Round two of Batten Down the hatches

What a winter you're having !!! We too are having weird weather but nothing like what's going on up north.

Stay warm and dry and try not to get mad at the kids when they're acting stir crazy.

Lucille>

Damn, they said snow tomorrow, guess it's coming. It was lovely today.

Yep - you're getting it too!

No need to sound so pleased lol We were trying to figure out whether we could play bridge tomorrow morning before the snow - such an inconvenience ! I hate snow, I am willing it to verge further north and hit that witch in NB !

We had 1/10th of rain today.....does that count??? Actually we need several very heavy soakings, because the waterlevels are so low, resulting in reduced water in the Aquifer.

I had hoped for a lot of rain today. On the flip side we have workmen coming on Wednesday morning to replace ALL the carpet in the house with ceramic or porcelain tile( forget which name was which). That is about

The guy says it will take about a week. His crew will move all the furniture around; the bad thing is that all the bookshelves, cabinets, curios etc have to be empty!! I have spent most of today taking care of the big area of the house; the living, dining and kitchen rectangle.

After that they will do the master bedroon end (easy to clear) and the "messy end". One room is all Jim's radios, shop, tools, wires, books etc.Mine is stash, filecabinets, auctions, bookshelves of albums and more stuff!!

We have our neighborhood yard sale after the job is completed ( if they are on time), and I hope to get rid of lots of "stuff".

Gillian

NO IT DOES NOT COUNT - deliberately shouting lol

I will think of you. The men came Saturday and replaced the hardwood from diningroom to windows in livingroom. Tomorrow the head honcho whom I dislike intensely will be here about 8 to remove taping etc then I can replace furniture. (He is always trying to get the better of me lol )

Then Thursday they come to install the blinds on the newly installed

So good luck, I have found all is not what all appears to be lololol In addition to that, we have snow ! Only you people in Florida see any benefit to that !

No she isn't. NBC News says "the highlighted area" and miraculously the highlighting stopped at the Maine/Canada border, so obviously NS is safe, right? ;)

Nope, both Upper Canada and the US conveniently forget that NS/NB/PEI/ Nfland exist - I am not clear what we need to do to be acknowledged. Together we are quite a body of the continent, just forgotten.

For once I agree with you Lucretia - once you leave Quebec, there's nothing more apparently going east up here in Canada. Well I guess Ontarians and Westerners forget Quebec too - and I can't blame them for that, but we Maritimers are here and bloody proud to be here - even with snow. Calm down me dear, we'll probably get the brunt of this storm too - just makes me stitch more and cook more - nothing puts me in the mood more to cook up a bunch of goodies than a good storm. Then sitting down with a nice glass of wine and stitching while the wind is growling outside - nice .... as long as the power stays on. :-) One thing that bugs me is when Americans say (like Pat Sajack) 'oh you're from Toronto, Canada' - grrrrrrr .. it's Toronto, Ontario, people. Geesh Oh, did I just have a little rant? :-P

Sharon (N.B.) (the witch from N.B.)

I have to laugh at that, Sharon. When I was young, and heard American announcers say, Paris, France... or Rome, Italy...etc I went spastic. Then I realised that many towns in the states are named after towns in other parts of the world.

I grew up in Uxbridge, Middlesex in England. There is also an Uxbridge Mass and an Uxbridge, Ontario.

So suck it in, kiddo!!

Only the worthy are copied.

(Yup I hear Sheena's response..flattery, hmmm????)

And, conversely, I get the BBC Magazine, and they list letters as coming from "Jackson, United States", which gives me no clue whether it's Jackson, Mississippi; Jackson, California; or any of a dozen other Jacksons.

I remember waaaay back in the 50s we were in London and my mother wrote a letter to her mother in Plymouth (England) but only had an airmail envelope with her. We didn't particularly think anything of that, it was clearly marked Devon.

Off goes the letter but my grandmother never received it until several months later where it was clearly stamped Plymouth, Mass. and another one I forget where in the USA, then sent on to a couple of Australian ones and one in NZ. There somebody seemingly noticed the "Devon" part and figured it out.

Was trying for laconic and New England -ish

Blame my daughter who wanted to go sledding or DS who wanted to no school

It's just working out fine - the snow will not arrive until lunch time lol

When I was in Vienna (Austria) in 1983, I regularly received letters two or three months after my mother had posted them from Wilmington, DE, USA. They were invariably marked "received, Sydney."

Elizabeth

Well, I'm in Ontario and I certainly don't ignore the east coast. I'm addicted to the Weather Network, and love to see the maps showing where the weather is coming from and going to. (Kathy's California weather crosses the mountains, becomes a Colorado low, which sweeps across the plains, up the Ohio valley, into Ontario and then east out over New Brunswick and Newfoundland to finally die in the North Atlantic) However, I do agree about the US stations. Even weather systems which start in the US, continue through part of Canada and end up in New England have a great gaping hole in them as they pass the border.

While I agree that Pat Sajak and the other American hosts are annoying when they say things like Toronto, Canada, it's because many Americans are not aware of our provinces. I even had to correct a good friend (formerly an Ohian, now a Pennsylvanian) who referred to them as "providences' - and she had lived relatively near the Canadian border all her life.

Our weather today is relatively calm - little wind and light snow. I'm going to finish cleaning up after last nights dinner party for good friends, check my favourite websites, and then settle down for some stitching. The DH is off to his part-time retirement job, so I have the house to myself.

MargW

Lol, went to the Royal Bank to get an Australian dollar money order and the very young girl trotted off, eventually came back and said it would need to be X number of Euros. Nope says I, they use Australian dollars, not Euros. Very patronizing says, 'No dear, they changed to Euros last year' so I sez "I am not dear and they did not change, get the manager please" When the manager says Aus Dollars, we find she thought Australia and Austria were the same thing, that Austria was short for Australia. I just said to the manager let's not get into what they don't teach anymore at school lol

I had a laugh at the 1000 Islands crossing into NY State. He asked where we were from, NS, where's that ? He was young so I said take the I95 north bound, turn right at Calais and right again, you'll get there.

You just expect so much learning at our modern, up to date schools. Geography is boring, so why bother.