Ok...goodbye winter!

Started by BjornBee, December 21, 2010, 03:29:30 PM

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BjornBee

With the passing of the winter solstice yesterday, I welcome the lengthening days once again. May the days become bright, the global warming be great, and my hive get a break from this three week period of freezing temps. They need a break!  8-)

All kidding aside.....this extended cold period has to end at some point.  ;)
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T Beek

I think there's three more days before the days start getting longer, today being the shortest. 

On a high note we hit 26F today, cloudy (that's why we missed the lunar eclipse last night), but the warmest day we've had in 2 weeks or more, seems like it anyway<<<<C'mon Spring, but not to fast.

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VolunteerK9

Quote from: BjornBee on December 21, 2010, 03:29:30 PM
With the passing of the winter solstice yesterday, I welcome the lengthening days once again. May the days become bright, the global warming be great, and my hive get a break from this three week period of freezing temps. They need a break!  8-)

All kidding aside.....this extended cold period has to end at some point.  ;)

Hey...we agree lol.

Winter is not my fun time. Go to work when its dark and get home when its getting dark. Too depressing.

hardwood

So are we taking bets on what Phil the groundhog will say on Feb 2 this year?

Scott
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VolunteerK9

Quote from: hardwood on December 21, 2010, 04:47:14 PM
So are we taking bets on what Phil the groundhog will say on Feb 2 this year?

Scott

Yup, I bet I know what will be for dinner if he predicts a prolonged winter  :-D

Irwin

Scott do you have winter by the looks of it you don't :-D

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Today 55 and over cast and thunder and rain. At my place.
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FRAMEshift

Quote from: BjornBee on December 21, 2010, 03:29:30 PM
With the passing of the winter solstice yesterday, I welcome the lengthening days once again.
I appreciate your sentiment, but the sad fact is that the solstice marks the beginning of winter, not the end.  Winter officially ends March 21st and that seems like a long time from now.   :roll:  On the more positive side, we should get up to 52 degrees tomorrow so I will be out staining hives in the sunshine.  This will be our one moment above 50 over what looks to be at least a 3 week period.
"You never can tell with bees."  --  Winnie-the-Pooh

AllenF

It is winter until I get to wear shorts out to work again.

FRAMEshift

Quote from: AllenF on December 21, 2010, 07:14:10 PM
It is winter until I get to wear shorts out to work again.
We had no idea you wielded such power!  Get those shorts on and get outside!  What are you waiting for?  Whoa, I'd better get the lawn mower tuned up.
"You never can tell with bees."  --  Winnie-the-Pooh

AllenF

 :-D

When it starts to warm up a little...............(and the crappie move into the shallows).

Yuleluder

Aww come on Bjorn, winter is just getting started we will have a few winter storms to deal with before everything is said and done.  Get those shovels and snow blowers ready.

Kathyp

looking forward to the lengthening  of days.  i can take the rain, snow, ice, wind...but i need some light! 
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JP

Heck, our winters don't really get going good until mid January early February!  :-D


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FRAMEshift

Quote from: AllenF on December 21, 2010, 07:24:48 PM
:-D
(and the crappie move into the shallows).
Like a Robert Frost poem, Georgia style.  I like it.  :-D
"You never can tell with bees."  --  Winnie-the-Pooh

hardwood

Same here Jp, but this winter (ok, not official winter so fall) has been a rough one already. Normally the bees can find at least a little bit to forage until late Jan but we've had 3 "killer" freezes already and everything is brown...even the spanish needle.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

BjornBee

Quote from: Yuleluder on December 21, 2010, 08:37:00 PM
Aww come on Bjorn, winter is just getting started we will have a few winter storms to deal with before everything is said and done.  Get those shovels and snow blowers ready.

Where you writing this from? Seattle? San Fran?

Yeah right, like your braving the cold........ :-D
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annette

Oops, he is from PA, like you :-D

BjornBee

Quote from: annette on December 21, 2010, 10:16:40 PM
Oops, he is from PA, like you :-D

If he's actually IN Pennsylvania, I'm a Monkey's uncle.  :-D
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Yuleluder

Quote from: BjornBee on December 21, 2010, 10:06:38 PM

Where you writing this from? Seattle? San Fran?

Yeah right, like your braving the cold........ :-D

Nah, I'm at home until after the first of the year.   :-D