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Yes - big HAPPY BIRTHDAY Northwind! 65 is a good one for sure - the government will raise your pay :giggle: Yes, onward to to 70!

Sounds like a great sale Bette - and glad you found some new treasures for your garden :-)

And wow Mrs.A - so quick on the sanding etc for your new rocker! I hope you'll share a pic of it when you're finished.
 
Funny how some things feel familiar no matter where you are. A Finn on another board posted a photo of the view from her cottage and we ended up chatting a bit about cottages. This other board is mostly Europeans, at least in terms of who is most active, with only few active North American members. We have Finns, Dutch, Germans, Swedes. And then there's a mod who is South African. Some great discussion. It's a fansite for a favourite singer and she has put in a ban on politics and religion so it is a nice retreat when things get too heated on other sites.
 
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Happy Birthday @Northwind
 
Tiring day here, transplanting tomatoes. Always sad to leave so many out of my garden. I did way too many this year, I was expecting my sister to kill hers off so was planning on giving her at least 5, she only wants 1.
Great weather though, warmish but cloudy. If there was no wind it would be perfect.
 
BetteTheRed said:
It would be the wind in the Prairie provinces that would defeat me. I wonder how my sister will make out?
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It wasn't awful, but enough where a gust might blow an empty seedling pot a meter and would definitely blow dry potting soil. Neighbour's house was being painted. Just enough wind to take it out of perfect transplanting weather - mostly in the 20s for wind speed.. I don't think here is any windier than ON from my memories there.
I forget where your sister is going. Somewhere like Lethbridge definitely gets strong winds.
 
ChemGal...thanks for the laugh about tomatoes and expecting your sister to kill hers! Last year, we had tomato plants grow from seed as 'volunteers', left over from a previous year, I guess. They were the best crop and I froze tomatoes and we enjoyed them all year long. We also got some near-dead plants from Canadian Tire for free last year, and they did very well too. I'm not sure that this year will be as good, since we are getting off to such a cold start. Last summer, my great niece and nephew were swimming by May 18th; this year, the ice was barely out of the bay!

On another note, our social life seems to be gearing up. There are many people wanting to get together. This is partly because of the 'yay we're done with Covid' feeling, and partly because of my husband's diagnosis, and the realization that life is short. This summer we will try to pack a lot in without getting too tired (says the lady who is in pajamas by 8 every night). A second opinion about husband's cancer wasn't uplifting...gave an even shorter lifespan. But, he is not his cancer, so we will continue to live our best lives.
 
Good morning, all! Today is Pentecost Sunday, the 50th dat after Easter Day, the day the Spirit was/ is poured out. The coffee cart is ready, come, help yourself!

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]
 
What will the day cost some pence to ponder in the well ... pennyworth? There has to be a story or myth left there ... if only for the poor folk left in the depression as the wealthy ... well you know how inflation works! They don't ... being above the pagan and heathen one misses a lot of common matters and anti matters! Contraries? Counter swifts ...
 
In there is an enigma ... a word containing the syllable nig*Eire ... that encompasses a dark zone ... and few of the perfect folk can stand any mystery ... thus it causes them great stress. This results in lack of rest and all that follows as paradoxical ...

I have been chastised for raising such topics for discussion and intercourse! Thus if becomes a fringe object ... remains beyond us shaping relief messages as a hard line ...

Some even get intuit over alien discussions ... encompassed and deeply enmeshed ... or so the fabric indicates!

There are folk in light robes and those in the counter ... on which some ancient bairds have spoken ... naked virtue is a rare thing of essence! Imagine the implications when searching for nothing ... then consider what it adds up to!

A friend is preaching in a nearby church on death this morning ... imagine the totalization there ... especially when some people have to lose their minds to get reproduced ... so it goes ...

The extent that some go to to capture your seminally prepared essence ... semiotics? There are other words for the transfer ... be de ath Omis ... a' spiralling helix?
 
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Nancy said:
A second opinion about husband's cancer wasn't uplifting...gave an even shorter lifespan. But, he is not his cancer, so we will continue to live our best lives.
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That's discouraging. Still, he is not his cancer. Enjoy your time together.
 
Northwind, I was wondering if you took Highway 22 from the Crowsnest to Calgary. That is definitely a beautiful drive even if the winds are often ferocious in places. A belated happy birthday.

The winds here and in Montreal were strongly gusty most of the day yesterday and are supposed to hit 35km/h this afternoon and are already quite strong. Eastern Ontario is definitely about as windy as Southern Alberta.
 
jimkenney12 said:
Northwind, I was wondering if you took Highway 22 from the Crowsnest to Calgary. That is definitely a beautiful drive even if the winds are often ferocious in places. A belated happy birthday.
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We did indeed. Highway 22 is such a nice route. We took highway 3 from Creston to 22 then headed north. That is such a diverse route. Mountain passes, rivers, foothills, rolling prairie etc. Beautiful.

Thanks for the birthday greetings
 
I love the drive along the Moyie River. The first place I saw wild turtles was in the Moyie River downstream from Moyie Lake. Creston to Kootenay Bay is also a great drive.
 
jimkenney12 said:
Eastern Ontario is definitely about as windy as Southern Alberta.
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Yes, possibly. Central Ontario (where I've always lived) tends to have cities around lake basins, so it just isn't as windy. I totally noticed the wind as I drove across the prairies. (And chemgal, my sister is moving to the Edmonton area, although they won't be in the City (they like a bit of property, for her to mess with gardens and have a place to x-country ski, and for him to have a big shop (or two) to mess with cars).

And Nancy, hard news re your hubby. Live well with him.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Yes, possibly. Central Ontario (where I've always lived) tends to have cities around lake basins, so it just isn't as windy. I totally noticed the wind as I drove across the prairies. (And chemgal, my sister is moving to the Edmonton area, although they won't be in the City (they like a bit of property, for her to mess with gardens and have a place to x-country ski, and for him to have a big shop (or two) to mess with cars).

And Nancy, hard news re your hubby. Live well with him.
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Thus the urge to pond Erin ... deeper urges ...
 
Southwest can get windy if things are coming from the right direction but it is not our usual. Mostly just breezes or lighter winds. Every now and then, though, especially if a front is approaching, it can get quite windy.
 
Nancy said:
ChemGal...thanks for the laugh about tomatoes and expecting your sister to kill hers! Last year, we had tomato plants grow from seed as 'volunteers', left over from a previous year, I guess. They were the best crop and I froze tomatoes and we enjoyed them all year long. We also got some near-dead plants from Canadian Tire for free last year, and they did very well too. I'm not sure that this year will be as good, since we are getting off to such a cold start. Last summer, my great niece and nephew were swimming by May 18th; this year, the ice was barely out of the bay!

On another note, our social life seems to be gearing up. There are many people wanting to get together. This is partly because of the 'yay we're done with Covid' feeling, and partly because of my husband's diagnosis, and the realization that life is short. This summer we will try to pack a lot in without getting too tired (says the lady who is in pajamas by 8 every night). A second opinion about husband's cancer wasn't uplifting...gave an even shorter lifespan. But, he is not his cancer, so we will continue to live our best lives.
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To be fair to my sister it was more about my nephews and wanting to get into the garden, plus a lack of grow lights. I had it go down to 1C one night, but it didn't get quite as cold at her place.

I hope your husband has a decent amount of good time left!
 
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