Subj : weather was: food option To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Oct 27 2019 09:30:00 Hi Nancy! NB>> Replying from the Pond, 11 October at about 11:00am.... BM> Too bad wasn't November: then could be 11 11 @ 11! NB> True... And wasn't that the exact time of the Armistace being NB> signed, as well...? but October it was... ;) Well it was November (11th month) 11, 1918. ...The "11 a.m." did come into play with the time it went into effect Paris time. ...Now if we used Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine maybe could have changed that to October 11, 1912 and 1 p.m.: 10 11 12 13! ..."Say good night, Gracie." 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. NB> It is Fall, after all... ;) Finally, here at home, we have trees NB> turning red and yellow, some orange... and yes, the winds have NB> been picking up some... When we went back up to the Pond earlier NB> this week, most of the leaves had dropped there... up in Canada, NB> where we went to drop him off at the Montreal Airport, the colors NB> were more like what I'd seen last week at the Pond... We finally took the air conditioners out yesterday afternoon. Has been cool enough to not need them for some time but usually warms up for that period of Indian Summer; either none this year or snuck by being tepid rather than warm. And then it drizzled - so 'good timing'. As I said in an interim message, the trees are turning orange. Too early to see if changed much from yesterday: sometimes the day after a rain the leaves will do a sudden change. As for the trip to drop your son off, sad to send him off but at least a good view. Did he get his Jeep (?) fixed? 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! NB> Valid reasons... and then, one does find some other reasons of NB> convenience.... but still it's for one's own convenience, not for NB> the world to connect to one... ;) Right: I can see both sides. We're home most of the time so keeping the landline makes sense. OTOH when away from home and somebody wants to contact one of us/us they get to talk to the answering machine. 99.9% of the stuff can wait until we get back. OTOH for others it makes more sense to be able to have constant contact. As you said, all boils down to convenience and personal preferences. 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. NB> I've known of 'townies' being more likely to pull one over on NB> less solid reasons... even, on occasion, to try to provoke one to NB> commit a violation... possibly, in their case, it was to make a NB> quota... other than that, though, one just mostly needs to not NB> attract attention.. :) Yes, I wouldn't say there aren't quotas in some jurisdictions, or "over- zealousness"; small town close to here is 'notorious' for adhering to the speed limit: 27 in a 25 zone could get one pulled over type of thing. (They're not that picky but you don't want to be doing 30!) 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. NB> That's the sort of weather we're getting here at home, now... NB> definitely slipping down into pre-winter.... But at least, some NB> days have been nice and sunny, even if a little cool... The NB> hooded sweater is back in regular use, whether sunny or rainy... NB> ;) There's a chance of snow flurries next Tuesday (October 29) and rather cold on Halloween. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Halloween Definitions: Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .