we have the seasons here too, just a bit different.

ice age      winter
break up     spring
mosquito     summer (also called fishing season)
wet          fall (also called hunting/harvest time)

There was a meme that started making the rounds with some of my friends...Pippin asking Merry if Aragorn knew about Second Winter (after we'd FINALLY had some significant snowfall that closed down golf courses for a few weeks, and then it warmed up enough for them to be clear and open...and then it snowed again and closed them down for, like three more weeks...)

It's midnight here, and 54deg out, and should probably break 70 tomorrow...and then we're supposed to have up to an inch of snow on Saturday...and then be back in the mid-50s by Tuesday.

high of  42  today, with snowy -rainy weather. Oldest Granddaughter has   track meet at home( if its not called)... i assume the  weather  will be in the mid 30s  and dropping by the  start

...and? there it is, Remind App says, no meet today, pushed off to next week.

30F and friggin' snowing here.

so..track meet called off  early this morning..I had to go to Lowes to get a new  fridge..it was leaking water al over the kitchen.. as i left , there was a bit of  sun...when i got up  where we  play football. snow and  sleet , are enough    to collect on the  car  making  'tick tack' sounds.., leave the store  after  ordering. I get home..sun is  bright ... just about   all 4  seasons in about   90 minute

its  37..Middle Granddaughter  says   it supposed to snow again.

It keeps threatening snow in the UK though whenever I look into where it’s always in places like the Scottish Highlands and the Cairngorns, which is kind of like saying the Sahara is hot!

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 for the dress thing..you ladies   can keep the banter up, I will Add, NPCs  now and then..Its neat to see some of the pics  you guys come up with

we play out songs when we  attack....look at this!

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Six Russian warplanes obliterated in huge blow to Putin’s air force
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As they approached the military base, some of the Ukrainian drones started playing a German drinking song from the 1970’s, about staying drunk for seven days. Around 20 Russian personnel were killed or wounded in the attack, RBC Ukraine reports, and another eight aircraft suffered damage

Frontline bombers – Su-24, Su-24M, and Su-34 – are known to be routinely based at the airfield. They have been used to strike at Ukraine during the war. As of 4 April, some 26 Su-34 fighters and three Su-35 warplanes were stationed at the airbase, according to OSINT reports (Picture: Social media/east2west news)

Note to self, add MP3 player to drone design…

everyone on East coast okay?  just read of a decent size quake in New York.  They said it was felt in Jersey.

 I felt ot about 10:30 this morning we where in class, the classroom shook books fell, it was pretty powerful here. It was very intense for sure but no one was hurt around here. New York got hit pretty hard they did shut everything down to check it before they started to rerun subways, busses, ect.

we had  my littlest granddaughter   singing thing at the Elementary school ..My son said at hiswork they were talkign about it..he  does somekind of Goverment stuff., but we couldn;'t tell here in  western PA

just making sure your'e all okay.  I know quakes there are rarer than here especially 4.0 and higher.

 Yeah that was the biggest one around here in over 20 years \o/

 Yes I am safe and my family and friends are safe ty Nikki \o/

 I guess I was the closest to it of our group?

 I guess..I am western PA on your side of Pittsburgh

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 for that  You Tube think i put up..some of the  parts in there, remind me of  Roy given Aliens  a history lesson..the speaker   could be Sanri or Occui

 Yeah I can drive to the epi center in 3 hours I would say I alot closer than you hehehehe. It was pretty scary though but it didt last long but it felt like forever hard to explain.

years ago, one hit  around  DC.. it shook my house, I just thought it was one of the Bih  coal trucks that was  taking rocks up the alley  to dump  for clean fill.

well, a 4.0 and 4.8 are mid-sized to me and I'm use to them.  Now I am NOT used to big thunderstorms.  I can count on one hand how many we've had in Anchorage. so when one does happen I sort of freak out on those.  Since they are fairly common in the lower 48 I am sure you just nevermind them unless they strike in your lawn or directly on your houses.  So it's all relative.

