Arrgh! A couple of weeks ago we had 26C and then a couple of days ago a snowstorm! Spring indeed!

TEA2 ~ let us know where you live in Canada. We had lovely today but cool temps in the high 50's; supposed to be even cooler tomorrow and I hope no surprises ...


Hope all our friends here have a wonderful weekend; take good care ... Rosebud

Hello all!
I'm from BC (Vancouver island to be more specific).
I'm following a low carb diet and the weather is great here right now.
Feels like summer (but the night are still pretty chilly)

Hey Tamara!
I'm in Calgary doing Herbal Magic, too.
I don't think I can PM yet, as I am still a brand-spankin'-new member, but
we should start chatting!
It would be really great to have a herbal magic buddy in the same city!
Woooooo, Calgarians are awesome!
Ps. I used to live up in Rocky Mountain House - beautiful up there!
Has some fantastic quadding and hiding gigs going.

Heaven help me!!! It's my step daughters birthday and she decided she wanted CHEESE CAKE for desert after RIBS for a birthday dinner. Some here may remember how I feel about cheese cake, my husband brought it home on our anniversary. I'd be safer eating out tonight I think but unfortunately we've got family coming over so I can't. She'd be pretty ticked at me if I skipped her birthday dinner too. Send me good thoughts and strength tonight people... I'm going to need all the help I can get.

AUNTY ~ well, the ribs aren't so bad; with some salad and/or veggies and maybe a small tator, that is a pretty good dinner. Now as for the cheesecake, just have a small slice ... I said SMALL ... come on, you can do it ...

HHAFFNER ~ I think we have another lady from out that way too; we've heard that you have nice weather on the island ...


We have had lovely for the last 2 days, but in the 50's F, so it is springish kind of weather. My mini-daffodils and crocuses are blooming and now, my tulips are trying to blossom, but since they are on the west side of the house, they are a bit later than those folks who have them on the east and south sides. I am amazed they are doing so well since we had some more ***** last weekend and below freezing temps. Thank goodness, it all blew through and melted very quickly too ...

Time for tea -- Hope you all have a great week; take good care ... Rosebud

Good to hear the weather has been kinder to you, JW2BH!
Alberta sucks - Suuuuurrrrrrprise! hahaha.
Today wasn't so bad - cross your fingers it'll stick around!

Mmmmm... dinner was so good! Hubby put lots of sauce on the ribs (BAD!) but I had a big helping of salad (GOOD!), some corn on the cob and a little scoop of mashed taters. I did have a small slice of the chocolate brownie cheese cake, so good.

I did something totally brain dead yesterday... I drove straight home from work and forgot to pick my Mom up. Realised as I parked in front of the house and thought "Jay better move his truck so I can park in the back when I bring Mom............... AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!" So I drove from the south side to the west end, then had to go downtown and then back to the west end... all during rush hour

Way to go me...

Good day ladies!

Angry Mittens: We should definately start chatting. Do you have Facebook? You can search me and add me on there "Tamara Ferri Jansen" and we can chat and share ideas...maybe even go for some walks or something? Let me know!

Hope everyone is feeling good and is looking forward to our upcoming long weekend. We're picking up our Turtle (camper) this week and getting ready for our maiden voyage of 2010. I can't wait to get out of the city and just relax. This year's trips will involve a little more food planning but I'm sure will be great anyhow.

Have a great Wednesday...only 48 hours until Friday!

Tamara

MITTENS ~ my DH lived in Calgary for about 10 yrs, so I've heard all about the odd weather you get there. His favorite story is the one about giant balls of ice falling on his truck and making dints; and hitting people on the head and so forth ... and of course, neither of us can remember what they are called at this moment ... are we getting old or what???

We don't get them here very often; but, I know that one of you will remember and tell us ...

reading about the weather makes me wonder why I still live in Winnipeg LOL.
Still wearing my wool coat in the morning . . . . boo to that!

TamaraJ- That sounds fantastic! I just added you It would be awesome to have a work-out / HM buddy in the city! Even cooler because we're around the same weight / and goals. Although I need to catch up to you by a few lbs. Congrats on making it to Onederland!
What part of the city are you in?

Rosebud - Hail, maybe?

Yay! I've finally been able to post in the mini-goals forum.

I'm happy... how is everyone else doing? Going to go for an extra walk at lunch today, it's been so nice out and I'm stuck in a crummy office all day!

Hehehehe!
You mean hail?
We got a really nasty hail storm last year, and thankfully I was working out
of town at the time but most of my co-workers / friends had to submit insurance claims to get dint's knocked out of their vehicles from it.

There's a reason Calgary's motto is "Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes!"

Although there was a beer commercial on a while back that said Alberta has 2 seasons - Winter and July. Oh how true!!!

Yesterday it was +18, and this past Sunday my hang gliding was almost cancelled because it started snowing.

Only in Calgary :P

THANKS, AUNTY ~ yes, it is HAIL ... Would you believe that I was reading my bible this AM and they were talking about HAIL and I started laughing becuz we were racking our brains trying to recall the name and couldn't, but it is mentioned in there! Needless to say, we rarely get that here; usually only pellet size snow, but I do remember getting HAIL once in the last 10 years or so and some of the pieces were pretty big.


MITTENS ~ yes, it was HAIL -- and DH says they were at least the size of golf balls and many, many people besides him had dints in their vehicles; and the insurance claims were in the millions. After hearing stories about the odd (and very cold) weather there, I told DH that I wouldn't be going there, thanks ...


Speaking of weather, we did have all day today, but they are calling for for the weekend. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend with nicer weather too. Gotta go get dinner on ... Rosebud