Subj : weather was: food option To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Nov 01 2019 10:07:00 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 signed, NB>> as well...? but October it was... ;) BM> Well it was November (11th month) 11, 1918. ...The "11 a.m." did come BM> into play with the time it went into effect Paris time. NB> That's what I thought I remembered... :) I barely remember being taughht about the 11 a.m. detail. BM> ...Now if we used Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine maybe could have BM> changed that to October 11, 1912 and 1 p.m.: 10 11 12 13! ..."Say BM> good night, Gracie." NB> Of course, that's before the war even started.... so one could NB> have avoided the whole unpleasantness...... That probably would have been nice, though I tend to believe things happen (or don't happen) for a reason. 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 been NB>> picking up some... When we went back up to the Pond earlier this NB>> week, most of the leaves had dropped there... up in Canada, where we NB>> went to drop him off at the Montreal Airport, the colors were more NB>> like what I'd seen last week at the Pond... BM> We finally took the air conditioners out yesterday afternoon. Has BM> been cool enough to not need them for some time but usually warms up BM> for that period of Indian Summer; either none this year or snuck by BM> being tepid rather than warm. And then it drizzled - so 'good timing'. NB> Or maybe it is still yet to come... after the early snow melts... NB> ;) We don't have any air conditioners to take out, the screens NB> are still in the windows in case we want to open windows later in NB> the season still... Well it is supposed to get to 40ø this afternoon, so after the 24ø earlier this morning just might feel like 'Open Those Windows!' weather!! OTOH they're also predicting rin this afternoon, later possibly some flurries. Ah, just stay bundled up inside! Screens here are the self-store type. BM> As I said in an interim message, the trees are turning orange. Too BM> early to see if changed much from yesterday: sometimes the day after a BM> rain the leaves will do a sudden change. NB> I've not seen any sudden changes this year, but things are NB> proceding apace.... Sudden change here was that whiteness! The big concern before the Halloween Day Snowstorm was with the trees still having most of their leaves if the snow weight would cause branches to break. Seemed we had more problems last Monday with the wind and snow flurries than the snowstorm yesterday. (And 'we' being the local area, not us personally.) Looking out this morning the leaves that did turn orange look to have a brownish tinge, though that could be due to it being overcast out, so no sun to spotlight. BM> As for the trip to drop your son off, sad to send him off but at least BM> a good view. Did he get his Jeep (?) fixed? NB> He got his Jeep fixed sufficiently for him to get around up at NB> the North Country, and near the end of the stay, he was feeling NB> comfortable enough with it to have considered a trip down to NB> Rochester, but at that point didn't have the time to spare for NB> the trip.... It now is covered with a tarp, parked for the NB> winter (and however much longer to when he actually gets back)... NB> Hopefully, there will be fewer issues next time than he had this NB> trip... :) Hopefully! BTW, did you get the roof to the shed/garage fixed? Else you and Richard should get the tarps back in place and secured before it gets to cold/windy/snowy/other seasonal nastiness. (But First!) 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... ;) BM> Right: I can see both sides. We're home most of the time so keeping BM> the landline makes sense. OTOH when away from home and somebody wants BM> to contact one of us/us they get to talk to the answering machine. BM> 99.9% of the stuff can wait until we get back. OTOH for others it BM> makes more sense to be able to have constant contact. As you said, all BM> boils down to convenience and personal preferences. NB> Yup... the landline remains our main connection... but we don't NB> have an answering machine, so important calls can be put through NB> to my cell phone, which does have voice mail if needed.... NB> Limited connection where necessary.... :) We've found the answering machine to be handy so keep it. Neither one uses the cell phone as an alternative -- still on the 'emergency use' concept. Suppose should change that idea over - some day! 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 less NB>> solid reasons... even, on occasion, to try to provoke one to commit a NB>> violation... possibly, in their case, it was to make a quota... other NB>> than that, though, one just mostly needs to not attract attention.. :) BM> Yes, I wouldn't say there aren't quotas in some jurisdictions, or BM> "over-zealousness"; small town close to here is 'notorious' for BM> adhering to the speed limit: 27 in a 25 zone could get one pulled over BM> type of thing. (They're not that picky but you don't want to be doing BM> 30!) NB> A good place to be particularly careful to adhere to the limit... NB> :) Definitely! 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 days NB>> have been nice and sunny, even if a little cool... The hooded NB>> sweater is back in regular use, whether sunny or rainy... ;) BM> There's a chance of snow flurries next Tuesday (October 29) and rather BM> cold on Halloween. NB> Today, Halloween, it's been fairly warm (high was in the NB> mid-60s), but most of the day it's been rainy... and now, since NB> about 8 this evening, the wind has been picking up.... Supposed NB> to be lows in the upper 40s tonight and then about that for highs NB> tomorrow, with more wind (and probably rain) until about 1 in the NB> afternoon... Wonder if that was the beginning of the system I had here that brought the 3" of snow Halloween morning? NB> ... Halloween, a pagan holiday perpetuated by the American Dental NB> Assoc. 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