Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Autumn Splendor

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  1. Howard would be first, you betcha!

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  2. Very, very windy late night and much of the morning. Not quite so much now. Some rain during the night, bright sunshine for most of the mroning, has now clouded over again.

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  3. Pretty windy and overcast here. But warm: right at 70ยบ ~~ hate big wind this late in the season: makes the trees all nekkid. . . . Cold front and rain moving in tonight. Guess I won't be mixing cement this afternoon. . . .

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  4. Quite warm today.

    Susan, if listener hadn't told us about the tree, my next guess was going to be red maple. Great minds...

    listener, today's pic is magnificent!

    About songwriting: Maybe I inadvertently gave you the wrong impression. Much of the time, the words and music come all but simultaneously. It's less common for me to get one and have to search for the other. But, of course, songs being living entities, each presents itself to me differently. I have no doubt, too, that the process is unique in detail to each songwriter. The ones who are better at it are probably more in control of their process.

    Puddle, that ad is hilarious. A very clever idear.

    Had a weird experience while trying to post the video to my FB page. An error message came up saying that yesterday morning, someone tried to access my account from somewhere near Dallas. Like, what the hell? I wasn't online at all yesterday, certainly not somewhere near Dallas. So, I had to select a new password and security question. Apparently all is well now, but it's unsettling.

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  5. Lol! seem to be moving into a new phase of my life. . . . Most of it I've planned to do something, and then talked myself out of it. Now, I seem to be NOT planning to do something, and then find myself doing it. I wonder if it's the Vitamin D? Toldja that to tell ya this: I *did* mix the cement and lay the final round of stone at the edge of the porch landing.

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  6. Wow! You are one enterprising lady!

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  7. Sure hope all our peeps are OK! Heard on the news that there's a terrible storm, with combined hurricane, tornado and blizzard conditions in the Mid West. Couldn't hear too well, since Dad was crashing about with the dishes, but they mentioned Chicago specifically as being hard hit. Bad weather mercies to Bill and Donna and to all our Mid Western friends♥

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  8. It's a whole lot like frosting a cake, lol! I learned to lay cinder block 12 years ago when I made my composting toilet. With recycled block, it cost about $35. My neighbor paid $2,400 for her blue plastic pre-formed commercial one. . . .

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  9. I think the storm you heard about was the high winds I talked about earlier in the thread. Can't speak for the whole Midwest, of course, but here it was significantly less severe than what we had last June.

    Incidentally, the word "huricane" is ambiguous. Actual hurricaines are specifically associated with the oceans. But you can also have "hurricaine-strength winds" (by mph criteria) associated with storms that aren't hurricaines.

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  10. We actually had one tornado sighting here in SW Ohio. All the students at Wright State had to be herded into the basements.

    In my locale just high winds and torrential rains ... the kind that cut driving visibility down to about 10 feet. (Ask me how I know.)

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  11. Computer crash again. Thought I'd largely gotten rid of them after the early days of Vista, and especially with the move to this computer and Windows 7. But now they're starting to happen again.

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  12. Susan, Bill, thanks so much for checking in! I'm glad you're both safe!!!

    Yes, Bill, I think the wording was "hurricane force winds." My fault. My anxious mind misremembered the wording.

    Sorry for the delay, but here's the link to CNN's article:

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/26/midwest.weather/index.html

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  13. All afternoon and evening my computer has been either freezing or crashing. So, I was on edge anyway. Then I couldn't read the CNN article because the page kept refreshing every few seconds. Search as I might, I couldn't find and deactivate whatever it was that caused the refresh. It practically made me scream! Eventually, I just copied the whole page and pasted it into Word, where I could read it in peace.

    But now I need to go to FB to check on my friends in Chattanooga, or at least leave a message for them.

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  14. Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford & Pied Pipers - Candy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYUBM8-EZnE

    The topmost comment on the YouTube page is from a thirteen-year-old who says he likes the Pied Pipers. Maybe there's hope for the world after all.

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  15. Hey, Susan, hope you can get YouTube. Here are our boys singing "You'll Never Walk Alone;" not actually together, alas, but the next best thing. Dynamite!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUFzaBq63Io&feature=related

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  16. Kid just emailed me to see if I had any of the storm yet. So I looked ('cause it's very still and still very warm -- 70) And goodness gracious! I've got a tornado watch! First evah. Till three in the morning. The line of storms on the radar is iMpreSSive! But I'm on stilts, so no basement. Should be fun.

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  17. Oh, Puddle!!! Do please be careful. Maybe go someplace safe for the night?

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  18. Rain just started. Good and solid. Think I'm safer here than I would be on the road. Sometimes, it's just fate. Have a friend in Alabama who just had a tornado literally jump over her house, and touch back down about half a block away, two days ago.

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  19. How do you know this?

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  20. I'm kything you some safety, puddle dear.

    Move over storm, this woman is not replaceable!

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  21. Good night, and safety to all♥

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  22. We had a tornado warning while I was at school today. Fortunately, I was already in a basement room with no windows--having just finished giving my class a quiz.

    Pretty quickly, a lot more people joined me in that room. And I think they were having *way* too much fun. I probably think this because I'm already sick and cranky and way behind in my work. I *thought* I had a quiet place to do some catching up. But eventually it got so noisy that people couldn't hear the announcement that the warning had been lifted.

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  23. Look on the bright side: they probably all just caught your cold.

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  24. Got caught in it. Scary.

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