A balmy day for a balmy guy
It's supposed to be in the low twenties at night this coming week-end, but...At six this morning it was 61 degrees according to my back-porchmometer, and has been in the mid seventies most of the day - still 72 at five p.m. I wandered around in the woods a while today, sat on the back porch with coffee this morning, and have had the doors and windows open just letting all that wonderful air breeze through. Must be because of that global warming thing. Of course if the forecast is correct it's going to change to global freezing in a couple of days.
Life does indeed furnish us with wonderful little presents now and then, and having this nice a day at the end of November is just such a present. It would have been a minor sin to stay inside on such a day, and since I try to choose my sins carefully I decided not to commit this one.
I did put some faux evergreen and some lights on the windmill today, so it looks like a slender Christmas tree with a whirling thingie at the top. I put lights on the front porch but still have the back porch to do. The tree is up and decorated and my wife is in the process of emptying about a dozen tubs of assorted other Christmas decorations (she really gets into decorating for Christmas). We never buy much for each other at Christmas these days, not leaving much we would desire for Christmas. We buy what we want during the year and it boils down to some perfume for her, after shave for me, and maybe a movie or two thrown in for Christmas presents. If we find one we like we might buy ourselves one of the old fashioned looking stereo systems that has a record player built in (as well as CD, cassette player and radio). We gave the Quazar away when we moved from Vegas so don't have any way to play records these days, and one of those might look good in the livingroom.
Life does indeed furnish us with wonderful little presents now and then, and having this nice a day at the end of November is just such a present. It would have been a minor sin to stay inside on such a day, and since I try to choose my sins carefully I decided not to commit this one.
I did put some faux evergreen and some lights on the windmill today, so it looks like a slender Christmas tree with a whirling thingie at the top. I put lights on the front porch but still have the back porch to do. The tree is up and decorated and my wife is in the process of emptying about a dozen tubs of assorted other Christmas decorations (she really gets into decorating for Christmas). We never buy much for each other at Christmas these days, not leaving much we would desire for Christmas. We buy what we want during the year and it boils down to some perfume for her, after shave for me, and maybe a movie or two thrown in for Christmas presents. If we find one we like we might buy ourselves one of the old fashioned looking stereo systems that has a record player built in (as well as CD, cassette player and radio). We gave the Quazar away when we moved from Vegas so don't have any way to play records these days, and one of those might look good in the livingroom.
posted by Fish-2 at 7:46 PM
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Well, we just brought (not by choice) a new garage door opener and a new heating element in our gas water heater.
I'm giving the hubby one, and he's giving me the other.
We are so thoughtful.
Pamela, just put a red ribbon on each of them (or as near as is safe).
We've one of those retro-look players, Fish. It does AM/FM, LPs, cassettes, and CDs. It's an Aiwa, I believe, bought on sale at Sears. It's compact, not a big honking "box" taking up a lot of room and surprisingly, it has decent sound.
However, you won't be able to enjoy your 8 track collection on it. :-)
W-H-A-A-A-T-! it won't play 8-tracks? Oh, that's all right, I don't have any 8 tracks left, nor 78's and I don't have any of the old cylinder records
Hi Fish! Well, they said it would get cold here too, and they were right. It's 5:45 Central on Thursday and the temp is 33.9 and going down. The high today was 40. The high yesterday was 75. What a change!
We haven't done the Christmas tree or decorations yet but we'll get started tomorrow. We're off to a late start, but better late than never.
Balmy? Please send some out this way. It was 16 last night, the gutters froze up and I had to skate down the driveway to the mailbox. The wife, who thinks she is an electrician, finished putting up 5500 lights, five outside trees, and an evergreen bough on each fencepost. About
midnight a chinook wind arose, warming things up to a toasty
28, blowing over 4 of the trees and several boughs on up the canyon towards Missoula. Oh, for a little 'balmy'...:) Oh, bet you like this, she put a stack of 78s
christmas recordings on our mediterranean magnavox consol which works as well as the Christmas we bought it in 1966.
Well the forecasters were off a bit it would appear. This is Thursday evening, almost eleven at night and our temperature is reading 68.
Idaho, it's hard to beat those old Magnavox systems isn't it, but I'll bet those recordings weren't stereo.
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