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JayneWonders said:
Many years ago, there was a underpass of the railroad tracks on Birch Street in Cambridge (Galt).
It was pretty low and would only let one car go through.

My Dad used to love taking visitors through it, and watching them duck.
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We have an underpass like that in London. Last I went through there, they had lights setup to control traffic. So North goes and South has red, then vice versa. Don't go that way much anymore. Used to be on a route to my old family doctor's office.
 
Anybody remember when you had to keep a tap running in the house in really cold weather to keep your pipes from bursting?
I think it only applies to houses without insulated pipes or water mains not dug low enough in the ground. Probably only applies to older homes and streets that haven't been upgraded?
Also we had to remember to turn the outside tap off with winter coming or extreme low temps. Once we had to have the city shock the line coming in from the road....that was years ago when we had a much older home.
 
Brantford area had a few places have problems after a very cold period over new years one year. Lots of burst pipes in municipal buildings (schools, etc)

Not good
 
Water has always been a complex issue .. perhaps why it has been a metaphor of soul for some millennia ... sometimes beneficial and sometimes toxic ... my spouse a retired nurse worked in some psyche institutions where inmates had to be escorted to lock washrooms or they would drink water until suffering water intoxication ... imagine an organic material with a high concentration of water ... is that stunning?
What's the possibility of brae 'n wop ...?

Similar odds to heart struck? All this given the heart is a hollow things ...
 
Cat Woke me up to -16 at 5.30, with windchill -27. Not sure how my heat pump will do, she is 15 years old. She just defrosted herself, so I am sitting under a blanket listening if she gets going again. I do have a waterpipe coming out of the ground outdoors to go into my home, since the pipe broke underneath my home a few years back ,it had to be done that way. It is wrapped with isolation and in a box full of isolation as well where it goes up the outside wall, but I don’t think we had this kind of cold since it was done. The plumber had said it will be fine and that those heating wires they often put around it would only melt the pipe. I had some critters move into that box and had redone it two summers ago, with even more insulation and wire to keep the critters out. Fingers crossed. I was hoping to drive to the city today to go to Ikea and visit my old lady- not sure if I should rather stay home. It would be really cold if I got stuck somewhere on the way.
And maybe I should just randomly use some water here to keep it going….
Cat had breakfast and is no longer interested in me….
Heat pump seems to be kicking in again….
 
Wow. Somebody beat me to woken up.

Training day for all teams. -24 here with -32 wind chill. About to drive to hill to set the course. Got the daughter up to help.
 
Advantages are discouraged by winners as it puts them into following mood and they'd rather not learn anything more ... for rational the lesser (trolls) folk already see when the leaders are caught with Pans down ...

In short, real life is a din rather like chaos and all a' DIN ... how to escape it into calm in the heh mow, grass down ...

One is required to look deep into the stacked word ... there we find some of the wordless locked in silence! Devoid space ... delinquent? Still that crack ...
 
Good morning! Saturday has dawned. Very cold outside here, -21 without the wind chill figured in. Brrrr. And another dump of snow due tomorrow, too. Anyway, we think of skiing, of truckers using secondary routes when main roads are closed (not always successfully), water pipes freezing up, and all the other 'joys' and 'surprises' such conditions have in store for us.
Anyway, the Room is comfortably warm, and the Coffee Cart is set up and ready to go. Come gather round for chat, support, connection, and camaraderie, over tea and coffee, and baked goodies. The Baker has created bagels, and provided numerous spreads and toppings for us to enjoy. The tea water is at the boil, and coffee is freshbrewed; and bagels toasted to perfection. All is ready and everyone is invited to share the community and the warmth in the Room. Come join the fun!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]
 
Can we make room for this transient?

In system of great desire, is there no room for accepting knowledge except in holistic nature ... little bits at a time until the desires play out?

Prior to the played out stage all is obtuse as we built to the great occult ... once that stage of blackening occurs ... it is gone and we've lost all love in a frenzy of psychic disorder ... next stage? Out of this evolves staged coaching ... little bits at a time ... as they are opposing shades ... like black and white in manuscript form etched in place ... that's the word ... even if it remains unseen to individual positions of vast criticality ... tyre ants? Wheeled beginnings ...

Can you see anything in the great go round ... is it Mary there ... or Marion Elle? Something danced off the ringer ... nailed the pivot ... it all come down screeching and hollering ... wailing mores ... and there was Jayne ... holistic sapiens ... very small does age ...

Do say ...
 
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Nummmmm, love a good bagel.thanks @Redbaron

Hope all goes well, @Mrs.Anteater
I trust you have warm gear @chansen but that does sound unpleasant

Old expressions are being heard again

"Cold enough for ya?"

After commenting on someone's ruddy cheeks "I only walked in from parking lot"

Ps. Had the most delightful smile yesterday with a new mom and dad. My station is on the path to the elevators to labour and delivery. I can usually tell the new dads as they are making multiple trips out with bags, pillows and one of their inbound is the empty car seat.

This one dad was beaming when i congratulated them and we had a short exchange. He turned around , brought the wee one for me to see and said "isn't she the most beautiful baby ever?!". His wife was also beaming and i think with a heart that was bursting due to how smitten he was.

There are also families where grandparents come in and it is an intergenerational departing.

There are of course also sad departure, but yesterday's happy dad has made me smile each time i remembered it.
 
That was me in the Spring of '99. Holding Little M for the first time was a magical moment for me. Now they are moving from an apartment to a rented house soon and she's nearly done her master's so ... maybe Grandpa Ape soon? We'll see.
 
@Mendalla you would love being a Grand Ape! Yesterday, I had a play session with my four year old and one year old grandsons. They are an interesting pair. The four year old loves to work ... snow shoveling, chipping ice. He is learning to cross country ski. And...this is the interesting part...he loves infrastructure. Right now he is loving plumbing. His favourite tool is a sewer snake! The one year old plays with a sink plunger for the sink of their play kitchen set. So our play included plunging sinks. Then the four year old determined there was a burst pipe, went behind the kitchen set to discover water (pretend water), saying...Oh my goodness! as he determined a fix. I love their originality.
 
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