Absolutely Beautiful

Glad to hear that you're enjoying the snow! Haven't had major snow here yet, but know its coming soon! Its already getting colder here now.Usually, I do like it when it first falls, but then when it gets icy and mushy I don't.
Jessica

Glad to hear that you're enjoying the snow! Haven't had major snow here yet, but know its coming soon! Its already getting colder here now.Usually, I do like it when it first falls, but then when it gets icy and mushy I don't.
Jessica

Sorry about that - my computer went crazy!
Jessica :)

Did I read that right...did you say snow is beautiful? lol...forgive me, I HATE THAT WHITE CRAP!!! hehehe...we get WAAAAAAY too much out here; I dunno if I wanna go to Washington, or say to heck with it and move to Arizona...lol.

Snow is very very pretty! I would move to Arizona in a heart beat though - it's right near Nevada where my pal is!

Oh wait...you're from Australia, right?? (unless I'm thinking of someone else, if so, sorry!) I guess if one from another country were to see it for the first time, it would be different...I think its pretty; but only when its somewhere other than here...lol. I'm a whimp in the cold!!!

Yes I am from Australia - on my big world adventure at the moment. They do have snow in Australia, I had never seen it though.

thewlie, tell us where all are you going ? and any details that me , a po folk doesnt get to travel so i will vacation vicariously thru you . sounds like fun. stay safe

Well at the moment I am in Whistler BC where I will stay and work for the winter season. Already I have been to LA, San Deigo, Las Vegas, to visit my pal in Nevada, stayed in Vancouver for awhile before moving up here. After here hopefully I can go back to Nevada to visit my pal and then if they let me I want to do the camp councilor thing for the summer. I have to go to Germany in the beginning of June for a friends birthday. Then after all that I want to meet up with a very godo friend of mine in the UK where we plan to work and travel Europe together. I have also made a very good friend here in Canada that is from France. I also plan to go and stay with her for a little while. And that is all I am planning to do so far. But plans usually always change so we will see what happens. I don't plan on going home for another few years anyways. I will keep everyone updated!

wow.. your just a bit aways from me. Im here in Edmonton. We already have got some snow, but the last couple of days were extremely warm so it all melted. SO here I am and on TV today was the weather announcement that we will have a massive dump tonight. Sigh... and it begins. I hope you enjoy your stay out in Canada. I know some parts are pretty boring, and about the bed bugs, if you go to Home hardware they have these strips.. hmm what were they called??? Uh... they are from RAID and they look yellow and shaped in a rectangle? GO FIGURE, my friend had them and she had a bad case of the buggers and put them under her bed, and in the room they were gone in days. ONly problem is they are toxic to animals... but it may help. I wish you fun and lots of more snow. *SMILE*

Sounds like ur having an awesome time thewylie. My dream is to one day go to canada. enjoy the rest of ur travels hey!

I miss the snow so much! I am here in vegas I don't miss the cold but I sure miss the snow .

Hi thewylie...sounds like you're truly enjoying the fluffy, frosty, frozen rain, aka: snow. I can't imagine what it's like to see snow for the first time as a adult, that would be amazing I guess, but I grew up with the cold stuff and always enjoyed (even to this day) the snow ball fights, building snowmen or should I say a 'snowperson' just to be politically correct these days, hopping on the sled and racing down the hills only to smash head long into a snow bank, and all the other good times can have when it snows. Now before you think I'm some sort of sentimental old fool, the point I was getting to is, you need some soothing snow music to top off this wonderful event in your life, and may I suggest a catchy little tune by Frank Zappa..."Don't eat the yellow snow", I think this would help set the mood to where you'd feel more like participating in the outdoor activities, it's just a suggestion, but I do believe it's the perfect snow song, have a listen if you can get a copy. Have fun...and oh yeah, maybe you can even entice your new found friends (the beg bugs) to go out and help make snow angels with you! =)

plastercat

I thought I was the only one warped enough to remember Frank Zappa....

"Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow."

