This is the second day this winter that I've stayed home from work because the roads to and from were such that traveling is at your own risk. Actually, I probably should have stayed home another two days but went to work at my own peril. And, of course, if you included the lousy traveling conditions that occurred when I was off on Christmas vacation, there were probably another two days that could have been classified as "snow days."
Last week, I saw a picture of a frozen, white longsleeved shirt "flying' from a pole in the snowbank in eastern North Dakota that said, "We surrender" written with red spray paint. That's the way I feel.
Generally, this time of year, I want to start a few tomato plants in my house that can be transplanted into the garden in late May. This year, however, I didn't plant any tomatoes. Perhaps it's because it seems May will never arrive. Instead, we'll just keep having more snow days....perhaps through July.
It used to be that North Dakota was the only state that seemed to get hit by this miserable winter...but now the winter seems to have widened and blanketed everything west of the Mississippi.
Anyway, today is a quiet time away from the office. It's a perfect day to eat some home-made soup, take a nap and catch up on a couple of projects that you never seem to have time for.
When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Recipe - Aunt May's Famous Wheatcakes
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Amen. I am sure glad it is there and not here. I know when I was talking to my sister-in-law yesterday our temperatures were the same numbers. We had 82 and they had 28. Go figure. Have some more lemonade.
I'm at home but through the miracle of technology I'm still working. I've remoted in so my computer at home is like a mirror of my machine at work. It's a little inconvenient but it works. I actually considered going in. I got the driveway blown out just in time to see the neighbor back out of his garage, drive down to the intersection, turn around and come back. It didn't make sense to risk it when everything I needed to do could be done right here in a nice warm house. I cannot believe how much snow we've got!
Does that mean extra Wi-fitness time? And as the snow continues to fall, the president still was convinced that global warming was the root cause of the Red River flooding...wow.
Actually--This is what was really said. (In a White House interview with a handful of reporters, including Janell Cole of the Forum of Fargo, the president said the current flooding cannot necessarily be blamed on global warming, but he said it should be a signal to act.)
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.Here is another interesting article. US must do more on climate change: Germany
1 day ago.3/30/09
[BERLIN (AFP) — The United States must step up its efforts to combat climate change, Germany's environment minister said Monday, accusing the Obama administration of lacking ambition in its environmental goals.
"Even under Barack Obama, the US has insufficient climate protection goals, at least as far as the international community is concerned," Sigmar Gabriel told Berlin radio station RBB.]--
The President of the United States has alot on his agenda.By now everyone should be aware of climate change.How about we ridicule someone else.Like Sigmar!
I, too, was stranded at home. However, there was no joy in Mudville. Six hours of shoveling has left me with a temporary hunchback. I think that we may just go from winter to summer and skip spring all together!
Jay Tee and Ar Vee - somehow I feel compelled to respond regarding the President's recent comments regarding man's supposed footprint on the flooding of the Red River. The article by Janell Cole was published in the "Fargo Foolum" and a host of other newspapers in North Dakota and Minnesota owned by Forum Communicaitons. The last time I checked, I think the article had 210 comments attached so obviously the President's message struck many people the wrong way. For instance, one person wondered if the president had ever heard of "S-P-I-N-G" and perhaps that was the reason for the flooding. Another wanted to know if the President thought that global warming in the 1890s had caused the Red River to flood then as well. Frankly, I think the President did himself a huge disfavor. I'm not sold on the notion of man-made global warming. And while the President wants to impose a scheme to raise money for health care by taxing CO2, a part of me wonders what's next? A tax on oxygen? Obviously, we have to breath in oxygen to exhale CO2 so why not a tax on oxygen as well. I also wonder if when the liberal crowd reads in Genesis of the droughts and the floods if they don't somehow consider that global warming was alive and well back then also.
I read an interesting piece today about the Greenpeace protest of the Capitol power plant that occurred in D.C. on one of the city's coldest days recently. While the media said that it's a coal burning plant, the fuel that's used predominantly is natural gas, which has half the carbon footprint of coal. Also it doesn't produce any electricity, only steam that heats a portion of the capitol building. Makes me wonder how hard the media really digs into these matters and why Americans -- even those who try to read newspapers, news magazines and watch TV news -- never get to the truth. Also if you want to know how much CO2 is emitted by a coal-fired power plant, it's about 12 percent of the emissions. Most is nothing more than water vapor because of the water in the coal. That's what makes capturing the CO2 so hard -- its diluted. Now try to capture the CO2 from a natural gas turbine -- it will be even more diluted and even harder and more expensive to capture. But what's money when we don't have any...just a big printing press.
AR EM - I can't believe it...even when I hit preview, I can't spot my errors until it's actually printed on the page. I meant "SPRING" and Communications. Hopefully, there weren't anymore spelling mistakes.
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