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[dobhar]

Today I spent approx 4 hours cleaning out the Sister-in-Law's Laptop. It had a Trojan. Then I went to work and spent 3 hours configuring a new CAD Workstation (Dell Precision T7500) for one of my users who needs it first thing in the morning. I then came home and spent over an hour shoveling snow from the Driveway, sidewalks, and steps. And now I relaxing checking out my favorite Forum for the rest of the evening.

That would have my back feeling a mite tender!
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Today we put fresh oil and gas in our snowblower and fired it up for the first time this fall. (Our driveway is way too big to shovel)

Sorry about the back noob. Ya just gotta love Snowblowers... I used ours to clean up part of the driveway...the rest I had to do by hand.

 

[dobhar]

Today I spent approx 4 hours cleaning out the Sister-in-Law's Laptop. It had a Trojan. Then I went to work and spent 3 hours configuring a new CAD Workstation (Dell Precision T7500) for one of my users who needs it first thing in the morning. I then came home and spent over an hour shoveling snow from the Driveway, sidewalks, and steps. And now I relaxing checking out my favorite Forum for the rest of the evening.

Interesting how this Globe of ours works, I mean geographically and climatically. Check this map out:

Winnipeg, Utsjoki, Leipzig

A is your Winnipeg, B where I'm coming from, Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland, and C Leipzig where I live now.

I can understand winter has already arrived in Utsjoki, night temperatures between -6°C and -13°C (21°F to 8°F) and snow enough to give to some tropical countries, as we say back home.

But Winnipeg and Leipzig are approximately at the same level. You had to showel snow today, we had a beautiful fall day with temperatures around 10°C (50°F)

Earth is interesting!

Kari

Very interesting! Big difference in temps. We had a very descent day today temp wise but it is now 11:18pm Central Time and the temp is now -16c (-16 Celsius = 3.2 Fahrenheit for our US friends) and it is supposed to get colder. The temp is not bad...it's the Wind Chill that is the killer.

 

[Kari]

If you take a look at that map again you'll see how much more north Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland is, compared to Winnipeg. The Gulf Stream is very powerful phenomen, only thing that can explain this. In Scandinavia we get the benefits of that, it seems it really warms especially our winters.

 

[dobhar]

Here's a couple pics of the recent dump we got over the last few days...Last weekend there was no snow on the ground.

 

[dobhar]

If you take a look at that map again you'll see how much more north Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland is, compared to Winnipeg. The Gulf Stream is very powerful phenomen, only thing that can explain this. In Scandinavia we get the benefits of that, it seems it really warms especially our winters.

I wish that "Gulf Stream" would hit Winterpeg (what Winnipeg sometimes is called). It would be nice...

 

[Kari]

I can still remember October 2006. We were in Finland, preparing our holiday cottage there for winter. A beautiful fall, almost more like the end of summer, as this pic showing me coming from sauna shows:



Then, only a few days later:



And then it really began, so fast it was incredible to see:



All pics within a week, same place. Two last pictures within 6 hours.

Kari

 

[boohbah]

If you take a look at that map again you'll see how much more north Utsjoki in Finnish Lapland is, compared to Winnipeg. The Gulf Stream is very powerful phenomenon, only thing that can explain this. In Scandinavia we get the benefits of that, it seems it really warms especially our winters.

its the same for us here in Cornwall (gulf stream)
we rarely see snow in fact i think we have only had about ten days snow in as many years, well maybe fourteen days
i so miss the snow as i grew up in Scotland and recall playing in the snow and sledging etc.
heres hoping that we'll see some again this year, no need for snow blowers here although because we have such sparse showing of snow when it does snow cornwall comes to a standstill. the schools close also , i think it is more to do with letting the kids enjoy the snow as it could be years until they see it again.we did have some last year and the year before it was four years before that and a further six years before that, we have palm trees and banana trees down here in Cornwall

 

[z3r010]

I can still remember October 2006. We were in Finland, preparing our holiday cottage there for winter. A beautiful fall, almost more like the end of summer, as this pic showing me coming from sauna shows:

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Then, only a few days later:

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And then it really began, so fast it was incredible to see:

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All pics within a week, same place. Two last pictures within 6 hours.

Kari

I'll be having a couple of days in Saariselkä next month, hopefully it will be at least like the last picture.

 

[Kari]

What are you doing in Finland, if I may ask? And yes, it's already almost like that there now.

 

[z3r010]

Taking my little girl to see Santa and play with reindeer's and huskies

 

[Kari]

Your little one would certainly love a personal letter from Santa? Take a look at this: http://www.santagreeting.net/?a_aid=77c2c6f0

That place, Santa's real home, is near the town of Rovaniemi, capital of region Lapland, 130 kilometers south from Saariselkä.

 

[z3r010]

Oh, I might get her one of those.

 

[Kari]

I recommend, it's a marvelous Christmas present to all kids. I order every year for almost all kids I know. Those letters really look fantastic, with special stamps etc.

BTW, I want to give you some brownie points for using ä in word Saariselkä

 

[z3r010]

Copy & paste

 

[Kari]

Saari = island, selkä = back (as in "My back hurts"), also something like "out there".

 

[noobvious]

Copy & paste

:roflmao:

 

[Kari]

Copy & paste

:roflmao:

And I had thought he'd really made an extra effort to find Scandinavian characters...

 

[boohbah]

If you haven't seen this before ,it is a must ,my daughter was so excited when she got an email from santa , and he even knew secrets about her and what she wanted for xmas somehow!
Santa

 

[johnwillyums]

At around this time of year The Ginger Folk gather to celebrate the birth of Boohbah.
Their ullulating cries can be heard long into the night.
Some say he is ancient and that he came into the world fully formed.
All we know for sure is that, like many of The Ginger Folk, he has devoted decades to growing a beard, for the benefit of all mankind.
We must praise him and give him cake!

 

[boohbah]

Wow thats some cake john ,makes me want to cut my ear off, .....and lo the purple followers of Boohbah zone munched into the night ,working themselves into a sugared frenzy of coffee and pie debauchery. and brandished their Boohbahs at unsuspecting locals