Let The Countdown Begin!

[Rani Zemirah]

I am overhauling the house to A) be ready to handle evacuees if necessary, and B) the master bedroom to handle a toddler AND a newborn. Og make big furniture move with head!

...no, seriously, I moved the 600lb dresser by getting down on all fours and bulldozing it with my head. Worked, and amused Fíonna to no end

Uhhh... you know they have those furniture moving disks that can help you move a large fridge with one hand, right?    Og make head 'splode soon, go sleep now... 

You guys are pretty awesome for offering to take in folks who have been/may be displaced by the fire.  I know it will be hard on all of you if it comes to it, but whoever stays with you will never forget your kindness... 



And, in other news... I just got the ok on the budget for this new project, so I'm officially the designer on board!!!   

Also... depending on how many hours I actually log on this job, it could almost be enough to get us moved to Colorado... instead of just using part of it to go to RenDezvous.  If I don't log enough hours on it, then I might go ahead and hit RenDezvous, and save some for AHE, as well...

[ravic]

Or extra weeekends here at TRF! Just saying. 

[Rani Zemirah]

Or extra weeekends here at TRF! Just saying. 

Oh, now wouldn't that be nice!  It was wonderful being there for Celtic Christmas last year... and I would love to be able to do that again.  That's a little ambitious, however, with the way prices have gone up this year... Everything cost's more, so we have a lot less expendable income than even last year. 

And I hate to even say it, but if we do get to move this year... I'm not even sure what will happen to our AHE trip.  Instead of a 9-10 hour drive it will be an 18-20 hour drive, both ways, plus taking Scally out of school for 2 extra days, on top of the two I already keep her out for the regular trip.  Not to mention double the gas...


Can't all of you just move to Colorado with us?!?  Please? 

[ravic]

Might depend on where in Colorado. Got kin near Gunnison.

[Rani Zemirah]

I'm looking for something a bit north of Boulder, around the Lyons area.  Gunnison is gorgeous, also... but I really like the front range.  It's also easier and a lot closer to get to CoRF from there, as well.   

[maeven]

Dear Rani,
Move to Texas. That is all.

Your pal,
Maeven


(Ugh... Just one more day of professional development training and I will be able to take it easy for a few days....)

[ravic]

I'm looking for something a bit north of Boulder, around the Lyons area.  Gunnison is gorgeous, also... but I really like the front range.  It's also easier and a lot closer to get to CoRF from there, as well.   

Just like you have health issues with the heat, I have health issues with the cold.

[Rani Zemirah]

Dear Maeven,
I would die.  It's too hot.  
Move to Colorado.
You would like it there.

Really...
Rani


(Ahhh, the joys of the public school system.  You know... they have schools in CO, also.  Jus' sayin'...)  

I'm looking for something a bit north of Boulder, around the Lyons area.  Gunnison is gorgeous, also... but I really like the front range.  It's also easier and a lot closer to get to CoRF from there, as well.    

Just like you have health issues with the heat, I have health issues with the cold.

But, Ravic... they have an average of 340 sunny days in the Boulder Valley (as much yearly sunshine as San Diego), and even though it snows periodically there, the weather patterns make sure that it's almost always gone within 3 days to a week, tops.  And because the humidity is so much lower there, the cold is somehow... softer, and less bone chilling than it is even here in Oklahoma.  Winter daytime temps are often in the 50's, and even the 60's sometimes, and I've known quite a few people who go all year wearing their Birks and short cargo's... except when it's wet out.  But they don't get the ice like here, either, and I've only seen the buses stop running once in the entire 9 years I lived there... and that was only for half a day.  The roads just don't get shut down there for anything less than a blizzard, and those don't usually hit in the Valley very often.  Mother Nature saves that all up for those poor crazy people living in Denver... and the Springs.    

[Rapier Half-Wit]

[RANT]
Yeah, not meaning to RANT or anything, but the weather in Denver sucked during winter. cold, wet, snowy. And by the 3rd day the snow that was near ANY street turned to this nasty brown slush.
One winter it got so cold that for 3 days straight it didn't get above -10 during the day and at night it dropped to -60. My car was dead, frozen solid for a week. I had to walk to school and I missed work entirely. The snow was so deep that you couldn't tell that there were cars UNDER the snow.
[/RANT]

I'd go back and do it again in a heart beat.

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I can remember a Christmas, in Pittsburgh, that had a wind chill of -45.  It was interesting to spit and watch it bounce away.   




W.T.F. has officially become an enigma. 

[KeeperoftheBar]

Can't all of you just move to Colorado with us?!?  Please? 

Nope.  Sorry, but I lived in Montana for 28 years.  I've had enough of ice and snow, not to mention -40 temps.  I have lived in Texas for 25 years now and love it, even the heat and drought.  I don't think anyone could pay me enough to suffer through a Northern winter again.

You will just have to move down here...

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

I love enigmas... especially ones wrapped in mysteries. 


*look of disgust*

[Breandan]

Just think of it as work challenging your vast intellectual capacity, and be flattered.

because the truth will make you homicidal, and chipper-shredders are handy temptations

[haleyileaha]

Finally a day off! AND i get to be off all weekend which NEVER happens lol

I'll be in Houston this weekend kind of a mini vacation, going to warped tour Saturday with a friend of mine.

Ahhh this weekend won't get here soon enough lol

[haleyileaha]

Plus there's been a tiny bit of rain today which is fantastichttp://[b][/b] because this ridiculous wildfire up here they are calling"the bearing fire" has consumed over 18,000 acres and as of last update was about 16 miles from my house and closing and they've only got it 40% contained.

So definity hoping this rain continues.