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You couldn't be closer Cherie, that's exactly where I am! I feel honored being in your list :DIt sounds like an interesting app. I also have a weather app (accuweather) on my phone in which I can add many locations and it also has the snow and rain and sunshine graphics in it, but it sounds like yours gives even more information and might have a better overview for multiple locations.
And brrrr Janice, -18 during the day! We had an icy cold wind today but I won't complain ;-)I'm sure you don't need the app to know it's raining right now. We've had it happen a few times though that the app says the sun is currently shining while it's pouring down, or the other way around.
Home today from a week on the western coast of Jalisco, México. Joined up with some good Canadian friends there. Fun time but good to be home. Per usual, I miss my fur family when we're away. I can do about a week okay - provided they have a good pet/house sitter. 5 books on hold for me to pick up from branch library before toppler begins Saturday. Closed on Thursdays tho. Mañana!
Glad to hear you had a good time, Janet and got some warm sunshine. My books have been calling me. I put them in my extra room so that I would not be tempted.
The weather app is not always accurate, but it is fun to see what is happening elswhere. I have Seattle, Grande Prairie, Memphis, Plymouth, Toronto, New York City, Washington DC, Dartmouth, London, Roermond, Sydney and Canberra.Toronto is still pretty chilly at -11C Looks like more snow on the way for the next 4 days. Good time to be inside reading some good books!
Besides Grande Prairie, I have New York, Fort Lauderdale, Honolulu, Las Vegas, Edmonton, & Skagway on my app."Snow showers" doesn't quite describe what we have going on. It's more like blizzard conditions. Cold temps, heavy show, and wind. I doubt I'll be headed south tomorrow. It's supposed to snow all weekend.
I think it was -17 the day our Peterborough friends left Canada for 3 weeks in Mexico. We could only stay a week. Enjoyed beautiful weather mostly - except one unusual day of monsoon like raining. Oh well. It was still beautiful.
Just to make you all feel bad, I'm sitting outside a bookstore, right now it is 82 F :-)
I'm also honoured to be on the list. And too right I was sleeping at 5am. I don't really believe 5am exists.Looks like we'll finally get summer here this weekend. It's been lovely and cool and rainy the last few weeks. Looks like it's sort of remembered it's summer for 30-36C for the next few days. Urgh.
Ah well. I'll just have to hide inside from that insane sun and read for the Toppler. Hard life.
One of my friends was in Australia for 3 months. She arrived home last night, just in time for our winter storm. She said she's cold and ready to go back to Australia.
Oh don't get me wrong. I'd prefer our 26C over your -15C
Snow is wonderful if you are inside, dry, in front of a fire, and have good food, mulled wine and a book.I'm a woman of few demands...
That is how I feel about rain, it's great if I'm inside with nothing to do.it gives you an excuse to stay inside all day and read :-) of course I could be cleaning, but what fun is that the :-) ;-)
Snow is also wonderful if you live in an apartment building and don't have to shovel out. Renting rocks! :D
I like the snow, but for like 2 weeks. After that I'm ready for spring to come. I don't like shoveling, but since it is the only exercise I do (and mowing the lawn) I won't complain. Not too much at least.
Rusalka wrote: "Snow is wonderful if you are inside, dry, in front of a fire, and have good food, mulled wine and a book.I'm a woman of few demands..."
That sounds like my idea of a lovely winter day! I was thinking just the other night that I really wish we had a nice fireplace I could cozy up in front of. Even a gas fireplace would do.
I like the snow from a distance. I can see it on top of the mountain from my windows, and yes it is beautiful. The shoveling thing sounds horrible :-( today is my youngest son's 12th birthday :-) can't believe it.
Kazen wrote: "Snow is also wonderful if you live in an apartment building and don't have to shovel out. Renting rocks! :D"Not if they don't do the parking lot. *grumble* We got a foot of snow yesterday. The parking lot is going to be fun.
I think we were talking about tea in this thread. I'm too lazy to page back tho. I am reading The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection and the two ladies, Mma Ramotswe and Mma Matusti are driving out into the bush and started having a conversation about tea and how many cups they drink. Fourteen cups a day, 100 a week, more than 5000 a year. It just blew me away to think about it like that. They are not upset about it. They are amazed that there is enough for them, after projecting the amount of tea comsumed by the government and the banks. Just struck me as so funny!
Oohh! The apartment that we went to look at yesterday is so cute!! I love it!! It has a nice big balcony that faces the lake/pond. We are hoping we can make it happen but will have to see since our lease isn't up till May :( They have an apartment available in March but that is too soon for us..BUMMER! Oh well! If it is meant to be then it will happen :-)
Sounds beautiful, I like a nice view out of the windows. I am living in an apartment after going through a divorce, and I like it. When something breaks some guy who knows what he's doing comes and fixes it :-)
good luck, Stephanie! It sounds so nice. :)
@Berit, thatvis what I like about an apartment as well :) i would love for us to be in the position to buy a house but I love being able to call someone to fix stuff if something breaks and not have to pay extra for the fix :) even if the complex ends up not having a lake facing apartment when we are ready to move, we decided to move there anyway and take what is available :) we could always move apartments once what we truly want becomes available (at least after 6 months anyways ). It is a very nice community :)
I know I was going to start househunting this spring, but now I'm thinking I'm going to re-sign my lease. My oldest will be moving out and going to college in August or September, so three bedrooms is enough now.
A friend invited me over for supper and while we were relaxing with a cup of tea after the meal, she excused herself. When she came back in the room, she said, "Since you're not going to be here next weekend, here's your Valentine's present." She handed me the complete 2nd season of A Game of Thrones. I actually squealed. Guess I'd better get reading the next few books in the series.
Stephanie, it sounds like you found a great complex - congrats! Here's hoping you get a lakeside view sooner rather than later. :D
Great friend Janice! Exciting. We all know what you'll be reading once the toppler finishes.
What a great gift, Janice :-)Thanks, Kazen! I'm hoping it all works out with the apartment :)
Wow. I was just watching a tv show on B&S Balls in Australia. We have parties specific for farmer boys and girls here too and lots of alcohol is involved, but this left me speechless. Have you ever been Rusalka?
Lol not to a proper B&S (Bachelor and Spinster Ball for the rest of you). They tend to be more of a country thing, and living in a city, even though a small one surrounded by the country/bush, we don't get them. They are notorious though, and something everyone looks forward to. Not quite sure why, as I don't think ANYONE can remember what happened the next day. But when entertainment is few and far (like several hundred ks away far) between, then you embrace what you can get.We used to run a B&S Ball when I was in College. It was for Yr7 to Yr 12s mainly, with a few older friends who would pop along or help run it. Alcohol free (mainly - besides the drinking in the toilets) though. Was just an underage disco/dance party really, but it was at the end of the school year so we called it a Ball to make it a bit fancy. I only found out what a B&S *really* was when my Mum freaked out first time I said I was going, then laughed and enlightened me.
I learned something new every day from this group :-)
We are stuck in traffic:( there was an accident on the highway so traffic has been at a stand still for a half hour (since we've been in it). Hope whatever happened people are ok. It is rainy and dark out and people tailgate like crazy here :(
That is a big bummer, Stephanie! Traffic is no fun :-(
We were at a standstill for almost an hour. The accident happened around 6:30pm eastern time. At least we weren't in traffic when the accident occurred :) as far as I know it was a roll over accident :( the accident was cleared before they let traffic through. No fatalities that we heard of.
