Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Oct 26 2019 18:50:08 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 16-Oct-2019 10:52 <=- NB>> Replying from the Pond, 11 October at about 11:00am.... BM> Too bad wasn't November: then could be 11 11 @ 11! True... And wasn't that the exact time of the Armistace being signed, as well...? but October it was... ;) NB>>> It is a peaceful place... :) I'll be back up there next week, for NB>>> my Fall Board meeting, no doubt with a passel of packets to answer.. BM>> Just somethings to keep you from being bored! NB>> Yup... did end up with three packets each from Tiny's and Doc's (most NB>> of my Fido echos) to bring with me to answer at my leisure... :) I NB>> can look out the windows and see the Pond and the woods across... the NB>> deciduous trees are pretty much at peak at the moment, so nice colors NB>> of red, orange and yellow, with the evergreens still green amongst NB>> them... when the wind is still, the Pond is like a mirror reflecting NB>> them... Right now it's sunny and there's not much rippling, so one NB>> can see the reflection pretty nicely... :) BM> LIS in an earlier message the leaves are ready to start turning but BM> still a green -- yellowish-green as opposed to the deep green of BM> Summer. Windy here - 16 MPH and they're predicting closer to 25-30 MPH BM> this afternoon. It is Fall, after all... ;) Finally, here at home, we have trees turning red and yellow, some orange... and yes, the winds have been picking up some... When we went back up to the Pond earlier this week, most of the leaves had dropped there... up in Canada, where we went to drop him off at the Montreal Airport, the colors were more like what I'd seen last week at the Pond... BM>> LIS some time before, people are surprised as nerdy as I am with all BM>> the computers I don't have a laptop and tablet and cell phone and BM>> whatever other portable devices there are with me at all times. Time BM>> and place. I don't need to be constantly connected. NB>> People are even more surprised with Richard, who doesn't even own a NB>> cell phone... has a couple different laptops, though, to lug around NB>> when the circumstance dictates... :) I don't need constant connection NB>> either, though I do generally have my cellphone with me and on when NB>> I'm away from home... BM> I purchased a cell phone mainly for potential emergency needs: driving BM> to work (the store) in the early-early morning hours in winter when BM> the roads could be potentially slippery and little traffic even though BM> in the city. Another point was my route even though a four-lane BM> street- highway was bounded by lots of mini ravines -- don't know what BM> properly called but steep ten- to thirty foot drop offs past the BM> breakdown lane. Not too unusual to see a car in there. Fortunately BM> wasn't me/us! Valid reasons... and then, one does find some other reasons of convenience.... but still it's for one's own convenience, not for the world to connect to one... ;) BM>> Yes, I was surprised when I read the 'any tint': seems like the police BM>> would like to see inside for their protection. I think I told you a BM>> few cars ago I did have one with darker-tinted windows; the joke was BM>> I'd be pulled over for them but never was - for anything. NB>> Generally one doesn't get pulled over unless one somehow attracts the NB>> police's attention in some other way... then they look for things to NB>> charge you with... BM> Right: contrary to the popular notion of a ticket quota I haven't BM> heard of anyone being pulled over without a valid reason like speeding BM> or going through a stop sign or red light. I've known of 'townies' being more likely to pull one over on less solid reasons... even, on occasion, to try to provoke one to commit a violation... possibly, in their case, it was to make a quota... other than that, though, one just mostly needs to not attract attention.. :) NB>>> And then I was down in Wake Forest NC, where the highs were in NB>>> the 90s everyday, and the lows barely into the 70s... apparently NB>>> they are still having that sort of temps, at least thru today... NB>>> and we are barely into the 50s for highs today... And when I NB>>> go north, it will be similar... definitely will need a different NB>>> set of clothes for the next trip... BM>> As I alluded to above, it has been cooler here this week. 51ø BM>> currently and only supposed to get to the upper 60's this afternoon. BM>> Pretty much the same for next week. NB>> That's the sort of weather we've been having, both at home and up NB>> here... low's here have been in the 30s... thankfully I have good NB>> blankets here, and the electric baseboard heating to keep the chill NB>> off... :) Camp's probably at about 60 downstairs... less than that NB>> upstairs where the bed is... Today's high is supposed to be near 70, NB>> my son informed me... ;) BM> We haven't been out of 50's in a couple of weeks -- mid-60's is warm! BM> Earlier this week woke up to juuuuust above freezing. That's the sort of weather we're getting here at home, now... definitely slipping down into pre-winter.... But at least, some days have been nice and sunny, even if a little cool... The hooded sweater is back in regular use, whether sunny or rainy... ;) ttyl neb .... To write with a broken pencil is pointless. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .