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Skriven 2010-01-30 20:54:45 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 34073 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: lake effect  was: newspap
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Hi Nancy,

 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.

 NB> Not to worry... I'm periodically taking a day or two off from
 NB> answering just because the brain doesn't want to compute well enough
 NB> to say
 NB> anything intelligible... (G)  So, a delay here or there isn't noticed
 NB> too much... ;)

OK, we'll see how much the snow and sleet we got today afects
transmission.  Church is cancelled for tomorrow; the roads will be icy.
We'll spend some of the day doing homework.

 NB>  NB>> Thought so...  Spoils the joke, but people with cacti in their
 NB> systems, nor the access  NB>> to deep water that the "wild" desert
 NB> 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?

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

We saw a lot that had guy wires helping support them.  Where we lived,
it was just high enough in elevation that they didn't do well.  Saw some
once we got onto I-10 to Tucson but lots more in the stretch from Tucson
to Phoenix.  BTW, we've seen cell phone towers poorly disguised as
cactus out there & in/around Las Vegas--funny.


 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.

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

Don't we know it!  It's just about 20 degrees right now; the snow clouds
have blown off.

 NB>  NB>> When I was a kid, we lived for 4 years in Mississippi... in all
 NB> that  NB>> time it snowed ONCE.  Of course, everything shut down...
 NB> (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.

 NB> I know how to do... but no, we didn't... we just rolled up all the
 NB> snow in our yard into 3 big balls... and then couldn't lift them onto

OTOH, if you had grown up with snow every winter, you would have known
better. (G)

 NB> other to make a snowman so just turned them into snow "chairs"...
 NB> They lasted for a couple of weeks, if I remember right... long after
 NB> all the rest of the snow was gone... :)  I don't think we would have

Cute idea.  We carved caves out of drifts sometimes.

 NB> enough clean snow after we'd trampled all around in our initial glee
 NB> anyway...  ;)

We didn't try it today either; Steve shoveled a lot so if we get more,
he won't have as much to move.  I stayed inside and baked.

 NB> that took more fuss only once every few days.  NB>> Good question...
 NB> :)   I suspect we might just nosh on smaller meals  NB>> right along.
 NB>  And would the nights also be twice as long, so that we  NB>> could
 NB> 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

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

I get going best after noon (but am up before that) and can go to about
11 but really start to crash after that.  Mini munchies in the afternoon
& a bit after supper help.  The last one is usually about 10:30 so I can
take some meds.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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