Posted on 09/28/2012 6:49:57 PM PDT by Solomon8522
I could do a beret in the color of Bill’s choice, if he would wear it. Those things NEVER go out of style! LOL!
Sk8rs wear knit ski caps year-round, and some are pretty baggy, but they’re not exactly berets nor stocking-caps. I had a cool stocking cap in the 70s that my grandmother knitted. It matched my incredibly heavy winter coat; we lived in Rhode Island at the time.
Earlier this year, we were all making fun of Bill’s lime green ski hat, but then we saw that the cutest teenage girl on the swim team had an identical one, so we gave it up as a lost cause!
At least you are alive and still able to live in your house! Thanks for the update. I have been sending prayers your way. :o])
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I do stocking caps! LOL! I made matching stocking caps and mittens for my kids when we lived in Puget Sound, and they loved the stuff. (Although my son promptly put the mittens on his feet and told me he had dew claws....)
They had a lot of fun with the things...who could have known?
I have a lot of days that feel like that! LOL!
Some things, you just need to post from FReepmail...
We wore gloves inside our mittens in Rhode Island. That was the winter of ‘77-’78, catastrophic snowstorms one after another. Been in the South ever since, although Oklahoma could get some arctic blasts.
That was the winter of all the ice storms in Missouri. We had an arsonist who set eight fires in the first 16 days of December, and on New Year’s Eve, we moved into a double-wide mobile home. All we had to do was pay the taxes on it, as it was a repossession. I loved it!
That night, we had an ice storm, and from then until late April, it was ice storm, snow storm, ice storm, snow storm...the ice storms dumped 3” at a time, and the kids dressed up in layers.
The Mom? She was thin and chilly! LOL!
We were in Navy quarters that year, no utility bills. When we were snowed in, Mom would turn on the oven and open the door, and she and Russ and I would play Monopoly in the kitchen all day. Dad was camping out at Naval War College with the rest of the officers who couldn’t get home!
Igor was working at McDonnell-Douglas and he was off for the worst two weeks of the first storms. In the future, when he tried to get in, he had to cross the Missouri River, and most times, it was covered with ice.
When the buses couldn’t make it to pick up the kids for school, we all had fun with “snow days.” There is nothing like a “snow day” to get close to the kids!
We all got very close, because we were snowed in almost two weeks in one of the storms. A teenage boy knocked on our *upstairs* windows and told Mom, “For $20 I’ll dig down to your front door, Ma’am.”
We’d moved there from Corpus Christi, Texas ;-).
The boy who dug you out sounds a lot like my son...he would have done that as a kid...
Wow—that’s some nice forest service service! Are the hot spots likely to quiet down?
My first winter in Wyoming, we had a freak cold snap where the temp went to -62°F overnight, can’t remember what the wind chill was.
I was staying with a friend, and in the AM his neighbor knocked on the door, asking if any of us could get our vehicles started. Her car wouldn’t start, her husband was a highway patrolman and his patrol cruiser wouldn’t start, they had an old suburban they used for a hunting vehicle and it wouldn’t start either. All of them were plugged into a hot wire, but in that weather, with that wind, it didn’t make much difference.
My old Ford F 250 had a hot wire in it, but it was parked behind a building, out of the wind... I tried starting it, and it started sluggishly...as if the oil were made of jello, but it started.
After it run a while, I turned the heat on and antifreeze fog blew out of the register... I lifted the hood, and the rubber hose that conducted hot air from the engine, along with every other piece made of rubber in the engine area, hoses, fan belts... had shattered like it had been made out of black glass. So I couldn’t give her a ride either.
She said she was going to walk 5 miles to go to work, because she was the one who had to open the store, so I said I would go along with her. Everywhere we went, moose and elk and mule deer were milling around in peoples backyards...they knew the bad weather was coming and that they could get out of it in town, so that’s what they did ...I guess they took their chances with us. One side of town had corrals for peoples horses, and they were bringing bales of hay from the corrals and feeding the elk and mule deer with it...they stayed in town for a good week until the weather let up.
It was interesting how everyone, both human and animal knew that there was a truce...as soon as the weather got better, and our 4 legged visitors vacated back to the hills we went back to eating deer burgers and elk steaks with gusto...
And right now I’m typing this reclined below decks on a little sailboat in N. FL...84°F...I’m in my shorts, and fans going full blast ;^)
Yup, yup, yup.
I get that. You scream and you leap. (Larry is so mild-mannered. You'd never think it was he who made that up.)
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“You scream and you leap” comes from Larry Niven’s “Ringworld” novel.
Louis Wu was insulted by a seven-foot tall felinoid (tiger-man). After confirming that the insult had been deliberate, Louis said, “I challenge you, tooth against fang, and claw against fingernail, since we cannot share a Universe in peace.”
After the confrontation was calmed down, the insulter told Louis that his challenge had been needlessly wordy. “When challenging a Kzin, you scream and you leap.”
“Great,” said Louis.
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