Silliness You know it's farking winter when... - Page 9

desertgrandma · 02-17-2010, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Blue

You take real good care of my Rangers out there for Spring Training now, ya' hear?

Every person over the age of 70in Surprise and Sun City is present at every spring training game.

The skies are blue and sunny, (sometimes too warm) the stadium is new, the games are reasonably priced, the food is good.........shall I go on?

desertgrandma · 02-17-2010, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by kwjones

I'm guessing that's not anywhere close to Flagstaff.

Two hour drive north. (to Flagstaff)

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Have you read my comment about the Rangers and watching spring training in The Case Of The Desert Pirates?

A book worthy of a read.......available here on mobileread....

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Bless you! May I get you a tissue? (doggie heads back to hills at high speed)

Getting quite the exercise today, aren't we doggie? Trying to run that winter bacon fat off?

Greg Anos · 02-17-2010, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Every person over the age of 70in Surprise and Sun City is present at every spring training game.

The skies are blue and sunny, (sometimes too warm) the stadium is new, the games are reasonably priced, the food is good.........shall I go on?

pshrynk · 02-17-2010, 05:46 PM

Ah, to be in Lakeland and watching Spring Training...

montsnmags · 02-17-2010, 09:09 PM

You know it's farking winter when the queue at Massimo's Gelateria is not so long and he's not serving cinnamon or pistachio so you have to settle for mango sorbet and chocolate fondant.

JerseyBiker · 02-17-2010, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Montreal has had only one inch of snow in the last month...
Its 32F right now. What farkin winter?

We had 3 feet of snow in South Jersey the past month, a new record. They are predicting more this weekend. I always say I need to move South. But maybe I should move to Montreal.

~eddie

GraceKrispy · 02-17-2010, 10:13 PM

Iʻd like to take this opportunity to share a story.

If you would have driven by the side of White Mountain Rd in Show Low, AZ (round about the Thai place that used to be *so* much better than it was that particular day) at the exact right day and time during the month of March in the year 2008, you might have seen three adorable and brilliant (although not always perfectly behaved) blond children playing in the dirty snow on the side of the road. You might wonder why any parent would let her child play in dirty snow on the side of the road. I can explain.

See, we donʻt seem to get much (any) snowfall around our immediate domicile. In fact, my children are in awe right now when watching the winter olympics (what are they spinning on? ice? thatʻs ice? people dance around on ice? Where do they get the ice? From the freezer? -- ok, that last question wasnʻt really asked. Remember, I said my children were brilliant).

Yes, we do have a mountain with snow on top sometimes, but visiting involves a super long drive that makes someone (ok, me) really carsick, and itʻs hard to find the time to get there and blah blah blah... So when we took our big trip to the mainland over Spring Break in 2008, we visited a bunch of places mommy and daddy used to live. (Now Iʻm talking in the third person, sorry. The mommy in this story is me.)

So imagine our utter delight when we drove through Albuquerque shortly after landing like 10 hours late and almost crashing to our deaths (but thatʻs another story) and saw snow! We had worn our warmest clothing (sweatshirts, socks, jeans and real shoes!) and we were having a great time running around in the tiny flurries. By the time we got to Arizona (after our stint in Gallup visiting family), we were overjoyed to discover there was actually one little pile of old dirty snow on the ground. So of course, I had to let them play! However, I decided, wisely I think, to save teaching them the joy of eating snow for another visit and perhaps a cleaner snow pile.

Now that I read it over, that was a really dumb story. Sorry. I felt compelled to share anyway. Sometimes you just want to belong....

(we got a little flurry of snow when were in Chicagoland during that trip too! Iʻm thinking we probably wonʻt get a snowfall this summer when we visit...)

JerseyBiker · 02-17-2010, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

! However, I decided, wisely I think, to save teaching them the joy of eating snow for another visit and perhaps a cleaner snow pile.

When I was a kid we use to make snow ice cream. We would would mix snow, vanilla extract, sugar and can milk. It didn't taste bad. Just don't eat the yellow snow.

~eddie

Lady Blue · 02-18-2010, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Have you read my comment about the Rangers and watching spring training in The Case Of The Desert Pirates?

No, sadly I have not. YET. I've been shamefully latent in this regard.

