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My trudging snowy walk in the bush pales in comparison to your adventures Northwind and Mendalla. Sounds like excellent days for both of you.
 
Sigh. The magnolias were just ending their bloom in New Orleans' Garden District (The high rent neighbourhood that dates back a couple hundred years. Recent residents have included the late author Anne Rice.) Can't wait for spring to arrive here.
 
I changed my avatar to show a little old lady out walking in the snow with the walking stick my husband cut for me. I was walking on a deer trail, and it was a little narrow...I kept losing my balance.
 
I think we are getting our first real snowstorm this winter tonight into tomorrow. 10-20 cm. I prefer them on the weekend, so I don’t have to go anywhere.
 
Good morning! As we think of winter walks, winter getaways, and winter weather, as well as walking poles, photos and avatars, let us gather in spirit around the Coffee Cart, to continue our conversations where the coffee never gets cold, and the tea is always fresh, All is ready, help yourself.

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We had rain and were under a freezing rain warning but not sure how much of it was freezing. Just getting light enough to see.

Nice to be home, even if I do like being in NOLA. Hopefully I can engineer another trip someday.
 
Garbage is out to the curb. Mild and no precipitation but icicles are dripping on our front porch creating an ice on the porch hazard. About to have breakfast.
 
My front porch is a friggin' nightmare. I've got ice melt and lava down, but it's pretty treacherous, and it's just cold enough, and no sun, so that I can't even get the metal edged shovel under the mess.
 
I just got my ladder out so I could scrape the snow within about three feet of the edge off the roof near the entrance with the back side of the snow shovel. I hope the air temperature will drop enough below freezing that water will stop seeping toward the ice filled eavestrough. I have considered it for over a month but was too lazy to actually do it. We have a strip on the porch under the edge of the roof close to a foot wide that is similar to a range of low ice hills. We have an outdoor mat under the ice so it does not scrape off.
 
Just wet down here. If we got freezing rain, it has long since melted. Just a fine, miserable rain as I dash down to my superbox to clean up 10 days of snail mail.

Dumbass surgeon's office snail mailed me about an appointment date (referred by primary care for a consultation about a hernia). They mailed it on January 3 about an appointment on January 18. No phone call, even though there was less than three weeks between mailing and appointment and we all know that there is a reason snail mail got that name. Since I left for New Orleans on January 7, it didn't arrive before I left so I found out when a reminder call came on Tuesday as I was touring a museum in Jackson Square. Of course, I had to call (thank God I had US roaming) and reschedule since I wasn't back in Canada until the evening of the eighteenth. If they had just called first, then sent the letter, could have save us both some effort.
 
Mendalla said:
Just wet down here. If we got freezing rain, it has long since melted. Just a fine, miserable rain as I dash down to my superbox to clean up 10 days of snail mail.

Dumbass surgeon's office snail mailed me about an appointment date (referred by primary care for a consultation about a hernia). They mailed it on January 3 about an appointment on January 18. No phone call, even though there was less than three weeks between mailing and appointment and we all know that there is a reason snail mail got that name. Since I left for New Orleans on January 7, it didn't arrive before I left so I found out when a reminder call came on Tuesday as I was touring a museum in Jackson Square. Of course, I had to call (thank God I had US roaming) and reschedule since I wasn't back in Canada until the evening of the eighteenth. If they had just called first, then sent the letter, could have save us both some effort.
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OMG - terrible & wasteful system. They need to get up to speed with this century!!

Exciting to hear you went to NOLA - awsome city with so much rich history! What sights did you see/hear and local delicacies did you sample?
 
Carolla said:
What sights did you see/hear and local delicacies did you sample?
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So the first seven days were a cruise to the Bahamas and Key West. Enjoyed Key West, loved Nassau, meh on Freeport.

In New Orleans, I used an app called GPSMyCity. It offers self-guided walking tours in something like 1000 cities (I used it in Key West and Nassau, too) for US$17 or so per year. We did a tour of the French Quarter (the oldest part of the city), then one of the Garden District (the high rent district since the mid-nineteenth century). Took a riverboat tour on the Mississippi and saw the battlefield where the Battle of New Orleans was fought. Visited the National WWII Museum, which I did not know existed until we started planning this tour but is well worth the visit, even if its version of the war is very American-focussed (no mentioned of Dieppe and minimal coverage of events before Pearl Harbor, for instance). Went inside St. Louis' Cathedral and The Presbytere, the old bishop's residence that is now a museum with exhibits on Mardi Gras and Hurricane Katrina. Foodwise, I had all the staples except, for some reason, never got around to blackened fish. Mrs. M can't tolerate spice (stomach problems) so we did not eat as much cajun and creole as I might have on my own.
 
Nancy said:
I changed my avatar to show a little old lady out walking in the snow with the walking stick my husband cut for me. I was walking on a deer trail, and it was a little narrow...I kept losing my balance.
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I am considering hiking poles to aid my balance. Have you tried them?
 
Due to amazing serendipity I have located some long lost family!

Many years ago my dad left the north of England to seek work in the London area. His success encouraged his parents, a brother and a sister to follow. The rest of the family, four sisters, stayed in the north. I have a vague memory of meeting some of them when I was small. I have never had any luck tracking them down.

I also lost my late brother's children following a divorce in the 60's that meant his wife kept the children.

Last week I responded to a post on FB and someone asked if I was related to 'these' people?. Turned out to be my hubby's grandparents. So we continued chatting online. She was researching the family history and filling in spaces in her family tree, and quite excited to find her second cousin. I mentioned my lost family and she asked for some names and dates saying she would see what she could find. Within a few hours she sent me some info that seemed to be connected to my dad's family. Contact was made. This was my cousin's daughter. She generously shared some 'likely matches to herself' from her DNA testing. Jackpot. My late brother's oldest child! She is the only one of her siblings to use computers and the only one who had done DNA testing.

I don't know who is most delighted!!
 
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