What We're All Reading... forum: What we're reading #3
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Thanks, Susan.  Well, as compared to some folks, no, we don't get much snow. As compared to others, yes, we do.  Right now there's about 6" out there, which is about average. We tend to get between 6 & 12" at a whack, when we get snow. Generally it only hangs around for a few days, then the sun burns it off. Every now & then we get more than a foot; one year we had a 3' snowfall in 36 hours. Pretty spectacular. Pulled a lot of old buildings, & some newer ones, down. By & large I'd say it's enough to let you know it's winter, but not so much you want to kill yourself. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Jay, do you commonly get snow this late in the year? If I were to wake up to 6" of snow on May 1, I would be tempted to kill myself. Karen |
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Not if you hadn't seen it all winter... we've had hardly any snow this year & the land is parched.  And no, we don't usually get snow this late, but it's not unheard of... living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, you can get snow flurries in June, tho' it's not the usual. The old timers around here don't plant corn 'til June 1, if that tells you anything. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| LOL, I just came back to ask that same question, Karen! |
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| We've already had to mow the grass once (needs it again now, too), but we're still getting snow! Just not today, thank you! Confidence is that feeling you have right before you do something really stupid. |
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| After our 80" this winter, I even wonder about white flowers. (not really) our species trillium are in blooms. Enjoy your moisture, that's really needed. |
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| Ja, if we'd had 80", I might just have a very different feeling about this. It's up to 8" out there now.  I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Enjoy! |
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| Speaking of snow-- I'm reading K2 by Ed Viesturs (and co author). He is a high ranking mountain climber, one of those who was on Everest in the disatrous events told about in Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. I like survival stories, was gripped by Into Thin Air. So far K2 is more cut and dried, more a recounting many of the expeditions and history of climbs on K2, the second highest mountain in the world. I'm more apt to keep one book at a time, and fill in with New Yorker magazine in the vehicle for odd moments. I HATE going anyplace where I might wait and not having choice reading material. I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad) |
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| i remember having snow on mothers day when i was first married. didn't stick though. visit http://www.cookfromtheheart.com frank I'm so old that when I was born the Dead Sea wasn't even sick. |
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| Wow, Sally - I never would have taken you for survival-story-sorta-gal. Very cool. That is the same mountain that the guy who wrote Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson, I believe) started his story with - that's how he met the people that he promised to build the schools for. Now 60 minutes says some of his story is fabricated, but it still hasn't been determined. I sure hope not, he's inspired a lot of people with his story. In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Krakauer wrote a book exposing Mortensons' possible fraud called Three Cups of Deceit available for the Kindle... http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Deceit-Humanitarian-ebook/d... Does seem there are an awful lot of questions about Mortenson's story. Sally, have you read Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales or Death in Grand Canyon? Great reads! I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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| Sheryl, maybe its the loner in me combined with a desire to remind myself I am in NO WAY capable of survivalism LOL Krakauers book there should be interesting. Thanks for that. Krakauer also wrote Into the Wild - liked that too- Chris McCandless who walked into Alaska and died alone there. This book, K2, discusses contradictions,inconsistencies, and writers bias in several of the previous books about attempts on that mountain. Its so hard to know what to believe sometimes. Last nights section was more interesting as he finally got to a more detailed tale of a specific event. DonkeyJay, I have not read those but thanks for the tips! Of course I was also gripped by that story of the guy in Utah that cut his hand off...  I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad) |
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sallyg wrote:..... combined with a desire to remind myself I am in NO WAY capable of survivalism ... You and me both, sistah! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| ...and you inspired me to pick up the Krakauer book "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman". Timely, to be sure - it gives a lot of history on the struggles in Afghanistan back when it was attacked by the Soviets and kind of how bin Laden came into his own as a leader in that era. Interesting factoid - the Soviets made the decision to go in with scaled back troops ... the same decision Rumsfeld made 30 years later, with the same effect - overwhelmed. Hopefully we'll get out of there quicker than they did; it took them 9 years and 25,000 troops and some believe that contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union. And I'm only on page 48!!! In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Sounds informative--and possibly depressing. I find history more interesting as I 'mature' than I used to, and there's a whole lot of it I don't know. I think that I shall never see...A poem lovely as a tree ( Kilmer) Whatever the weather, you can bring your own sunshine (DD) I'm not REAL smart but I think I'm pretty good average (my dad) |
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| Well I FINALLY finished my sack baook 'Sisters of the Raven', a fantasy by Barbara Hambly which did not engage me. My new sack book is the 'Reindeer Hunters' by Joan Wolf which is a novel about the Magdelanians set on the French side of the Pyrennees mountains. |
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Okay, enlighten me - Magdelanians. Catholic nuns or some sort of cookie???  In the end, only kindness matters. Art and Artists & The Reading Room http://cubits.org/thereadingroom/ |
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| Holy cookies, only eaten on Sundays. I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. |
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