OT - Snow, wind, snow, snow and RAIN!!

I know you'll forgive me, KK, but the difference in our language understanding or misunderstanding is such fun to me on this group. For example, I'm told that you better say 'Missouree' or 'Missourah' depending on which side of Missouri you're on. I have no idea which side of Missouri I'm on or which side you're on. However. "Getting buff" here in the Swamp means getting quite naked. I do hope you're not doing that shoveling 4 feet of snow. We know just nothing about shoveling snow and will yield to your best judgment. Polly

OMG LOL!! Oh it does NOT mean gettin nekkid!! Buff. Toned. Muscles. In shape. In the buff means you are buck naked. Getting buff means you will look good nekkid!

~KK in BC~ who is NOT gonna be nekkid in temps of -20C ( -4F ) I am a tough Canadian but NOT THAT TOUGH!!

: > ARGH!!! : >

: > Things just aren't good around here. My husband had his vehicle stolen, : > they : > wrote it off and gave us a pittance, now we are down to one small truck : > that : > wont even hold all of us and is pretty useless in the snow. My FIL had a : > heart attack just over a week ago, they had to do the balloon thingy and : > then gave him a pace maker so my husband is as I type, on a bus down to : > Calgary to look after him for a few days. (over 12 hours on the bus) My : > son's girlfriends' grandfather passed away suddenly so when they were up : > here visiting they only got a few hours to visit :-( and they had to rush : > home on the bus. : >

: > Do you think I have had my fair share of bad luck yet? LOL : >

: > Ok, just needed a bit of a rant. Whew!! I feel better now :-D : >

: > And to add just a bit of ON topic here: : > Happy dances to all of you and your wonderful quilty-ness! I am still not : > able to sew due to the mass chaos happening (I did however get most of the : > sewer issue put behind me now LOL) but reading the group keeps me on track : > and wanting to get my butt in my sewing chair and hear the soothing purr : > of : > my old Kenmore. : >

: > ~KK in BC~ who is also job hunting... wish me luck LOL I think I need some : > GOOD stuff now ;-) : >

: >

: >

: >

: :

Thank you, KK. Just checking. It was so cold here (how cold was it?) that we had to put on shoes to walk down to the mail box. Less than 70°. Polly

Fingers crossed that you have now turned the corner! Here's to all good news from here on.

Gosh, as much as I envy you the wonderful weather, I am sorry everything has hit you all at once! Quilt away your problems! Musicmaker

Hi Kelly Wow, you do get extremes don't you! As another Canadian who knows the joys of snow shovelling, I can empathize to a degree. We only got about 8 inches of the white stuff and that was enough as it was so heavy and wet. Sunday and Monday we had above freezing temps and no precipitation, and this morning we have a real chinook wind blowing through. I've been watching the news reports from southern B.C. and wondering when their rain is going to get here. As snow I would imagine. We have had an unusual amount of fog here, and now that the sun is up I can see it coming in off the mountains yet again. Your husband is down in my neck of the woods now, so he will get to enjoy some of this fog. I am an hour NW of Calgary, closer to the mountains so our weather is sometimes a bit different.

Polly, I love your outlook on life! I find the use of words, changes by generation as well as by where you live. I swear some of my grandchildren speak a different language some days. I often have to look to their mother to explain the new use of terms.... the most recent word that caught my attention was "pimp". Apparently, it is something good to be "pimp" these days.

Hugs to all. Marilyn in foggy Alberta, Canada

. We : have had an unusual amount of fog here, and now that the sun is up I can see : it coming in off the mountains yet again. : Your husband is down in my neck of the woods now, so he will get to enjoy : some of this fog. I am an hour NW of Calgary, closer to the mountains so our : weather is sometimes a bit different. :

So I heard about FOG! The bus was almost an hour late and the D.O.T. had to escort a truck and the bus into Calgary since the fog was so thick they couldn't see where they were going! I used to live in Cochrane, tried to live in Airdre but there weren't many places affordable to rent then, and in the end came home ;-) We never saw fog that thick in the time we lived down there! < but we DID have a train run through the back yard>

If the temps stay the way they are down there you wont get the snow, but you could get a good dose of rain for sure. Weird weather patterns lately. ~KK in BC~

Oy! Sending lots of good thoughts your direction.....

Oh dear - here pimp is someone who lives off the earnings of 'ladies of the night'!

Me too! that's what I mean about generational. apparently up and down have changed meanings too. My kids used to use an expression such as "up with....." as being positive. now the kids say they are "down with ...." indicating positive. That's when I really catch on that I'm not 21 anymore! I'm thinking it's just safer to stay with dictionary definitions!

Marilyn in the fog has lifted now Sunny, Alberta Canada