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Old May 8th 2020, 1:01 am
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I bet he changed his knickers when he got home

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I bet he changed his knickers when he got home
Talk about close. I wasn't expecting that ending, thought for sure it it was going to hit the other car.
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Originally Posted by caretaker
I wonder if those electric badminton racquets for killing mosquitoes would bring them down? Those are quite affordable. ZOT!!!
Looking for these I found you can get a two-pack, I wonder if a mosquito rally is possible? They also had a bug killing nerf gun type thing which fires salt. Sounds messy but I am tempted.

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Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
Looking for these I found you can get a two-pack, I wonder if a mosquito rally is possible? They also had a bug killing nerf gun type thing which fires salt. Sounds messy but I am tempted.
Salt is for slugs, so depends on where you are. [I can hear dear Aunt Madeline "You're just a big kid!"]
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My back garden...right now



My back garden May 9th 2020

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Old May 9th 2020, 3:43 pm
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Originally Posted by MillieF
My back garden...right now

Shivering just looking at that! Beautiful though. Don't you guys get a Spring?!
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Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August
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Originally Posted by MillieF
Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August
Something to look forward to anyway It does look beautiful though. Snow has such a fascination for me, I've only seen snow that stuck once, over one Christmas in NW England. My husband made a video of me running around like an idiot and making snowballs, the family back in Perth were having a 40+C heatwave and were very jealous.

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Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August

Between the hours of ? a.m. and ? p.m.
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
Something to look forward to anyway It does look beautiful though. Snow has such a fascination for me, I've only seen snow that stuck once, over one Christmas in NW England. My husband made a video of me running around like an idiot and making snowballs, the family back in Perth were having a 40+C heatwave and were very jealous.
I'm a New Yorker and Hubby's a Canadian so we are both familiar with snow. I never minded snow because I wasn't a home owner but an apt. renter so I didn't have to shovel anything but a path around my car. I took mass transit to the office and that ran 99.6% of the time. Found the 'burbs in Ottawa had a great public thoroughfare method of street plowing. I was stuck there in the Ice Storm of '98.
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Originally Posted by MillieF
My back garden...right now
That's weird. Since that snow warning appeared for northern NB, the forecasts for here and your gaff were much the same, that is about an inch to be washed away by rain. And so far it's been accurate for us. Rain since mid morning. Bit of lightning too.

Perhaps we'll see some after all.


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Shivering just looking at that! Beautiful though. Don't you guys get a Spring?!
I was going to come up with something witty but I can't beat Millie's comment.

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Yes...should arrive in the last week of June before the excessive heat of August
There comes a time when you have to put the air conditioning on and it occurs to you that just three days ago you still needed some heating. Then y ou realise spring came and went. That's not me bing witty, that's the truth.

Autumn is great though.
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That's weird.
One day years ago I was sitting with my neighbours outside their cottage at the beach, and in the space of about 3 hours that afternoon we experienced nearly every kind of weather, barring tornadoes. It was surreal.
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I like the snow but its mostly a novelty in Vancouver, we don't get much, a few days a year, some years we don't get any. When it does snow in Vancouver though it causes a mess, it doesn't snow often enough to justify spending large sums of money on snow removal equipment, so they do the bare minimum.

Nice in Vancouver this weekend, very spring like.



I would imagine those on the 4th floor have a pretty nice view.

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Phew. It aint arf hot mum. 1pm in Kamloops its 22 degrees bright blue sky, sunny, a few wispy clouds, and suposed to get up to25 by 5pm. wonderful.
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Old May 9th 2020, 8:22 pm
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Ahah, a closet 'straaalian.
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One day years ago I was sitting with my neighbours outside their cottage at the beach, and in the space of about 3 hours that afternoon we experienced nearly every kind of weather, barring tornadoes. It was surreal.
Four Seasons In One Day.

I was going to post a YouTube link, but the vid is so dreadful that I daren't.
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