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Nov 17, 2014 06:05AM
It's in the 70s today, but it is very gray.
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Currently 24 degrees F
I'ts actually kind of hot here. Hope everyone stays warm in the cold places.
We had a couple inches of snow over the weekend. FREEZING here this morning. Temp at 9am is 12F with a windchill of -3F. :-(
I would say a little uncomfortable, bundle well. many layers.
It is 44 degrees F out this morning. Clear skies.
Catherine wrote: "I would say a little uncomfortable, bundle well. many layers."More than a little uncomfortable. I wore a turtleneck and matching warm sweater today and I'm still cold here at work. Going to be a long day....
13 degrees F now where I am.
Husband grows most of our vegetables and today we ate his last parsnip- a forked monster of a thing. We've also only a few potatoes left in the ground now. Sadness! Luckily he is growing a lot of curly Kale, which I read somewhere is the new wonder veg. and is being consumed by film stars by the bucket load! Will let you all know if I am suitably revitalised.Don't like to mention the weather, as I know many of you are suffering, but the sun is peeking through the clouds here.
Abigail wrote: "Carol, try kale chips. Yum!"Presumably kale chips are potato and kale, rather than just kale. That sounds like bubble and squeak, which is old potato and cabbage fried up and is very tasty. Do you know of bubble and squeak in the US, or is that just something here in Britain?
No to both. ;) It's just kale leaves with a little olive oil and salt and baked up crisp. And I've heard of bubble and squeak, but it's not a common American dish.
Bubble and Squeak is not so common here now. Food has really changed since my childhood. Then we only had chicken once a year at Xmas. Now it's so cheap and intensively produced everyone has it all the time. We used to eat things like fried seaweed, which was scraped off the local rocks and then boiled, which a man would come to the door and sell to us. It can still be bought, but not easily.Health and hygiene awareness has now increased. My mother always used to put a silver coin in the Xmas pudding. I don't tend to think that happens any more.
You know, I'm not sure what goes in my family's Christmas pudding. My grandmother always put a number of coins in, but they've been the same coins for many, many years (and she's no longer alive). *Apparently* they're old Australian coins that aren't dangerous. *Apparently*... As I don't eat the pudding I suppose I'm safe either way! :)Carol wrote: "Luckily he is growing a lot of curly Kale, which I read somewhere is the new wonder veg. and is being consumed by film stars by the bucket load!"
The "cooking experts" in my neck of the woods have been going on about it for a while.
I still haven't eaten it, but if you want to be one of the cool kids it's definitely The Thing to be eating at the moment!
Yay! I'm a cool kid! *laugh*I like seaweed, but I'd rather not think about it being scraped off rocks.
Sonya Heaney wrote: "You know, I'm not sure what goes in my family's Christmas pudding. My grandmother always put a number of coins in, but they've been the same coins for many, many years (and she's no longer alive). ..."I remember what an odd feeling it is when you're suddenly chewing on a coin! It's a wonder we didn't break our teeth!
Well, as I eat kale, I have obviously become 'cool' at a rather advanced age Hooray!
It looks really snowy in New York State. Not quite sure where that is in relation to Connecticut. Husband has recorded the US News for me. Will watch that later.
Carol wrote: "Well, as I eat kale, I have obviously become 'cool' at a rather advanced age Hooray!"**chuckles**
Carol wrote: "I remember what an odd feeling it is when you're suddenly chewing on a coin! It's a wonder we didn't break our teeth!"I desperately need to learn to appreciate Christmas pudding... My (Ukrainian) mother used to get a migraine from the pudding every year! I used to love digging coins out of my pudding back when I was a little child, but it was always so rich for me…
Ahhhrrgghh what a day! I took our stray kittens to the vet this morning. They'd never been away from their mother before. They were so good (apart from the one that insisted on sitting on my shoulder the whole time!). I'm being totally irrational and want to keep all of them. My heart is going to break tomorrow when the first kitten (the shoulder-climber) goes to his new home. :(
We have four cats in total, and managed to get three there today. The vet loaned us a carrier to bring the fourth one in on Saturday morning... Good luck to me with that!
