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What are you doing right now? Part 2
Lol Chrissie- I now have an image of you!
Joan, :/ that is a crooked smile. Walking in pouring rain is NOT as nice as walking in cloudy or sunny weather. I was trying to convince myself that it all depended on your clothing. You cannot see a thing with water streaming down your glasses.
Lol, Chrissie! You need to put on the clothes in the morning to be ready to go out in the afternoon :DI told my son to bring very hot clothes when he will come to Sweden. I even don't know if he bought some winter shoes. Oh well, when he will have cold feet, he will buy them.
Today I have seen that we have still 27°C under the sun. We are having a hot autumn this year.
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Happy belated b-day, Greg!
dely, I think Leslie' s reasoning could be quite on the mark. It is not so strange that you are missing him so you react ..."
Thanks Chrissie, and wow that is cold! You have to love walks a lot to go out at that temperature! :) Hope everything went smoothly with renewing the passports.
Greg, in the winter it gets a lot colder than this. The temp has now increased, the wind has died down but it is still pouring.
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I am a little spoiled now that I haven't lived in a cold climate in so long. :)
Hope your walking weather improves!
Wow, dely, you have warmer weather than here in the South! I think now there are approx. 18°C, while in the morning it's around 10°C! Yesterday it was very windy, too. Today sunny and nice.
Marina wrote: "Wow, dely, you have warmer weather than here in the South! I think now there are approx. 18°C, while in the morning it's around 10°C! Yesterday it was very windy, too. Today sunny and nice."Morning and evening are cold also here though I don't think it goes down to 10°C. I was surprised too today when going out I have seen 27°! I knew it was hot but not that much.
Rats! It's just after 10 am here in Massachusetts and the rain has started. I had hoped to get to the grocery store before this storm hit but took too long over my morning coffee... Heavy rain is forecast for the next 2 days. Thankfully, Halloween day is supposed to be clear - it's my mother's birthday :)
We got our group dog walk in just before the deluge. It was funny this morning we had 4 labs, a boxer and my Cocoa (40 pound mutt). The big dogs got rambunctious so Cocoa herded them away from the people and the parking lot like a border collie with sheep. She sort of moved them by circling, staring, and feints.
I've started the day dubiously, muttering many bad words under my breath as my internet connection fails for the umpteenth time:(
Bette, I've heard other Aussie friends curse their internet service providers too! Hope you'll get your connection back soon :)
It's been sunny and warm these last few days. And I'll be in Hong Kong when the Vancouver rain sets in mid-week :) Looking forward to dining out with my sister, brother, cousins and friends, to hiking on Lamma Island and to my book launch!
Alice wrote: "It's been sunny and warm these last few days. And I'll be in Hong Kong when the Vancouver rain sets in mid-week :) Looking forward to dining out with my sister, brother, cousins and friends, to hik..."Have a safe trip and a good time with friends and relatives!
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I can't upload all the photoes that have been made - don't ask me why photobucket isn't working - but some you still can see:
Laura, what you have given us are great.
I have to mention what happened this morning on my walk with Oscar and my husband. A pack of boars ran by us! There were at least eight of them. I couldn't count them all because they were running, but MUCH bigger than a cute little suckling pigs. These look like beasts you do not want to mess with. I have never seen them before although I know they live around us. They dig up the soil underneath oak trees looking for nuts. They move big rocks with their snouts; this I have seen. They were about 30 yards from me. I don't want to meet them at night .It is dark here at 6PM so you have to walk in the dark. I told Per to sing when he walks Oscar at night. It was otherwise a gorgeous morning, -3 degrees C, brisk and sunny.
Chrissie- yikes! I’m glad you were not in their path. How did the dogs react?
Oh my, Chrissie, that must have been scary!
Wow, Chrissie, you are very lucky. The wild boars here will have a go at you, usually winning the argument.
In Germany, a little while ago some wild boars ran into a small town, one into a bank and bit the manager.......It was not fun. We called a neighbor who hunts them and told him where they were.
Oscar just looked at them like they were horses running by. I mean these things are big, chunky beasts. He looked kind of surprised. It was not like he made any attempt to run after them, thank goodness. With deer and rabbits he wants to chase them. Squirrels too. Today I saw him sitting patiently staring up at a tree and so I looked too and there was a squirrel. Both just looking at each other.
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Happy birthday to your mom Leslie! :)
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Cocoa sounds like a good dog to have around for one of these walks Joan! A smart dog! :)
Laura, great photos!
Chrissie--OMG, I'm glad you're okay. Sounds hair-raising.
It's a gray, gloomy 46F/7C rainy day in Cincinnati. It's near time for my husband to be driving home and traffic will be awful. (Drivers here don't do well in the rain.) I'm glad I'm cozy inside with a warm cup of coffee. Spent the afternoon writing reviews and catching up on email.
What a great World Series we're having!
Chrissie--OMG, I'm glad you're okay. Sounds hair-raising.
It's a gray, gloomy 46F/7C rainy day in Cincinnati. It's near time for my husband to be driving home and traffic will be awful. (Drivers here don't do well in the rain.) I'm glad I'm cozy inside with a warm cup of coffee. Spent the afternoon writing reviews and catching up on email.
What a great World Series we're having!
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Have fun Alice!
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I can't upload all the photoes that have been made - don't ask me why photobucket isn't working - but some you still can see:
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How fun Laura - thanks for posting the photos! Great to see you in action with your event. It would be a dream job for me all these events you put on with/for writers and artists!
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How scary Chrissie - I have heard boars are very agressive, but I've luckily never encountered one. I see coyotes and possums often, but those tend to steer clear as long as you leave them alone. Nothing like charging boars!!