I shall get to it posthaste, forthwith, or sooner even.

wodin · 02-18-2010, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

I decided, wisely I think, to save teaching them the joy of eating snow for another visit and perhaps a cleaner snow pile.

Wassa mattah, you no got shave ice on da Big Island?

GraceKrispy · 02-19-2010, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by wodin

Wassa mattah, you no got shave ice on da Big Island?

*shaking head* itʻs just not the same as digging a pile of snow out of a snowbank and shoving it in your mouth. My kids live a different life than I did...

Greg Anos · 02-19-2010, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

*shaking head* itʻs just not the same as digging a pile of snow out of a snowbank and shoving it in your mouth. My kids live a different life than I did...

Lucky kids....

Greg Anos · 02-19-2010, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by wodin

Wassa mattah, you no got shave ice on da Big Island?

Broke the mouf....brah....

Fledchen · 02-20-2010, 10:08 PM

You know it's Farking Winter when your Texan transplant friend has become so acclimated to frigid weather that he remarks that multiple days with above-freezing temperatures constitutes "warm." One of us! One of us!

phenomshel · 02-21-2010, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Fledchen

You know it's Farking Winter when your Texan transplant friend has become so acclimated to frigid weather that he remarks that multiple days with above-freezing temperatures constitutes "warm." One of us! One of us!

Ooooops. I resemble that remark.

.

02-17-2010, 10:13 PM	#127
GraceKrispy It's Dr. Penguin now! Posts: 3,909 Karma: 4705733 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: (USA) Device: iPad mini, Samsung Note 3, Sony PRS-650 (rarely used now)	Iʻd like to take this opportunity to share a story. If you would have driven by the side of White Mountain Rd in Show Low, AZ (round about the Thai place that used to be so much better than it was that particular day) at the exact right day and time during the month of March in the year 2008, you might have seen three adorable and brilliant (although not always perfectly behaved) blond children playing in the dirty snow on the side of the road. You might wonder why any parent would let her child play in dirty snow on the side of the road. I can explain. See, we donʻt seem to get much (any) snowfall around our immediate domicile. In fact, my children are in awe right now when watching the winter olympics (what are they spinning on? ice? thatʻs ice? people dance around on ice? Where do they get the ice? From the freezer? -- ok, that last question wasnʻt really asked. Remember, I said my children were brilliant). Yes, we do have a mountain with snow on top sometimes, but visiting involves a super long drive that makes someone (ok, me) really carsick, and itʻs hard to find the time to get there and blah blah blah... So when we took our big trip to the mainland over Spring Break in 2008, we visited a bunch of places mommy and daddy used to live. (Now Iʻm talking in the third person, sorry. The mommy in this story is me.) So imagine our utter delight when we drove through Albuquerque shortly after landing like 10 hours late and almost crashing to our deaths (but thatʻs another story) and saw snow! We had worn our warmest clothing (sweatshirts, socks, jeans and real shoes!) and we were having a great time running around in the tiny flurries. By the time we got to Arizona (after our stint in Gallup visiting family), we were overjoyed to discover there was actually one little pile of old dirty snow on the ground. So of course, I had to let them play! However, I decided, wisely I think, to save teaching them the joy of eating snow for another visit and perhaps a cleaner snow pile. Now that I read it over, that was a really dumb story. Sorry. I felt compelled to share anyway. Sometimes you just want to belong.... (we got a little flurry of snow when were in Chicagoland during that trip too! Iʻm thinking we probably wonʻt get a snowfall this summer when we visit...) Last edited by GraceKrispy; 02-17-2010 at 10:15 PM.

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02-17-2010, 05:46 PM	#124
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Ah, to be in Lakeland and watching Spring Training...

02-17-2010, 09:09 PM	#125
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	You know it's farking winter when the queue at Massimo's Gelateria is not so long and he's not serving cinnamon or pistachio so you have to settle for mango sorbet and chocolate fondant.

02-20-2010, 10:08 PM	#134
Fledchen Guru Posts: 663 Karma: 84658 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Minnesota, USA Device: PB360+, Sony950, VR Stream, iPod Touch, iPad	You know it's Farking Winter when your Texan transplant friend has become so acclimated to frigid weather that he remarks that multiple days with above-freezing temperatures constitutes "warm." One of us! One of us!