Out And About.

[Syt]

Chilling in the park with podcasts while my cleaning lady was in today.

Nice and warm in the sun, but the wind ... yikes.

[crazy canuck]

Have not seen that variety of plant before.  Bagbush?  Sackbush?

[KRonn]

Beautiful warm weather here the last two days, especially yesterday (Thursday) when it was in the 70s (over 21c). Going to cool off a lot for tomorrow, about the 30s (2c) tomorrow.

[mongers]

Beautiful warm weather here the last two days, especially yesterday (Thursday) when it was in the 70s (over 21c). Going to cool off a lot for tomorrow, about the 30s (2c) tomorrow.

Good grief KRonn, that's going some, is it quite normal for the time of year where you are?

[KRonn]

No, this is exceptionally cold for mid-March. Colorado and surrounding states got several feet of snow and that's headed our way though it'll most likely be rain. March is usually a wild weather month.

[Malthus]

Have not seen that variety of plant before.  Bagbush?  Sackbush?

I've noticed that putting up burlap over bushes to protect them over winter has gotten much more common here in Toronto over the past few years.

[Syt]

Have not seen that variety of plant before.  Bagbush?  Sackbush?

Coffee sack tree.

[Tonitrus]

I my most recent grocery trip to Sainsburys, I had a small mission...a with some uncertain hope.

Would the grocers of Blighty have what I desired?

A quick scan of the canned veg aisle told me know...but a potential savior remained!  Rounding about to the "international foods" section, on the small, 2-foot wide section of shelf marked "American", above the Skippy peanut butter, past the Butterfinger bars, and next to the jars of hot dogs in water (really UK?  WTF)...there they were...of the only couple dozen or so items that come from the US imagination...dozens and dozens of tins of canned pumpkin.

[Syt]

Don't mock sausage from the glass. 

[mongers]

Couple of evenings ago, I made a southerly ride, saw the sea for the first time in probably 6 months. 

[mongers]

Not so much 'Five Go Mad In Dorset' as 'One Languishite makes a rare foray in Dorset', popped out into said county yesterday evening to see how far I could get and hopefully ride off the map, as it was I only had 3 hours of usable light and mis-remembered the old map, so thought going a little way past the village of Shapwich would be enough, which it wasn't. 

Still the furthest West I've been under my own steam for nearly a year, a massive 18.3 minutes of longitude traveled westwards!

[KRonn]

Couple of evenings ago, I made a southerly ride, saw the sea for the first time in probably 6 months. 

Nice.   Reminds me that I haven't been to the sea shore in quite some time! I'm not far from it either.

[mongers]

Couple of evenings ago, I made a southerly ride, saw the sea for the first time in probably 6 months. 

Nice.   Reminds me that I haven't been to the sea shore in quite some time! I'm not far from it either.

Yeah, crazy on my part, I'm all of 10 miles from the coast, a 50 minute evening bike ride. 

[Tonitrus]

I may have been here too long...I was down at one of the US bases the other day, and responded to a fellow 'Merican with a "cheers" instead of a "thank you". 

[KRonn]

I may have been here too long...I was down at one of the US bases the other day, and responded to a fellow 'Merican with a "cheers" instead of a "thank you".