Re: OT : Re: [iris-talk] wondering

From: "Linda Horth" <lhorth@rconnect.com>

Paul &Yvonne  Thought I would give you a little background on my thoughts
about living warm climates;like I had said I have lived in Minn. all my
life [well not all my life yet just turned 70 hope to have a few more years
left] All my working life I worked at the building trade as a carpenter. I
worked in 90 degree weather & I worked in below zero weather in other words
hot cold wet & snow, what really as you say "blew my mind " was when when
the snow was blowing sideways & someone was up on his roof chopping ice off
the eaves of his house with an ice bar & punched a hole in the roof & wants
to know if I can come & patch the roof rite away. Oh you maybe don't know
what an ice bar is, it's an iron rod about 4 feet long flattend at one end
& sharpend , it is used for chopping holes in ice for ice fishing, but some
people have found other uses for it [like puncing holes in their roofs]. I
have been retired for sometime now & people ask me if I miss carpenter work
? , my answer is this "When I see the snow flying past my window I swing my
easychair around grab the remote & see whats good on[ as you might say the
telly] After all this talking/writing do you see why I wonder about living
in a warm climate? oh by the way iWANT YOU TO KNOW , IF I get the urge to
do some work I go over to the davenport & lay down till the urge passes .
Hope to chat with you again  Tom Krop.

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> From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT : Re: [iris-talk] wondering
> Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 5:56 AM
> 
> From: Paul & Yvonne Tyerman <tyerman@dynamite.com.au>
> 
> At 18:45 25/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >From: "Linda Horth" <lhorth@rconnect.com>
> >
> >Just sitting wondering how it would be to garden all year round? living
in
> >minn. all my life, i have wondered how it would be to live where it was
> >warm all the time. I wonder if I would miss the changing seasons,rite
now I
> >am sitting here ,watching the leaves land in the lake ,the water is so
> >quiet it looks like glass, it's hard to tell where the water ends & the
> >shore begins, it's really neat but sad knowing all too soon this scenery
> >will be covered by blowing snow & howling wind, of course nature does
give
> >us a break once in awhile, those are the nites when its very quiet & the
> >snowflakes as big as quarters are falling . Then there is christmas, I
> >wonder how it would be without snow. Has anyone down south lived in the
> >northern states & moved south ? How was it coping with the change?
Perhaps
> >these are just flites of fancy of an older person. But it would be
> >interesting to me to hear from someone who has exchanged 4 seasons for 1
> >Tom Krop.
> >
> 
> Tom,
> 	I've always wondered what it must be like to live in places where it
> snows!!!!  We have the VERY occasional flurry, but its a momentous
occasion
> and certainly not regular.  The idea of being snowed in and stuff like
that
> is totally alien to me.  I remember a message we received earlier this
year
> on the list that was from Duane Buell.  It contained the following
passage
> (Yes I saved the message... it was definitely worth saving)
> 
> 	My garden usually runs about 2 to 4 degrees colder than what the weather
> 	stations report, and my flowers often bloom a week or two later than 
> 	others in close proximity. We are separated from BC by an ice field 
> 	that never melts, and I'm located in a valley that has a glacier
> 	at the head. We have ocean on the other side.
> 
> 	This totally blew my mind.  The idea of a permanent ice field is
> absolutely amazing.  We don't have anyh real permanent snow in Australia.
> Patches remain through Summer, but there's certainly no cover
> 
> 	Anyhow, just thought you might like an insight from the other end of the
> world.
> 
> 	Cheers		Paul Tyerman (Canberra, Australia... Zone 8)
> 
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