See that Annette has been too busy perhaps, to start a new week, so I'm doing the honours. Rather wet in this part of the world this morning, so doing lots of tidying & Christmas preparing stuff.
It will be the shortest day soon, OG, then things start to slowly get brighter!
Unknown said: OG, I will whisper this so that none of your workmen hear me, but do you expect everything to be finished this week? So glad you will be able to use your shower. Hope you have a bottle of something ready to open and celebrate.
OG, I will whisper this so that none of your workmen hear me, but do you expect everything to be finished this week? So glad you will be able to use your shower. Hope you have a bottle of something ready to open and celebrate.
Don't know when the bits from Italy will come - the joiner who will fit them did wish me a Happy Christmas on Monday, so I guess we are to expect January, but those bits are only cosmetic finishing touches, so I guess we could call it finished as soon as today's grouting goes off!!! The roof-trim job was supposed to be four days Monday to Thursday, and looks like it will be completed Tuesday to Friday!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Lindybird, I'm sure you have a great voice and it cheers the neighbours up! I have some christmas music on now.
BrendaH, 3ft for those areas doesn't surprise me. It is an incredible amount but when the lakes aren't frozen and the air masses move accross them, there is almost an unlimited amount of mositure to pick up and dump as snow. I would need a snow blower if I lived there! Hope the garden manages to dry out soon.
OG, great news on the shower project and the roof as well. I bet you can't wait to get in there and try it, with that heated floor. Sounds "exciting", getting taken to hospital through the snow!
Still raining here so snow is gradually going.
Don't think the neighbours can hear me, & its just as well Gary ;- )
Theyre playing the Beatles 'Love Me Do' on the radio just now, which takes me back a bit.
Dog is looking at the winking lights outside, & seems to be thinking "what on earth is that ?". Do the horses get an extra carrot or apple on Christmas Day, as a treat?
Auntie : I thoroughly recommend that you contact Roy Dennis direct as he will send you a signed copy with any message you want written on it. It makes it more personal.
Gary : I love the picture of your horse in the snow. Makes it feel a bit more like Christmas. Weather here today has been very mild 3 or 4 degrees above average but the forecast is colder for the weekend and there may even be snow down to low levels next week.
Lindybird : The lights are up but some of my twinkly ones need replacement bulbs. I shall have to see about that tomorrow. I also have a reindeer called Dancer that turns its head from side to side,another smaller reindeer that just stands there and a Merry Christmas sign that flickers off and on. The garage is like an electricity sub station with plugs transformers and circuit breakers.
Just to point out that Richard has just added a further post to the blog re: why the mains power is needed, costings etc.
Lindybird said: It will be the shortest day soon, OG, then things start to slowly get brighter!
Even earlier than that. The earliest sunset for some of is on Sunday 13th December. From then on the evenings at least will get ever so slightly clearer. Mind you the mornings will continue to get darker until about 31st December. Equation of time and all that!
It is always best illustrated by this wonderful picture taken by Dennis De Cico in 1978/79. It shows the way the sun moves in the sky over the period of a year. It was the first of its type ever made and there are still less than ten other examples. See http://www.analemma.de/images/articles/dicicco.jpg
It is all explained here. See http://www.analemma.de/english/analem.html
I am sure Gary knows exactly where it was done since it cannot be far from him.
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Thanks Sandy you beat me to it. It is an excellent in depth blog.
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gary a said: Morning/afternoon/evening all. Margobird/Patriciat, stay dry, sounds so wet in the gardens at the moment. OG, good luck with the workmen today. We do have snow at the moment. It is meant to snow for a few more hours then turn to rain!! So no idea how much will be left by this evening. Being without power isn't fun. Over here , outside cities , almost all power cables are above ground (as Diane said) so in a bad ice storm, when whole trees/large branches fall on power cables it can take a while to clear up. In Connecticut we don't get in as bad as many parts of the country, including Caerann and Diane. Hope you two are safe and warm:) Alan, good luck with the shopping mission
Morning/afternoon/evening all.
Margobird/Patriciat, stay dry, sounds so wet in the gardens at the moment.
OG, good luck with the workmen today. We do have snow at the moment. It is meant to snow for a few more hours then turn to rain!! So no idea how much will be left by this evening. Being without power isn't fun. Over here , outside cities , almost all power cables are above ground (as Diane said) so in a bad ice storm, when whole trees/large branches fall on power cables it can take a while to clear up. In Connecticut we don't get in as bad as many parts of the country, including Caerann and Diane. Hope you two are safe and warm:)
Alan, good luck with the shopping mission
Gary I suppose you, Caerann and Diane need someone like the Wichita Lineman - or is that the telephone lines?
Thanks to Tiger for a very interesting link - we really do learn things all the time on this blog!
Thanks to Sandy for tip that Richard had written more on the blog today. He always makes a lot of sense, to me. How great it would be if the pleasure we have had from the webcams could be spread to a lot more people, & all the birds would benefit in one way or another.