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We had a quiet dinner with my sister and her husband. We bought a stuffed turkey breast and had a traditional dinner. I made a strata (eggs, bread, cheese etc in a casserole) for brunch and it was excellent. We realized we had enough ingredients for another strata today so hubby and I will be having it again. It's assembled and sitting so the egg mixture can soak into the bread properly. Yum.

We talked about Christmases past and the people we miss from those days - parents, grandparents, great-aunts and uncles and most recently an uncle. Bittersweet. We haven't continued the big extended family gatherings so things are quieter. It is what it is.

We're thankful the wind warnings have ended. We've had lots of rain over the past few days so wind now wouldn't be great. Soggy ground means trees get blown over. It got up to 12 degrees overnight so the snow is melting quickly.
 
Do we appreciate these things until they are gone?

many folk are just too busy and into the economy for considerations of con sequence ... (con being up against something denied for the comfort of not knowing)!

The power of denial and absence is like that when considering mindlessness ... a grand ether ... like gestault ink spots ...shades of obliousness ...

There is a group that cannot read into depth of a compound genre (spirit of the story) as may be illustrated by Red Baron's references to past perfect tense of ankh in the tense!

Thus pulled off and the blindly faithful saw not a knot of evidence ... nor lump on the Log ... worts as brewing items of interest?

Sebaceaus cysts? Just under the skin ... like extremists ... all over the place as some in the medium meddling with thin coherence? Excellent considering what went past as UN WOKE! Oblivion ... is where we live as OH din ... as if lost in the dark forest ... admonished for not watching the alien turns? Tis an icon ...

If one knows something it is very troubling considering all that do not wish to know of critical analysis ... verging on the area covered by endogeneity!

Then hormones are not well understood either regaring their effect on neural tissues ... they can cause squeals in the dark ...
 
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The 'storm' here was interesting. It hit us while out for a walk to see Christmas lights Christmas Eve. Was -15 to -20 when freezing rain hit. Because of the temperature ot was very much frozen. Odd weather.
 
Nancy said:
10 to 20 more cm snow on its way tomorrow! Gulp. I think I can live off the food in the freezer and cold room until Spring. So I don't have to go outside....
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Have you measured 20 cm of snow Nancy? It's only 7.87 inches. We Canadians are equipped to handle it. And often snow is beautiful.
 
Good Morning! How is everyone? As we remember our Christmas experiences and discuss the weather, and as other topic rise up, let us gather in friendship round the Coffee Cart, for hot beverages and warm hearts. All is ready

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I'm reading about Walmarts that opened their stores to stranded travellers along the 401 in Ontario. Were any churches open for this too? I know mine wasnt.
 
There are many closed points about the spectrum ... thus light diminishes ... falls into Back Holes ...

This may be a large enigma to those not appreciating eternal stretchs of the abstract ... just imagine!

I declare I just don't know while residing amoung a proud social group that declares the know all about everything ... Pan Demos ... disturbing to those noting all the small things and shards ...? What does toatality mean to those not into totalitarianism and thus unintegral with the greatest of psyche ... being wasted away on this side of the item of concern ... differentiated as a dt, or even dp? Another dippy sode ... sod amies? Aquantences dirty with information ... resembling gnomes that clean the presses ... often desperately Blackened Chracters ... de pressed?

Out of that unknown much abstract know how ... creative spontenaity since the read both ways? Camera Obscura? ... Piles of folk cannot see ...
 
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Waterfall said:
I'm reading about Walmarts that opened their stores to stranded travellers along the 401 in Ontario. Were any churches open for this too? I know mine wasnt.
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Walmarts are open and staffed damn near 24 hours these days except for stats. I think our Superstore is 7-11 or something like that, maybe shorter on a Sunday. And staff would be around before opening and after closing. Show me a church that has that kind of capability in the 21st century.
 
Waterfall said:
I'm reading about Walmarts that opened their stores to stranded travellers along the 401 in Ontario. Were any churches open for this too? I know mine wasnt.
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The story I read about took place near Chatham. The people in Walmart were already inside the store when the OPP shut down the highway, effectively stranding all the shoppers.

Walmart staff made a valiant effort to look after them. They provided food from the deli, blew up air mattresses and took games off the shelves to keep everyone occupied.
 
Yes, as I recall one of my churches has coffee, tea (orange pekoe only), creamer and sugar, and some frozen cookies for coffee time. No mattresses, but pews, and floor space. Would not even come close to what a WalMart could do. Nor would it have the staff.
 
Mendalla said:
Walmarts are open and staffed damn near 24 hours these days except for stats. I think our Superstore is 7-11 or something like that, maybe shorter on a Sunday. And staff would be around before opening and after closing. Show me a church that has that kind of capability in the 21st century.
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Some even are open 24 hours, or at least were, not sure if any currently do.
 
I'm a bit confused by the people stuck on trains with no food, blankets. If in the middle of nowhere absolutely I understand staying put. It was mentioned though some people left, walking through backyards to get to the street. I'm really surprised there weren't efforts to at least get food, blankets to people if the locations were too small to not have a building set up for them for the night.
 
ChemGal said:
Some even are open 24 hours, or at least were, not sure if any currently do.
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The Supercentres here were 24 hours for a while during the pandemic but went back to 7-11. The smaller ones (we still have a couple in former Zellers and Woolco stores that have never been expanded into Supercentres) I don't think have ever been 24 hours.

Interestingly, when I was having a bit of a fascination with the van life set (people who live their entire lives traveling in converted full-size vans or even buses), I learned that Walmart parking lots are generally considered a safe place for them park and sleep overnight in an urban setting. Not universally since some municipalities restrict overnight parking even in private lots, but apparently a kind of a rule of thumb is to see if you can park at the Walmart.
 
Mendalla said:
, I learned that Walmart parking lots are generally considered a safe place for them park and sleep overnight in an urban setting. Not universally since some municipalities restrict overnight parking even in private lots, but apparently a kind of a rule of thumb is to see if you can park at the Walmart
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Unfortunately many Walmarts are no longer allowing overnight "campers". People have abused the privilege. We were thankful that Tsawwassen allows it since it is ideally located to get to the ferry to the island in the morning. We felt safe there. Most of our fellow RVers were ferry passengers.
 
Northwind said:
Unfortunately many Walmarts are no longer allowing overnight "campers". People have abused the privilege. We were thankful that Tsawwassen allows it since it is ideally located to get to the ferry to the island in the morning. We felt safe there. Most of our fellow RVers were ferry passengers.
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Does not surprise me. People abusing a privilege is like backpage news. Too bad for the good ones that the bad ones are spoiling it.
 
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