Slow Year
ACU Frank
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Pretty dull around here so far this year.
ACU Frank
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Did someone hit you in the side of the head with a snowball or are you molting?
Sharon
I would say my New Year's resolution is to have more fun this year, but I actually started it last fall. I'm trying to find those activities I enjoyed as a kid, and do more of them now. Less sedentary fun, and more play. So, in the last five months, I've gone on long bicycle rides, taken picnic lunches to the park, went sledding, bowled a few times, and sat down in the woods just to watch the bugs and stuff. Yeah, I still enjoy finding an old song I haven't heard in ages and downloading it through iTunes, but quite honestly, I think that time would be better spent blowing up Matchbox cars with firecrackers.
That sounds like a great resolution -- be it New Years or late summer. I'm hoping to do some sledding soon myself. It was my favorite winter activity when I was a kid. I haven't gotten to do it since college when we would use the trays from the cafeteria. Like most of the country, we are at the beginning of what looks to be a long cold spell with the possibility of snow later this week. If it snows, I'm so going sledding.
Celeste
I saw on the weather channel that this cold is actually due to global warming. They said the result of global warming is unprecedented weather patterns, and that we are stuck in an artic cold system because it is unusually warm in Greenland. The warm high pressure there is keeping the cold weather from moving east as it should, which forces it down on top of us. Global warming or not, I say let the cold air move east and give us all a break!
42 degrees in Alaska, in January? That's downright balmy.
I'm jealous. It's been low teens at night and mid to high twenties during the day here in Middle Tennessee for about a week and I'm ready for the temp to get back up to normal for this time of year -- 42 degrees, in January!
Sharon
We do endure a LOT of rain here, but like my husband always says, you don't have to shovel rain, and when other parts of the country are like a deep-freeze we actually appreciate the fact that it's just raining here!
Cold weather has made some employees grumpy, so the weather is not the only thing sending out 'cold' and 'frosty' messages. Brrrrr
I heard a comment yesterday that went something like: "Temp of 5 degrees today - wind chill feels like -12. Isn't that like saying: 100% chance of rain today - with an umbrella it feels dry."