The Old Folks Home

[topdycke]

SCG - hope the storm passes quickly. I lived in Billerica MA for one year and the winter was enough to send me packing back to TX. I was younger then and would get up to shovel snow for the older folks in my apartment building when they were trying to get cars out to go to work...

 

[topdycke]

So true - much prefer a nice, quiet evening in with a delicious dinner prepared just the way I like it and the service is always great, lol.

I browsed the Bon Apetit website for a Valentine dinner and hit the grocery on the way home from work - very yummy pasta dish and a nice quiet evening at home.

 

[Peep_Show]

Tonight we're steak and mushrooms, baked potato, salad, choc dipped berries for dessert.


Oh... And a very nice bottle of red.



(edited for beverages)

 

[superchemicalgirl]

The internet is back up and....

We've been downgraded!!!

• ... BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
• * HAZARD TYPES... HEAVY SNOW... BLOWING SNOW... AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
• * ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 18 INCHES.

 

[tntchix]

The internet is back up and....

We've been downgraded!!!

• ... BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
• * HAZARD TYPES... HEAVY SNOW... BLOWING SNOW... AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
• * ACCUMULATIONS... SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 18 INCHES.

The only time a downgrade is acceptable...

 

[ozexpat]

stay warm and safe SCG

When I left Australia in 1989 Valentines Day was not a big thing. To my wife, however it was huge. I quickly became re-programmed.

being the romantic that I am, I have tried to give her some memorable Valentines Days.

We have had some pretty average fixed menu meals at expensive restarants that were emphasizing bums-on-seat counts rather than allowing us to enjoy the evening, so I try to find more unique evenings.

One year we camped inside San Diego Zoo Safari Park for their Roar n Snore adventure. Lectures on animal reproduction, genetic material collection from an African Elephant and a behind the scenes tour. All topped off with a nice meal and a tent with a Queen bed with rose petals.

Another was Lucha Libre mexican wrestling and burlesque

 

[topdycke]

The internet is back up and....

We've been downgraded!!!

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• ... BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY...
• * HAZARD TYPES... HEAVY SNOW... BLOWING SNOW... AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
• * ACCUMULATIONS... [COLOR=FF0000]SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 18 INCHES[/COLOR].

12 to 18 is a downgrade? You won't see the suit feeder until June

 

[chickwhispers]

I did not realize how bad of weather out east was getting until I saw the 6 o'clock news tonight. you've all had more than your share for ten years I think. Stay safe and warm and I hope your electricity doesn't go out.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG how did you manage the downgrade? Are you casting spells or something? At any rate

very happy for you & others out that way

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Probably since the early eighties. Our water comes from the Colorado river. It gets sucked up by agriculture If you take a look at lake Meade you will see why.

This article is pretty demonstrative. the pictures take a while to load but once they load there is a bar between them you can slide back and forth comparing water levels.

Lake Mead before and after link

if you take a look at the bands of white on the rocks representing long term water levels... there is a very faint one above the all white ones probably the first water level for the lake.... I would say the water has gone down a good two hundred feet...

The images of before and after only cover a seven year span...

Our own water supply is tenuous any way because we depend solely on water from the Colorado and our own reservoirs. That depended on an annual rain fall of fifteen inches or more. We have had three inches of rain per year for the past two. Before that It was about six. At six the desert in my area stopped blooming in the spring.

In the future it wont be global warming or natural disasters or ecological disasters it will be lack of water that does us in.

Reservoirs in California before and after link

Saddest thing is San Diego is known for its zoos and animal conservation... Bringing species back from the brink of extinction... What we aren't known for is the fact that we have the largest botanical collections throughout the country.... Some species are completely extinct in their own habitat. You cannot find them any where but in San Diego botanical gardens both public and private.

deb