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I've been watching Border Security on TV lately. What a hoot!!! There is an Australian and a Canadian version (me!) so far. It's amazing what people try to bring in!!! We've seen fried dead rats, salted ducks, eels and of course the drugs and where they hide them. Our version has the mail processing as well. Just a hoot to watch! Everyone thinks of us Canadians as so meek and mild because we don't carry arms...heheheheehe - surprise!! I LOVE seeing the faces of the USA people being told they are "foreign nationals"!
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Lol Barbe, I watch that as well......sometimes it makes you think some of these people were born without a brain.........fancy thinking they are going to get that sort of stuff in!!! Some of the excuses are priceless....hahahaha!
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Chrissy, it all sounds so much more polite with an Aussie accent!!! I'm impressed with how calm these officers do stay and love when the male passengers try to get around the female officers!!
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Yes I watch Border Security as well. And we have a local one too which is good.
Don't worry Ginger even though we are ahead in time we are well behind with a lot of the coverage and because it happens during our night we see replays. Watching the Luge at present. DGS says he is going to do that when he is a big boy!!
Big hugs
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Yes I watch Border Security as well. And we have a local one too which is good.
Don't worry Ginger even though we are ahead in time we are well behind with a lot of the coverage and because it happens during our night we see replays. Watching the Luge at present. DGS says he is going to do that when he is a big boy!!
Big hugs
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Barbe I think some of those guys think they are Gods gift to women and on body search are discovered to have the b***ls of a bull..........just a shame the same can be said about their brains! I just love the episodes where they find almost a full supermarket in the baggage! Oh my! Haven't they ever been told that honesty is always the best policy?!
I'm watching the Olympics as well but have been watching all night and going to bed at 6.00am and sleeping till noon.......or there abouts.........for some reason it's just not the same on replay.......but there again, maybe its just me and I'm a bit nuts! hahahaha!!!!
The heat is back in all it's glory!.....YUK!!!!! I'm dreading my power bill when it arrives as the air con has pretty much been running non stop for almost a month!!!!! Roll on Autumn.........quickly would be nice.
Love n hugs all! Chrissy
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We didn't run our air conditioner in our last house as we needed the fuse for our dryer (the previous people had a gas dryer). It became bad enough that we went to a motel one night just to use the pool and sleep in the cool! Was wonderful to go to work, too. I just can't stand it when I can't cool down my body temperature. That's when I learned to sleep on a bath towel in the nude! We had no ceiling lights so couldn't put up a fan, either. We run it in this house when needed - not constantly either. We are fortunate that we don't get direct sun into our usual living areas and can close off the hot upstairs bedroom when needed. Canada is a country of extremes, too! I've worn my heavy winter coat at the beginning of April, say, and by the end of the month I'm in sleeveless tops! Some years in March we are already sitting on the back deck in tees. We just never know....
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Barbe, We lived in a house in Houston where the AC and clothes dryer shared a fuse. We would unplug one to run the other.
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It's been snowing in my part of NC since before 7:00 AM when I got up. We already have about 6 inches and apparently this is NOT the Big Storm everyone's been preparing (e.g. buying bread and milk) for. That's to come tomorrow and continue into Thursday. Nothing on the roads yet at all, thanks to the brining that's already been done, but they're very wet and will freeze tonight. I got out a bit today, but now am in for the duration. If I disappear for a couple of days, the power's out! (This thing's supposed to end in sleet and freezing rain.)
School's closed everywhere tomorrow so DD's a happy camper now. Won't be too happy making these days up on Saturdays, though.
Kathy
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I cannot imagine living in a place where even the roads freeze! Although I guess I would need to experience it (probably fun for the first time) before I could really judge. I say I prefer the cold but the cold we get here in Aus is NOT the cold you get over there even though we do get snow it's nothing like what you get. If it snows where I live it is a fun thing and it's just a light dusting, enough so the kids can build a small snowman from the snow that has built up against a wall or such like............within hours it's usually gone and it always wet snow not that lovely powder snow they get in the Australian Alpine region.
Stay warm and dry Kathy and everyone else in the storms path!!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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We don't get snow here but it does snow in our Mountains which are not far away. We go from sea level to a mile high in less than an hour.
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Wren, there was never a line from the dryer to the fuse box which was in the garage for some reason!! (not in the house near the laundry room). We found out that our fuse box didn't have enough room to add another appliance and we'd have to lose the dryer for the AC but it would have been a HUGE expense to run the electricity from the garage to the laundry room. An expense we weren't prepared to pay. So not as easy as switching which appliance was active....sorry I didn't make myself clear.
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We got about 8 or 9 inches of snow and it's now sleeting (temp. is 21F) so expecting the power to go out tonight. Why oh why did we not put in a fireplace??? The sleet seems to have beaten lots of snow off the trees, and I haven't seen anyone driving on our street at all today, but that's a good thing! I did laundry today while we still have power, so we'll at least be clothed! Okay, I've had enough, more than enough snow to look at today and I'll not be watching any winter olympics tonight. Hope everyone's all right, especially those in the path of this horrendous storm!
Kathy
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Been watching it on the news, Kathy. What a horrible winter this has been! Much worse for those east of where I am. Thinking about you and hoping the power stays on for you!
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Kathy and all you girls over there in the path of these horrendous storms please take care and try to stay warm.
While you all have been freezing we have been roasting.........our records books have once again been re written with a more than twelve days of summer over 40 C ( that's 105 F) and one of the driest for many years. Usually I get to run my aircon for about ten days each summer but already it's been going for almost three weeks non stop and there is still more heat to come but thankfully we are going to get a temperature drop down to the high 70's, low 80's for the next four days......yippeeeee!!!
