[butterfly11]

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

This is my sister's birthday. We have been talking about her birthday being the shortest day of the year for many years now. The day after is 1 minute longer,and the second day after is 2 minutes longer. I think that's how it still goes. If I'm wrong please let me know. BF

BF - Hope your sister is having a great birthday! I never knew that about the time. That's interesting!

[Mari]

Hi,

We have a little cool spell tonight and tomorrow:
low tonight: 43 degrees
high saturday: 63 degrees

Here is a song for the Solstice:
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love - Royal Albert Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3P2P331vE

M

[Brokenfriend]

Originally Posted by Dmom3005

Okay I vote that Steve has the best reason in the room for today
not being the end of the world.

His sister's birthday.


Then if it ended. We wouldn't be celebrating my husbands tomorrow.

Donna

Dmom3005 Please tell your husband that we say happy birthday. BF

[Brokenfriend]

We had a snow thunderstorm 20 miles away. I didn't see any,but the Weather Channel showed a man in the storm reporting the lightning,and snow. BF

[DiMarie]

Originally Posted by Brokenfriend

We had a snow thunderstorm 20 miles away. I didn't see any,but the Weather Channel showed a man in the storm reporting the lightning,and snow. BF

They can be fun to experience as. Long as no power loss. Going to have more real cold weather. In a few days. Single digit again. Really bad when 20's. is considered not bad. Although we never did have a good freeze for ice fishing and only plow able snow was around Christmas Eve and yesterday.

I am ready for warmth. Winter is too long up here.
Be safe Steve.
Di

[waves]

DiMarie, i'd gladly take a week of subfreezing temps from ya, just so it would kill off all the mosquitoes. No, it's not like there are a lot, but the fact is it used to be cold enough here during winter, to exterminate them. Without this seasonal kill-off, we are going to be inundated when spring comes.

Part of the problem is that for several years now we have had a growing population of a type of the Tiger Mosquito. It is bigger, feistier, and "hunts" day and night (as opposed to dusk onwards). This mosquito is also more resistant to adverse conditions including cold, so we really need a good deepfreeze that will kill it and kill any larvae...

At the same time, our overall warmer temps year-round perhaps explain how this mosquito was able to spread here - it originates in warmer regions of Asia.

Dern BUGS! ugh!

Oh! and the stings from this one are worse than from "regular" skeeters - they itch to the point of pain, scarcely respond to regular treatment (even cortisone!) and take 7-10 days to remit considerably. Some people, when they receive new stings, also experience a re-inflammation of older/existing stings. This thing has crrrrazy venom!!!

~ waves ~

[Mari]

Waves,

Do they stay outside or do you have them inside as well?

Here's hoping you get a deep freeze soon.

M

[DiMarie]

Funny you mention that Waves. We have had a substantial mild two winters. This few days a polar drift. Comes down is not enough to kill abundance of bugs either. I don't suspect we have the Tiger misquito but it is resisting the cold. Dd and I had two bites last weekend, and right before Christmas it was 60* and that weird lady bugs came out.
Maybe before Sprong we may luck out with a ground freeze and it will help kill the bugs.
Di

[waves]

Oh this cracked me up so bad!!!

Originally Posted by Mari

Do they stay outside [...] ?

Dear Mari, why of course! They are such highly evolved beings they are able to communicate with us telepathically. When we open a door we mentally broadcast a polite request that any mosquito remain outside the threshold, and they most graciously comply...
YEARRRRIGHT!

Ok, so the real deal is, we have screens, so it's not like every time we open a window they come in. but we keep stuff on our mini-terrace, and have to go in and out daily. so sometimes something flies in. my mom got bitten, and she later killed it... inside.

i saw one in the subway the other day. I had to flap it away from me a couple of times. But it's the ones you don't see that gitcha, i'n'it?

~ waves ~

[waves]

Dear Di,

Originally Posted by DiMarie

Funny you mention that Waves. We have had a substantial mild two winters. This few days a polar drift. Comes down is not enough to kill abundance of bugs either. I don't suspect we have the Tiger misquito but it is resisting the cold. Dd and I had two bites last weekend, and right before Christmas it was 60* and that weird lady bugs came out.
Maybe before Sprong we may luck out with a ground freeze and it will help kill the bugs.
Di

Arghhh! ... it really is GLOBAL warming!! Or El Niño or something. Well i hope for you and me both, that we get that freeze! here we haven't even dropped below freezing point but a couple of times... it's pretty wild. only snowed a couple times too, but snowpoint is about 33-35* usually.



~ waves ~