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Weather. :-| :-O
A lovely 63f this morning at 4:25AM, very slight occasional breeze. Should reach 67f and overcast, good weather for the 30min walk to the grocery store. Rain maybe this weekend, though.
Nothing much to report. Fairly quiet right now, preparing for a serious stuff reduction/cleaning pass through my place. I've accumulated too much junk and it all needs to go out ASAP! :-O
On the upside you don’t need to travel to Skull Island to capture King Kong :)
Oh Chicago the Mackinac Trophy freshwater boat race is famous hey :)
Am a little panda-faced from sunglasses :0
Fruibats circling our trees backlit by a big ol’ fullmoon high in the northeast sky is quite a sight :)
Oooohhh! EXCELLENT point! Also saves a fortune on bananas! :-O
I love bats! Austin is famous for one of the largest colonies of Mexican free-tailed bats around, we have a bat festival and bat-watching nights in the late Summer. The squeaky things eat TONS of insects, so I say GO BATS!!!
Of course, this from a guy who loves snakes and leezards, so maybe it's just me... :-P
it is, if i say so myself. has quite a few different landscapes for such a small fleck of land, too. personally not a fan of high mountains, just rock... but hills & forests, any time. i really couldn't live anywhere where it's not so green, and the south is not my thing. ireland is totally awesome too tho, and i really regret not being able to visit scandinavia (my tribe costs all i have...). never been in the US either - too far, travel too expensive. and then it's so big you can't see all of it at once, lol. but some landscapes i've seen onscreen where also breathtaking ^^
the only thing i'm not too enthusiastic about my fleck of land are some people - unless you live in one of the very few larger cities, they're pretty dull and unimaginative, kind of... backwater. but generally the peeps are also really peaceful compared to other places... which is nice too i guess.
wow.. this is a sight i would love to enjoy.. the only bats i ever saw were miniature, smaller than a rat... and single (one in the attic, fleeing from my feline companions, and a baby on the street, no clue where it had fallen from). or vague shapes at dusk...
Have you tried the ELP version?
I've lived all over th US, some time in Taiwan and Hawaii, and one short trip to Paris on business. America is a land of contrasts.. about 75% is amazing with forests, lakes, mountains, vast plains, majestic rock formations and deserts for miles. The other 25% is pure ugliness.. trash piles, deforestation, urban blight, decaying infrastructure and institutionalized hopelessness. Pretty much the same as any over-industrialized nation, but not as bad as some places I've seen on documentaries. I used to want to visit India until I started watching 'The Amazing Race' and saw the soul-destroying poverty and terrible living conditions. Shudder... :-|
Anyway, my vote for most beautiful part of America: Northwest Coast. Ocean, beach, mountains, forest, small towns and big cities. And the odd volcano. I could easily spend my last years on this dirtball on the Northern California coast or around Seattle or Vancouver..
Still, given the chance I'd move to Norway, or Denmark, or Sweden, or Switzerland. I'd just have to dress really warm! :-P
Complaint: Arghhh... just checked the weather here for today and tomorrow. Right now it's in the 40s, snow is gone, ground is dry, roads are black, sky is clear but by end of tomorrow the prediction is 7 to 10 inches of snow.
What is it they say about March? "In like a lion out like a lamb". This lion was apparently asleep for a week. OK, who's the jackass who kicked the lion? 
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That would look cool on a shirt, maybe?
Wasn't me! I let sleeping predators lie. :-|
Dunno, but we have the same lion (or maybe a different one) This is the current weather forecast
Complaint, because of the driving winds we have a weird situation in our street at the moment. The wind is driving the snow before it across the road, so the other side of the road is almost clear and the side I live on has drifts about 8 to 10 inches deep.
Yeah, I saw news articles about snow on the other side of the pond being a problem. Wondered if you were affected.
Non-complaint: Because of the impending snow I'm going to throw frugality to the wind and fire up the car for the 2nd time this week and go for another mini-adventure today while I can. I think for a change, instead of going west to the city or east to the Indian reservation, I'll go north 25 miles to the top of Lake Chautauqua and have an old fashioned hamburger, fries and real ice cream milkshake in a little country diner that's been there since I was a kid. Drive up the near side of the long narrow lake, have lunch, continue around the lake to come back down the west side. Then make a momentous decision to either come across the middle of the lake on the Interstate or continue on the west side and across the bottom of the lake into the city to stop at the mall and perhaps find something on sale. Hopefully the weather report is correct and the snow won't start 'till 7:00 tonight.
Boy, all this excitement! I don't know if my heart can stand it!
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Actually, you just described New England, too!
Dana
Would you rather the end of the month be terrible? Besides, these are just sayings...I've seen plenty of times when March began and ended with a lot of bad weather.
