The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender.Attending were Paradise, stevenaia, and Santoshima.

Paradise Tennant: hiya luci
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Paradise!
Lucinda Lavender: Nice to see you!
Paradise Tennant: how are you
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev :))
Lucinda Lavender: Hi to stevenaia also!
stevenaia Michinaga: Hiya
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
stevenaia Michinaga: how was everyone's week
Lucinda Lavender: How does today seem?
Lucinda Lavender: mine was busy...
Lucinda Lavender: but good
stevenaia Michinaga: busy and cold, more snow tomorrow
Paradise Tennant: yes a blizzard here too
stevenaia Michinaga: hi san
Lucinda Lavender: cold..yes..you boh have the snow and cold
Paradise Tennant: hiya san
Lucinda Lavender: HI San!
Santoshima Resident: hi Stevenaia, Luci, Paradise :)
Lucinda Lavender: both
Santoshima Resident: { waiting for a cushion to materialize }
Lucinda Lavender: I don't see san...but assume she is here
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Santoshima Resident: what's new?
Paradise Tennant: I am going to a robbie burns dinner tomorrow night :)
Lucinda Lavender: hey great! we are going to have one here!
stevenaia Michinaga: robbie burn?
Lucinda Lavender: you must tell me about it
Santoshima Resident: s
Lucinda Lavender: Robert Burns the scottish poet
stevenaia Michinaga: he has a dinner?
stevenaia Michinaga: poetic food?
Santoshima Resident: dead
Paradise Tennant: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/23/burns-night-supper_n_4653790.html
Lucinda Lavender: we will make a cockaleekie soup and husband is going to make haggis!
Santoshima Resident: wow!
Paradise Tennant: yep haggis tatties and neeps :)
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: luci clicks the link
Paradise Tennant: cock a leekie soup :)
Paradise Tennant: Cranachan
Paradise Tennant: smiles we will be eating the same dinner luci !
Lucinda Lavender: sorry bell...but what is cranachan? for after the next bell
Lucinda Lavender: yes we will!!!
Lucinda Lavender: amazing
Lucinda Lavender: tatties neeps too
Paradise Tennant: This traditional Scottish dish is a delicious mix of toasted oats, fresh fruit and whiskey whipped cream. Get the full recipe from Jamie Oliver here.
Paradise Tennant: brought a good bottle of abelour to take :))
Lucinda Lavender: will there be whiskey?...I do not know anything about whiskey
Santoshima Resident: needing to go make dinner .. just dipping in to say hello ... enjoy the parties tomorrow, and the bright airs tonight
Paradise Tennant: but llikely such grim driving I suspect I will drink tea
Paradise Tennant: nice to see you san :))
Paradise Tennant: enjoy dinner
Lucinda Lavender: ok...good idea...is that abelour a whiskey?
Paradise Tennant: yes a scotch that I like it is citrusy
Paradise Tennant: with a bit of still water very nice sipping
Lucinda Lavender: ok...may look that...up
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: bye to san...come back if you can
Paradise Tennant: http://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/P-8844.aspx
Paradise Tennant: I had a dream luci
Paradise Tennant: I wrote it down
Lucinda Lavender: thanks will check these out...
Lucinda Lavender: please do share the dream
Lucinda Lavender: good job!
Lucinda Lavender: when was your dream?
Paradise Tennant: hmm I dreamt I was me .. not someone else this time
Paradise Tennant: I was organizing my sailing gear ...
Paradise Tennant: use to sail quite a lot - lately not so muhc
Paradise Tennant: I was going sailing and I was worried because I was going dinghy sailing
stevenaia Michinaga: (back, computer froze)
Lucinda Lavender: nods...good job Steve
Paradise Tennant: I have not handled a dinghy in a good long while .. mostly moved on to bigger boats
Paradise Tennant: and I was going to be racing with a bunch of people I knew but not well sort of friends of friends
Paradise Tennant: and all this was going to happen on pitch black night
Paradise Tennant: no moon
Paradise Tennant: no starts
Paradise Tennant: just darkness
Lucinda Lavender: what do you mean about "starts"?
