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OK folks, I know Connecticut is not typically thought of as one of those "warm sunny vacation places" any more than Scotland, Greenland, or Lithuania, but come on, snow for 5 hours straight in the middle of October! Geesh, at least let us get to Thanksgiving for criminy sakes... 
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Check Pants
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Yeah, I was real excited to drive in snow for about two hours today on I-84 in PA. I hope this isn't a vision of things to come this winter....
Al
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Greenhorn
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09 BA Blue/Blue
Staintune
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Global warming... yeah right!!
Live to love, love to live.
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Old Hand
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Think how cold it would be if it weren't for global warming! 
Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python
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Fe Butt
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Well HECK, Greg!!! Why do you seem to have a problem with this here, HUH?! This turn of events is ACTUALLY beneficial!!! Allow me to 'splain here.... You see, the more snow falls, the more it looks like Christmas...RIGHT?! AND, the EARLER the snow COMES, the longer the Christmas SHOPPING SEASON is...OR...at least APPEARS to be anyway...RIGHT?! And thus...THIS will ALL spur THE ECONOMY!!! (ya gotta problem with THAT, dude???!!!)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Pay no attention to Dwight. The only snow in his neck of the woods doesn't melt... 
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Fe Butt
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Yep! That's RIGHT, John! We use that there polycarbonate stuff 'round here, boy!!!
And while it may be very conveninent and a whole lot less mess in the long run, it suuuuure makes it awfully hard to make snow angels in, young fella!
(...ya kind'a get "rug burns" when ya do that, ya see!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Settle down, pops.  
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Fe Butt
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Settle down, pops.
Hmmmmmm. 
(fade out and back to a couple of years ago....)
"So Dwight, you're sayin' we're gonna WALK over to the El Camino Show from here?!!"
-"Ahh, well YEAH John! It's ONLY just a couple hundred yards away and across Manhattan Beach Boulevard, dude!!!"
"Ummmm, well okay Dwight. I THINK I can make it then!"
(fade back to present)
And ah...what were you sayin' again, young fella??? 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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got like 6" of snow so far and supposed to snow most of the weekend. Had to drive home in it last night and going to work shortly in it now. I still have trees out back with green leaves on them. This is the worst snow here since sometime in the 1800s.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Settle down, pops.
Hmmmmmm.
(fade out and back to a couple of years ago....)
"So Dwight, you're sayin' we're gonna WALK over to the El Camino Show from here?!!"
-"Ahh, well YEAH John! It's ONLY just a couple hundred yards away and across Manhattan Beach Boulevard, dude!!!"
"Ummmm, well okay Dwight. I THINK I can make it then!"
(fade back to present)
And ah...what were you sayin' again, young fella???
That wasn't age, that was weight. I'd run circles (well, walk circles) around you now. 
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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It's in the 50s today. They're predicting low 70s tomorrow. Time to get the scooter out!
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Darn near 100 here in Phoenix today. Summmer just won't let go... But at least this morning was very nice, about 65degrees. It was perfect for morning coffee with friends, and then up some twisities at our favorite mountain before splitting off for work!!
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Darn near 100 here in Phoenix today. Summmer just won't let go... But at least this morning was very nice, about 65degrees. It was perfect for morning coffee with friends, and then up some twisities at our favorite mountain before splitting off for work!!
Hmmmm....let's see now .......
100 minus 20(which is usually the degree difference between the two towns) is....80!
(okay now...wait a minute while I go into another computer field here and see if I'm right.....)
YEP! It's presently 80 degree in Prescott Arizona right now, Martin! Which, don't forget now newbie is where that SOUTHWEST TRIUMPH FEST is gonna be takin' place this comin' MAY again....like I told ya in your first posting 'round here, dude!!!
(hmmmmmm...80 and sunny huh?!...sure wish I was at the other house right about now...sounds NICE there today...and while it's also just about 80 in L.A. here today too, I KNOW there's a whole lot less traffic THERE than in this here concrete jungle alright!) 
(...and nope, I never do get tired of these shameless plugs, if THAT'S what some o' you folks are wonderin' here!!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I'm in Kentucky (which, in my geographically challengend mind, is the South) and weather reports are predicting snow this evening and tomorrow. Not fair! 
I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
2002, Cardinal Red & Silver
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That's right - I am familiar with that event, but I've never gone.... Not sure why - maybe when I rode my Speed Triple and Sprint I felt I was too good for it or something dumb like that!! ????  This coming year I'll have to show. This weekend is supposed to be the local AZRATPACK Laughlin ride. Only one rider is going. Man, I wish I could go.......... But hte wife said this weekend I have to stay home. Quote:
Martin! Which, don't forget now newbie is where that SOUTHWEST TRIUMPH FEST is gonna be takin' place this comin' MAY again....like I told ya in your first posting 'round here, dude!!!
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That's right - I am familiar with that event, but I've never gone.... Not sure why - maybe when I rode my Speed Triple and Sprint I felt I was too good for it or something dumb like that!! ????
This coming year I'll have to show.
Yep, ya sure will, Martin!!! 
(and ahh...I'm glad to see you appeared to have had some sort of an "epiphany" since those early "Triple Days" o' yours there too!!!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I know what you mean! Im not ready for it!! I need to ride more
Erwin
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It's in the 50s today. They're predicting low 70s tomorrow. Time to get the scooter out!
John, I believe the phrase that I am looking for goes something like this:
BITE ME!
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Oh it was SOOOOOOOO nice. 73 degrees, sunny, breezy. Only had time for a short 50+ mile jaunt down to Boulder, MT, for a quick burger. Tomorrow? Freezing rain. 
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Well, that's only fair, 40 and rainy here! Again! Enjoy! 
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Went out to Ohio and back on Sunday to see the daughter at college. Snapped this picture at Fenzil, MD on I-68. They always get an early snow up here (about an hour from WVU/Morgantown). Snowed just enough to be pretty. 
Al
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Snow is never pretty!
"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something."
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Snow is never pretty!
, It is becoming readily apparent, the older I get the less enthused I become for loooong dark nights, the "romance" of a wood fired kicker and the inevitable white stuff.
.......but it goes with the territory
jh
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well, I guess the consolation will come in April, when I roll Blue out of the garage, blow the dust and cobwebs off of her (and the cat pawprints!-GRRRRR!!!!!), and fire up those Bubs for the first time after a couple months, sending a clearly audible signal to every house in the neighborhood, that spring is about...
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