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Re: Holidays and absences [3]
Gets dark at 5 now. Fucking 5 pm. No sun the past two days. Cold creeping in.
I forget about this every year.
I forget about this every year.
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bungobaggins wrote:Gets dark at 5 now. Fucking 5 pm. No sun the past two days. Cold creeping in.
I forget about this every year.
Our farm has unilaterally chosen to stay on daylight savings time till harvest is over, so it still stays light until 6:00 for us. We've been harvesting for 44 days now without a break. 9 more acres to go. If the weather cooperates we could be done in 6 days. Then
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Good Harvesting Dave! It will be a very well deserved buckie barrel or ten when all is over (I'll send you my annual bill for the fertilizer I've provided )
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Im turning the lights on at 3PM now, I really dont like the gloom of winter ! I can tolerate the bad weather as long as its light, the Dark is oppressive & I hate it.
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Gosh, you do work jolly hard Dave.
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I suppose some of the cranberries are turned into jelly for the Christmas roast?
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Yes, there's some Seasonal cranberry sales at Christmas, but Thanksgiving is by far the biggest cranberry market of the year. That's 26 Nov this year, less than 3 weeks away. I don't think there is anybody in the World more thankful at Thanksgiving than a cranberry farmer!
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Glad to hear you're still making progress Dave, and that it's almost over!
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Well done on the cranberry harvest Dave, the cranberry jelly was particularly good this year at Thanksgiving.
In other news...
I went to Death Valley for a weekend of camping!
It was two days of hiking up desert canyons (and sand dunes), cooking over a fire, and enjoying the elements. A good weekend all in all. I can also say that I've been to the lowest point in all of North America. Lowest, that is, in terms of open-to-the-air natural plain sort of elevation. I mean obviously a mine-shaft can get you lower. The lowest point of the valley is 280 feet below sea level. It's a huge salt flat.
In other news...
I went to Death Valley for a weekend of camping!
It was two days of hiking up desert canyons (and sand dunes), cooking over a fire, and enjoying the elements. A good weekend all in all. I can also say that I've been to the lowest point in all of North America. Lowest, that is, in terms of open-to-the-air natural plain sort of elevation. I mean obviously a mine-shaft can get you lower. The lowest point of the valley is 280 feet below sea level. It's a huge salt flat.
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Re: Holidays and absences [3]
Thanks Forest. We aim to pleaseForest Shepherd wrote:Well done on the cranberry harvest Dave, the cranberry jelly was particularly good this year at Thanksgiving.
In other news...
I went to Death Valley for a weekend of camping!
It was two days of hiking up desert canyons (and sand dunes), cooking over a fire, and enjoying the elements. A good weekend all in all. I can also say that I've been to the lowest point in all of North America. Lowest, that is, in terms of open-to-the-air natural plain sort of elevation. I mean obviously a mine-shaft can get you lower. The lowest point of the valley is 280 feet below sea level. It's a huge salt flat.
I love Death Valley! I had never truly heard Quiet till I went there. In the cold, dry, calm air I remember being able to hold a conversation with a friend who was 100 yards away, talking barely above a whisper, and mountains that are miles away look like you could hit them with a stone-toss. It's uncanny in a beautiful way.
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You make that sound like a "want to go to" place Dave
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Just give your vehicle a good checking over before you go, Az; don't want a break-down!
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You very rarely get troubles with a broomstick
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Well.. mostly..
Dear Jason and all at No. 21, No. 34, No. 15, No. 87 and No. 61 but not at No. 18 until she gives back the bowl she definitly borrowed whatever she says.
Well here we are, cor what a lark so far, dont arsk ME about pumkins, still, no harm done. Im drawin a picture of where we stayed larst night I have put an X on our room where our room is. The weather -
'What are you doing, Gytha? We're ready to leave.'
Nanny Ogg looked up, her face still creased with the effort of composition.
'I thought it would be nice to send something to our Jason. You know, to stop him worryin'. So I done a drawing of this place on a piece of card and Mine Hair here will give it to someone going our way. You never know, it might get there.'
