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Baby its cold outside

15 years ago

We got to about 20 the last two days

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PKponder TX Z7B
15 years ago
It's really cold, but watching geese walking and slipping around on ice is quite entertaining!

Pam
carrie751
15 years ago
And you let it get through to us, RC !!! It is 20 or lower here this morning.....brrrrr! Hurry up SPRING !!!
Your pics are great, as usual !!
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Forgot to water today, but brought them all in anyway. Only supposed to get to 32,so I guess the Crown of Thorns will be fine with a blanket over it. It survived 25 degrees last year in North Port. Got frozen back a lot, even covered, but came back from the roots. I left the Aloe outside and the Clivia, and pulled all the cold-tolerant things up next to the sliding glass door where the indoor heat can radiate out to them. I really need to repot that COT in a plastic pot! It's not going to survive here if I can't bring it in. It's sad enough that it doesn't get enough sun to bloom. I'm thinking about asking my next door neighbor if I can put it on his patio. He never uses his patio, and it gets more sun than mine. My poor desertrose has lost all its leaves. I can't wait for spring so I can cut it back. It loses leaves every winter, but it's never gone completely bare before. This place just is not good for it. I hope that by the time my lease is up, I'll have enough money to move to a better place for me and the plants.
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Sounds like IÂm not the only one frozen in! fiedlermeister, from what I hear from friends, beside the cold you folks in Maine have had your fair share of snow this year too. Yuck. smokemaster, youÂre killing meÂ send some of the high temps my way! chililover, I figured joeknowsjolokia was talking -2F. Definitely not shorts and t-shirt weather! IÂm starting early for a few of reasons but primarily because of the jolokias slow growth rate. As for starting other varieties by March, last growing season was cool, dim and wet here which resulted in a miserable crop of peppers. I want to get some good growth underway before this years plants head outdoors in case we have a repeat of last years weather. Bill
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The pots and sweaters belong to a retirement home located in a small town 2 hrs away from Cape Town. Winter temperatures drop low, sometimes they get snow in the mountains. I was visiting a friend, saw the sweaters there and thought it was a cute idea! Also it helps the elderly to have their mind active and motivated. You can see they try different designs and colours. They wash the sweaters often to keep the pots clean xD My friend thinks the plants are happier and warmer during the winter. (maybe I should experiment with mine).
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bobbi_p
15 years ago
Before I moved to Alaska and witnessed the "hoar frost" for the first time, I always thought those flocked Christmas trees were the tackiest things going. Needless to say, since witnessing the beauty of an entire forest covered in the hoar frost, I feel differently now.

Beautiful!
bossjim1
15 years ago
Boy, those pictures are pretty, but I don't think I would have gone out in that weather to take 'em.
Jim (in SE Texas where it is a very cold 41 deg. this morning)
denisew
15 years ago
It is a good thing birds don't have feeling in their legs - as far as feeling the cold beneath their feet! Their feathers will keep their bodies warm. Those are very nice pictures.

And I really do like the song:

I really can't stay - Baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - Baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice - I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry - Beautiful, what's your hurry
My father will be pacing the floor - Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful, please don't hurry
Well maybe just a half a drink more - Put some music on while I pour

The neighbors might think - Baby, it's bad out there
Say, what's in this drink - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how - Your eyes are like starlight
To break the spell - I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
I ought to say no, no, no, sir - Mind if I move closer
At least I'm gonna say that I tried - What's the sense in hurting my pride?
I really can't stay - Baby don't hold out
Ahh, but it's cold outside

But, I really don't know why it is considered a Christmas song since the only time I hear it is with all the other holiday music before Christmas! It is very appropriate for today! Okay, back on topic - Those words just started going through my head when I saw the subject and then saw the pictures - very appropriate!
rcnaylor
Original Author
15 years ago
I'm with you Pam, some days watching those ducks and geese float around on the pond all day, they look like they have it made. But, not when they are freezing their hienies off on a slab of ice. ha.

Thanks Carrie, you're sweet as always.

Bobbi, I'm with you about the real hoar frost. We don't get it here alot. We had a beautiful heavy coat of it a couple of years ago. I have many pictures of that one around somewhere. This one wasn't quite as all enveloping as that one was, but, there was some pretty scenes around. I didn't have time to go find too many of them unfortunately this time.

Jim, funny you should mention getting out in it. The first two I decided could be taken from the car with a zoom lens and the window down. But, to get the ducks and geese, I had to take a little stroll and it wasn't exactly warm.

I'm impressed Denise. That is the melody that popped in to mind, but I sure couldn't have gotten all the words. And, it is funny that its a "christmas" song given those lyrics. I guess if Bing said it was a christmas song... it was christmas song.
mikeandbarb
15 years ago
Those are beautiful pictures. Wouldn't mind having those to hang up in my house.

I just love geese, we have some that fly over and honk along the way, it never fails to put a smile on my face.

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