Joan, do you know if Cocoa has border collie in her genes? My Mom had a Irish Water Spaniel called Cocoa. If I had a brown female dog, but we always choose males, I would call her Java. Isn't hat a cool name?
B the BookAddict wrote: "I've started the day dubiously, muttering many bad words under my breath as my internet connection fails for the umpteenth time:("You know what would be handy to have? A big foam hammer to hit your computer with.
Leslie, have a nice b-day celebration with your Mom!
Thanks for your thoughts, all of you. I wonder if I will see them tomorrow morning. Hope not.
Chrissie wrote: "Joan, do you know if Cocoa has border collie in her genes? My Mom had a Irish Water Spaniel called Cocoa. If I had a brown female dog, but we always choose males, I would call her Java. Isn't hat..."
That is a great name. My Cocoa is actually black -my husband called her Coco like Coco Channel but I thought he meant cocoa because chocolate is always uppermost in my mind.
I love spaniels though I’ve never had an Irish water spaniel - just cockers and springers.
LauraT wrote: "I'm through with my Jane Austen Saturday! And it went really well.I can't upload all the photoes that have been made - don't ask me why photobucket isn't working - but some you still can see:
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Congratulations- I just wish I could have joined you.
LauraT wrote: "I'm through with my Jane Austen Saturday! And it went really well.I can't upload all the photoes that have been made - don't ask me why photobucket isn't working - but some you still can see:
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Good job, Laura! I'm glad everything went well.
Chrissie wrote: "I have to mention what happened this morning on my walk with Oscar and my husband. A pack of boars ran by us! There were at least eight of them. I couldn't count them all because they were running,..."Oh my! I wouldn't be happy either to meet wild boars. Sometimes they come down in the city looking for food, above all in the river (it's a river without water) but I have never met one thankfully. This year, following the river, they arrived to the beach!
Joan wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Joan, do you know if Cocoa has border collie in her genes? My Mom had a Irish Water Spaniel called Cocoa. If I had a brown female dog, but we always choose males, I would call he..."
Irish Water Spaniels do not look like spaniels at all. Look here: https://www.google.se/search?q=irish+...
Ha ha about coco versus cocoa. So you are addicted to chocolate huh.
My daughter had the most adorable English cocker spaniel, which look very different from American cocker spaniels. He was called Hobson. He was black white and brown in clear distinct spots. He would look at you with these big eyes and of course you had to pat him or give him a treat. He KNEW he was adorable. He looked like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
but he had brown spots on his back too. He was such a sweetie. We have had zillions of dogs in our family.
So did you have fun on that walk?
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dely, much bigger than I expected and they were running fast, like the speed of horses, and so many of them! They weigh from 45-90kg so the big ones weigh twice as much as me. These were big ones. My husband who is native to Sweden has never seen them before. Even he was shocked. The person we bought our house from hunted boars in Poland. If he had stayed he wouldn't have had to travel there! He would practice out in the yard and for the first years I had to pick up arrows all over the place.
Chrissie wrote: "dely, much bigger than I expected and they were running fast, like the speed of horses, and so many of them! They weigh from 45-90kg so the big ones weigh twice as much as me. These were big ones. ..."Did he kill them with arrows?! Not a hunting gun?
The boars come right into the city and down to the beach? They don’t avoid areas with people?
Boars! One day, I will eat one. How does boar taste?
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I've heard that boars are unusually agressive Joan. Like hippos, they won't necessarily avoid people.
Chrissie, I imagine it takes some courage to hunt them with bows and arrows!!
Greg wrote: "Chrissie, I imagine it takes some courage to hunt them with bows and arrows!! .."
I guess so. I was just annoyed because I found arrows stuck in trees all over the place.
I did not see the boars today, and that is fine by me.
I said it was dark here at six, but that was wrong. It is pitch black at 16:30! We moved the clock back last Sunday. I like winter time much better than summer time. I just wish it didn't change.
Joan wrote: "The boars come right into the city and down to the beach? They don’t avoid areas with people?"No, if they are looking for food they come also in the city though they prefer the river. Here you can see some pics: http://www.ivg.it/fotogallery/cinghia...
One or two years ago I arrived home with the car after have done some grocery shopping, I parked and went into my home. As soon as I arrived I heard too many voices on the street so I went on the balcony to see what was going on. A board was on the road where I parked a couple of minutes earlier. I'm glad I was already at home!
dely, so you have seen at least one too. I have been looking at information about boars in Sweden. They do not weigh 45 - 90kg. That was wrong, at least for the ones in Sweden. Here the females weigh 100kg and the males 200kg (1kg = 2,2 lb).
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Happy belated b-day, Greg!
dely, I think Leslie' s reasoning could be quite on the mark. It is not so strange that you are missing him so you react by getting annoyed instead. We areONLYy human. I will go and check out your new photo.
Joan, sorry about Tiller! It is like a whole in the universe when a pet dies. Boy do I understand. Our pets are with us more than our spouses They rely upon us in a way that goes beyond human relationships b/c there is so much dependency.
Greg, sorry to hear you are not feeling well.........but having an excuse to cancel a dentist appointment is always nice. I'm joking.
It is pouring here too. Around 0 degrees C and 40km/hr wind. And now I have to go out and take my second walk. It isn't so bad as long as you take the time to put on the correct clothes. I am wearing two fleeces, long underwear and pants and rain pants and long raincoat with a hood. I look like a little kid bundled up to the teeth. After that we have to go over and get a new passport. Our old ones are no longer valid.