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Haha, and I thought I was weird going outside without a jacket in the 50's! Shows how we get used to the temps. My sister in AZ would not be caught outside in the70's without a light jacket. :) Go Green Bay!

Patti for the most of this winter I have been wearing a spring coat and a light hat. I think I only broke out my Columbia when it hit zero, and I didn't even used to do that, I used to just wear sweat shirts all winter and not a coat, since I would really only need the coat for going in and out of places, figuring the car heated up quick enough and I hated carrying the coat around the store. Gotten wimpier since then so started wearing a coat again, plus my daughter would question why she had to wear one if dad wasn't. :)

We were in florida in 2010 in the fall and the weather was only going to be a high of 55 and they were talking about how cold it was going to be. It is all relative to what you are used to.

Couldn't agree more Tmann, it all depends on what you get used to being in. My older brother is in the service and since he has been sent to the middle east and dealt with their temps he has said the cold here gets to him more than it used to.

like they say some people have thin skin and feel the cold more .So guess if you are used to higher temps anything below 70 gives you the shivers and we go to places like that and it is 70 and we are sweating .REMEMBER AGE DOES THAT TO YOU ALSO .

Sissy anything over 80 and humid is borderline miserable for me. I don't mind 80 in summer, but higher than that is unbearable.


Well the snow melted great on tuesday and got a lot of cool pictures so I will be making 2 posts for them. The weather has been warmer than normal, but was still a little chilly wed and today because it was cloudy, but still better to be in the 30's than the teens.

Here is what the pond looked like Tuesday afternoon:

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Here is the bubbler keeping the hole open in the ice. I think the ice is still a few inches thick, I haven't ever tested it for fear I would give my daughter the idea. Maybe next year when she's a little older.

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Then I saw the sun poking through the clouds and reflecting in the water:
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Here are some close ups of the cattails I added in fall:

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Got some really cool ones to post next, but about to have dinner with my mother and father-In-law, so I will post them later.
 

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amazing how fast it can just melt away to nothing and groundhog says 6 more weeks of winter .
 
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Haha, that goofy groundhog they said is right about 36% of the time. Who ever came up with a groundhog being the one to decide if there would be 6 more week of winter or not? It's a fun story, I guess. If I got the day off of work, I would really like ole Phil!
 

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Makes me think of Bill Murray in the movie "GROUND HOGS DAY"....I can think of a few days i wouldn't mind reliving a few times!!!
 
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I'm not interested in going back to my teen or early twenties, but there are sure times I would like to live over, and I think I would do things much differently in my younger years now that I am ... "mature". :)
 

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Me too CE. Some days I would love to relive. Some that leaves a special memory in your heart. On the other hand there are some that living through once was enough!
 

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amazing how fast it can just melt away to nothing and groundhog says 6 more weeks of winter .
Haha, that goofy groundhog they said is right about 36% of the time. Who ever came up with a groundhog being the one to decide if there would be 6 more week of winter or not? It's a fun story, I guess. If I got the day off of work, I would really like ole Phil!

Well according to the Farmer's Almanac we are supposed to have a late nasty winter I believe, so here's to hoping that they and the groundhog are both wrong!

I'm not interested in going back to my teen or early twenties, but there are sure times I would like to live over, and I think I would do things much differently in my younger years now that I am ... "mature". :)

I think there are things already that I know I would do differently given what I know now, but then would that take all the fun out of life? Who knows, and also, how much would those changes we would make change our lives today?

Me too CE. Some days I would love to relive. Some that leaves a special memory in your heart. On the other hand there are some that living through once was enough!

I think you said it perfect Pondlover, some to go back and enjoy and others to learn from and let be!

Back to ponding, here are the pictures I took later on Tuesday as the sun was starting to set, there are a lot so I will be doing 2 posts to cover them all. I looked outside and noticed the sunset reflecting off the clouds and wondered if I could catch the reflection in the pond like I had for the earlier cloud pictures. At times I had to lay on the deck to get the angle right, but it was worth it, they turned out pretty awesome.

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Those are great! just beautiful. I get more sunrises on my pond.
Fantastic job
 

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