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2010-09-02 14:35
It’s hot in Willow Grove too, Yorkshike. I’m lookin at bout 4″ of heat out my family room door. And it’s only 1:15 PM. This global warming’s gonna kill us if we don’t freeze to death first.
We got out 6 inches last week, along with temps in the minus single digits. Is currently in the low 20′s. Thank God for Glowbull Warming!
Ooops, make that “Our” 6 inches.
Sure you did Eric.
Is this gonna be one of those bizarro El Nino years where it doesn’t have its normal effects because it’s too far west? I hope not – I want some snow in Raleigh instead of this annoying rain…
Last week Boise had a heat wave that bottomed out at about -5 F for a couple of nights. Then a week ago Friday we had several inches of global warming. Naturally that was the night of my daughter’s 16 birthday party. Had to use the 4 wheel drive for that excursion into the hot zone. This week we have had those dang miserably warm icy roads every morning. According to the extended weather forecast we might even have a blazing Christmas…or is that blinding from the snow?
Jeff:
Is this gonna be one of those bizarro El Nino years where it doesn’t have its normal effects because it’s too far west? I hope not – I want some snow in Raleigh instead of this annoying rain…
We’ll send you some. We’re heading for 2 feet. It’s over a foot and we’re in the 2″ / hour band and it’s supposed to go to late tonight. It’s -5ºC (21º)
Yeah, I got an inch of snow in my yard right now.
I didn’t have an abortion today, so using the way you guys think, there’s no such as abortion
love this logical style, actually
I have a dollar. There’s a surplus in the economy!
cbmc:
I have a dollar. There’s a surplus in the economy!
It’s a dollar the gummint missed.
Gosh, you guys have all the fun. The temperature here in SW Florida is down to 80 degrees with 52% humidity. Winds are 12mph out of the WNW. We just don’t get much Global Warming down here, not during winter anyway.
It’s nearly intolerable outside in shorts and a shirt, and on the water you need sunglasses to keep the glare down to an acceptable level.
But, if you look on the bright side, the fish are jumpin’, the beer is icy cold, for diner tonight we’re having shrimp on the veranda weather permitting.
Ropelight, I hope you choke on your shrimp.
The Weather Channel kept saying 3 to 5 inches today, and another 3 to 5 tonight. It didn’t start snowing in Jim Thorpe until about 1300, and it doesn’t look like there’s more than 1½ to 2 inches out here now; the snow isn’t that heavy.
Part of the reason that the snow is lighter here than predicted — at least so far — is that I got out the snow-blower that I haven’t used in a couple of years and got it started. It’s now ready to go, if I need it, which means I probably won’t need it. Had I not been able to get it started, we’d be getting buried!
Well, John, you almost got your wish. It was touch and go for a few seconds, I tried a new dipping sauce, Wasabi Cocktail Sauce from Pike Place Fish Market. That’s in Seattle for for the uninitiated. PPFM is one of the world’s great fresh fish and geegaw emporiums. I like horseradish and lemon juice in standard cocktail sauce, but the Wasabi horseradish sauce is just too damn hot. And, I’m a guy who buys Valentina by the liter.
I had to forgo my usual full immersion application in favor of the neophyte’s partial surface drag. But, it all worked out well. I’m full of shrimp (incidentally once called “the roach of the sea”)and beer, lookin’ forward to tonight’s game between the Cowboys and the Saints.
Best Regards to all, Merry Christmas, Take Care, and Stay Safe and Warm up there in East Overshoe.
This is a neat place, but watch out for flying fish:
ropelight wrote:
We eat Japanese food rather a lot, and one day we took the spare daughter to an unfortunately now closed Japanese restaurant in Allentown. There was this innocent-looking green stuff, kind of avocado colored, on the plate. You should have seen the look on her face when she tried it.
I got the Cowboys + 7.5 points. I like the Saints, but 7.5 points is too good to pass up.
Dana, that reminds me of one time when my then-girlfriend’s little sister decided she’d attempt to drink from a bottle of Cholula at a Mexican restaurant… that didn’t end well either.
Ropelight, if it weren’t December I’d take Dallas and the points. OK, I wouldn’t, because I’d die before I bet on the Cowpies, but it’d be the smart thing to do. Alas, since it’s December the Cowpies have already folded up shop and gone home for the winter…
York, you got it, PPFM. Thanks, flying fish and the brass pig too. If you like seafood this is one of the very best of places. And, I do like seafood.
Dana, I spent 1966 in Japan, Yokota AFB in the city of Fussa, just outside Tokyo, out beyond Tachikawa. Love the people and the food. Got lots of stories.
I have only recently had wasabi. And that’s because I have only recently had sushi. Sushi is good and wasabi is only weak green horseradish. That is all.
John, wasabi is Japanese horseradish, and it is green, but weak it usually isn’t. Over do it, and we’re talkin’ a full nasal burn, tears, and upper chest convulsions.
The Greeks said that learning comes only through suffering. They were right. So, take it from a 45 year wasabi vet, go slow, and remember, fools rush in where wise men fear to tread.
Sushi is good, and so is pickled ginger, a little bit of wasabi, and add some soy sauce, you got yourself some damn fine bait.
John Hitchcock:
I have only recently had wasabi. And that’s because I have only recently had sushi. Sushi is good and wasabi is only weak green horseradish. That is all.
As my friend Lamar from MS has often told me, he likes his Sushi battered and deep fried.
And my son who thought any new food we wanted him to try was poison, now eats sushi (fish bait) and a lot of other things.
The trick with wasabi is to use just enough to enhance flavor, and not so much that you overpower it.
ropelight:
York, you got it, PPFM. Thanks, flying fish and the brass pig too. If you like seafood this is one of the very best of places. And, I do like seafood.
At the bottom of that cliff behing PPM there are a few good seafood restaurants on the piers. But walking back up the steps is a cardio workout of the first order.
Yorkshire wrote:
For you more than others?
Dana Pico:
Yorkshire wrote:
At the bottom of that cliff behing PPM there are a few good seafood restaurants on the piers. But walking back up the steps is a cardio workout of the first order.
For you more than others?
I was ther for that in the late 80′s before the leg started to really go bad. Anything before the summer of ’95 things could be done normally, almost. But from the summer of ’95 to the fall of ’06, things deteriorated slow at first, then went really rotten from ’03 onward.
Cowboys win, I’ve got a pocketful of free money. Now, for the tough decisions: Bloody Mary or Screwdriver to break my fast. Since I have windfall oranges, it’s going to be a Screwdriver.