COLD DARK ROOM

[Raqib Farid]

Hello everyone!
How are you guys?
I am too busy in my studies and job. Thats why I was not participating in convos. Just got little time.

Life is too busy now a days [emoji25]

 

[JoesMum]

Greetings....power outages continue for 1000’s of homes in the North East,including ours. :-(. I have our internet connected to a bank of 12v marine batteries, charged via the solar panels, then a DC to AC converter to run our internet modem.

Pix: Right up the road from our house near the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a whole ton of ancient cedar trees blown straight over, as if from a wind sheer..

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Oh dear The trees that come down are those that are weakest at the roots. Unfortunately there are probably more that will need to be taken down too as they have been weakened past the point of safety.

This reminds me of the aftermath of our "great storm" in 1987. The devastation was awful, but things have recovered over the next 30 years. It wasn't all bad for the trees. In some very large areas of storm damage the decision was made to make things safe rather than replant and let nature take its course. We now have areas of new, young woodland growing.

The bigger problem was damage to property and infrastructure. That doesn't grow back naturally.

 

[JoesMum]

Yes...it is sad. This was a nice drive through these trees...casting nice cool shadows across the fields and roadway. Luckily, half survived.

On a nicer side, took a drive over to a local park that overlooks the Chesapeake Bay.... gorgeous views and we even spotted an American Bal Eagle. Taken right at about low tide...

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Oooh. Lovely views

 

[JoesMum]

Hello everyone!
How are you guys?
I am too busy in my studies and job. Thats why I was not participating in convos. Just got little time.

Life is too busy now a days [emoji25]

Good morning Raqib

We have been suffering from weather extremes in some parts of the world.

The UK has had a lot of snow and freezing temperatures well below 0C for the last week. Things haven't been much better for Lena in Denmark and Sabine in Germany as the snow was brought from the East by a big weather system. Eastern USA has had very strong winds causing huge amounts of damage round where Mark lives.

Much better news from Louisiana where Bea finally has her mud turtle, Jacques, home from the vet. Jacques has been very poorly indeed, but the outlook is looking good

 

[JoesMum]

Good morning all. Happy Sunday. It's very foggy again here. Rumour has it that the snow has melted back home though it has yet to do so here in Birmingham. We will head home this evening

 

[Raqib Farid]

Good morning Raqib

We have been suffering from weather extremes in some parts of the world.

The UK has had a lot of snow and freezing temperatures well below 0C for the last week. Things haven't been much better for Lena in Denmark and Sabine in Germany as the snow was brought from the East by a big weather system. Eastern USA has had very strong winds causing huge amounts of damage round where Mark lives.

Much better news from Louisiana where Bea finally has her mud turtle, Jacques, home from the vet. Jacques has been very poorly indeed, but the outlook is looking good

Today it was raining here and sun was shining too
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[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello everyone!
How are you guys?
I am too busy in my studies and job. Thats why I was not participating in convos. Just got little time.

Life is too busy now a days [emoji25]

Hope everything is going well.
Nice of you to pop in.
Good afternoon, Raqib.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning all. Happy Sunday. It's very foggy again here. Rumour has it that the snow has melted back home though it has yet to do so here in Birmingham. We will head home this evening

Good morning, Linda.
Student due in half an hour.
Safe journey, please be careful.

 

[Raqib Farid]

Hope everything is going well.
Nice of you to pop in.
Good afternoon, Raqib.

Thanks
Good afternoon!
How are you?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Thanks
Good afternoon!
How are you?

I'm great.
Life's good and spring has sprung.

 

[DE42]

Hello everyone!
How are you guys?
I am too busy in my studies and job. Thats why I was not participating in convos. Just got little time.

Life is too busy now a days [emoji25]

Good luck with everything. I can sympathize with what you are going through.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good luck with everything. I can sympathize with what you are going through.

Good morning, Dan!

 

[Bee62]

If she exist.

Right ! If she exist.

 

[Bee62]

What species is this?
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Hi Kathy.
Some kind of water turtle ?

 

[Bee62]

Good night sweet dreams.

Thank you Dan. For you too, later.

 

[Bee62]

And presumably you didn't before.
A similar thing happened to me, as you know.
How very strange, but there must be a rational explanation.

She will keep you warm ( if she exist ).

 

[Bee62]

I'm not sure wool-spiders use the highways.
If they exist.
Nos da and sleep well, Sabine.
Again.

Thank you Adam. You too ( sleep well ) later.

 

[Bee62]

Hello and good morning or good afternoon however you like. Temps are slowly increasing in Germany ! Actually 5 C !
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!
Sun is shining too. Maybe spring is lurking a little bit out of his hiding corner ???? I hope so.
I wish all my lovely roommates a wonderful and nice SUNDAY !

 

[Bee62]

@Kristoff
Lurk. lurk......
Hello Lena. How are you today ?

 

[JoesMum]

Good afternoon all. Birmingham is starting to thaw at last which is a mixed blessing. I prefer powder snow to slush.

Some more pictures of Birmingham canals which neatly explain that canals don’t need to be wide. This one is designed for narrowboats which are a standard 6’10” (2.08 metres) across.

The locks only accommodate 1 boat, but the rise of locks is designed to let boats pass each other.




And here is Birmingham’s very small cathedral