tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post5478081117621958868..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Houston, we had a problem.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12186211720864648932009-12-11T21:31:12.019-05:002009-12-11T21:31:12.019-05:00So when are the two of you gonna make your purrfec...So when are the two of you gonna make your purrfect union official?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38994325464207519152009-12-11T09:18:50.761-05:002009-12-11T09:18:50.761-05:00It was 6 with a wind chill of -10 out here in West...It was 6 with a wind chill of -10 out here in West Whereinthehell, Texas earlier this week. With a snow chaser. Not as much as they got in Houston, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38099472405034965942009-12-10T19:22:59.214-05:002009-12-10T19:22:59.214-05:00Chipper mood?
Yeah, wood chipper...
ArtChipper mood?<br /><br />Yeah, wood chipper...<br /><br />ArtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62865971932629376812009-12-10T17:26:03.748-05:002009-12-10T17:26:03.748-05:00"It's still going to take a few more seas..."It's still going to take a few more seasons to convince me moving to a desert a better idea."<br /><br />It was -5F and 14" of white stuff on the front porch this morning in Reno. Yeah, this is the desert your mother DIDN'T tell you about.<br /><br />Glowball Warming?????<br /><br />/sennin/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-51163128573872903542009-12-10T16:44:59.282-05:002009-12-10T16:44:59.282-05:00I remember hearing the ice cracking as we were hea...I remember hearing the ice cracking as we were heading into Portland Harbor early one morning returning to port.<br /><br />THAT was COLD!Weer'd Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528978001340070552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-72690277492824284402009-12-10T14:22:49.831-05:002009-12-10T14:22:49.831-05:00"chipper mood" (snerk!)
Mehbee it'..."chipper mood" (snerk!)<br /><br /><br />Mehbee it's the cold, but when I read that, this popped into my head:<br /><br />" And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper, there." -Marge Gunderson, very pregnant cop in "Fargo"jimbob86http://nefirearm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-32340149630625750892009-12-10T14:07:29.227-05:002009-12-10T14:07:29.227-05:00"I'd sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but I think ...<i>"I'd sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but I think you'd shoot me."<br /><br />Yeah, but only to wound. I'm in a pretty chipper mood today, actually. :D ;) </i> <br /><br /><br />Thank God for small favors? Running serpentine is tricky when it's icy out.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-26660358676456879882009-12-10T13:53:19.262-05:002009-12-10T13:53:19.262-05:00I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned how t...I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned how they didn't have hair driers in their day and there was a frozen door on both sides of the hill they walked to school.<br /><br />The decent into cold dark winter <i>did</i> come to my neck of MN damn abruptly this year. It's still going to take a few more seasons to convince me moving to a desert a better idea.aczarnowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-59775588161976959932009-12-10T13:12:59.821-05:002009-12-10T13:12:59.821-05:00Missing Tennessee yet, Tam?
Myself, I'm thinki...Missing Tennessee yet, Tam?<br />Myself, I'm thinking of moving to Florida.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-6403059811003118792009-12-10T12:17:31.631-05:002009-12-10T12:17:31.631-05:00Wait- you have to de-snow the car in the garage? D...Wait- you have to de-snow the car in the garage? Dang, sounds like you need a better garage.<br /><br />This looks really ugly, but back when I had a detached garage I used carpet tacks to nail a flap of old inner tube over the door handle. Keeps rain etc. from forming ice on the keyhole. Plus if you oil it it stays oiled longer. <br /><br />Come to think of it, that was standard equipment on my Land Rover.oghttp://www.neanderpundit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65991258163274880362009-12-10T11:15:25.862-05:002009-12-10T11:15:25.862-05:00I feel your pain.
Yesterday it was 82 degrees on ...I feel your pain.<br /><br />Yesterday it was 82 degrees on the drive home. The AC was a touch frigid for my tastes and had to turn it off and roll down the windows.Robb Allenhttp://blog.robballen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76659911743116645552009-12-10T10:57:05.497-05:002009-12-10T10:57:05.497-05:00"where's this global warming I keep heari..."where's this global warming I keep hearing about?"<br /><br />I'm trying to do my part! (puts another log in stove) What about you all? I can't do it all with my little 300 dollar stove!jimbob86http://nefirearm.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-12165902852839187482009-12-10T10:44:17.983-05:002009-12-10T10:44:17.983-05:00"Look on the bright side; the wind keeps fros..."Look on the bright side; the wind keeps frost from forming, so you don't have to scrape the windows for 15 minutes while your nose falls off."<br /><br />Or you could keep some of that cold weather windshield juice in a spray bottle in the freezer...OAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-4986770695662839582009-12-10T10:33:12.233-05:002009-12-10T10:33:12.233-05:00If a bunch of horseback Comanches were savvy enoug...If a bunch of horseback Comanches were savvy enough to go south in the winter and north in the summer, what does that say about the smarts of White-eyes?<br /><br />Giggle-snort...<br /><br />ArtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66557164262105628212009-12-10T10:18:02.547-05:002009-12-10T10:18:02.547-05:00"I'd sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but I think ..."<i>I'd sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but I think you'd shoot me.</i>"<br /><br />Yeah, but only to wound. I'm in a pretty chipper mood today, actually. :D ;)Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13377707763270845942009-12-10T10:10:57.303-05:002009-12-10T10:10:57.303-05:00Look on the bright side; the wind keeps frost from...Look on the bright side; the wind keeps frost from forming, so you don't have to scrape the windows for 15 minutes while your nose falls off. <br /><br />I'd sing Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, but I think you'd shoot me.Joannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952078709114872197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-28413546886552662412009-12-10T09:56:45.908-05:002009-12-10T09:56:45.908-05:00Right now it's 3ºF here in Salt Lake; where...Right now it's 3ºF here in Salt Lake; where's this global warming I keep hearing about?BobGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405172215849046373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18777184998474394972009-12-10T09:55:32.798-05:002009-12-10T09:55:32.798-05:00We're supposed to climb all the way into singl...We're supposed to climb all the way into single digits for our high today in Minnesnowta. And those are POSITIVE single digits, a veritable heat wave.Blackwing1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-82741940512734720342009-12-10T09:43:51.450-05:002009-12-10T09:43:51.450-05:00-5.1F is also cold. No wind to speak of though, w...-5.1F is also cold. No wind to speak of though, which is a change from the 50 MPH breeze we had Tuesday night.JohnMXLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671095673014400915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-51180310819056254832009-12-10T09:40:04.884-05:002009-12-10T09:40:04.884-05:00"13 degrees is frickin' cold."
This..."13 degrees is frickin' cold."<br /><br />This is the main reason BRB's family (including PDB) finally left the far North. I count our sojourn in Canada in winters: 18 freakin' winters, not 17 and a half years.<br /><br />NC is a balmy 43 and clear.<br /><br />BRBbrbiswritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238551308132973791noreply@blogger.com