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Carolla said:
Been there done that!!! LOL Cars of our misbegotten youth. One of ours had a layer of ice on the floor too - man did our feet ever get cold!! But scraping the windows inside kept us generating body heat elsewhere!
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LOL. When we got married my hubby already had a car (I didn't have a license). His car was an old station wagon, because the cops didn't expect a young man to be driving such a thing! We used it for several years, remembering to recover the holes in the floor with new layers of cardboard regularly. Plywood would have been a better choice but we had no money for such luxuries.
 
I remember two rust-buckets in our family: one was an old Fargo truck, and one a rusty Ford car. In one, I remember the holes in the floor where we watched the road through them with more than a little fascination. The other, I remember driving it (barely 16) and holding on to the door because it wouldn't stay shut. Corners were tough.
 
Good morning! As we remember cars from days gone by, and the steps we had to take to keep them on the road, and keep windshields clear, let us continue our conversations on this and other topics, as we gather round the Coffee Cart. All is ready, bagels are toasted. Come on in and help yourself.

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Good morning...I went to the bakery across the street and have a basket of croissant, abricotine, chocolatine and a fresh baguette. Didn't forget the butter and jam.
I enjoyed reading those old car tales. Nancy my brother's old car had a big hole in the floor to see the highway a few inches away. He eventually repaired it with scap lumber.
One of his wipers quit in a snowstorm between Toronto and Cambridge. He tried tying piece of twine to the wiper, threading it through the no draft and giving it a tug. He had to still get out every few minutes to brush the snow off.
 
ninj said:
Nancy my brother's old car had a big hole in the floor to see the highway a few inches away. He eventually repaired it with scap lumber.
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When I was doing Classics at U of Waterloo, a bunch of us went to a seminar at U of T. The driver was a prof who was also the undergrad advisor. She had an old Rabbit with, yeah, a hole in the floor. And it rained on the way home. She also made it to class on a storm day that eventually forced the university to close (and anyone who has been to university in Ontario knows that it has to be very, very bad for them to close). I think she drove her truck that day (she lived on a farm outside Waterloo, IIRC).

A croissant with my tea sounds yummy. Russian Caravan is my the du jour. It's a blend of Assam and Chinese black teas including some Lapsang Souchang, which is a black from Southern China that is smoked over pine fires. Tres yummy.
 
The solution is cabin fever and a good book as if entombed ...

Oh the darkness of a night in the sole 've a book ... power hate what you might scrape up in there ... subtle tyres ...
 
Snow snow snow. I don't think it has ever completely stopped this morning. It's fairly light, so not accumulating too quickly, but quite persistent.

Cold here, too, though getting better as the day wears on. I went out to clear the front walk before Mrs. M gets home from shopping and didn't get as cold as when we shoveled first thing.
 
Nancy said:
I remember two rust-buckets in our family: one was an old Fargo truck, and one a rusty Ford car. In one, I remember the holes in the floor where we watched the road through them with more than a little fascination. The other, I remember driving it (barely 16) and holding on to the door because it wouldn't stay shut. Corners were tough.
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Youngsters don't appreciate having a decent vehicle. I recall a truck that required the passenger to climb in through the window (that didn't close). It also had holes through the floor. Fortunately it was never used on real roads - just to haul stuff on the farm.
 
We have snow that is so light and tiny that it looks like mist. A thawing time is forecasted for next week. Around here no-one enjoys melting snow in Forevruary as experience informs us that it will be followed by ice. Some really odd things happening during climate change.
 
Lovely morning gathering for coffee & treats with 5 of my former OT colleagues. Fabulous treat by the host was this cranberry loaf - yummy!

I just booked tix for myself & a friend to go out to see "The Knitting Pilgrim" next week - looks so interesting. Here's the description of the show from the website. The tapestries are quite extraordinary.
We meet Kirk Dunn as he knits in front of three huge projection screens and tells the story of his life as an actor, writer, knitter, and preacher’s kid. Prompted by the events of 9/11, he knit three tapestries, designed as stained-glass windows, exploring the commonalities and conflicts of the Abrahamic faiths, which took him fifteen years to complete. ​
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In a show that’s all about knitting and not about knitting at all, he looks at the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and fear of the other. Dunn shares his journey knitting the tapestries: the artistic path of self-doubt, financial despair, and the value of a loving partner who is willing to be a butt-kicking muse. You’ll laugh, cry, and even have the chance to do some knitting yourself, while Kirk celebrates diversity and concludes that the three faiths have the same goal: peace.​
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Does anybody has a recommendation how to prevent the inside of the windshield to be covered with ice? I put a blanket over the outside, but scraping is really difficult on the inside.
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I've had to learn how to deal with this with help

So, make sure your fabric in the footwells are dry (hair dryer to the rescue!)
Also make sure you have no water or drink bottles that still have stuff in them.

Make sure you have no wet or damp kleenex or rags...

