Autumnal Thoughts........

[jamespowers]

Every time I think about autumn leading to winter...I remember this and things always seem better....
[video=youtube;-YCeIgt7hMs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs[/video]

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

Fresh water bacon.

I like salt water bacon better. It has more flavor.

 

[jamespowers]

It tastes like anchovies.

Anchovies and Bacon.

 

[vintageTink]

I like salt water bacon better. It has more flavor.

We purchased thick cut bacon from the deli. Mmm.

It was about 50° today.

 

[Benny Holiday]

I have no idea where the warming is. It certainly ain't here or in Europe. They have been having 100 year record cold winters lately. :doh:

I have no idea how it's suppsoed to work, and neither, I suspect, do scientists, but I read a few years ago that a 'general' rise in global temperatures would eventually have the opposite effect in higher latitudes, as warmer weather melts ice which leads to a lsowing down of deep ocean currents. The currents move warm water, and air, to the higher latitudes, but without them, Europe, North America and Russia would get colder.

So they say, anyway. As for me, all I know is the summers are nastier than ever here and the winters nastier than they used to be where you are. I wouldn't mind seeing a woolly mammoth, but I might skip on the woolly rhinoceros with the three and a half foot long horn!

 

[jamespowers]

I have no idea how it's suppsoed to work, and neither, I suspect, do scientists, but I read a few years ago that a 'general' rise in global temperatures would eventually have the opposite effect in higher latitudes, as warmer weather melts ice which leads to a lsowing down of deep ocean currents. The currents move warm water, and air, to the higher latitudes, but without them, Europe, North America and Russia would get colder.

So they say, anyway. As for me, all I know is the summers are nastier than ever here and the winters nastier than they used to be where you are. I wouldn't mind seeing a woolly mammoth, but I might skip on the woolly rhinoceros with the three and a half foot long horn!

I say we need a few dozen more desalinization plants so we can solve two problems at once then.

 

[Stearmen]

Mid 60s today. We really are living up to the old saying, "if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes!"

 

[Benny Holiday]

I say we need a few dozen more desalinization plants so we can solve two problems at once then.

Haha! You can have ours, it's yet another expensive government white elephant!

 

[Gregg Axley]

Mid 60s today. We really are living up to the old saying, "if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes!"

I thought that was only in our town.
Maybe ours is a day...we're so behind here.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Haha! You can have ours, it's yet another expensive government white elephant!

What's wrong with desalination?

 

[jamespowers]

Haha! You can have ours, it's yet another expensive government white elephant!

I would want a public utility in control not strictly government that is for sure.

It works for Saudi Arabia.

 

[Benny Holiday]

What's wrong with desalination?

The New South Wales government spent $2 billion to built the plant and then it only ran for two years before they turned it off because all the dams were full. Now it's just sitting there, costing the taxpayers $16 million a month for nothing.

 

[HudsonHawk]

The New South Wales government spent $2 billion to built the plant and then it only ran for two years before they turned it off because all the dams were full. Now it's just sitting there, costing the taxpayers $16 million a month for nothing.

Ah, so it's your government's poor planning that bugs you, not desalination itself.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Ah, so it's your government's poor planning that bugs you, not desalination itself.

Very much so HH. If it was just one isolated example, well, that happens, but they've got a bad track record for poor planning. Anyway, lest I get political, I'll say that it's 85 out there again today, and I'm still waiting for Autumn! :eusa_doh:

 

[HudsonHawk]

Very much so HH. If it was just one isolated example, well, that happens, but they've got a bad track record for poor planning.

You're not the only with that gripe.

Anyway, lest I get political, I'll say that it's 85 out there again today, and I'm still waiting for Autumn! :eusa_doh:

I've never been to Sydney (only place down under I've been is Perth), what's autumn typically like...weather wise?

 

[Benny Holiday]

Well it used to be a lovely respite from the searing summer heat. Over about 10 weeks from mid March, the temperatures would ease off until it started to get cold in mid-late May. Over that time the day time temperatures would ease down from about 85 degrees at the start of March down to roughly 60 - mild weather. The humidity would end with the coming of March too.

That hasn't happened here for the last 4 or 5 years. Summer has dragged on with high temperatures and stifling humidity all the way through to the end of April, then the mild weather has set in for a fortnight before the temperatures plummet! It's all very odd and different than what i grew up with.

I've never been to Perth but I've heard great things about it. Did you enjoy it?

 

[HudsonHawk]

I've never been to Perth but I've heard great things about it. Did you enjoy it?

I loved Perth. The weather was perfect, the people were great...it's just a LONG way from my house. I mean a LOOOONNNNGGGG way.

 

[Benny Holiday]

haha I hear ya bud! It's as far away from my place as you can get without leaving dry land.

 

[vintageTink]

My cousin lives in Queensland. He's invited me to visit, I would love to see Australia but your spiders scare me. As well as the crocs, scorpions, snakes, and everything else that tries to kill you.
But mostly your spiders.

Danger, danger, danger!

It was very windy today, about 46° but the wind brought it down about 10°.

 

[Gregg Axley]

I thought the Dingo ate the spider.
Well now I'm confused.
Wait, the Dingo eat Sheep.
Mine ate anything she could get ahold of.
Until I locked the cabinets (when she was a pup), it was cereal.