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13166. Jenerator - 1/11/2005 11:35:10 PM He died of a head trauma accident from falling - he was in great health.
Personally, I can't live without some carbs...white flour, rice, white pastas. 13167. Jenerator - 1/11/2005 11:37:40 PM I ate too many pecans this winter. I'm pecan-ed out. 13168. Magoseph - 1/11/2005 11:38:57 PM I never eat meat, lots of fruit and vegetables, though. 13169. Magoseph - 1/11/2005 11:47:00 PM Max, I live in south-east Wisconsin. I know you live in California, but where exactly? 13170. Max Macks - 1/12/2005 1:31:03 AM Mago , I remember now that we had a brief email eschange
last year regarding French and art or both.
(I think that is what it was about)
I live across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco.
I lived in Wisconsin a couple of times. The last
in Stevens Point.
Trying to think of towns in south east Wisconsin ,
but memory today is faulty. 13171. Max Macks - 1/12/2005 1:33:08 AM Jenerator pecans are one of my favorite nuts
but them most of them are ,except almonds
I have seen some really good pecans from Texas
but not this year.
the ones in the market seem to be too dried
and wrinkled. 13172. judithathome - 1/12/2005 1:50:13 AM We kept all the good ones for Jen.
Our neighbors have three very large pecan tress. Ditto my friend who goes to exercise with me. She sold all her pecans for $80... 13173. judithathome - 1/12/2005 1:51:44 AM Well, pecan tress might be a delightful hairdo but these people have trees. 13174. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 1:04:29 PM Regarding the weather station that particular gift says more about the giver than the recipient but it is an amusing gadget.
This is the indoor module. It communicates via radio with an outdoor sensor. It displays the temperature, the relative humidity and the air pressure. The model I have also displays a graph showing how the pressure has developed over the last 24 hours. The symbols at the top indicate the weather forecast. It works, I think, on a simple algorithm based on current air pressure and the trend. It is not wildly successful. Right now it shows rain but the sky is clearing. The time display is - inevitably - this is high-tech - governed by radio from the atomic clock in Braunschweig. It shows the phases of the moon, too (not in the picture). 13175. Macnas - 1/12/2005 1:33:19 PM Nifty item.
It reminds me of the time when some of our dept. managers, in their wisdom, shelled out a nice bit of money to purchase similar remotely synchronised clocks.
They were found to be useless due to the structural nature of many buildings on site, which proved to be effective barriers to the particular radio signal they needed. 13176. alistairconnor - 1/12/2005 2:02:51 PM Oddly enough, I was looking longingly at weather stations like that in a catalogue over breakfast.
I'd actually want to go the whole hog, and get the one with the anemometer, rain gauge and PC interface... also programmable alarms on dew point, frost etc for the keen gardener (which I'm currently not, but one day...) 13177. thoughtful - 1/12/2005 3:33:13 PM We have a low-tech weather gauge that needs no batteries.
It's the cat. Throw him outside and if he comes back fluffled it's windy...if he comes back wet it's rainy...if he comes back white it's snowing...if he doesn't come back for a long time it's sunny and pleasant...if he refuses to go out at all it's abysmal.
Our old cat was called our 'thermoscat' as we could always tell how well the fire was burning in the woodstove by how close she was to it. 13178. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 5:23:24 PM 
Yesterday, I wore this type of ski mask with this type of hat in town, both I had somewhere and finally found. Well, the looks everywhere I went were just too much, so today I'm busy knitting one very much like the one Pelle posted. Thanks, Pelle.
13179. judithathome - 1/12/2005 5:47:21 PM You can always rob a bank in that other one, Magos! 13180. Macnas - 1/12/2005 5:47:28 PM Mago, I'm surprised Homeland Security hasn't paid you a visit yet. 13181. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 5:56:17 PM Mac, they know all about us by now--all these weekly calls back and forth to France got them to dismiss us a long time ago.
Judsie, Flexy is the one who worries when people look at my get-ups, do you believe that? 13182. alistairconnor - 1/12/2005 6:11:51 PM ah... he's the jealous type ... you lookin at my wife.... 13183. PelleNilsson - 1/12/2005 6:29:31 PM Get-ups? I thought only guys had such. 13184. Magoseph - 1/12/2005 6:38:26 PM No, Ali, he is not jealous, just wary of people’s curiosity when we are out together. However, he is a little sensitive about our age difference and so am I for that matter because in spite of the fact that this July, we will be married ten years, there are still some idiots around here and among his family who think I did not marry for love. French women in a conservative area are either wanton or worse, you know.
Hahaha, Pelle! 13185. Macnas - 1/12/2005 6:43:04 PM Smut, Volvo's and Abba.
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