BigD welcome to the thread!
Strange the things we get excited over......lol.
Love n hugs all! Chrissy
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Hey Chrissy, thanks! I know about those 105 temps in the summer here in Dallas! I complain when it is too cold, like now, and I complain when it is too hot! I think I should be in California haha.
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BigD we have had those over 105 temps up to 115! If it just stayed at 105 things would have been waaaay cooler!........lol.......although I think once it gets to 105 anything above doesn't really matter as it's just too darn hot to think at all!
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hi everyone, welcome bigd!
Well, I am missing the storms in the NE now because I am in Florida. My DS and I came down for my cousin's son's wedding. We'll be here less than a week, but it is warm even though it is raining right now. We are going to go either kayaking or to the zoo tomorrow and then the boat show. So fun to be tourists.
Hopefully, this will knock this old cold right out of my body.
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I used to wonder if people in the South of the US talked so slow because it was too hot to think or talk fast. Take my word for it, there is no such thing as a 3 min phone call to Alabama. I think even a wrong number would take longer.
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Well, I've still got power! For now anyway, although it could go at any time. DD and her family are now in the dark, and they live 20 miles south of here in SC. Roads are totally impassable and it's still sleeting, freezing rain. Another 3-5 in. of snow is predicted for tomorrow, too. Cabin fever has set in big time now, ladies.
Welcome to you BigD, and thanks for the kind words!
Chrissy, I wish I was with you in Australia now, heat and all!
Kathy
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Stay warm those in the Eastern States.
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After The Storm of The Century in December we haven't had much rain - it's been balmy and people are concerned about drought!
Weird.
Leah
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This has been an unusually harsh winter for us here just north of Toronto, too. We think of snow as having insulation properties once it covers our gardens and crops. But this year has been combined with very, very low temperatures (under the -30's) combined with deep snowfalls which is unusual. If it snows that much then it's actually warmer!
Global warming, my ass!
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Barbe, I imagine our Big Blizzard of 2/2014 seems very small to you and with temps in the minus 30 range I do understand. What's a major disaster here wouldn't even sound like a skirmish to you! Here, a snow like this only occurs about every 10 years.
But all is well and our power stayed on, although many are without it. DH and I actually got out today in his 4-wheel drive and it was fine after we got out of our neighborhood. It was so nice to get out of the house too.
Kathy
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A minute ago, edited a few seconds ago by sas-schatzi
STOP THE PRESSES NEWS FLASH: 9:44pm EST---8:44pm Colorado time(?)
Our dear fearless friend Chevy has a broken left hip. She crossed the road to avoid ice, she stated in the interview and this rock got under left foot. She turned her ankle and fell. This was early today 2/13/14. She's been in the hospital all day. She's on Morphine, but she has her wits about her. Her humor intact. Doesn't sound loopy at all. Her DD is at her side, as is DH.
Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow at 2 pm, 2/14/14. ORIF --Open reduction internal fixation(long rod and screws). She expects to be in the hospital for two days after surgery. Rehab in hospital for two days after surgery. May go to rehab facility. That will be decided later for sure.
She can't post here because the hospital keyboard is too complicated (shut-up Cami).
She wasn't happy that this stupid injury interfered with her planned casino trip.
She asks that Cami do the AM post reviews in the morning on each of her threads.(Thanks Cami).
Thinking of everyone and sends XOXO's
Will keep you updated---sassy
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Sas, Thanks for letting us know.
Chevy, Sending healing thoughts.
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Kathy, please know I wasn't downsizing your issues!! Just pointing out that we have issues this winter as well. Nothing is normal this year, even the southern hemisphere is just TOO hot!! Record breaking temps in Australia and all.....
Awww, poor, dear Chevy!!! Will send a healing prayer her way!!
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Thanks Sas for letting us know about Chevy......I do hope she has a speedy recovery!
Talk about weather changes!!! Yesterday we were roasting and today we nearly got washed away! yes it rained so hard and so long I had a river and a waterfall into and out of my courtyard........the worst thing was I was watching a lot of my topsoil disappear with the water as it rushed through! Once the rain had eased I checked down on the road and found a lot of my soil (now mud) banked up half a block away........lol. The best thing about all this rain is, the Bangor forest fire is all but out!!!! Yay for Mother Nature!!!!! Temps for the next few days is mid 70's....Wooohooooo!!!!
Hoping your weather breaks for the better soon!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Oh no Barbe, I never thought that! When I saw your post I wondered how people even survive in extremes like 30 below! We've seen single digit temps before, but I've never seen it below 0, and 30 below, oh my. Do you ever lose power in such extremes? That was my main worry here.
Chrissy, the rain really had a good side if the fire's nearly out. Sorry about all your topsoil though, and the 70's sound divine after the heat you've had.
Thanks for letting everyone know about Chevy, Sas. Hope she recovers ASAP and gets along well.
Going to try to brave a grocery run in a bit, maybe after more melting on the roads.
Kathy
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11:am EST:Hello, update on Chevy. Surgery is still on at 2 pm. Sounds very good. She's thinking more in the direction of going to a rehab faciltity. It's a hairline fracture on the outer aspect of the hip, the ball joint is not affected. This is very good. It will make her recovery easier. The ball joint carries the weight.
She did get herself up and out of bed to use the bathroom by pushing a chair last night. The staff went into a tissy. They put a catheter in after that and explained about the call light.
Sends love to all. Told her she will reading for days. I'm supposed to call around 6 pm Colorado time. Okay someone tell me what time that is EST----8 pm? Sassy
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