Paradise Tennant: was stuffing things into a kit bag - thinking really hard on how I could actually do that .. and knowing for some strange reason I really had to do that
Paradise Tennant: no stars
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Paradise Tennant: no light just blackness
Paradise Tennant: so off I went - people were milling around but all you could hear were sounds
Paradise Tennant: boats being hauled around
Paradise Tennant: sails going up
Paradise Tennant: shouts to and fro
stevenaia Michinaga: were you going somewhere?
Paradise Tennant: I found my boat
Paradise Tennant: it was a kind of a race
Paradise Tennant: but an impossible one really
Paradise Tennant: no visible start line
Paradise Tennant: no visible finish line
Paradise Tennant: so I pulled out the sails and put them up by touch fumbling around a lot
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: not hoisting though just getting ready to launch
Paradise Tennant: still kind of scared silly
Paradise Tennant: and I pulled the boat towards the sounds of the water ..
Lucinda Lavender: nodding...was this a recent dream?
Paradise Tennant: launched it hopped on board put the sails up and off it went
--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: and i was sailing solely by feel of the wind and the reactions fo the boat .. and sound
stevenaia Michinaga: like you wee a blind sailor
Paradise Tennant: and the fear just dissolved everyone was shouting .. like they were having fun .. still total chaos mind you because people were crashing and capsizing .. but fun
Paradise Tennant: yes like i was a blind sailor in a fleet of blind sailors :))
Paradise Tennant: http://blindsailing.ca/
Lucinda Lavender: There are some very big waves in California I saw on the news this eve.
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, very close to the pizza ahope my son manages
stevenaia Michinaga: *shop
Lucinda Lavender: ah!...quite remarkable
stevenaia Michinaga: whih was used in the recent movie "shasing Mavericks (the neame of the waves)
Paradise Tennant: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-high-surf-california-coastline-20140124,0,3038802.story#axzz2rNToJpee
Lucinda Lavender: lovely to have fear dissolve in a dream when there is a playful mood
Paradise Tennant: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: I was streaming it earlier, http://mavericksinvitational.com
Paradise Tennant: hmm sorry fed the pup a big bowl of turkey broth and now he really needs to go be right back
stevenaia Michinaga: especially when it began scary
stevenaia Michinaga: ok
Lucinda Lavender: clicking again
Lucinda Lavender: very interesting
stevenaia Michinaga: which?
Lucinda Lavender: the sailor who can do so idarkness...
Lucinda Lavender: in darkness...and the the waves of RL
Lucinda Lavender: high intensity for both of those things
Lucinda Lavender: for being in either experience
Lucinda Lavender: my son has a non functional furnace
Lucinda Lavender: also intense
stevenaia Michinaga: is it old three?
stevenaia Michinaga: cold
Lucinda Lavender: 1 degree lastnight
stevenaia Michinaga: yikes
Lucinda Lavender: the furnace man was suppose to come today
stevenaia Michinaga: I'm sure he;s busy
Lucinda Lavender: they got some small heaters to use temporarily
--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: keep the pipes from freezing
Lucinda Lavender: i hope
stevenaia Michinaga: we lift some cases of soda in the car, some can froze and exploded
Lucinda Lavender: ! :)
Lucinda Lavender: heat and cold do some interesting things
stevenaia Michinaga: frozen carbinated foam
Lucinda Lavender: our ginger ale did the same
Lucinda Lavender: what is your tempurature?
Lucinda Lavender: temperature
Paradise Tennant: smiles puts a whole new twist on popsicle :)
stevenaia Michinaga: 16, it'll be down to -1 on tuesday
Lucinda Lavender: yikes!
Lucinda Lavender: i cannot imagine
stevenaia Michinaga: I was in Montreal once when it was -30, an interesting vacation
Paradise Tennant: we have been hovering between minus 22 and minus 35 with wind chill
Lucinda Lavender: i wonder if people can go outside?
