Welcome to a new week. How time flies - not long to wait, next month our osps return
I snapped this sequence through kitchen window at 6 pm last night.
New Holland honeyeaters -
Saturday night, going out -
Gotta look my best -
Just check the mirror -
Save water, bath with a friend -
Evening all and Happy New Week (groan - already?). And thanks again AQ! Can't believe the temps the UK folks are enduring - ghastly!! Be careful everyone; stay warm.
Did a few errands today then off to gym and home to do some desk tidying up before dinner. Then we're popping up the road to see a Blue Grass/Folk group that's playing - not even five minutes away so that's nice. Will catch up tomorrow.
Well, home from the concert. It was huge fun! The trio was great and very funny on top of being very talented musicians; lots and lots of energy. They played guitars, banjos and mandolins and were joined for a few numbers by another mandolin player (a musician friend of theirs) and one of the organizers of the event, who played bass.
BrendaH: Holbeach is only 20 miles as the crow flies from my sister's village; I'm calling her in the a.m. to see how she's doing. Have to agree (I think it was you who mentioned it) that young mothers don't want any advice from older folks until they come up against a situation that isn't in all those books about having babies that they've read.
Alicat: Hope you had a good evening with your OH's brother and wife. It only takes my OH two minutes to get ready to go out, while I'm still second-guessing my choice of top, shoes, pants, etc. as I go out the door!
Lindybird: Good to hear your OH is finally getting some relief for his back. Roast chicken and naughty roast potatoes sound just the thing with those low temps. Assume you're talking about what we call stadium seating in those new multiplex cinemas, with the high backs and ultra-cushy upholstery? Now if they'd just let us wear our nighties and slippers.....
NiteOwl: I can identify Orion and the Big Dipper - oh! and the moon of course (but just the one). :-) With Tiger's help though, I've managed to see the International Space Station as it zoomed overhead!
Planning another day puttering in the garden tomorrow; rain now forecast for Monday, the first day of this year's Gray Whale Count. Have a good Sunday and take care everyone.
Good Morning ALL, We woke up to temperature of -8.7c and light snow. Now it is -4.2c with heavy snow, which is landing on last weekends snow. I want to hibernate. Have had enough now.
Annette. Strange you should mention it. You got a great pass tonight (Sunday 12th February) of the ISS at 6.36pm. It will go virtually overhead for you. It appears in the south west and finally blinks out in the north east. It will go very close to Jupiter too. with Venus over to the right.
Jupiter and Venus will come closer together over the next month being closest around March 15th. Very special for me as a Jupiter Venus conjunction a long time ago ignited my interest in astronomy.
People in the UK start a new season of seeing the ISS from tomorrow (13th February).
If people prefer to be armchair astronomers they can always use Stellarium. It is fantastic and free too.
Tiger Signature
Morning all,
The extremely cold weather of yesterday seems to have gone and is now replaced by miserably cold weather. yesterday we had a top temp of minus 4.9c and a low of minus 12.9c. Last night the temp dropped to minus 9c but has risen overnight to the dizzy heights of plus 2.5c.
Brenda : Sorry about the snow, we have freezing rain at the moment for a change. Like you I am completely fed up with this weather.
Some eagle news.
2nd egg for Richmond eagles.
1st egg at Davenport (Alcoa) eagles.
1st egg for Harrison bay eagles.
Aria & Vento cam:
Good Morning, and Thanks to AQ for starting us off again. Thanks too, for the hilarious Honeyeaters sequence: did laugh at your captions!
Annette: Sounded like a super musical evening.
Tiger: Thanks to you, I saw the ISS last year for the first time, as it passed over us in the darkness: what a thrill.
Everyone Else: I'm fed up with the weather too: it can stop now, please. Last night we were very warm in bed though, and my OH remarked that it was as if the heating was on - when I checked, I had left it on all night which is something we never do unless its less than minus 10 degrees... I didn't tell him or he will be muttering about the heating bills. At least we have our time in the sun to look forward too, soon. (which is why we go - we have been getting away in February for over 15 years now and it cuts the winter short, lovely) We are off to the Canaries again and have been in touch by email with some friends we have made out there who go at the same time as us, so looking forward to all sharing our year of news. I'm packing today but think I may need to go out and buy some more shorts as I have not lost any weight these last few weeks, as the stress of worrying about my OH plus the lack of sleep lately has made me do more winter comfort eating. Ho Hum. Back on the diet when we return, perhaps.
Shall have to record the new WinterWatch programmes as they start the day we leave. Still enjoy them, although I know a lot of people argue about the presenters: I like them all!
Last week we enjoyed another trip to the cinema, here is my review as usual. Yes, Annette, the seats are those stadium type and very comfortable: you can lean back and rest your head: they also have a little holder for your drink or popcorn, and we use it to keep our packet of jelly babies to hand!
Lindas Film Review: "The Descendants"
Starring the delectable George Clooney, and a cast most of whom we were not familiar with - its set in Hawaii. This is the tale of a man coming to terms with several emotional things at once: his wife has had a serious water skiing accident and is in a coma, and whilst he is getting used to being a full time father to his two daughters, aged 10 and 17, he discovers that his wife had been having an affair. Parallel to all this, his extended family are major landowners on one of the islands, and have to decide whether to sell to realise the huge wealth tied up in this hereditary asset. (hence the film's title). We see George's character battling with himself over all these very emotional issues, and trying to become the caring and accessible father he realises he should have been to his offspring, as they all struggle with the emotion and drama of the situation. George decides he wants to meet the man who his wife has been seeing, and takes his children on a short holiday to try and find him. Needless to say, both of his daughters are at a difficult age and not easy for him to relate to. Look out for a good performance from Lloyd Bridges as one of his cousins.
The actors playing the two daughters are excellent in their roles, and George shows a lot more depth than in some of his previous film appearances. You will need your box of tissues but there are also several hilarious and lighter moments. I found I needed to suspend belief that his wife in the film would ever stray, with someone not as handsome as our hero, but then I'm biased!
Stars out of Five: Five!
When is WINTERWATCH scheduled?