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Re: Global Warming 

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Mon, 15 Jan 24 8:15 PM | 41 view(s)
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Re: “It is a blustery 7 degrees F currently here. May have to go outside and get a tan...”Wow. As my wife says, "That's colder than a witch's tit in a copper bra!"

A few recent "cold" stories:

First, it's been a warm winter. Our low so far has been 12°, and last night was 14°. Our high this week will be below 32°.

We drove to Nashua yesterday for two auction pickups, then to Lowell Massachusetts for a terrific Chinese buffet dinner. The "China Buffet" (clever name, eh?) in Lowell has the tastiest Chinese food of any restaurant I've been to, so we took our sweet time. I bet we were there for an hour and a half. We went in with nice weather and no clue about what was to come. When we left, the wind was howling like a banshee. Snow was coming in sideways, hitting with an impact I'd have expected from hail. I later heard it described as a "squall," something I'd never before been in, except perhaps while driving. It was unbelievable. Fortunately, the drive home took us quickly away from the squall and wasn't too bad. Sooo, my first ever squall. I'd say it and Virginia's 2012 derecho are the two most interesting weather events I've see in my short life. (You've been to Vietnam, so I bet you've seen a few interesting storms too.)

Today is beautiful. The sun is out and the high will be 30°. But we won a large hutch at an auction last night, and it's actually too big to fit in my truck. See the image, below. It's a little bit of a problem since it means we need the flatbed trailer... which is snow covered and has a flat tire (a slow leak... 0 lbs pressure when I checked it this A.M.) I pulled the compressor from the barn and found an extension cord... and the extension cord wouldn't unwind. Maybe it went lower than they said last night! The cord was hard as could be, and I had to pry it open.

I got the tires inflated, shoveled the snow off of the trailer, and called my wife to hook up the truck to the trailer. That went smoothly, but when we were ready to move the trailer into direct sunlight, I found that the rocks we were using as chocks were cemented to the ground, as was the cinder block propping up the trailer at its front (a beer for whoever can tell me what the thing that supports the trailer jack is called. It's got me stumped. Never mind, time's up. It's called a BASE PLATE.)

It was only a 30 minute delay. I tracked down a hammer, a chunk of wood, and a hand pick. Between the three I was able to scrape the mud and ice away from the cinder block then hammer it free without breaking it. The rocks were freed easily.

That's about it. We've been fortunate to have not had any heavy snowfalls this year - living as we are in a house with a very long driveway and no snow blower. Storms... and even outages... have been frequent, but so far we haven't had to deal with much snow at a time, usually followed by dry weather or actual rain, melting it away.

The hutch we're fetching later today is called an "Etergre." My wife was familiar with the term, so I guess it's not a rare item, but I'd never heard of it. It was $52. Believe it or not, the small picture below is the ONLY thing we had to go on as far as what it looks like and its condition. That may explain why we got it so cheap. Auction houses usually post numerous high quality pictures of merchandise, sufficient that you could read the author on a book spine, or see little dings on furniture edges, and from all sides. Not so this time, creating the distinct possibility that we'll be disappointed when we see it.





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Re: Global Warming
By: micro in 6TH POPE
Mon, 15 Jan 24 2:59 PM 		Msg. 49215 of 58533

I have driven thru Atlanta down I-75 a few times and ya can tell it is a heavily populated general area by virtue of the many lanes width it is..
I actually saw the first year KIA being driven there and wondered what the heck was that.

Now I own TWO vehicles made by Kia's parent company Hyundai
and gave my wife's Kia Optima to my granddaughter to take to school so she could get back and forth when she wanted.

My Sonata has 150,000 miles on it and looks like new. Runs and drives great. The 2018 Tuscon SEL plus is fully loaded compact SUV that is pretty much a luxury compact SUV in its trim level. Same as the Ultimate.

Miz micro stole my Sonata from me after we purchased the Tuscon compact SUV for her.. Now I drive the Tuscon even though it needs a CD player. I have to see about having one added professionally installed.. I like to listen to CD's I have lots of while driving. Especially on road trips..
It is a blustery 7 degrees F currently here. May have to go outside and get a tan...

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