Baby it's cold outside

suzwes

Hope your journey is going well meece.  You should be really close to home now and I'll bet your new plants are getting so excited to get there!  Enjoy the nice weather.

Juli - your winters are worse than mine - I'll have to be thankful when you write about the snow being dumped on you this winter!

Meece

We are about 6 miles out right now.  We have been in the moving car for ten hours and fourteen minutes so far.  One potty break, and two meals to go, one gas stop.  Ready for home.

PauldingMom

Ugh, Meece. To sleep in your own bed tonight will feel heavenly. Glad you had a safe and fun filled trip.

juli0212

suzwes:  Well, luckily I now live in Albany, where we don't get lake effect, we get ice/cold/winds.  My family is still back there though in the snowbelt, not fun.  I never even had a garage, had to shovel out the car every single fricking day to get to work.  Now I have a garage and am very thankful, even if we don't get alot of snow here.  Do you get lake effect?  We get Nor'Easters. ~juli

theresap60

Beautiful picture Mary!  I have a friend who lives in Palm Coast FL.

We had a beautiful weekend here in VA. It's getting breezy and cooler.  Happy to see the Redskins win a game! :-)

I used to sleep in flannel PJs.  I wonder if flannels are a thing of the past for me now that I'm on tamoxifen and hot flashing all night long!!

Meece, I agree with PauldingMom, you're own bed will feel so welcoming!

-Theresa

Meece

Yes, my bed felt good.  The inflatable bed he kids have for us isn't too bad, but it isn't home.

suzwes

Wecome home Meece.  Well ladies, we dipped down to 34 degrees.  Plants are inside for the winter.  We were at 41 degrees at 11:30.  Supposed to warm up by the end of the week and the weekend thank goodness.   We haven't had a nice weekend since the last weekend in August.  I can't wait.  It's our big instate rivalry football game on Saturday (MSU vs. Michigan)  GO GREEN, GO MSU!  I'm looking forward to sitting on my deck in the sunshine and watching the game with a lovely drinkie poo in my hand.

Have a great day ladies, I hope you all have a warmer day than I will.

Meece

We have the threat of rain today.  Kinda dreary and gray outside.  temp is still up in the 60s.  Have fun with your big game this weekend, it might not matter who wins with a couple of drinkie poos!

lvtwoqlt

I got up this morning and my thermometer read 45 degrees. right now it is 63 outside (1:45 pm). It is the coolest that we have been in a while. I will need to find a place inside to put my plants here. I checked and the small sprig of ivy I put on my front bank this summer has survived the heat, not dried up. I am trying the curly ivy as ground cover. My neighbors have some other variety of ivy on their bank, hopefully the curly ivy from my sister's house will make it on the bank and help to prevent the erosion I have been battling.

Sheila 

juli0212

Good luck with your hometown game, Suz!  What drink do you like?  We have had a glorious summer of Sundays (first time in years), as it's the only day my bf and I have together.  It's cool today, Fall-like and feels great.  Rain for next 4 days, which we still need.

Sheila:  I have a type of ivy that survived the heat as well and really took over the whole garden, we usually just plant annuals that are small, boy did this spread!  I am not sure what it's called, something 'pea-ivy'?  Like fluorescent green leaves close to the ground.  Good luck with the erosion, hope your curly ivy helps.

~juli

Meece

Almost 70 now.  Still gray overhead but still, no breeze to bring the rain in.

mbtlcsw01

WE did NOT reach 90 today, how wonderful.  No rain for quite some time.  It is going to get down to 60 tonight which will be heavenly.  Suzs, I'm with you I love college football.  I hope your coach is on the mend.  LSU plays the Florida Gators this weekend and I hate the Gators and love the LSU tigers.  Also, big baseball fan and our Tampa Bay Rays won the AL east championship and now in the playoffs.  I can't believe the playoffs will be during the day on Wed and Thursday. 

I'm headed to Jekyll Island, Georia to meet my DH on Friday for a long weekend.  Bringing the bikes to ride all over.  Have a great week everyone.

mbtlcsw01

WE did NOT reach 90 today, how wonderful.  No rain for quite some time.  It is going to get down to 60 tonight which will be heavenly.  Suzs, I'm with you I love college football.  I hope your coach is on the mend.  LSU plays the Florida Gators this weekend and I hate the Gators and love the LSU tigers.  Also, big baseball fan and our Tampa Bay Rays won the AL east championship and now in the playoffs.  I can't believe the playoffs will be during the day on Wed and Thursday. 

I'm headed to Jekyll Island, Georia to meet my DH on Friday for a long weekend.  Bringing the bikes to ride all over.  Have a great week everyone.

theresap60

It's cool here in the Shenandoah Valley - supposed to dip down into the 40s tonight.  With my hot flashes, I probably won't notice. :-)  We've had some wonderful weekend weather, though.  Need the rain after a dry, dry summer.

Love baseball, love college football!  Hockey's just around the corner!

suzwes

33 degrees this morning, my car computer told me to watch for ice.  Way too early in the fall for this.  We are supposed to get in the mid 60s today and then a much anticipated warm spell.

Mary, thanks for asking about our coach.  He is on the mend and out of the hospital.  It's up in the air whether or not he'll be able to travel to Ann Arbor this weekend or whether he'll do a little coaching via cell phone as he did this past weekend.  He's only 53 so it's kind of scarey that he had a heart attack and seems to be in such great condition.  Good luck to LSU and Tampa Bay and have fun in GA.

