Archive through January 05, 2003
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OMG I woke up to snow this morning!!! OMG And its really d@mn cold here too!!!! (ARCHIVE):
Archive through January 05, 2003
Grooch | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 10:39 am     I bet New England tomatos can't be any worse than Florida tomatos. Blech. |
Fruitbat | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 10:47 am     We have good ones in the summer when local farmers sell them to the markets or from farm stands. I have found some good ones, actually. The are called ugly tomatos. They are meaty and taste like summer tomatos. They don't always have them but I jump on them when around. |
Wargod | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 10:50 am     Moon, Weiner, hubby and I were watching the weather report last night and it kept flashing "summer weather" across the screen. I know some of y'all are snowbunnies, but give me my summer weather any day, LOL. Calebs running around in a tshirt and shorts this morning and I'm pretty much enjoying myself. The rain the keep talking about I might appreciate. We've had two good thunder storms this year...which puts us two above last year, but it gets a bit hectic when the kids can't go outside and play. |
Moondance | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 02:06 pm     MsKitty said>in a few months it will be so humid and hot you could steam a weinie by hanging it out the window< Still wondering how that got past MusicMan! War, can I come visit when you have a thunderstorm? We don't get them by the beach. |
Wargod | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 02:23 pm     Sure, Moon...but, you have to deal with the two kids and two dogs who are stuck in the house and can't go outside and run off some energy, LOL. Car, I'm thinking the no good tomatoes this year is why I paid $3.50 yesterday for 6 teeny, tiny tomatoes! They were pathetic looking! |
Djgirl5235 | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 02:52 pm     I'm with Crossfire - It snowed all day yesterday, and I drove out of my driveway after being off work for almost two full weeks, got as far as the Tim Horton's on the corner picked up my coffee, turned my car around (while fishtailing down the street) and parked back in my driveway, called in for a snowday at work - who needs to go through that crap to work only one day?! For Cross - you would understand as I live near 407 & Markham Rd, and work at Burnhamthorpe & the 427... 1/2 hour drive on a good day, but given that it took me 10 minutes to get to Markham Road (2 minute drive on a regular day) I didn't feel the need to drive any further! We've got half a foot of snow in my back yard and it's snowing again!!! |
Car54 | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:06 pm     I ended up getting out and going in toward the city... the roads were fine, but very very messy... I had to stop and buy more windshield washer fluid because the cars were throwing up so much slush. Coming home, there is a lot more snow out here... and it sort of melted but then at dark it got colder and now it is very slick...I came home the back roads and it was very slide-y, even with my 4 wheel drive. Everyone... when there are no good tomatoes, get the little bag of "cocktail" tomatoes...not the cherry or plum ones...these have lots more flavor. |
Wargod | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:30 pm     See, thats why I couldn't do snow. Round here if we get a half inch of snow you stay home cuz no one knows how to drive in it! I have a coupe questions for all you snow stuck people (and please remember I live in the desert so I really have no clue, LOL!) Do you get snow days like you get sick days from employers? Or do they give you a hard time when you can't get to work? And what happens if you get snowed in? Do you just do without (if you need to run to the store or pharmacy or something) or do you go out and try to make it? I would not make a good person to live in a snowy climate, LOL. I lived in Conneticut for a couple years when I was a young child and all I remember is having recess inside and lots of snow. |
Babyruth | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:35 pm     Snow days? Noooooooooooooooo. In fact, I live close enough to the hospital that in the event of a big storm they would send a big truck to drive and pick me up! On my day off, too, to make up for others living farther away who can't make it in to work. Them's the breaks. |
Car54 | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:41 pm     Nope... no snow days for me. They don't penalize you but they are not crazy about it. Usually someone can come into work... and we just cover for whoever can't get there. If it is really bad they usually close our stores early so people are not driving home late in bad weather. Sometimes if you are essential they come get you and bring you home..my boss and his sons all have big trucks they put snowplows on, so they will just come get us if they really need us. I have things set up where I can work from home dialled in, so unless it was an equipment emergency, I could keep doing my office type stuff. Yesterday I knew it was going to be bad, so on my way home I stopped got a weekend's worth of food, supplies, etc just in case it got bad. In the winter, I keep bottled water (I use that anyway) and I keep a couple of days worth of firewood in case we lose power. I always have plenty of candles. It is kind of fun. Now when I lived in Nashville, we lost power in an ice storm for a WEEK... I moved out and went to live at my office where they still had power...camped out for a week. |
Crossfire | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 04:17 pm     djgirl...yeah I know the area, it was as good a day as any I've seen recently to just say to heck with it, and stay home. My drive varies depending on the office I need to go to. Starting from roughly Warden & 401, I need to head to either front & young, or to Pearson Airport, or to Whitby. More or less a thirty to forty minute drive normally. It looks like the worst of it is finally over, but there might be more coming tue, wed, and thu. |
Wargod | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 04:45 pm     Well, dang, you'd figure with the weather you can't do nothing about they'd just say, "take the day off, with pay..have fun!" I was just wondering about it though. We keep bottled water, canned food, flash lights and batteries in case of earthquakes, but didn't know how bad snow as handled. |