You might also want to buy some of that dehumidifying silica stuff? That works wonders but costs money lol

Have fun with the cat :3
KayTheCurler said:
Just recalling the old VW cars and vans we had back in our younger days. He drove, the passenger kept scraping ice off the windshield! Useful to keep the passenger moving so they didn't freeze to death with all the heat seeming to go to the driver's side of the car.
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You Hippy! Y'know my mom's dad was the guy that VW brought VW into Canada :3
 
KayTheCurler said:
We have snow that is so light and tiny that it looks like mist. A thawing time is forecasted for next week. Around here no-one enjoys melting snow in Forevruary as experience informs us that it will be followed by ice. Some really odd things happening during climate change.
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Global Weirding for the Win :3

(I mean, we already had Pigs Flying--USA 2016 election, Pandemic, GOP and DEMS agreeing on something in 2020...)
 
We are having arctic cold coming, right now its -23, = -32 with windchill. Coldest is supposed to be tomorrow at 8, with windchill-46. Local community have opened warming centres and have a 211 number together with a pick up service if necessary. My heatpump is starting to need breaks every couple of minutes, so the electric heat is on, all my windows and doors have blanket over them. As long as the power stays on, I am good.
Went to visit my 92 year olds this afternoon and brought some treats. With some convincing, we explored the second level of their building, where they have an exercise room ( floor curling on Tuesdays). We founf the hairdresser and she had a mailbox to put in a request for haircuts in. He needs one badly and the wide had not managed to call yet. Then sat in the library and browsed through books and took some back. I pointed out the way back so she hopefully will remember it for the hair appointment- but I am not sure she will ( and he definitely will not).
 
Good morning! Thanks to Ninj for the basket of goodies yesterday, and the topics of vehicles, windshield clearing, snow and ccccoooolllllddd... hopefully it won't be too long till we talk about the heat. Anyway, as garden beds are planned and seeds considered, as we plan for the approaching spring and cope with the weather till then, let us gather round the Coffee Cart in friendship and conversation.

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Good morning...the temp just rose one degree from earlier this morning to a sweltering -28.
Tomorrow it's supposed to rise to freezing. Quite a change.
Awaiting the seed catalogs I ordered to look at. No garden, but no harm in looking...
I remember having the same issue with interior condensation in my car. I used an old plastic card to scrape the inside window if I had to. I knew it was from excess moisture from breathing and wet boots. I invented silica filled car mats that could be exchanged when wet and dried overnight. Not patented!
Run with it kids.
 
Odd thing about lo' temps (or droughts). The early warnings about greenhouse effect were about violent variations ... with resultant storms and turbulence. Those not paying attention to details focussed on the extremes rather than the violent changes.

Is this an excess of a totally misunderstood nature? Mother nature is so alien to the unnatural mankind that ignores essential oils and unnecessary greasing of palms ... slippery personality development?

Imagine calming storms with a felt pen sieve mode ... just filtering dah tails ...
 
The youngest BIG Lotto 6/49 winner was announced yesterday. She is from my hometown, and the rumour mill had told everyone who it was long ago. In an interview she said that it's kind of old news here in the Sault, because everyone seemed to know who had won. The Sault is like that. And I hope all works out well for her. She had just turned 18, and is at university, with plans to become a doctor. Her Dad is a financial planner. Genuinely happy that a young, grounded person, with a good family, has experienced this. Hope it all goes well for her.
 
Sorry for the two posts in a row, but I have a lot to say this morning! Last night I met with a relative who is researching my Grandmother's family history. This person doesn't live here, but we 'met' on-line. She came here to visit her parents yesterday so we met in person. Her Grandma is my mom's first cousin, and it is her Dad that is our family connecteion. We have the Family Bible that she was interested in looking at and Mom also has a copy of a letter that our Great-Uncle wrote to his Mom during WWI...a war that he never came home from. We also had this young soldier's death certificate. So, we had a lot to show her, and we enjoyed sharing family stories. It was a lovely evening. But here's the interesting part....

As we talked, I mentioned where my husband is from. Turns out her mother is from the same area and her mom's cousin is best friends with my husband's brother-in-law!

Then...when I got home, my sister sent a message. She is in Florida, staying with friends, before boarding a cruise today. She met up with a friend of the friends who happens to be related to us. This guy sent an early family history that will add nicely to the rest of the family history we were talking about. All this happened at the same time....two sisters talking to two relatives about one part of our family history....and we didn't know it until later! It was a night of coincidences!
 
I found long lost cousins on FB quite some time ago. Found another cousin when we got internet that the family had totally lost contact with in the 50's.It was such a pleasure to link him by mail with our aunties who had often spoken of him.
By a series of lucky moments I am now in contact with my late brother's children who I had been missing since coming to Canada. An email this morning had a niece observing similarities in us, which was rather fun. They and their descendants were happy to see a childhood photo of my brother. It solved a bit of mystery for them - they now know why so many of the youngsters have ears that stick out!
 
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