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This weather is effin hideous

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Started 4 months ago by Compass Rose
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lifeisamazing

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While we're all indoors things are coming to life outside without our help.

Nice line. Peaceful.

I love this weather but then I like all weather. I lived in Hawaii for a year and a half, though, and the weather was great just too 'the same' every day. By the end I'd have given anything for a reason to wear a sweater. A real cozy, heavy sweater.

I like gardening in this weather. Duck boots, really good gloves and thermal sweatshirt with hood. Wonderful.

Posted 4 months ago #
bambooboy

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It's a little nippy out right now. I want to go for a bike ride but I really don't think I have any gloves warm enough to do the job today.

Posted 4 months ago #
Corvus

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Today, Saturday 1/12/13, the weather is effing perfect!!

Posted 4 months ago #
iPlod

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It was so cold we had to leave the refrigerator door open all last night to warm the place up.

Posted 4 months ago #
Compass Rose

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I am LOVING this weather!

Posted 4 months ago #
seattletree

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TODAY ROCKS... JUST SAYING.. but the night.. whoa.. brrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

however, I did finally purchase 3 Humming Bird Feeders and am putting them out at first light and taking them in at night to prevent freezing. Used to have a ton of Hummers here.. so it make take time to attract some again.

Random window "save"... if you hate scraping ice like I do (and I have a tall truck to boot and cannot reach the windshield without standing on a bucket) use Rain X. My dad told me to do that years ago.. so at my advanced age of... 38 ISH...ishy ish.. I have finally used it. omg it really really makes everything SO much nicer/easier. Let alone the fact that you really don't need wipers after you put the stuff on. It's easier to see as the rain really sheds right off and ice comes right off too. No more two handed hard scraping. Seems that it doesn't build up near as thick either.. So enjoy the sun...today...

Posted 4 months ago #
michp

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Sunshine rocks!

Seattle has no summer. It has 3 weeks of normal Spring Days for the rest of the planet.

If I want to see a mountain I buy a postcard.

Posted 4 months ago #
seattletree

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hahahhaha awwww its not that bad. If you want to see a mountain, go down 85th from Aurora towards Holman.. look up in the distance early in the am.. it is so awesome... just try not to see the "Fortune Tellers every Wednesday" sign on the Right..

Posted 4 months ago #
Ballard Dad

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I finally had my fill of rain last year and moved :) Denver is great but we will have a pretty serious drought here soon if we don't get some snow.

Posted 4 months ago #
Edog

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See Ballard Dad if you had been here more often you would have seen this!

http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15294#post-206328

Posted 4 months ago #
seattletree

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It's 830pm ish and it's fricking freezing... just saying. BRRRrrrr. Period.

Posted 4 months ago #
Edog

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Could I have some snow with my cold please?

Posted 4 months ago #
Ballard Dad

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I saw that Edog! I listened to that song that whole day and it's still in my head. Love love love it.

Posted 4 months ago #
dsomers

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I am gonna sound like a Pollyanna, but I kind of like this bout of fog and cold. I love the smell along the water that fog accentuates, and the sound of fog horns from vessels you can't see. And the moisture on your face and the joy of wearing something warm against the chill while walking in it....maybe holding a fun hot beverage to sip on along the water!!! I used to live in Coastal Maine (Bar Harbor/Southwest Harbor area) and fog there was magical. Often cold....but still magical. It turns what you are so used to seeing every day into something mysterious.

Admittedly.....it has made for some dicey bicycle commutes at 5:30am....but what the heck.

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Posted 4 months ago #
iPlod

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You need a fog horn for your bicycle, ds.

Posted 4 months ago #
dsomers

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And a, I say, and a Leghorn too Iplod suh!!

Posted 4 months ago #
pennygirl

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Fog is magical.

Posted 4 months ago #
iPlod

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Ha Ha! ds

Hoping youah is hoaned up as need be foah current conditions, ahem.

Posted 4 months ago #
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I thought early morning fog was supposed to bode sunshine later on, but didn't happen today.

Posted 4 months ago #
allisonw

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It's a lot less magical if you get a little ways away and take a look. The reason it's cold and foggy is that we're having a temperature inversion. Wednesday I went skiing up near LowQuality Pass (where it was 10 degrees warmer than in town) and coming back down the slow descant into Bellevue from that hill between it an the Quah, there was a thick brown bathtub ring of smog belting the est side of the Olympics. We've got a burn ban too. Seems "clean" but we're living in a tub of filthy air. Blech.

Posted 4 months ago #
iPlod

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@ seattletree,

True that on Rain X. Everything you said.

About that bucket, I bought a tall truck a while ago & found out if you need to reach the windshield it seems easier to step on the wheel hub & then onto the top of the tire & there you are. Once there I've been able so far to resist the urge to plant a flag.

Posted 4 months ago #
Cate

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I've been loving the fog, the cold, the sunny afternoons but enough now. We need a good S'wester to freshen up the air a bit and remind us we live in the Pacific Northwest.

Posted 4 months ago #

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