Crossfire | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 04:54 pm     Generally speaking, as Canadians, snow is just a fact of life, and we deal with it. For the most part, its not a problem, we can get around if we have to, the problem, is that it just takes so darn long. It doesn't take much weather wise for Toronto's main highways to grind to a halt, and though you will get safely where you need to be, it will often take hours to do it. I would say that is the prime motivation to take a 'snow day'. It's just the time wasted. |
Llkoolaid | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 06:23 pm     Crossfire is right, you just deal with it. I live in a small town so you really don't get slowed down that much, other than your own speed. We are in the middle of a big snow storm right now but we have been out to take our daughter to her friends house. You just have to learn to drive in snow and slow down. Three of my kids drive now but they learned to drive in snow before we would let them get their permanent licience. They stayed on their learners permit until they got a winter under their belts with one of us beside them. Although there is a lot of snow here there are not that many days in the winter that the driving conditions are really bad, ice is much worse than snow and those are the days that I don't drive. Speed is the big thing in snow, I was leaving Boston once in the middle of a snow storm and there were cars off the road everywhere, everyone was driving way too fast for the conditions. I don't know how many cars passed us and a little while later we would see them off the road. We just shook our heads, it wasn't that bad if they had of slowed down, and the snowploughs were out and doing a far better job than we get around here, the snow wasn't even getting a chance to build up much. I was amazed at the great job being done on the I-95, it seemed like as soon as the snow started they were out there cleaning it up. We drove all the way to Bangor that night without a problem thanks to the great road crews. We don't get that kind of service where I live. |
Schoolmarm | Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 11:18 pm     About "SNOW" days....when I taught on the south side of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which included all the farmland until you got to the Amana Colonies, they stated in their teacher's contract that "the inability to get to work does NOT constitute the use of an emergency leave, and such teacher's would be docked a day's wages". This school district was a "campus" school district with five buildings and a football field in the middle of nowhere. They figured that if they could get 52 busses running, then the teacher's could get their rear ends to work. There was only one "snow" day the year I worked for them. Actually it was more for ice and -20 degree temperatures. |
Webkitty | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:21 am     Kool said: >>I was leaving Boston once in the middle of a snowstorm and there were cars off the road everywhere, everyone was driving way too fast for the conditions. I don't know how many cars passed us and a little while later and we would see them off the road. We just shook out heads, it wasn't that bad if they had just slowed down....<< Thanks for the memories, Kool! << makes mental note of this everytime I start griping about Florida drivers>> This morning I woke up and I swore I could see by breath. The cats were under the covers, it got down to 36 here last night! The cats are still upstaris under the covers, while I'm sitting here trying to type with numb fingers! Brrrrr. It will warm up to 60 today and the sun is out, shining through the window, so it will warm up soon, I hope. To all tomato lovers: try Sweet Grape. They look like cherry tomatoes and are packaged the same, in those little plastic tubs. Instead of round, they are shaped like a grape (hence the name) They are soooo sweet! Try them. |
Car54 | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:29 am     I like cocktail better...sharper crisper flavor, better texture. Depends on if you are looking for flavor/juiciness or meatiness. I am in the juice/flavor group (I AM a real tomato hound! I try them ALL!) |
Webkitty | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:40 am     Cocktail?? Explain please....I am always interested in new tomato types..... |
Car54 | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:45 am     They are not new. Usually they are on the vine packaged in a little mesh bag ...at my market they have a chain hanging over the regular tomatoes with the bags clipped on it. I find that with grape or cherry tomatoes the meat tastes a little styrofoam-y to me. Cocktail ones have a saltier, thinner flesh...more juice to them. In winter I always use them..they have the flavor of summer tomatoes that ripen in the sun. (I think that styrofoam taste comes from not enough sun!) |
Webkitty | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 06:50 am     Ahhhh, ok, the ones on the vine and in mesh bags, they are good too. I agree with you on the cherry tomatoes, but I still think the sweet grape have exceptional flavor. (maybe we get a different source down here?) A weather/tomato thread, love it. |
Squaredsc | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 07:31 am     its snowing, its snowing.... |
Twinkie | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 07:42 am     Its beautiful here. Its a crisp clear day with about a foot of snow on the ground. No more snow forecast for today. |
Halfunit | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 09:01 am     Square - you are supposed to get quite a bit today!! As for grown up snow days, around here we have "Level Conditions". Level 1 means use caution, secondary roads can be slick. Level 2 advises people not to drive if you don't have to. Level 3 means STAY HOME - if caught driving without a valid reason (open to interpretation), you can be cited with a traffic ticket. The sad thing is, most employers expect their employees to be at work, even in a Level 3! Might take you 3 hours to drive 20 miles... |
Car54 | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 09:09 am     Square...an excuse to wear your boots! |
Squaredsc | Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 09:44 am     yippee! |
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