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Man, you should see my trees right now. Coated in a fairly thick layer of ice. The one outside my home office window looks like some kind of weird glass sculpture. We've been getting freezing rain since fairly early in the morning. Hydro was out this afternoon but not for long in my area, not even an hour. Other parts of London are still showing red on the London Hydro outage map. I've seen branches falling off a couple trees on the properties behind me but no sign of any of mine losing anything. Environment Canada has pulled the warning so I guess it is over now.
 
Up here in Collingwood area, we had ice pellets. So if you were skiing at speed, your face was sandblasted in a particularly unpleasant way.

Your option was to ski slowly. I don't do that.
 
We had freezing rain. Had to scrape the windows when came out after volunteer shift.

Moved to snow a bit ago.

Definitely messy
 
Mendalla said:
I had a Muslim here for Christmas Eve and he didn't so much as bat an eyelash when I said "Merry Christmas".
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I watched a Christmas vid from Nazareth and the high population of Muslims were enjoying the festivities thinking Santa, trees and shopping and not realizing Jesus involvement.
 
I think Christmas has evolved a lot. I know I’ve never associated it with Jesus, but it's almost a universal secular holiday now, at least in Canada. We skied with a Jewish family today and they explained how they more celebrated Christmas than Hanukkah.
 
Hanukkah seems like a lot more work- it goes over 8 days, needs special foods and gift giving is rather minor. Commercial Christmas is a lot easier.
 
The ease is better ... and folk work less as elle-ise-ah ... a light spot in the slave market?

Elisa is a subdude word ... it can mean other things ...
 
Good mornng! Happy Saturday. The last weekend of the year! Today we ponder chocolate as a separate food group, take note on skiiing during ice pellet storms, and remember the people of Prince Albert, and the Salvation Army, therein, and the people whom it served.
We gather round the Coffee Cart for our chat, support, stories and observations, over coffee, tea, and baked goodies. This morning the baker has provided us with some lovely assorted fruit crepes. The tea water is hot, coffee is freshbrewed, nd the crepes are at their yummy best All is ready, and anyone is welcome. Come join in the fun!

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Redbaron said:
Good mornng! Happy Saturday. The last weekend of the year! Today we ponder chocolate as a separate food group, take note on skiiing during ice pellet storms, and remember the people of Prince Albert, and the Salvation Army, therein, and the people whom it served.
We gather round the Coffee Cart for our chat, support, stories and observations, over coffee, tea, and baked goodies. This morning the baker has provided us with some lovely assorted fruit crepes. The tea water is hot, coffee is freshbrewed, nd the crepes are at their yummy best All is ready, and anyone is welcome. Come join in the fun!

C(_)/ c(_) c[_] c\_/
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That's a lot to reflect on ... oh Kaye? Fun-IHC-you-lee ... that's latent as we wait to see ...
 
chansen said:
I think Christmas has evolved a lot. I know I’ve never associated it with Jesus, but it's almost a universal secular holiday now, at least in Canada. We skied with a Jewish family today and they explained how they more celebrated Christmas than Hanukkah.
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Yeah, my daughter-in-law's family (Pakistani Muslims) get together during the season. I think some of it is convenience since it's the one time in the year when you have multiple stat holidays close together but I think the secular element of a time for families to get together and celebrate whatever they are celebrating has been picked up, too. And, my d-i-l herself was born in the US and grew up in Canada so it's kind of cultural for her. And you can't discount the fact that Jesus matters to Muslims, too, and is revered as the most important prophet before Muhammad (they also think Christians got it badly wrong with the whole "Jesus is God Incarnate" and the Trinity).
 
Yes I agree that Christmas has evolved quite a bit in my lifetime. The biggest change is that we have come to separate the religious and secular holidays/ traditions.

When I was growing up the two observances were much more intertwined.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
The site was down for a bit here. Just for me, or did anyone else have a problem?
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I was out for a medical appointment after 10am EST and just back on now so probably missed it if there was. I'll check logs later. Vision is a bit blurry right now (optometrist appt and she put drops in). Got her to write a scrip for some "computer glasses", i.e. glasses geared to staring at screens all day, but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary. Coming up on four years since my cataract surgery and my eyes are holding up pretty well.
 
Redbaron said:
Good mornng! Happy Saturday. The last weekend of the year! Today we ponder chocolate as a separate food group, take note on skiiing during ice pellet storms, and remember the people of Prince Albert, and the Salvation Army, therein, and the people whom it served.
We gather round the Coffee Cart for our chat, support, stories and observations, over coffee, tea, and baked goodies. This morning the baker has provided us with some lovely assorted fruit crepes. The tea water is hot, coffee is freshbrewed, nd the crepes are at their yummy best All is ready, and anyone is welcome. Come join in the fun!

C(_)/ c(_) c[_] c\_/
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Sorry I didn’t check in until today. I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! Christmas Day was rushed and yesterday I recovered.
 
Good morning! Last Sunday of the year. Time to ask the questions... Who has what plans to mark the New Year? Anybody making any resolutions this time around? We can bring our thoughts to the Coffee Cart, for discussion, ideas, support and camaraderie, over tea and coffee and baked goodies. This morning, the Wonderbaker has made bear claws for us to enjoy. The tea water is boiling, the coffee is fresh brewed, and the claws are warm and fresh. All things are ready, everyone is welcome. Come join in the chat and goodies!

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What a time to discuss sociopathy vs psychopathy!

Well maybe not given how it infiltrates the system ...

Could that be a change in something we don't understand and thus autonomous ... given the extent of our desire to understand is a subtle failure? So it goes downhill for a season ... Eccles!

PS: With some heckling! Especially about not reading into-it.

I was once told that several professions require constant reading ... when folk think they've had enough they quit and leave as essence! There it is; unseen spirit.
 
There was a period in my life, kind of early marriage but pre-kid when I got the flu around New Year's almost like clockwork. Hate being sick at a fun time.
 
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