tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post3956097940026881956..comments2024-03-10T10:36:09.923+00:00Comments on Gem of The Ocean: So help, me, Buddah!gemoftheoceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-42395520993775556092007-09-17T01:39:00.000+01:002007-09-17T01:39:00.000+01:00I sniffed some mellowcream pumpkins the kids had t...I sniffed some mellowcream pumpkins the kids had the other day and I gagged...blech. I can ususally eat maybe one...lol.a thorn in the pewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975456892778482598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-72816649360872630192007-09-10T04:27:00.000+01:002007-09-10T04:27:00.000+01:00I count my blessing on that one. I appreciated sn...I count my blessing on that one. I appreciated snow as a youth - but I also appreciate not having to drive in it in winter as an adult.<BR/><BR/>I think growing up I learned some really colorful turns of phrase from my dad regards the Bleeping snowplough, which always managed to come through our neighborhood just after he had shoveled out the sumb*tchdriveway -- he'd go in to change and bammo ... had to re-shovel out, then drive the 40 miles in to Boston from Nashua. We also got a lot of snow in Pa, and also in western Virginia in Roanoke. I have a winter coat. Somewhere. Don't currently own any mittens - but I do have a pair of LL Bean low weather proof shoes. Somewhere.<BR/><BR/>I DO have to say, however, that some of the best days as a kid were waking up to see it had snowed like crazy and with more on the way - turn that radio on around 6:30 and just PRAY that your school was going to have a day off from too much snow. Once in Nashua they had a "no school day" because it was too COLD. Below zero F. What did we do? Played outside. IIRC we went ice-skating on a neighbor's corner lot, which he always flooded over in winter for the kids to skate on.<BR/><BR/>The first Christmas after my mom died I went back east to visit relatives. I have to say I got cabin fever.gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3499957141699011933.post-25339603109491322742007-09-10T03:13:00.000+01:002007-09-10T03:13:00.000+01:00We stopped at the mall the other night and in one ...We stopped at the mall the other night and in one of the stores they had flip-flops on sale on a rack next to, believe it or not, mittens and scarves!!! UGH!!! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. In CA you probably don't "fear" winter like those of us on the tundra. I have cousins who live in the mountains by San Bernardino and they whine about the fog...we had that in Seattle all the time, but it ain't three feet of snow!swissmisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11091563100968996825noreply@blogger.com