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3311. PelleNilsson - 10/24/2005 11:37:55 AM No, hereabouts the first frost normally comes in the second half of October. What I refer to here is "real" frost when the air temperature is below zero. 3312. alistairconnor - 10/24/2005 11:39:33 AM Why on earth was I thinking this was November. That's a worry.
Still. It's pretty warm for October around here. Still picking tomatoes. 3313. thoughtful - 10/24/2005 4:04:47 PM It has been exceptionally warm in our area. I can remember as a child growing up that we used to always get a killing frost some time after labor day (early sept.) and then it would warm up again for a few weeks before the real chill of fall set in.
We haven't had a frost yet in our area.
October is traditionally the dryest month of the year in our area as well, yet this year we've had over 14" in several days and now we have more to come thanks to Wilma. It is already the wettest october ever and the 4th wettest month of any ever. 3314. alistairconnor - 10/24/2005 4:30:43 PM This is a great century we're living in....
A new climate every year! 3315. ronski - 10/24/2005 4:35:17 PM Also been warm here. We had our first frost this morning. Very stormy weather on the way, from a Noreaster combining a bit with Wilma and Alpha. 3316. Ronski - 10/25/2005 2:37:23 AM The Noreaster, which is pulling moisture from Wilma and Alpha, is supposed to end as wet snow in the Catskill and Pocono Mountains, above 1200 feet. We're at about 1100, or a little less. Maybe we'll get some flakes, though. 3317. Ronski - 10/25/2005 2:40:48 AM 
3318. Ronski - 10/25/2005 2:42:12 AM That was taken by the driveway, yesterday, in late afternoon light, with the compulsory flash on the SONY digital.
It's witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) and red maple (Acer rubrum). 3319. Ronski - 10/25/2005 2:43:50 AM Pelle,
Btw, Colchicum appears not to need particularly good soil. I wouldn't make a special trip for it of course, but if you're going up to the lake, I'd take the bulb and plant it somewhere there.
Then, if you ever get gout... 3320. judithathome - 10/29/2005 8:55:06 PM Keoni is making his work-of-art pumpkin pie with pecan pie in the center. He has banned me from the kitchen for the duration.
This pie is pumpkin at the edges and pecan in the middle...so you get to experience two pie flavors in one slice. He spent $8 on a tin that he cut the bottom off of to make the form for the pecan mix that fits into the middle. He puts the form in and pours the pumpkin mix along the sides of the pie and then, fills the form with the pecan mix and lifts it out very slowly.
Then, he cuts out leaf shapes of dough and applies them to the edge of the pie crust.
We're taking this to our monthly gourmet dinner this evening. And I'm making my faboo salad with greens, dried cranberries, walnuts, and sliced strawberries with crunchy chow mein noodles tossed in. And Ken's raspberry-walnut dressing. 3321. arkymalarky - 10/29/2005 9:36:55 PM That pie sounds wonderful. He ought to enter a contest with his pies. 3322. judithathome - 10/29/2005 10:15:58 PM Next time we come to see you, he'll make a pie! He makes a fabulous apple cranberry and a fabulous cherry blueberry pie. But I'm rather biased in his favor. 3323. arkymalarky - 10/29/2005 10:36:38 PM Oh, I'm sure we'll agree with you. He's lived up to everything else (especially biscuits!). With the nip in the air it's a good time to think about pies--pie and coffee. Mmm. 3324. PelleNilsson - 10/31/2005 8:37:29 PM The Rise and Fall of a Colchicum
I have suffered in order to be able to bring you this unique and gripping documentation. My wife was vivid about having a decrepit plant on the windowsill for what seemed like ages.3325. arkymalarky - 11/1/2005 12:50:50 AM livid? 3326. Ronski - 11/1/2005 1:07:28 AM 
Happy Halloween!
3327. PelleNilsson - 11/1/2005 9:41:15 AM Yes, livid of course. 3328. thoughtful - 11/1/2005 3:24:21 PM The thoughtful's don't do halloween and instead treat ourselves to a nice dinner. Went to an Indian restaurant...I printed out the menu ahead of time and went over it with an indian fellow I know to order the best dishes. We had a wonderful meal.
Hubby was especially delighted as he hadn't had indian food since he was in india which must be almost 20 years ago.
We ordered Murg Masti (fennel induced minced chicken, spiced cashews on crisp lettuce)
Masala Dosa...enormous crepe stuffed with spiced potatoes and peas
Chicken Tikka...grilled chicken
Chicken Malai Kabob...tandoor fired chicken tenders with saffron
spiced garlic nan
zafrani pulao...basmati rice cumin seeds and green peas
finished with spiced tea ....cardamom and cinnamon
Everything was wonderfully delish. 3329. thoughtful - 11/1/2005 5:53:46 PM I meant to post this here, not there.
Sorry for spamming.
via delong's site:
Do you always get the wobbly table at restaurants and cafes? Don't despair. A physicist has proved that, within reasonable limits, it is always possible to rotate the table to a position where all four legs stand solidly on the ground. Andre Martin was moved to study the problem because he was fed up with the wobbly tables at CERN ... in Geneva ... where he works on abstruse problems in high-energy physics. Anyone who drinks a cup of coffee on the terrace of the CERN cafeteria ... discovers that the tables usually have only three feet resting on the ground, so that the slightest touch spills your drink. Time after time, Martin would find himself rotating the table to look for a stable position. "I've always been able to find one," he says. "People are sometimes amazed that it works." More than ten years ago, Martin decided to see if he could find some proof that a stable state always exists. He believed that he'd found one ... in 1998, but ... discovered that ... it wasn't completely correct. Now Martin believes he has a more watertight case, and this time he has gone public. "I had the feeling that mathematicians were interested," he explains. 3330. Ms. No - 11/1/2005 6:08:28 PM Okay, so I'm a day late, but I didn't manage to get myself together with pictures 'til today. Saturday I went to a pumpkin carving party.
Pumpkin Artistes among the offerings of lesser mortals. (Mine is the one barely begun in the foreground.)
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