What are your holiday plans and/or traditions?

[HARO]

We're leaving for the airport in an hour or so to pick up our Christmas guests.... our daughter and two grandkids are flying in from New Zealand to spend seven weeks with us! It'll be great to have Christmas with them (it's been ten years), although they did visit two summers back. I won't be spending as much time on the computer, since the kids (12 & 14) are on it quite a bit, but I'll check in from time to time. Have to dig out the snowshoes, etc.....they are looking forward to winter sports as they don't get a lot of snow where they live!
John

 

[addy1]

Have a great time John with your family, that is fantastic they are able to come and visit from so far away. Enjoy them, the forum will be here when you have time for it.

 

[fishin4cars]

Enjoy the Visit John! Its great to visit with old friends and family during the holiday, when the ponds and computer isn't occupying all my free time. LOL
My buddy came down for the weekend and helped me put out Christmas lights. Pretty cool weekend and starting to ramp up the holiday moods around here for sure!

 

[HARO]

Had about an inch of snow left around here, but it's all been turned into snowballs by now! Waiting for more, but the weatherman is calling for warmer weather and rain, so the kids will be dissapointed for a while.
John

 

[JoaniePA]

Jealous of the snow, John. We have none yet. My 90 year old dad is flying in from Wisconsin on Sunday, so perhaps it's a good thing. Still, I'm one of those people who love the seasons, snow and all. And yes... I do have to drive in it.

 

[CountryEscape]

Holy cow, outside temp is 59 this morning at 7 a.m.!!! Steadily dropping temps today, though. Looked at 10 day, no snow in the forecast, going to have 40's and 30's through Christmas Eve. Oh well! Love this warm weather while we have it. Bad thing is that I got a ton of rain yesterday evening. Thunder, lightening, the whole bit. Sooo glad I have that overflow on my pond now so I don't have to worry about it going over the edge.

 

[HARO]

53F this morning! And it's been raining all night, but they are calling for wet snow tonight and tomorrow. This has to be the craziest year ever as far as weather is concerned. The pond has a low, rock-filled overflow, so it's all right. John

 

[j.w]

Bah Humbug..............back to normal here.............rain, no sun, no snow................just plain old Pacific N.W rain!
Was getting used to the dry, cold, frosty days w/ all that sunshine...............boo hoo

 

[addy1]

55 and dribbling here, going to be in the 50's all week then drop back down next week into the 40's again.

 

[CountryEscape]

It was 59 this morning, checked rain gauge and from 4 yesterday afternoon and through the night I got 3" of rain! Yikes!!! But, my overflow pipe is working perfect on the pond. Temps were down to 42 by 2 this afternoon, though. Not fun, cloudy yucky day. Tomorrow they are promising sunshine, and supposed to be high 40's for a few days, so I'll take it!

 

[addy1]

61 at 230am, now temps are falling, we are 44 at 7am

 

[j.w]

addy do you ever sleep or do you have it set so you can look it up on your weather thingy?

 

[addy1]

Laughing jw, I have a davis weather station with the weather link software. Weather data is uploaded to my pc every 30 minutes and out on the net. I just look up my station id on findu, it displays what has happened in the past 12 hours up to 10 days of history in chart format

The other internet site, the weather link web site gives me the highs and lows of the day, the time it happened, and current temp, rain flow, wind, etc.

Love to watch the weather.

On my pc I can bring up historical data, averages, like what temp was it on this day last year, just a click and know.

 

[j.w]

Ok that's good, glad you do get to sleep some and it is fun to watch the weather forecast. We all here are always talking about it,lol!

 

[addy1]

What I like about our weather station is it is what has happened here in our yard, not at the airport, or where they have their data collection stations.