6 more weeks of winter for you northern snow peeps! We are sailing today in the Florida panhandle with temps in the mid 60s. Have a nice day bundling up and shoveling snow!
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The ice is safe now. We can walk/sail on water. No bugs to worry about. The ski slopes are packed....so there is an upside to this four season stuff. Greatings from the great white north.
Cold is a FAD.
Punxsutawney Phil is a FAD.
Groundhog Day is a FAD.
Was it his shadow, or someone else's? That makes a big difference you know.
Tami has got it right! Bob, we may just ship that little beast down to you! It's a nice spring day in Boston!
Define
sees his shadow
Did he see his shadow or does it look like he
sees his shadow
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I hear
he
is a girl anyway. What is the truth about this, is there a coverup here someplace.
Well, it's only 82F/28C down here today, I can see my shadow so I guess it will be nice for at least 6 more weeks, right? But there is no wind on the lake so I'm going bike riding instead of sailing...
He/she....semantics
im freezing, can we change the subject?
Ship that little rascal here!! That will entertain my rottweilers for about 15 minutes.
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BTW,
General Beauregard Lee didn't see his shadow... who cares what some damned yankees think?!
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The Mockingbirds have started nest building.
General Beauregard??? I cough and say -ripoff- at the same time!
Can't the folks around Loser Rock, GA come up with an original idea for their spring showing? How about that butt ugly UGA dog, maybe if he craps and then eats it, 6 more weeks of winter... <img src=
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Bob, It's not nice to brag to the people who live in colder areas (BTW it was 80 here yesterday in the Tampa area.. sailing in shorts) <img src=
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I'll be flying into Tampa this Saturday, for two weeks of fun in the sun! I hope the good weather holds, and I can get in some decent sailing on the gulf. The condo where I go has a couple of Waves and Lasers on the beach. (I usually end up giving lots of rides and sailing lessons to kids and elderly snowbirds.)
Looks like heaven to me! A little cooler for the weekend, but still better than the forecast for Indiana. I have learned however, that anything beyond
tomorrow's forecast
there is purely a guess, and subject to change.
That's true up north, but the weather systems don't move as quickly down here so the forecasts are a little more reliable day to day, even 3-4 days out.
Well they got it totally wrong 2 weekends ago (gasparilla)... they said no rain till evening... and 70* ... WRONG!
But at other times they are right on.., like this weekend.
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Indy, thanks for doing your share, hope the weather cooperates and regardless...have a great time!
Weatherman and stock brokers, two jobs where you can be wrong and still get paid.
Personally I think Phil is a lackey of the meteorlogical-entertainment complex and I don't care what he saw this year. If you think I'm going to crawl out from under the covers and dance for you (or not) on February 2nd, you can KMA. Anyway, now that - one way or the other - those stupid six weeks are up, open the damn water already.
Here's me making a little side trip in mid-November 2019 (just a few months before COVID slammed the border shut for a couple of years) en route home from Long Island NY to Calgary AB, towing the SuperCat 19. I didn't make the trip that late by design; I'd been fighting for months to try to find someone to tow it for me (even partway - MT, WI, even just NJ to get it off the island) and eventually had to say "screw it" and drive. By the time I got to Illinois I was being chased by winter storms. Whee!
And leaving Madison WI a day or two later:
en route home from Long Island NY to Calgary AB, towing the SuperCat 19
That is an epic trip indeed towing cross continent and over the Rockies.Â
This story deserved its own topic! How many days?
I'm in the foothills of the eastern slopes of the Rockies, so not through the mountains - fortunately. I think it was nine days, round trip - but it's been a few years and I'd have to check my notes. I was quite aware of how late in the season it was for a cross-continent run and wasn't screwing around - other than the little side-trip of a few hours to visit Punxsutawney. But SCs are extremely rare up here and this was the nearest one at the time... though about a month later what was probably a better 19 (and at a better price) popped up in Madison, which is a key stop for me on these trips because an old pal lives there. But there's no way you can kick yourself over stuff like that - the randomness of the universe. And the Long Island visit was very cool, though short. The 20s came from Toronto and rural Vermont, each another road trip.