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Skriven 2010-01-29 15:10:31 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 33903 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: lake effect  was: newspap
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 25 Jan 10  22:41:23 <=-

 RH> I've taken some time off to finish January Term work.  Don't be
 RH> surprised if this (and other messages) don't get posted for another
 RH> day or so.  I've got to finish a journal, then edit it before
 RH> submitting it later this week.  Second semester starts on Thursday with
 RH> an evening class for both of us.

Not to worry... I'm periodically taking a day or two off from answering
just because the brain doesn't want to compute well enough to say
anything intelligible... (G)  So, a delay here or there isn't noticed
too much... ;) 
 
 NB>> Thought so...  Spoils the joke, but people with cacti in their front
 NB>> yards in Phoenix have to water them when it doesn't rain, or they look
 NB>> very sick.  I guess they don't have the root systems, nor the access
 NB>> to deep water that the "wild" desert ones have...

 RH> Cactus do have very deep roots but it also take a long time to
 RH> establish them.  If the front yard sauguaro is one that was taken
 RH> (illegally) from the desert, it has to re-establish a root system and
 RH> will need lots of water.  Did you know they don't start growing their
 RH> arms until they are at least 75 years old?

I'd heard that, yes.  :)  When we were visiting our son out there, we
saw some setups that the poor cactus hadn't a chance of even developing
(or re-establishing) a proper deep root system... 

 NB>> but I do like the changing seasons, and it isn't nearly as cloudy as
 NB>> people like to make it out to be, either.  :)   I figure that if the
 NB>> sun peeks through even a little that it can't count as a day without
 NB>> sun. ;)

 RH> We've had grey days that have been warm and sunny days that have been
 RH> cold this winter.  Another one of the latter is forecast for tomorrow.

The clouds can hold the warmth in closer to the ground... acting
somewhat as a greenhouse...   Clear nights are especially notorious for
letting all the warmth get away... ;)

 RH> The main reason I don't like cold is that it aggrivates my asthma.  By
 RH> the same token, hot humid days do also.

True.  You can't win either way... 
 
 NB>> When I was a kid, we lived for 4 years in Mississippi... in all that
 NB>> time it snowed ONCE.  Of course, everything shut down... (G)  We had
 NB>> to enjoy it while we could.  ;)

 RH> Yes, did you make snow ice cream then?  Basically, fill a large bowl
 RH> with clean snow, stir in some cream, sugar and vanilla until well
 RH> mixed, then enjoy.  The hard part is findng enough clean snow these
 RH> days. 

I know how to do... but no, we didn't... we just rolled up all the snow
in our yard into 3 big balls... and then couldn't lift them onto each
other to make a snowman so just turned them into snow "chairs"...  They
lasted for a couple of weeks, if I remember right... long after all the
rest of the snow was gone... :)  I don't think we would have found
enough clean snow after we'd trampled all around in our initial glee
anyway...  ;)

 RH>> I hear you there. I still tire very easily; the oncologist said that's
 RH>> something I'll always have to deal with from the radiation.  If we had
 RH>> days that were twice as long, would we have twice the number of meals
 RH>> to cook/eat/clean up after?  If so, I'd simplify my cooking for most of
 RH>> them, having something that took more fuss only once every few days.
 NB>> Good question...  :)   I suspect we might just nosh on smaller meals
 NB>> right along.   And would the nights also be twice as long, so that we
 NB>> could rest these tired bodies of ours...?  ;)

 RH> Probably the nights would be about half again as long as they are now.
 RH> There are some of us who get a lot of work done at night instead of
 RH> the day; you know that nights now don't (usually) seem to be as long as
 RH> days.

I know a number of people who try to make the days longer by using a
large chunk of the night to try to function...  If I work through the
night, I need to make the day my "night"... candles have a limited
number of cuts before they just melt without even burning... (G)  (As
in, I cut my candle in two so I could burn it at 4 ends...)

ttyl     neb

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