Carol wrote: "It looks really snowy in New York State. Not quite sure where that is in relation to Connecticut. Husband has recorded the US News for me. Will watch that later."We're having a heatwave in Canberra at the moment! I actually do think Christmas is better in winter. Summer Christmas - how do we apply all those carols and cards etc. to that?!
Yes, I can see that Xmas in the heat is a bit weird. I like to have our seasons. In fact, I would prefer to have just a bit more snow here in the winter. (A bit selfish, I know, but as it won't happen, it doesn't matter).Cats often look so beautiful, don't they? Yours certainly do.
Only discovered the other day that foxes have golden yellow eyes, with the same vertical slit that cats possess.
Sonya Heaney wrote: "Carol wrote: "I remember what an odd feeling it is when you're suddenly chewing on a coin! It's a wonder we didn't break our teeth!"I desperately need to learn to appreciate Christmas pudding... ..."
Kitties are sooo adorable! But if you manage to give them up then you are blessing someone.
Sonya Heaney wrote: "Carol wrote: "It looks really snowy in New York State. Not quite sure where that is in relation to Connecticut. Husband has recorded the US News for me. Will watch that later."We're having a heat..."
I wanna move to Canberra!
Kittehs!!!!New York and Connecticut are pretty dang close.
Need to improve my geography! Daughter was in Canada recently and the people she met had never heard of Belgium, which is where she lives. Gave her a bit of a shock.
Adorable pic of the kitties, Sonya Heaney.
Cute kitties, Sonya!Carol: Not Canadian, but I do know where Belgium is -- that's that town on Lake Michigam about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Oh, wait...I suppose you mean the one in Europe (grin). We flew out of Paris by way of Brussels at end of a HS trip.
One of my favorite segments of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno were the "Jaywalking" bits. It never ceased to amaze me how little basic geography people knew.
I can understand it more when people in the US don't know of events and places elsewhere, because it is such a huge country, and you don't have to go anywhere else to experience different climates and scenery. It's a bit different here in Britain, though. We are very small and very much crammed together.
Phew! Greets from Queensland, Australia - we're having a heat wave here. It's nearly 9.45pm and it's still hot enough to have an aircon on.
Elizabeth wrote: "Phew! Greets from Queensland, Australia - we're having a heat wave here. It's nearly 9.45pm and it's still hot enough to have an aircon on."Can I come over? lol
You're so lucky Elizabeth. It's just above freezing here and the 2 feet of snow we got this week is melting and it's freezing rain. What a lovely day out.... At least I don't have to leave the house today except to take the dog out.
Just got back from taking my dog out for a walk. How is everyone?
I'm great, just ordered a pizza for me and the BF and watching Strictly with a glass of baileys.
Pizza sounds great. Enjoy!
We neither have heat or snow here this morning, just a grey, damp day. Several fishermen fishing from the jetty at Babbacombe, so it must be good weather conditions for fish!
Carol wrote: "We neither have heat or snow here this morning, just a grey, damp day. Several fishermen fishing from the jetty at Babbacombe, so it must be good weather conditions for fish!"This morning here it's grey & drizzling. The sidewalks are a combination of clear but wet, slushy, and ice. My white dog came in speckled after our walk. Such a dreary Sunday.
Will be speaking to son later this afternoon, so will finally find out if Connecticut has had snow! Every time I look at the weather it seems to be something different for there. New York State seems to have been very badly hit, but that's not near him (I think).
Lizzie, I read a book that was published a while ago (maybe early 80s?) that had an American living in London, and she commented that she couldn't get pizza delivery. Is that still the case?
I never thought that. We've had Pizza delivery here for years.
You can get delivery of most things here now. We have most of our supermarket food delivered every week. Is that the same in the US?
Going out for a Mexican next week, can't wait.
Carol wrote: "You can get delivery of most things here now. We have most of our supermarket food delivered every week. Is that the same in the US?"I think there are places you can get delivery but not where I am. (Rural Arkansas)
Lizzie wrote: "Going out for a Mexican next week, can't wait."As in dinner? Or a man? lol
Geez, we have grocery shops on every corner. No need for delivery.I'm picky about my fruits and vegetables. I don't know if I'd want someone else picking them out for me.
Pamela(AllHoney) wrote: "As in dinner? Or a man? lol"**hee hee**
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