yarn would look...... interesting.

Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

Our car is 'organza' (a sort of metallic light-baby-poo-beige colour). Her name is 'The Jewel'. She doesn't need a car-seat heater: she lives in Australia.

However all this talk of bun-warmers etc has prompted me to write about my own problem. I would *dearly* love an alternative to the sticky-tape effect that you get when you park your dainty little buns (in shorts) on vinyl seat covers! See, we have two yard swings and mine is 'upholstered' in good ol' sixties vinyl with loud blue and white daisies printed all over. When I've sat on it for a while, my bum gets stuck to the vinyl causing me enormous grief and pain as I attempt to stand up. DH laughs at this most cruelly (his swing has green and white striped fabric covers, so he doesn't suffer as I do). I'm too lazy to find fabric and make less sticky tapey covers and so... Hnnnnh!

Lately, another wrinkle in the whole swing-sitting thing is that our dog (Miss Alice) has found she can actually crawl her way up into the swing when I'm sitting on it and eventually worm her way into my lap (what's left of it). Sigh. Bang goes my relaxing half-hour in the Happy Place as Alice phlumps on top of me and breathes her dreadful doggy breath in my face! Recently, Miss Alice has been attempting to get into the swing on her own. She hasn't succeeded thus far because the swing swings away from her when she jumps. I can see her pointy little doggy mind ticking over about this and the day's not far off when my Happy Place will have been hijacked by a *dog*! Hnnnnnh!

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Trish Brown

"Trish Brown" wrote

stuff about sticky buns that had nothing to do with pastry.

The sticky vinyl thing happens here with car seats too, and besides, the vinyl gets sooo hot in the sun, you also run the risk of difficult to explain back of the thigh burns.

Have you thought of a nice terry-cloth covered sit-upon of some kind??

And BTW, best of luck to Miss Alice with her swing conumdrum. My DD's shepherd/pyrennees cross Remy (aka Mr. Puppy) also likes to join one wherever one is sitting, but seems at not quite 1 1/2 years to have no idea where his body begins and ends, especially his rump. He seems to intend to sit beside you, but spills over considerably. He thinks this can be made up for by giving kisses.

Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

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