Patti

[wineturtle]

[Ruth Wysocki]

Hey, everyone! Hope you are all well and happy. I'm finally running again, but building up slowly after so much time off. Building up from walk/run and up to 15 minutes of running. Hope to be basically "normal" by the first of the year. Not as young as jag, so have to take it a bit slower.

Been having pet challenges. Our loveable cocker is now 15 and the last 3 trips to the vet have been $300 each.

Looking forward to a nice weekend with Tom as we celebrate our 28th anniversary (December 10)!

[wayne b]

Ruth, Happy Anniversary to you and Tom! I'm glad to hear you're back to running, and sorry to hear about the dog...I guess it's a variant on the "health care for the elderly" theme.

[MoMoNoMo]

Happy anniversary, Ruth!

It's also my wife's birthday... the day the Nobel Peace Prize is bestowed ... the day the United Nations Human Rights Charter was approved ... Emily Dickinson's birthday ... Kenneth Branagh's birthday...

must be something in the alignment of the stars!

[wineturtle]

Best wishes to all celebrants!

[Spider]

Happy Anniversary! That puts you 5 years ahead of the missus and I, but we'll work on catching up.

Over here, the women in our long run crowd have just run wild lately. In the course of eight days (and at 3 different marathons) the folks without Y chromosomes ran 3:17, 3:10, 3:09, 3:08, 3:05, 3:04, 3:03. This is out of a group that mainly had 3:10 to 3:30 PRs.

None of us Y-chromosome carriers have been doing anything to talk about.

[wineturtle]

Originally Posted by Spider

None of us Y-chromosome carriers have been doing anything to talk about.

I figure it is a birthright!!

[KenA55]

A couple feet today in some localities, how they can tell that when 40-60 mph winds have it all moving sideways is beyond me. We're getting more of the stuff this year than we've seen in a couple decades, and it isn't winter yet. The NY Giants are stuck overnight in KC, our airport is closed, and who knows whether they'll be able to get in to town tomorrow morning, the snowfall has mostly stopped but the winds are whipping up whiteout conditions.

[wayne b]

Ken, I trust you've now heard that the Giants won't play the Vikings until Mon nite.

Matt & I saw a production of Charlotte's Web this eve. It was quite good...actors did an excellent job of animating hand-puppet characters.

Raining here now and low 40's...but the cold is coming!

EDIT: And I trust you've heard they won't be playing at the Metrodome this week. (morning edit to reflect roof deflation)

[KenA55]

Originally Posted by wayne b

Ken, I trust you've now heard that the Giants won't play the Vikings until Mon nite.
EDIT: And I trust you've heard they won't be playing at the Metrodome this week. (morning edit to reflect roof deflation)

Yup, the weather crushed our bubble here; happened once before, the first year the dome was inflated. Of course if the Giants had been able to get in and the baggie was still holding, I suspect there would have been a good crushing to be had anyway, just not the Vikings year.

Patti, the plan was to ship me back to Chicago after the Thanksgiving weekend, but the local projects just keep coming our way in a flurry, so those plans keep getting set back another week, each week... and I'll be surprised if I leave the local area at all this month. Maybe January.

I worked through the blizzard, got an early start Saturday about the time the snowfall was starting to get heavy at 6:30 AM, and didn't leave for home until almost 12 hours later, as the snow was letting up though the winds were still ferocious.

So my day off rolls around today and Ms. Daisy decides to buy a[nother] rubbermaid utility shed because her expecting daughter & son-in-law are about to move in w/us. We need more storage says she, and I spent most of the afternoon putting the thing together out back on a singe-digit day with subzero windchills. Don't most people do this stuff in the spring?

But I got a measure of revenge; I grabbed her favorite housebroom just because it was nearby, to move some stray snow away from around the base, and the handle snaps in two almost immediately.

So now every time she berates me over one thing or another, which is remarkably, marvelously constant... I get the pleasure of commenting: "sheesh, who busted your broomstick, anyway?" If I keep it up I'll probably be living in that shed before long. I just love asking her that, though, its going to be hard to stop. Oh well, us Big Lake guys are all incorrigible 'shed guys' anyway, at least that's the assessment at the local watering hole over to the other side of the lake, which is the local nexus of such high philosophical discernment. You get no points around here for being a plastic shed guy, though, a real shed guy spends his time in the real thing - wood, metal, bare insulation, wood-burner; snuggled in with an assortment of old tools and lawn mowers that don't run, rather than the beanie-baby collection I'll have to share lodgings with.