It's a touch cold being as it's -10C or 15F. Furnace works good, though. A parka plus snow pants are good when using the snow blower to clear out the snow.
We are only 4 degrees North of your location, so, is it cold where you are?
It's a touch cold being as it's -10C or 15F. Furnace works good, though. A parka plus snow pants are good when using the snow blower to clear out the snow.
Uhhhmmm... not so much really. Pretty mild here.
Wow, shirt-sleeve weather.Seth wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:24 pmUhhhmmm... not so much really. Pretty mild here.
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Pretty much. Nights are still a little chilly for my liking.
Arrrrr language.
Quite literally still laughing... thanks for that Grant. Great response.Grant Bunter wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:00 amArrrrr language.
Nope, I’m pretty sure Chris and Grant would spell fall just the same as you did.
But, I’m fairly certain we would call the season after summer; autumn.
You did spell it correctly though.
Hehehe.
Actually, fall is quite descriptive of that season...
Here's what the all knowing had to say about that...Bill Fitzmaurice wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:38 am For whatever reason in my region we hardly ever use the term 'autumn'.
Interesting.http://www.dailywritingtips.com/autumn-or-fall/ wrote:Changing colour to color can be blamed on American dictionary maker Noah Webster, but Fall for Autumn deserves another look.
Taking the vocabulary of Old English as a starting point, both Fall and Autumn as names for the season between summer and winter are late-comers.
Fall derives from an Old English verb, but it wasn’t used as a noun to designate the season until the 16th century. This use most likely developed from the Middle English expression “fall of the leaf.”
So what did Old English speakers call the season?
Harvest.
The need for a new word arose from a population shift that made cities more important than farmland. From being a word for the season, harvest came to refer only to the agricultural event that occurs in that season.
Autumn as a word for the season came into common usage about the same time as Fall did. The English who settled the eastern American seaboard brought the word Fall with them from the homeland. The English who stayed home eventually adopted the word Autumn.
Nowadays in England “Fall” sounds archaic and poetic, but in U.S. English “Autumn” has those connotations.
Ya' bunch of crazy foreigners!Tom Smit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:08 pmThey got it right, Bruce. LOL.Bruce Weldy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:15 am Well - I AM OFFENDED!!!!
Not by the joke, but the fact that you both put a "q" in check......
We have four seasons like the rest of you.....except that we call 'emBill Fitzmaurice wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:38 am For whatever reason in my region we hardly ever use the term 'autumn'.
Did the snow/ice take out the power lines?Bruce Weldy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:53 pm
We are in our 20 minute winter season right now. We actually had snow that has stayed on the ground for 3 days and temps as low as 8 degrees F. Rolling power outages for two days - fortunately, we've had constant power since late yesterday afternoon.....Tonight might be iffy, but we're hoping for the best.
No, it took out some of the power stations and all of the wind farms were down. Something about an extra cold weather option that they didn't use. Face it, this is a really weird event for us. We can get below freezing at night a handful of time during the winter, but for it to stay this low for this long hasn't happened in decades.Tom Smit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:22 pmDid the snow/ice take out the power lines?Bruce Weldy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 12:53 pm
We are in our 20 minute winter season right now. We actually had snow that has stayed on the ground for 3 days and temps as low as 8 degrees F. Rolling power outages for two days - fortunately, we've had constant power since late yesterday afternoon.....Tonight might be iffy, but we're hoping for the best.
You'll get no argument from me that you are on the right side of the pond...
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