The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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There alot different ways the ice stuff can come to be. Mostly, usually, it's the temp is lower near the surface, while the upper atmosphere is warm enough for the rain. They're getting bad thunderstorms in the next county and yet, we're bracing for an ice storm. It has to do with really cold air pushing down from the north and warmer air, very often from the gulf pushing north. Where they meet is why they get the horrible storms in Chucks area. The warmer air slides over top of the colder and the gulf air tends to be moisture rich. Mostly it's a spring time thing with the horrer they got. Snow, well that's plain ass numbing cold.

Changing climate, well in my life time you start to see a shift from what was, to what is. Since I feel the evidence is over whelming that it is real, I tend to look at the changes as it being the cause. It isn't just the weather here, animals and trees are doing things different in my backyard as well and they know before we do. In no way were ice storms as common as they are now, here. You'd get it once in a while sure, but now it just seems like one after the other. I'm not sure how many just this year alone. I would guess this would be at least the third or forth, if it happens.

Actually I find ice storms to be very pretty. Sometimes it can rain in this little valley and I can see the ice line along the mid section of the hills. Other times we have the ice and the hills are clear. The ice on every little branch and twig glisson's, kind of an other worldly look. It's shiny!! !

Lurking.

Lurking, thinking about Chuck all day, and last night too.

hope everyone else is OK. I am OK. cat is OK


Chuck? (ya' dern mountain william!) be OK, too.


Merle

Lurking. Metta to everyone.

Postie, I can totally picture you and SwampBlossom in Coober Pedy, South Australia.

http://www.cooberpedy.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=191

And yes, I do believe you can get on the Net there.

I've seen pictures of the houses (if that's the right word) in Coober Pedy. Very interesting.

I also live in tornado country (Iowa). We got 10"/25cm of snow yesterday. I had to fire up the snowblower this morning to clear the driveway. I was somewhat disappointed that they did not call off work.

Midwestern weather is nothing if not exciting... I used to live on the East coast of the US, in New Jersey, and after a while I realized that the weather there was... boring. It got warmer, it got cooler. It rained, snowed, and was dry in turn. But the weather there was never anything you needed to be concerned about. And it was that aspect that I missed. Nobody likes to be hit by a tornado, but severe weather is a reminder that Man and his creations are not the master of all. If nothing else, the weather is always a safe subject for conversation.

Uh... Hi! Newbie here. Hope your friend Chuck is ok, and that I get to know him when he gets back online. Sounds like he lives 'out in the sticks' as we would say.

-- Bill

Newbie? I would argue that word with you. Sorry to hear you had to spend time in Jersey. And if you didn't catch it from my reply to your hi, I'm new post, take me with a huge grian of salt or muffins or honey or kippers or spam or.....not at all. I'll say it again, glad you found us and welcome home.

Have a muffin. (Cafe greeting, sometimes)

Chuck? Be careful what you wish for. I swear he's getting younger in here every time he stops working for two seconds, which isn't often enough.

Oh and sorry to hear you live in Iowa. Let's move to Coober Pedy and look for shinys.

Yeah, I am all for Coober Pedy, myself. . .

what are shinys? Opals or gold nuggets?


Merle

Do we really need to be fussy? I like em both. Don't think they're really all the shiny till they're cut and polished. If you want to see some really really neat ones and they are more common in Assieland then else where, check out boulder opals. Hell I just like rocks.

Count me in on Coober Pedy. And shinys. And Postie mentioned muffins. I'm sure I can import guacamole if I have to.

More research is needed, but in the event of such a move I may be the only bassist in Coober Pedy.

And welcome, Billiard. In my neck of the woods we don't have weather. Just heat. And guacamole. And when I did live up north I always asked my dad why we didn't get a snowblower. He would always just ask me "Why should I get a snowblower? (Duncan's dad hands Duncan a shovel).

From the Australian Geographic "Fair Dinkum" calendar of 2004:

Welcome Billard! (the "gnu" guy )

Duncansbass, whenever my kids say, "Mu-um! Why don't we get a dishwasher?!" I blink innocently and say, "Whatever for? We have several already."

Hello, Billard. It's very nice to meet you. Be careful of Postie and his muffins, he throws an evul muffin in the mix every now and again (usually blueberry). And Chuck, well..... you'll meet him soon enough. Lau should be around eventually as will Richie and Gromit. The rest of us are very nice and never cause any trouble or shenanigans..... it's all those guys, even though Nannarob will try to tell you it's me and Nan.

(to Blessed, who USUALLY tell the truth)

OMG I just saw footage of the twisters! No wonder you are worried.

I like rocks, too. I have a set of jewelry with diamonds, boulder opal, and tanzanite that's absolutely gorgeous. Now I wouldn't even consider diamonds or tanzanite (tanzanite's too brittle, and there's some other awful stuff related to the stone).

I do love the colored stones...I'm trying to learn silversmithing, but I usually have to work at something a while and then it clicks.

You have a big collection, Postie? THere's a place in Eastern Washington called Vantage, and there's a fossilized forest there and a rockhound store right at it's edge with some wonderful stuff. I know there's another term for that kind of stone wood, but my words are escaping me...

Helllooooo, Billard!! Welcome! I think the espresso machine is still working, and I think...what happened to the plant...er, the loo...that thing that used to be in the corner.

WHo's in the rafters?

I am listening to a radio interview on my beloved ABC about Glen Shepherd, a downs Syndrome and Autism person. He has learnt to talk on one of those letter board thingies at 15, and low and behold a genius. He is at present at uni and is a published poet.

He has 2 words.

Of course he is good at maths too.

He is trying to spread the word about the board thingies for facilated education.

Lol, sorta depends on how you're defining rock collection. Umm no I wouldn't exactly define my collection as a rock collection, but yeah they are. No idea the number, not sure I can count that high, somewhere in the 10's of thousands I would guess.(umm thinking on it, not that high, but handled easily 1000's in a day when I was in the field doing my thing. It wouldn't be in the 10's of thousand, just in the thousands) Let's put it this way, they made me move it from the upstairs down, they got concerned about the weight on the rafters. Let me get back here in a sec, I'll show you one I posted else where. I should have put a scale up so you get the size of the thing, but I didn't bother. But this one was just a, happened to find, while looking for something else. But yeah for the kind you're describing it was one of my ol mans obsessions, so I learned early and went on a lot of rock hunting deals when I was a kid, it's kind of in my blood. I just had a guy last night show up for me to identify some artifacts and he made me a neat, very well done "arrowhead". I do them too, but he's better at it then I am. He's actually to the point he's fluting, not easy and it's a style the paleo Indians were noted for around these parts. Now let me see if I can get up what I think to be rather a nice find. It's roughly 4 inches across and I found it at about an elevation of 1750 ft above sea level and about 10ish miles from my house. Found some really nice bivalves still in bed rock, but in relief. That was on a little trip to the same general area where this was found and the old man actually found those first. I think they're still someplace in the attic. Lol, one night he was out in the kitchen and a cloud of funny colored smoke came in to the living room, he said we best leave the house for a while. He was a hoot and I think he was playing with specific gravity's and rocks and acids. Although that might have been his growing crystals phase, hard to know anymore, so many of them. Damn dangerous growing up with an aspie old man.



Petrified wood I think is what you're looking for, love to get me mits on some, I'd like to try and knap some.

(Yikes, sorry I think I did this one before here, not sure)

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