We had a decent quake hit Salt Lake City back in 2020 (just under four years ago, now).  I was at the park...they were installing a new ride and I got picked to be part of the install crew for the facade (it's a kids' ride, so it wasn't a HUGE project...not like the one I was helping finish up last year...)

I heard the rumble and thought someone was driving some heavy equipment past the building I was in...sounded like a front-end loader or something like that.  Stepped outside and nothing was there...poked my head back inside and noticed the brooms and rakes that were hanging on the wall were all swaying back and forth, and then I looked outside and the plants were all swaying, even though there was no wind...

All my friends that live in Salt Lake, proper, were freaking out about it...but if I hadn't had to be at the park early for that install project (it hit just after 7am), I would have slept right through it, very likely.

And thunderstorms are fairly common here, but the worst ones I've ever been through were in the Midwest, or down on the Navajo Reservation.  I'd rank the Midwest higher, because the storms on the reservation, while VERY intense, were also usually fairly short.  The one my friends and I drove through when we went back to Minnesota?  That was hours of driving through some of the heaviest rain I've ever experienced, with lightning flashing from somewhere around us every few seconds.  I told my friends at one point that if it started hailing, we had to pull over and look for a ditch, because it was so dark that we could have been driving straight into a tornado and wouldn't be able to see it...when the lightning provided enough light, the windows were so rain-soaked that you couldn't really make out much.  My friend was basically just following the stripes in the middle of the road because he couldn't see far enough ahead to follow the road, itself.

After that, thunderstorms in this part of the country seem comparatively mild.

The first quake I experienced was in 1984 here in Cheshire early in the morning. I seemed to dream of an earthquake and woke with the thought "But we don't get them here" only there was one. Dearly beloved was hanging out the window counting... he thought someone had dropped a nuclear device on Manchester and was watching for a flash! We are about 40 miles from Manchester. Fortunately we did not become part of a radioactive cloud!

Since then I've been in quite a few, both here and in Greece. One there - on the island of Zakynthos - happened when I was in the bath and I sat watching the bathwater slosh around and decided to stay there until all was calm again. That was about a 5.

One time dearly beloved had gone to visit a client who was having network problems. They had a split site and used a radio link across a road. He was baffled, everything seemed to be working. He called home to say he didn't know how long he'd be, and I told him to check the orientation of the antennae as there had been an earthquake the night before. He muttered about them being omnidirectional, but checked anyway and... well, that was the problem!

I remember the one that happened in the UK about a decade ago (1984 is well before my time) I just thought it was a truck something equally heavy driving past until I saw an ornament vibrating round in circles on the shelf

 Yep  Izzy...that's what that was like here..at the  time we had   Big Coal trucks that were carring Rocks   and  dirt passed  my house   to the end  where it was a drop off to a field  near the creek.

 the  House  shook ,( old  company-mine house )..the   wodd  creaks , noise upstairs  light  people ran through the house. and I was bymyself then... aabout 5 minutes later, I'm getting texted  and Checked  FB because people around here   didn't know, or just found out about the  quake. I can only imagine being in a 'real ' one

In Alaska we get a crap ton of them.  Big and small.  I was a babe in 1964 here when we had a 9.2 that shook for 5 minutes.  According to my mom... I slept through it. years later sitting on the floor I watched (yep watched) a seismic wave gently rolling into the house across the floor and under me then out the other side of the house like a gentle pond ripple (it was weird), about 4 to 6 inches high and a foot wide.  that was back in 1974-75, or so.  In 2016 we had 2 big shakers, like 7.0+ each.  about 4-6 months apart. tossed my house like a bomb went off.  One happened at night too.  then that shaker in 2018 really shook even worse.  I know I wrote about it here in an earlier OOC.  My sister freaked.  She still has PTSD from 1964.  For me I don't mind the shaking or the noise, I freak out when it goes dark. the 2018 one happened at 830 in the morning in late Nov. at that time it's still night out.  So when transformers blew it got real dark.  No flashlight right off hand so had to use the one on my phone.  kept thinking I was gonna step on my cat or glass and such.  had weird thoughts of finding a broken floor and falling in it.
still... I'm alive.