11:50 pm and it's FINALLY dark

[u4ic]

The sun will come up at 4:30 am.

I love this time of year...:bounce:

[Neoma]

1. Whoa.

I'm sure that it went dark sooner then that...

[u4ic]

21. Probably does where you are

I'm pretty far north compared to everyone else. (other than those in Alaska, Norway and Sweden)

[Nicole]

2. Sounds like my kind of hours

I would love that. I'm a night owl so 2 extra hours of daylight would be good for me.

Enjoy!

[u4ic]

3. I lived in northern Alberta for a time

Right now, it would be twilight (midnight), but never fully dark. Then, 3:30am, sun pops up!

Wonderful in the summer, not so great in the winter - 9am sunup, 3:30pm sundown. Bankers hours. x(

[Nicole]

6. That sounds amazing to me

since I've never been that far north.

I agree that it would not be so great in winter.

[u4ic]

7. The -65F days weren't pleasant

but the Northern Lights...:loveya:

[enigmatic]

4. me too

I never get tired of this; it's going to be schorching this week!

[u4ic]

5. Hey enigmatic!

:bounce: :loveya:

Yep, it's looking good! Hopefully by the time I'll be moving (not this week, but next) it'll have settled down a bit. 20-22 would be perfect. 20-22 - with NO rain - I may add. :-)

How have you been? Where have you been - any road trips yet?

[enigmatic]

8. Where are you moving?

We're going to go back down to the Badlands next month to camp; I really want to try to get up to High Level and camp too. If I can find the time :)

[u4ic]

13. I'm still looking

hopefully I'll be out by the end of the month, maybe 10 days at most.

Looking at downtown, Strathcona, Allendale/McKernan area - though I might have to go to Bonnie Doon. :scared:

It's price that I'm most concerned about, since I'm on a very small fixed income.

Please take pics of the Badlands and post them!!

I miss southern Alberta's landscape. When I lived in Lethbridge, I used to walk the coulees every day, then down by the river. Beautiful walks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear u4ic!

You lucky girl!

How sweet is that?

I love love love the long days.....they can never be long enough for me!


Although, I must say, the long winter nights would really depress the heck out of me.....:cry:

Enjoy your summer, sweetie!

:bounce: :bounce:

[u4ic]

17. Hi Peggy!

These long days sure are a treat. As our seasons up north here are shorter, the sun is more intense, out longer, and the growing season gets packed into a short period of time.

Those winter nights...well, let's just say it all depends who you spend them with... :evilgrin:

Thank you, I will enjoy mine, and I wish you the same. And please do post more pics!!! :D

[billyskank]

10. Hi euphoric!

:hi:

:hug:

[u4ic]

11. Hey billyboy!

Can you sit down, or did you take my advice? :rofl:

[billyskank]

12. I did not kick myself

:P

I think Eddie must have arrived back last night, because it's raining now.

[u4ic]

15. That explains why

it was 28 or 29 today. Just beautiful.

I'm going to have to go down to the river valley and take some pics. Thanks to Eddie and the gang, we have a lovely, lush forested area around the river. Everything's so green, the sky's so blue, the clouds are so white and the sun's so bright...:D

[billyskank]

18. I gotta go now

See you, sweetie! :*

[u4ic]

19. Nighty night, billy!

Time for me to turn in! :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I'd totally love that, too

You could play baseball until 10 p.m. without lights. :bounce:

But the back side of it's gotta suck. x(

[u4ic]

16. I don't know about suck

but I could make your backside hurt... :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Ba-domp (tishhhh)

I forgot — Canadians don't play baseball.

But apparently you have other forms of recreation. :evilgrin:

[grasswire]

22. yeah, they do -- walkin' the coulees

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Is that anything like

walking the parapet? :shrug:

[grasswire]

24. Have you never seen a coulee? (eom)

[grasswire]

25. In New England they're called "Dingles" (eom)

[grasswire]

26. here's a fine looking coulee

although it's quite a bit bigger than a dingle




And it's not Canadian.