Now Big Dog...let's not forget about Nanook the eskimo, and Uncle Reamus <sp, lol.

Sorry to disappoint you ChiefLawdog, but I'm also warped enough to enjoy listening to Zappa :)
thewylie, if want to hear the 'Don't eat yellow snow' track, you need to find someone with the 'Apostrophe' album - it's worth the effort :) I'd play it for you, but I'm just a little too far away for you to hear it lol

Ian UK

here ya go you old farts, a trip down memory lane! LMAO!

Dreamed I was an Eskimo
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
Frozen wind began to blow
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
Under my boots 'n around my toe
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
Frost had bit the ground below
(Boop-boop aiee-ay-ah!)
Was a hundred degrees below zero
(Booh!)
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
And my momma cried:
Boo-a-hoo hoo-ooo
And my momma cried:
Nanook-a, no no (no no . . . )
Nanook-a, no no (no no . . . )
Don't be a naughty Eskimo-wo-oh
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop-bop Ta-da-da)
Save your money: don't go to the show
Well I turned around an' I said:
HO HO
(Booh!)
Well I turned around an' I said:
HO HO
(Booh!)
Well I turned around an' I said:
HO HO
An' the Northern Lites commenced t' glow
An' she said
(Bop-bop ta-da-da bop . . . )
With a tear in her eye:
WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO
AN' DON'T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW
WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO
AN' DON'T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW

Well everyone I will have you know that I have actually already heard that song. It was many years ago at the kids house that lived across the road from me. We found their dads record collection and we couldn't get enough of that song. I will find my own copy and play it for everyone in the staff accommodation - I am sure they will appreciate!

LOL HIllbilly Honey, but you forgot to take us into "Nanook Rubs It" and "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast." So, here we go....

Nanook Rubs It

(Well, right about that time people,
A fur-trapper (who was strictly from commercial)
Had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo (peekaboo)
And he started into whippin' on my favorite baby seal
With a lead-filled snowshoe)

I said, with a
Lead-
Filled
With a lead filled snowshoe
He said, "Peekaboo"
I said, with a
Lead-
Filled
With a lead fillled snowshoe
He said, "Peekaboo"
He went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal,
he went "whap" with a lead-filled snowshoe, and
he hit him on the nose and hit him on the fin, and he
that got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy can be. So I bent down
and I reached down, and I scooped down and I gathered up a generous
mitten-ful of the deadly *YELLOW SNOW*

The deadly yellow snow, from right there where the huskies go!

Whereupon I proceeded to take that mittenful of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous cicular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mudshark in your mythology
here it goes, the circular motion, now Rub It!

*(Here Fido)*

And then
In a fit of anger
I pounced

And I pounced again

Great Googly Moogly!

I jumped up and down on the chest of the him

I injured
The fur trapper

Well he was very upset, as you can understand
And rightly so, because the
Deadly yellow snow crystals had
Deprived him of his
Sight

And he stood up, and he looked around, and he said

"I can't see"
"I can't see"
"Oh, woe is me"
"I can't see'

"Well...you know
I can't see
Nothin'"

"He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye
He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye
And the husky wee-wee
I mean the doggie wee-wee
Has blinded me
And I can't see
Temporarily"

Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about his deflicted eyes.
And it was at that precise moment that he remembered an ancient Eskimo legend, wherein it is written (on whatever it is that they write it on up there) that if anything bad ever happens to your eyes as the result of some sort of conflict with anyone named Nanook,
the only way you can get it fixed up is to go

Truging across the trundra
Mile after mile
Trudging across the tundra

Right down to tha Parish of St. Alphonzo

"St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast"

Yes indeed
Here we are

At
Where I stole the margarine
And wheeled on the Bingo cards
And blew up the latrine

I saw a handsome parish lady
Make her entrance like a queen
While she was totally in chenille
And her old man was a Marine

As she abused the sausage pattie
And said, "Why don't you treat me mean?"
At
Where I stole the margarine
*(St. Alfonzo
St. Alfonzo
St. Alfonzo
St. Alfonzo)*