Dana
Wheee, back from the grocery store! So much stuff on sale I went insane.. much to my detriment..
Bought everything I wanted and more, got biscuits to bake, 10lbs of red taters, several large cans of Bushs beans (maple and country style), more refried beans, a pack of 70 corn tortillas, butter, pork sausage for the beans, etc. etc., but..
Backpack was stuffed to the max. Extra reusable bag was stuffed to the max. Walking with all this and my cane became a terrifyingly dangerous adventure as weight shifted back and forth, making the prosthesis difficult to guide and making sitting down and standing up the kind of excitement I associate with Indiana Jones movies. It took over an hour to get home, of which only 15 minutes was the bus ride!! But I made it home by frequently leaning against road signs and guard railings.
Got home and used my bathroom scale to weigh things: the backpack was 40lbs and the sack was 32lbs. :-|
Thank Deity it was only 67f and a nice constant breeze, my shirt was damp but not drenched. Also thank Deity for aspirin, which I have indulged in to dull the 1204,000 painful muscles I had managed to forget I had. Oww, oww, OWW. :-/
I have money left and if I wasn't in agonizing pain would go get wodka and diet soda. But not today. Oh heavens, not today!!!
Everything is put away, it's cool and dark in my room and there's a mild breeze from the window. Time to lie down until it doesn't hurt to move any more.
Needless to say, next trip will not involve buying tons of heavy items. :-/
I sense a chance of rain in your area. :-|
yeah, the cool thing (landscape-wise, maybe not so much travel-time wise or when you're stuck...) about the US * is that it's so big. so vaste. here it's so populated that unless you're in the middle of the high mountains, you can't help stumbling on human structures everywhere. also you guys have the sea, canyons, volcanos..
do i guess right when i say that california has probably an excellent climate, warm all year round but not as scorching as texas?
how was taiwan as a foreigner? and hawaii?
true, when industrialization doesn't go on par with ecologic efforts, the results are catastrophic for the environment. and megapoles are not human friendly - overpopulation drives people nuts, everywhere.
always been my dream to move to sweden - sadly, no way we can all beam up there ~
* (and probably also china, russia, australia - huge countries/continents)
Lots of New England is lovely, from what I've seen but you get a lot of FROZEN WATER FROM THE SKY so I hear.
California, at least Central and Northern California, have a lovely climate compared to most of Texas. The downsides are: earthquakes, fires, mudslides, insanely high cost of living. My small studio apartment in Silicon Valley cost me US$1350 a month, not including utilities!!! No place for a low to middle income person.
I was in Taiwan when I was 7 to 9 years old. I remember a LOT of it, the country and people made a permanent impression on me. At the time it wasn't polluted or crowded, we lived in a house in a town outside Taipei called Pey-to, Dad hired a maid/assistant for Mom since he was off doing erm 'stuff' for the government. Her name was Oohmai if I recall.. she taught me some Chinese, took me out to net-catch shrimp for soup, even had me over to dinner wth her family! I developed a permanent love for Chinese food of all sorts, along with a deep long relationship with good rice, and a permanent 'thing' for Asian women *blush*. Everyone treated us all likfe family, in retrospecy I suspect a lot of it was due to what my Dad was doing. The places I recall, like the hot springs at Seven Star Mountain, are long gone. Very sad.
I was only in Hawaii for 3 months while we were on our way to Taiwan. I remember beaches, learning to snorkel, and developed a permanent love for tropical fish. I do recall folks were kind of stand-offish, I hear it's worse now in some parts of the island.
It's so weird how perception and experience can be so varying. I was warned that people in Paris were snotty and mean, and warned that if I tried to speak French I'd get laughed at. I had just the opposite experience, everyone was friendly, my French wasn't disparaged, and I found the city nice and the folks decent. Of course this was 20 years ago, who knows how it is now?
I've never been treated like an 'ugly American', but then due to all the travelling my parents did when I was young I went in with a dairly broad cultural background, and never assumed that everyone spoke English. My Mom was a wizard at languages, she'd learn first then teach Dad and I enough to get along. I crammed on French before I went to Paris, even for the short trip because it's dim to expect people in their own country to speak my language!!
Anyway, I rant, sorry!
By the way, did I mention OWW? :-/
Nooooo..., don't say that.
Sayings are gospel. Observations distilled through generations and generations of uneducated superstitious people. They must be true otherwise why would people keep saying them? And if you think you saw March end with bad weather it must have been because of an evil consipiracy by the ubiquitous "them" to confound the calendar. It was really still February. 
Complaint: Can't get a plumber to fix my broken heating because it's snowing . . .