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Which part's the coulee?

All's I know from coulees is there's a dam named for a grand one. :shrug:

[grasswire]

29. I think it's the part where the water...

...washed away the dirt to make a riverbed below the level of the surrounding land.

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. Then why

don't they just call it that steada confusin' Mer'kins with words like "coulee"? :shrug:

MER'KINS MUST NOT BE CONFUSED!!!11

[grasswire]

31. I think it's a word that cowboys use...

...and therefore is transnational. I recall an old Sons of the Pioneer song where the cowboys are singin' about how the dogies "feed in the coulee and water in the draw." So apparently dogies like to walk the coulees, too.

[u4ic]

33. Here are the coulees I walked:

As you can see, they follow the river...give a lovely panoramic view of it. They don't tend to be very green, though...not a lot of rain in the area. My apartment backed onto them. They're wonderful walking hills, though not as easy as they may look.

[u4ic]

38. That's a sad looking coulee

Regardez: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5306193&mesg_id=5307390

[u4ic]

32. You'd better check

the World Series winners in '92 and '93. ;)

[MikeH]

28. Sounds really nice

Here in San Diego the sun comes up about 5:40 AM and sets at 8:00 PM. It is pretty well dark by 9:00. The longest days just don't seem quite long enough here, even compared to Chicago where I used to live.

However the shortest days in December are a tolerable 10 hours in length; the sun rises a little before 7 and sets a little before 5. Not quite as bad as further north.

[u4ic]

34. Hi MikeH

I'm very surprised at how early the sun sets in the winter in San Diego. Ten hours of daylight sounds wonderful when the cold hits! In all fairness, however, it usually is very bright here during the winter. In fact, the colder it is, the sunnier it tends to be. :hi:

[WoodyTobiasJr]

35. What a great time of year!

And now the rain has finally stopped too!!

WOOHOO!!

[u4ic]

36. It was the British royals

who brought the damn rain.

I've already instructed billyskank to revoke their passports.

Every time they come here, they bring the damn rain. x(

[billyskank]

37. It came back home today

:P

[u4ic]

39. Admit it - you like the rain

it's in your blood...

[billyskank]

40. I'm not really so bothered with the rain

and actually, we have had far too little of it over the last 12 months. We have a drought on in the south-east.

The weather I find most offensive is wind. Being an island, we get a fair measure of that too.

[u4ic]

41. A drought? Really?

The pictures of the city I posted above is one of the windiest cities in Canada, so I understand about the wind. It has a certain warming wind called a Chinook that comes in the winter, and changes the weather dramatically; I remember one instance of it being -37 one night, and +4 by noon the next day. Ugh. (during those the wind gusts 80-90km/hr and there's this looming cloud that doesn't move...creepy)

The heat is the worst for me; I wilt in anything over 25-27c. I have so much I should be doing now, but it's just too hot out. Drastic changes in temperature is another I can't deal with, which happens here quite a bit. One May ('05?'04?) it got to the 30's, and then cold enough within a few days for it to snow. x(

[billyskank]

42. You have crazy-ass weather

All four seasons in a few days? :rofl:

I don't cope well in hot weather either. Up to 25 is great, above that and it starts getting a bit much. British homes never have AC either, because most of the time it would be unnecessary. Thank heaven the office does, at least.

Right now it's cool again. yvr says it is hot in Vancouver at the moment.

:hug: :hi:

[u4ic]

43. No A/C here, either

except malls and theatres, and you have to bring your parka for them. 30 outside, -10 inside. :wtf:

She has a beach! The only thing remotely beach-y around here had a gigantic oil spill last year after a train derailed; even before the water was dodgy to begin with (because of industry) .

I'll have to be content running through the sprinkler - it's 31c at present. :D

[mdmc]

44. I would take the cold over the heat any day

too hot in the summer here...