Paradise Tennant: minus 7 right now but we are having high winds gusts up to 80 klm
stevenaia Michinaga: yikes, how do you walk blue, neighbors have dog booties on their pups
Paradise Tennant: yes
Lucinda Lavender: Luci thinks of the coy wolves she saw the other night on tv that live in and around toronto
Paradise Tennant: but blue is still nursing a sore ankle so cannot use them
Paradise Tennant: we don't stay out long
Paradise Tennant: been a very cold week
Lucinda Lavender: i bet it really makes you appreciate spring
Lucinda Lavender: so was there more to the dream?
Paradise Tennant: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/canada/ontario/toronto
Paradise Tennant: just made me wonder
Paradise Tennant: funny kind of dream
Paradise Tennant: I was thinking it was kind of a metaphor for life
Lucinda Lavender: can you say more?
Paradise Tennant: well our lives are constrained by our senses
Paradise Tennant: and they really in the final analysis capture a tiny fraction of the data that comprises reality
Paradise Tennant: particularly vision
Paradise Tennant: if you let go of that ..
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and people can still do so much even w/o vision
Paradise Tennant: there are other ways
Lucinda Lavender: closing ones eyes
Lucinda Lavender: listening,
Lucinda Lavender: imagining
stevenaia Michinaga: we had a High School girl speak at a meeting, she was top of her high school class
stevenaia Michinaga: she was blind
Paradise Tennant: yes and that kind of orientation in space .. thingy we have
Paradise Tennant: sensing where your body is relative to the surrounding
stevenaia Michinaga: did much with her dog and an iPad for assignments
Lucinda Lavender: priopreception
Lucinda Lavender: ipad?
Paradise Tennant: was she born blind
stevenaia Michinaga: I belive so
stevenaia Michinaga: her ipad can read assignments to her
Paradise Tennant: nice
Paradise Tennant: lol
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Paradise Tennant: i would leave it playing all night on the hope some of it would sink in :))
Lucinda Lavender: ;)
Paradise Tennant: I have a friend who use to sleep with her homework under her pillow :)
stevenaia Michinaga: did it work?
Paradise Tennant: well not sure there was ever a conclusive .. finding on that
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Paradise Tennant: but you know what we believe so shapes us and the world we create around us I would vote yes as long as she really believed
--BELL--

I was frozen and had to log back on...

stevenaia Michinaga: bedtime my friends, sweet dreams
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles nite nite stev :))
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quo...1.Robert_Burns
Lucinda Lavender: The first time I will have celebrated Robbie Burns day
Lucinda Lavender: this will be helpful!
Paradise Tennant: yes ! there is even a grace :))
Paradise Tennant: Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.” ― Robert Burns
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Lucinda Lavender: reading...
Lucinda Lavender: Flow gently sweet Afton...
Lucinda Lavender: brings to mind row row row your boat
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: his poetry .. morphed and influenced
Lucinda Lavender: “Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stock dove whose echo resounds thro' the glen, Ye wild whistly blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair. How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, Far mark'd with the courses of clear winding rills; There daily I wander as noon rises high, My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where, wild in the woodlands, the primroses blow; There oft, as mild evening weeps over the lea, The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, As, gathering sweet flowerets, she stems thy clear wave. Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes, Flow gently....

Lucinda Lavender: oops
Lucinda Lavender: alls well
Lucinda Lavender: today my mother in law was feeling better and said...well why aren't you out playing in the green grass?
Lucinda Lavender: good question
Paradise Tennant: hmm that is a good question
Lucinda Lavender: struck me...she could imagine the fun of it
Paradise Tennant: yes
Lucinda Lavender: and she smiled
Lucinda Lavender: shall we go soon?
Paradise Tennant: yes I am getting sleepy I am afraid
Paradise Tennant: I hope you have a lovely evening and a very happy robbie burns day to you hon !
Lucinda Lavender: i thanks so much and the same for you!