Common Ground Coffee House #115

Good to hear that your feeling better Sue.

I've been drinking more coffee lately, and for a good reason too.
Last night (or possibly early this morning) the temperature hit minus 46.2 Celsius which is -51 F. The windchill was -59 C. or -74.2! Yep, minus 74.2 Fahrenheit, the coldest place in North America. We were in competition for the coldest place on the planet but a small town in Siberia beat us by two degrees. We are the second coldest place in the world early Sunday morning, but we made it out to church anyway and so did most everyone else.

The weather geeks are threatening us with two more days of this stuff. What did we do? And those in Copenhagen are complaining about "Global Warming"?? They should hold their conference here!
Well, enough of my rant.
Have a good day.

 

Greetings....hope all is on the mend Sue. It has been just over a year since I migrated to New Zealand from Australia.

I have been very happy living in a small city or a large town.The church I attend has a strong presence here and makes all things joyful.

Surprisingly difficult to fit in at work which has been very stressful...you know it is time to move on when you start retching entering the building.Sadly, I have never had strong nerves.

I shall be moving from this lovely flat overlooking the beautiful Whanganui River, I am about 3 minutes from the centre of town. I have bought a wee house near the epicentre of my life.

It is raining here, the cats as silly as ever. The fejoias will be coming in shortly...a peculiar fruit much loved here....I prefer it juiced.

Went to a local production of Vivaldi's "Gloria" which was lovely...a little uneven in tone but pretty fine for local musicians and singers.I must attend the Opera next year.....for a rural town the fine arts are very active....

Keep well, and God bless you:1_grouphug:

 

I brought fresh fruit. Help yourselves.

Things here have been crazy busy. We've been busy with winter humanitarian aid, regular church schedules, homeschooling, wood cutting, yard and garden clean-up, and cookie decorating. Now we're busy trying to solve our chimney issues. Sigh. Pray we can get that resolved, please.

Now I better run. This hair doesn't dye itself

 

We're having beautiful weather-not too hot and not too cold.
I can't seem to find a reporting job here that works with my schedule, and the ones that do are ones That require too much travel, so still doing the high school thing, which I'd hoped would be temp.

Christmas decorating time is coming, so that should be fun! Can't wait to drive around and see the lights!

 

Good Afternoon Everybody,

Good to see you back Sue, hope your health improves, and a cause for the COPD flare-up is found and able to be treated.

It is 35 degrees here. The weatherman says we have a chance of snow flurries that might be mixed with rain. Gonna have to cool down some for it to snow though.

Sure seems strange decorating our new place. We were in our last one for over 30 years, and we have so much more room now then we had.

Brenda wanted a live tree for our first Christmas in the new house. We have a 10' tree now [with 12' ceilings just enough room for a tree topper.]

We've been lucky so far in regards to snowfall. We've got about 1" on the ground here right now. The west part of Michigan got hammered with lake effect snow. Some parts received up to a foot of the white stuff.

Not much going on around here, just daily chores and errands as usual.

 

Yay, and congrats Sue! Your great-grandbaby will be delivered just a few weeks before my very first grandbaby is born!!! Woohoo, I finally get to be a grandma!! :thumbs:

 

Copy that! Our oldest son is 26 and married 2 years when the baby arrives. Our youngest son is 19 with too many prospects! :laugh:

Our family is small; looking forward to the next generation expanding that # a little. :thumbs:

 

From minus 50 to plus 30 F. in just two days. That is a change of 80 degrees, and a pleasant one at that. At least now I will be able to go out and shovel the snow off the drive way without freezing my hands.

 

Good luck, DHK, and please ... keep the snow up there! :wavey:

 

A friend living in South Carolina posted on face book that he saw 3 flakes of snow, and then they canceled school. :laugh:
I assume they got more than three flakes however.

 

Back in 93 when I lived in bham bama we had a freak blizzard blow through. It started flurrying at 4:30 PM and by the next morining it was darn near my knee caps. All of Bham was shut down for almost two weeks. Southerners know nothing about a snow plow and there was nothing to clear the streets. A lot of people went without elect. for quite a while.

 

Blessed Sunday Everyone!

Sue, congrats and prayers are in order for you! Seems like I can remember when you had the number 16 following your name! You have indeed been blessed.

Ann, I got up this morning, turned on the tv which was showing the weather over your parts and immediately wondered if you were enjoying all the white stuff! So how goes it this morning? I'm watching the Falcon/Jets game at the moment and there are piles of snow on the sidelines though no snow seems to be falling.

Hey RevM. I lived through that blizzard too! It was way funny. We are barely 60 miles to the west and slightly north of B'ham and we were out driving around 2 or 3 days later, but we couldn't get into B'ham to go to work! Most of the snow had fallen south and we only had 6 or 7 inches. We haven't had more than a couple of snowfalls since that time. Sorta makes me sad.

Ya'll have a good Sunday. I've left fresh homemade cresent rolls on the counter with a nice variety of jam. Clean up after yourselves. I don't want Sue fussing that there was sticky stuff all over the coffeehouse when she comes in next! :laugh: