‘Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow.
If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes,that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.’ – Maya Angelou
how some of us are getting around this week in ann arbor
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image credit: susannah b.
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Your post evokes memories….cold and warm ones.
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david – and sometimes those memories are one and the same –
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I have ever on,y skated in a nice ring, I can’t imagine how thrilling it would be to skate down a street… Beautiful photo and wonderful quotes Beth xx
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jen – it is a special experience indeed, and i’m sure you can appreciate it with all of your oppressive heat. has there been any relief on that front? happy you enjoyed this )
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Feel free to correct my spelling, on that last comment. I am in bed on the IPad in the dark… Good grief lol. No we have had our 1st Autumn day today, so 25 and lovely. Colder mornings and sunny days ahead now…then winter :-( always enjoy your posts lovely. X
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hey no worries at all about spelling, i take my liberties with spelling quite often. and, i am a kindy teacher so i can read and translate most anything put before me. and thanks for reading as always, jen.
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:-) thanks hun & you’re welcome x
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jen – all is have to say is” jxy blurble zing!’ just kidding )
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I have to stop replying on my IPad lol
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Image is reminiscent of when I was a kid, cold winters, snow and old houses. And in my day still the odor of coal furnaces.
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oh, i’m glad it brought those memories back for you )
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That’s a very good quote from Yoko Ono. I will have to think of her with new respect
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yes, she certainly has her moments…
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Maya, Yoko and Beth on a Saturday morning. With coffee. NIce. That persevering skate brings my mind to how they actually used the canal system in Holland and the Netherlands to get around in winter. Ice skating: mandatory. Imagine that.
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could there be a more unlikely trio? though those are the kind of groups i most enjoy. hope your coffee kept you warm today and that your skates are sharpened. )
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What fun and no worries about unsafe ice.
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so true )
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This brings up a funny story…
My husband and father in law were on a recent trip to Oregon for business. My husband said that in the time they went inside a restaurant and came out the street had iced over and they had to call a cab to drive them a block to their hotel!
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i totally get that! hilarious!
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I love this one Beth :)
Have a great weekend
my sweet friend :)
Andro xxxx
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thanks andro and u2 )
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Are you packed yet? I might just hop
into your suitcase and join you :) :) lol
Andro xxxx
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not me, i’m a last minute throw everything in the bag kind of woman )
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A bag, a suitcase, I don’t mind I’m ready to go ;) lol
Andro xxxx
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Happy March! Spring is coming!!!
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okay, i still believe….
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Then my work here is done!
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your work is never done, you are a philosopher )
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Such a Deep Thought… :)
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This winter, Spring is definitely desirable! The line from Yoko Ono, incorporating the word, “perseverance,” just struck me to be the perfect word for our temperament this 2014, so far!
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we have truly had to have perseverance in order to survive it, didn’t we, robin?
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You would have had a fun gathering, with the trio you and Mark were mentioning above! Caffeine or wine… could have gone either way with that crowd! Smile!
And the snow ‘ain’t over yet,’ Beth! I was pleased that somehow my car this morning was not buried but when my daughter in law came by to pick up her kids (from their overnight and our Filipino party we attended yesterday) she had lots more inches of snow!! She studied where I parked, between some buildings and said, “Come back and park here after you blog, this seems to keep you out of the path of snow!” We both hugged for this good idea! Smiles, Robin
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I remember trying to shove my two pairs of socks into the slightly too small skates from the previous year and how the tightness helped keep me up once skating. We used to go to my friends house after when her mother wasn’t home and drink all of the Swiss Miss hot chocolate in the house :)
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oh gosh, yes. such wonderful innocent memories and very much like my own )
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What a great picture!
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it really says it all, doesn’t it?
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Around here, people break out the skis and snowshoes (ice not so common). I’m not one of them. I stay inside and enjoy not having to drive in such conditions.
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a great choice in my book, if given the option )
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Oh…to be young and actually enjoy playing outside in the arctic! Though, that never was me – ever. I’m an island chick and always will be. :)
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hahahahaha, well that is quite the opposite, i’m not sure you would embrace it all )
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I am sitting here watching weather reports of my pending ice storm. Mother Nature is a really hussy. Last weekend, it was a tornado watch.
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she is indeed. and a merciless one at that )
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That photo brought back some memories of growing up in western Pennsylvania. :)
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yes, i think it evokes many wintry scenes from places past and present –
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I so envy people who can ice skate. I’m hopeless at it.
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and i am a horrible skater as well, and i do not imagine i will ever represent our country in the olympic skating category. and i’m okay with that.
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We should all be so accepting of what comes!
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there is no other choice really, but be miserable )
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That looks like my neighborhood and I’m another bad skater. Weak ankles. Which doesn’t help with the ice skating rink in the driveway.
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i hear you perfectly. )
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This was a daily method of travel on our streets of Northern Alberta in the winter. Ah, bitter cold memories…. :)
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those are days when you have no choice but to embrace it, and look forward to the return of spring once more.
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I’ve always been lousy on the ice…maybe I’ll try again someday… with some ice skates, though.
: /
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what a wonderful idea!
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what drew me to this post was its subject matter : ice which corresponds to the post which I just put up and you liked. thanks
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