Good luck with the curling Ivy Sheila.

Juli - haven't decided on my drink of choice yet for Saturday but I'm leaning toward a cranberry pomegranite drink - it has pomegranite vodka with ocean spray cranberry pomegranite juice.  Yum, yum.

Theresa - yeah college football and hockey - I'm also a college basketball junky - those take me to the beginning of the Deadliest Catch season so life is good!  Although as Meece and a few others know, this year's DC season may not be so good.

mbtlcsw01

It is 84 degrees and I wore a sweater all day at work, Man, that is wierd. 

I'm a huge New Orleans Saints fan.  They use the emblem, the fluer de lis.  They are known as the Who Dat nation.  A good friend gave me this great avatar and I'm going to change mine to it:

raeinnz

Welcome home Meece - 10 hours is a long time to be driving!  How did the tubing and rapelling go?  I am back today from my second trip to our capital city - 7 hour one way trip - in 8 days and I am glad to be home but sad that the trips are over now.  I LOVE driving but DH came this time so I had to share

We have had our promised 4 days of fine weather - yay! Temps around 64 lately but the promise of 68 on Friday - that will be lovely.

Anyone heard of underwater hockey over there?  Played on the bottom of a 2 metre deep pool with a foot long stick and a lead puck.  They wear a mask and snorkel, a water polo cap which protects their ears, a glove on the hand they hold the stick with and large fins and togs of course. They hold their breath for as long as they can and then come to the surface and then down they go again.  Useless spectator sport but exciting in its own way and the players LOVE it.  All of my girls played it and one of them was in a team that went to the World champs in South Africa in 2008 and came home with gold for NZ Under 19 girls.

lvtwoqlt

Mary, love dat pict.

Our temps are cooler than normal now, lows in the upper 30's and highs in the 60's. Although they say that the temps will get back to more normal temps by the end of the week (highs in the upper 70's to low 80's)

Yesterday I brought in some of my inside plants that I put out side this summer and as I was sitting here in my living room reading on BC.org, a grasshopper jumped onto the table I have the laptop on. I was able to keep it on the paper it jumped on and carried it back outside. it must have come in with the plants.

suzwes

Love the NO Saints emblem Mary, very cool.

Rae, I've never heard of underwater hockey but it sounds fun and sounds like something I'd like to try one day!

We're up to 37 degrees at 8:30 this fine morning.  We're supposed to be near 70 today with sunshine.  Still looking like it's going to be a beautiful weekend.  Can't wait!

Meece

I hate grasshoppers and crickets amongst other bugs.  I hate the quick random movements the make. 

juli0212

Cool & rainy past few days, but annuals still not dying yet.  To be 70 Friday, no heat needs to be turned on yet...yes!  Pumpkins came out real nice, about 16 of them this year, most we've ever gotten...the vines grow SO long!  All done now, out in the front yard with the flowers, lol.

Never heard of underwater hockey, but yes, it does sound like fun.   Enjoy Autumn while it lasts.

~juli

Meece

Underwater hockey is a new one for me, too.  I can imagine it could be humorous to watch as the players bob up and down from the bottom of the pool.

We got rain last night.... 4/100 of an inch!  I just cleaned up my electronic rain guage yesterday morning, just in case.  Still might rain today, but we tend to be in a rain shadow of the storms coming from the south.

It is a gray day.

NativeMainer

Is underwater hockey anything like underwater basket weaving? 

Meece

Only if you can get college credits for it.

juli0212

Still rainy and cool, but to be 60's and 70, not quite our Indian Summer as we haven't had frost yet.  NICE not to turn on the heat yet!  Looks to be a great weekend--the sports vehicles WILL be out~!  (We only have a 3/4 day on Sundays, me and BF to do things together, and that's what we like to do for as LONNNNNG as possible til *gulp* winterizing them).   I got a sports car after the treatments of bc, and have loved it ever since....it's my go-to for an uplift!   ~juli

Meece

We have had light sprinkles for the past 24 hours.  Only 8/100 since yesterday morning.  Our total rainfall this rain season is 12/100.  Weee only 5.63 inches left to go to make our annual aveage rainfall.

My hometown 40 miles from here had flash flooding last night.  It is in the hills and the mud and water come out of the hills and messed things up.  We now live in the flat lands away from the hills so not much problem with that.

suzwes

We're having a beautiful sunshiny day.  It's about 70 degrees and the weather guessers are still predicting a beautiful weekend in the mid to upper 70s.  It will be our Indian Summer since we've had a couple of frosts already.

lvtwoqlt

I thought underwater hockey was like watching the submarine races.

I don't have discovery channel on the basic cable but I just read on foxnews.com that the three captains of deadliest catch have worked out their differences with discovery and are starting to film the new season.

The temps have returned to somewhat normal almost too warm (+5 degrees from normal) for this time of year.

lvtwoqlt

I thought it was like watching the submarine races but what do I know. It does sound like a fun sport to watch, almost like the 4-5 yr old soccer matches. My great-nephew is playing soccer this year and he will be standing there looking around until someone hollers at him to get the ball.

I saw on foxnews.com that the three captains from Deadliest Catch have worked out their differences with discovery channel and are filming the new season.

Sheila 

Meece

lvtwoqlt, that is some good news, I hope it all works out.  Thank you for passing it on.