- continues Fine.
Nanny Ogg sucked the end of her pencil. Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.
Well that about wraps it up for now, will fight wright again soone MUM. P.S. the Cat is looking very Peeky I think he misses his Home.
'Will you come on, Gytha? Magrat's getting my broom started for me.'
P.P.S. Granny sends her Love.
Nanny Ogg sat back, content in the knowledge of a job well done.
Magrat reached the end of the town square and stopped to rest.
Quite an audience had gathered to see a woman with legs. They were very polite about it. Somehow, that made it worse.
'It doesn't fly unless you run really fast,' she explained, aware even as she spoke how stupid this sounded, especially if you were listening in a foreign language. 'I think it's called hump starting.'
She took a deep breath, scowled in concentration, and ran forward again.
This time it started. It jolted in her hands. The bristles rustled. She managed to slip it into neutral before it could drag her along the ground. One thing about Granny Weatherwax's broomstick - it was one of the very old-fashioned ones, built in the days when broomsticks were built to last and not fall apart with woodworm after ten years - was that while it might take some starting, when it went it didn't hang about.
Magrat had once considered explaining the symbolism of the witches' broomstick to Granny Weatherwax, and decided not to. It would have been worse than the row about the significance of the maypole.
Departure took some time. The villagers insisted on giving them little gifts of food. Nanny Ogg made a speech which no-one understood but which was generally cheered. Greebo, hiccuping occasionally, oozed into his accustomed place among the bristles of Nanny's broomstick.
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its true that is. worst that can happen is a stray twig up the twazzock.
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Christmas is nearly upon us! OH MAN OH MAN!
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I didn't even get to make a list for Santa.
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Forest Shepherd wrote:Christmas is nearly upon us! OH MAN OH MAN!
Got the last of my presents wrapped up and under the tree today, plus helped out with round three(?) of cookie baking.
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I miss actually having Christmas on Christmas day. Ours always gets pushed back to close to, or after New Years, which makes it harder because then we have to deal with work schedules. Just makes too much sense to do it on Christmas day.
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I have like... no presents to give this year. I intend to get up early tomorrow and finish off the wood-working stuff I've been doing, but I'm definitely not shopping any more!
A couple years ago I made a pretty good bow and three fletched arrows for my nephews; but some fool had gotten them some crappy plastic-horror versions and so my bow wasn't really much to get excited about. I would have squeed myself if I got a handmade one as a kid!
Maybe I should stop making presents for them that I wish I had gotten at their age...
They have some basic hand tools and a drill set so I've been putting together a make-it-yourself trebuchet kit for them from scrap wood around the workshop. I might not finish it in time, but oh well!
A couple years ago I made a pretty good bow and three fletched arrows for my nephews; but some fool had gotten them some crappy plastic-horror versions and so my bow wasn't really much to get excited about. I would have squeed myself if I got a handmade one as a kid!
Maybe I should stop making presents for them that I wish I had gotten at their age...
They have some basic hand tools and a drill set so I've been putting together a make-it-yourself trebuchet kit for them from scrap wood around the workshop. I might not finish it in time, but oh well!
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Student budget and few friends is a good combo merry christmas everyone!!
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Oh Norc, that was lovely !!!
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Forest Shepherd wrote:I have like... no presents to give this year. I intend to get up early tomorrow and finish off the wood-working stuff I've been doing, but I'm definitely not shopping any more!
A couple years ago I made a pretty good bow and three fletched arrows for my nephews; but some fool had gotten them some crappy plastic-horror versions and so my bow wasn't really much to get excited about. I would have squeed myself if I got a handmade one as a kid!
Maybe I should stop making presents for them that I wish I had gotten at their age...
They have some basic hand tools and a drill set so I've been putting together a make-it-yourself trebuchet kit for them from scrap wood around the workshop. I might not finish it in time, but oh well!
A present like that would have made the year for me as a kid. Heck, it would now too
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