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2928. wonkers2 - 4/13/2005 11:18:55 PM I had mixed feelings about "Sideways." Probably wasn't in the mood for a biting satire comedy about losers, liars, lechers and wine snobs. 2929. alistairConnor - 4/13/2005 11:34:45 PM Brother! 2930. PelleNilsson - 4/14/2005 7:27:04 PM I stole
this link about Japanese restaurants abroad from Mod Lang, a Taiwan-based poster at RI. Moderately amusing, I think. 2931. Ronski - 4/15/2005 3:44:42 AM Iceland poppy, and friend:
 2932. Ronski - 4/15/2005 3:56:37 AM Cineraria:
 2933. Magoseph - 4/15/2005 6:05:50 AM Ronski, your flower pictures are very beautiful. 2934. ronski - 4/15/2005 3:30:30 PM Thanks. 2935. ronski - 4/15/2005 4:21:27 PM A hellebore has bloomed:
2936. ronski - 4/15/2005 10:09:41 PM "I am half sick of shadows," said
The Lady of Shallot.
 2937. alistairConnor - 4/16/2005 12:10:36 PM Mostly sleet yesterday : I thought we'd be flirting with the snowline all weekend. But at breakfast :
... and it's still falling thick and fast. I've never seen so much in April. 2938. Ronski - 4/16/2005 3:22:29 PM What elevation are you? 2939. alistairConnor - 4/16/2005 4:26:16 PM About 700 metres.
It's still falling steadily, but not sticking to the trees, and not getting any thicker because it's melting as it goes.
There's a fair heap in front of the door here where it slides off the solar panels.
It won't help the flowers grow, but it won't really harm them like a hard frost would. 2940. Ronski - 4/17/2005 4:23:07 AM Primula polyanthus, in my Mom's backyard:
 2941. Ronski - 4/17/2005 4:24:42 AM Next to it, a blue one:
 2942. alistairConnor - 4/17/2005 12:16:57 PM Primevères! We have them wild, but they are plain yellow. 2943. Ronski - 4/17/2005 2:33:27 PM Trillium luteum, in bud:
 2944. Ronski - 4/17/2005 2:54:52 PM Pink hyacinth, at Mom's:
 2945. thoughtful - 4/18/2005 1:22:46 PM Ronski, great shots. I love trillium...please post a shot when it's blooming. 2946. wabbit - 4/18/2005 2:02:51 PM 
We're done with snow for the season, but the snowmelt and the recent rain did some damage. I have a small stream running along the back edge of my yard and during the big rain of about 2 weeks ago, the dam upstream broke. I wasn't here at the time, unfortunately, but I'm sure it was quite something. Briscoe Lake is pretty much mud now, not what you'd call a lake anymore. Who knew it was so shallow? I gather the rush of water woke people up at about 2am, when this happened. Some stuff I had stored behind my tractor shed ended up a few hundred yards away, stuck in the treeline between my yard and my neighbor, and I now have a few thousand rocks in the yard that used to be on the streambed. Also, my large burn pile is gone. Not a twig left behind. So much for needing to burn this year. A couple trees came down, too. Unfortunately, I lost a lot of flowers as well. I had daffodils and irises along the stream bank, but that part of the bank is gone and the stream is a bit wider. Luckily my house sits just a few feet above the high water point and escaped any damage.
2947. thoughtful - 4/18/2005 2:07:44 PM Wow! That's something! Thank goodness your house wasn't damaged. But man what a mess.
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