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Posted by clouddancer on 02-01-2008 at 23:26:
Yes, and all those heat spells you send up in the summer. 
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Posted by Hinotori on 02-01-2008 at 23:34:
I'll make note of this for next year.... 
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Posted by clouddancer on 02-01-2008 at 23:40:
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Please do .... I hate that humid heat you send up from the Gulf of Mexico.
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Posted by Hinotori on 02-01-2008 at 23:42:
So do I. It's one of the many reasons I moved back north from Florida.
I'm now responsible for sending you Nor'easters... Of course you guys do also send those darn Alberta Clippers our way....
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Posted by clouddancer on 02-01-2008 at 23:46:
Yes I believe one of those Alberta Clipper is on its way for next week.
Where we will be having 12c and rain by the middle of the week.
*Cloud waves sadly Bye, Bye Snow.....*
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Posted by Sosai X on 02-01-2008 at 23:56:
Here's some snow pics I took when I was visiting my parents over Christmas. We had a bit of snow but it wasn't too cold (unlike now in Toronto *g*).
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Posted by clouddancer on 03-01-2008 at 00:02:
That is a beautiful area Tim.
Looks a lot like my parents place in Leith with the stream flowing through. Actually they have a river that empties into the Sound but same difference really when it looks so nice.
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Posted by amyltrer on 03-01-2008 at 00:03:
Tim, is just me or it was still snowing in the first two?
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Posted by clouddancer on 03-01-2008 at 00:25:
There was always snow falling over Christmas. Not sure about where Tim's parents live but at my parents there was.
It is called Lake Effect Snow. You can have beautiful sunny weather one moment and the next, snow can be drifting down, or roaring past depending on what the wind is doing.
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Posted by Sosai X on 03-01-2008 at 00:37:
Ya, the first two pics it was snowing when I took them. My parents live near Kingston, Ontario in the region that is known as a 'snowbelt' (because of cold air currents on Lake Ontario, the area gets more snow than normal).
As for that last picture... that is a small creek (or as my grandmother would say, crick). The creek was much larger when I was a kid but it has shrunken quite a bit. It travels next to my parent's property and then under the main street and it used to come out across the street but these days it is underground.
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Posted by clouddancer on 03-01-2008 at 00:41:
Pssst Tim, are you sue the creek has gotten smaller?
Or is it just that you have gotten larger. Ummm .... Taller.
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Posted by Sosai X on 03-01-2008 at 01:52:
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LOL! I knew someone was going to make that joke.
No, it has physically become smaller while I have gotten taller (and wider). When I was a kid, the whole back area (in that last pic) from the picnic table to the small bridge was marsh and the creek was at least twice as wide as it is now. Ah, fond memories of almost drowning one spring when I fell into the creek. These days you can easily jump across it. 
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Posted by Hinotori on 03-01-2008 at 11:41:
Nice pics, Tim! The town (village?) looks so quaint! It must have been a nice place to grow up.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 03-01-2008 at 11:58:
Beautiful piccies Tim, it has a romantic feel about it, makes me want an open fire and glass of port to warm up with!
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Posted by kimiko on 03-01-2008 at 12:33:
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We used to have many little creeks running through Burlington and the city has covered many of them up...claiming that they were too dangerous for kids...or they made ugly fenced-off concrete storm drains to let the water drain away quickly.
Hell we used to have a creek running right through my elementary school playground! We used to do our biology experiments in there or climb the old willow trees that grew around it. Nope sorry kids... Nature is too dangerous for you so we're going to rip out all of the trees and fill it in with a sewer pipe. The thing that really pisses me off is that it is still called Rambo Creek!
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Posted by clouddancer on 03-01-2008 at 15:53:
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and now in schools they are telling us we need to bring nature back into the playground. These open fields and paved playgrounds "appearently" are not good for our children's health.
Studies are showing they have nothing to do in those open fields, unless you like to play football or soccer, and the pavement areas in the middle of a hot sunny day can reach temperatures like 40+c at 1 metre off the ground. The height a primary childs brain is at. No wonder these children come in vrom recess with no ability to learn their brains have been cooked.
The program I took says we need to regreen our playgrounds, expecially as our culture is becoming more and more concerened about the reduced ozone. Now try and convince the school boards to put funding towards this. Good luck! (Oh, we will do something when parents start complaining.) You need to plant those trees now, it will take 10-20 years before the trees are grown enough to start shading the playgrounds.
Sorry that was my rant for today.
BTW Kimi was Rambo Creek, Rambo in temperment ?
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Posted by kimiko on 03-01-2008 at 17:04:
*grins at CD remembering that was a big joke when the movie came out*
If by 'temperment' you mean 'a raging river' ...Generally No. Not to say that it couldn't be dangerous during the spring thaw..but that's what adult supervision is for.
I do remember some talk of a 'rabies' scare one year and there were rats, but no animal is going to stick around when 400 or so recess-loving, noisy kids have been let loose from their cages!
Or the water was polluted...or Acid Rain...Then there's always the threat of West Nile virus...so after all the pesticides...are they going to cull the birds too?
I understand the peanut butter/food allergy concern...but to ban it completely?
How many of you old fogies remember this?
"THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCASTING SYSTEM....THIS IS ONLY A TEST!"
*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
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Yeah like getting under your desk was somehow going to save your ass from nuclear fallout! LOL!
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Posted by clouddancer on 03-01-2008 at 17:15:
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Or from bullets flying during a lockdown from a gun crazed idiot.
And yes! I remember that test signal.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 04-01-2008 at 06:53:
In Australia children aren't allowed to play outside if they don't have a hat and sunscreen on. Thats all year round in some parts of the country. Skin cancer is very high here, and just because you have olive skin doesn't mean you won't get skin cancer.
Too much cement will increase the heat, we tend to have much more grassed areas in schools, even if the grass is brown most of the time!
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Posted by clouddancer on 05-01-2008 at 00:46:
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I have heard that about the hats and sunscreen Ebony. It surprises me that more parents here in North America do not do this.
I had thought the seminar I went to mentioned Austraila, maybe it was NZ, was a leader in Greening their school playgrounds and planting trees and shrubs around the play equipment so the children do not have to play in the full rays from the sun.
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