Haha, it seems the tv-show gave a proper impression of the ball. They all were very drunk, could barely remember anything the next day, and they used food colouring to 'decorate' each other. I thought it was great though that they (well, the drivers I guess) were all checked for alcohol levels in the morning, and could not leave until it was reduced to an acceptable level.I looked the location of this one up and I was actually surprised. The guy they followed came from Sunbury, Victoria, and the B&S was in Tooradin, Victoria, which both did not seem very country-like to me. I also had to laugh about the Dutch reporter-girl, who said they had a long drive ahead of them from Sunbury to Tooradin, and when I looked that up, Google Maps tells me it's 1 hour 45 minutes ;-)
I'm glad you're out of the traffic jam Stephanie :)
Oh those locations aren't. They are both outskirts of Melbourne, although Sunbury looks like it' a town that's slowly being absorbed by Melbourne. Jeez an hour and 45 to get across Melbourne's an alright time!
Today on the news they had a story about sexiest accents. The number one one was British, followed by American and then Irish. I was a bit surprised, I find the Australian accent to be the sexiest. Also in America we have a lot of different accents, which one are they referring to?
I agree about Australian accents! Followed by Irish and British. I don't find much sexy about the American accent, sorry guys!And I guess they refer to the 'standard'? In the Netherlands there are many different accents too, but there's one called Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands (General Sophisticated Dutch freely translated) which is the standard or most common maybe. I think the same would be true for Australia and Ireland by the way, I know that there are many different Australian accents too.
No offense taken :-) I do not find the American accent very sexy. Although I think the southern accent here is probably the sexiest.
Berit wrote: "Today on the news they had a story about sexiest accents. The number one one was British, followed by American and then Irish. I was a bit surprised, I find the Australian accent to be the sexiest...."I would say Australian as well!☻
Berit wrote: "No offense taken :-) I do not find the American accent very sexy. Although I think the southern accent here is probably the sexiest."Oh, bless your heart, Berit! Y'all know the sweet drawl of a southern belle is like no other! (Spoken in an even thicker southern accent than the one I really have... which is very thick and I personally find embarrassing).
I don't much think American accents are sexy. Definitely Aussie, British, and Irish though. In no particular order.
Oooh! I love accents! British, Irish, Canadian, Australian..sigh..I just love them :) I wish I had an accent..American is so boring, lol! I do say I have picked up verbage from living different areas within the United States though. I find myself saying ya'll a lot..
Berit wrote: "No offense taken :-) I do not find the American accent very sexy. Although I think the southern accent here is probably the sexiest."Texan... Matthew McConaughey. Need I say more?
You make a point Janice. Although I think it's the whole package ;-)
I went to college in Texas, and those boys can charm a girl just by talking to her :-)
Janice wrote: "Berit wrote: "No offense taken :-) I do not find the American accent very sexy. Although I think the southern accent here is probably the sexiest."Texan... Matthew McConaughey. Need I say more?"
Have y'all seen the Lincoln ad spoofs with Jim Carrey?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3eN9...
And then there's spoof with Ellen DeGeneres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69ch...
Some pretty funny stuff :D
McConaughey is a good guy and takes kidding in stride. Part of what makes him attractive.
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The weather app says The Weather Channel. It lets me choose different cities and have them all displayed in an order I choose. I have my city on top and then my families locations and then cities where some of you GR folks are. My list goes "east" as the crow flies. It displays the time and what the weather is like and whether it is light or dark. It shows the sunrise and sunset with little icons. I can expand each location to get more information like wind chill etc and go back and forth between C and F.
If it is snowing or raining, it shows it actually doing it on my iPod screen. It shows the hourly forecast for the day and the daily forecast for the next week.
I show Janice up in Grand Prairie, snow showers and 0F (-18C) at 9:52am PST my time and 10:52am her time.
I have Roermond as the closest place for Peggy as -1C and partly cloudy. It is dark at 6:00 pm.
It is partly cloudy in Canberra at 5:01am and 12C. Rusalka is still sleeping, I suspect.
It is pouring down rain here in NW Oregon and 9C in Hillsboro and 10C in Portland and I need to get back to work. :0)