2020.12.22 07:00 - Tis the season

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Riddle Sideways: Good Seasons Adams
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)

Riddle Sideways: the SL Menorah is gone, packed away
Riddle Sideways: the SL little tree with lights is up
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: snow is lightly falling
Riddle Sideways: with big soft flakes

Adams Rubble: the solstice and has come and gone
Riddle Sideways: pack up all the Solstice decorations
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: Tis the season for ugly sweaters too
Riddle Sideways: wait, more on the Solstice
Adams Rubble: that's what Alexa told me
Riddle Sideways: ha

Riddle Sideways: went out to see the conjunction
Adams Rubble waits for more
Riddle Sideways: last night
Adams Rubble waits
Riddle Sideways: so pretty at early evening
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: it was overcast here
Riddle Sideways: can't see to the south at this house
Riddle Sideways: nor meadow
Riddle Sideways: so drive to an open sky area
Riddle Sideways: the valley with the mountains surrounding
Riddle Sideways: darkening grey sky
Riddle Sideways: cresent moon
Riddle Sideways: and two blits of light
Riddle Sideways: close to each other
Riddle Sideways: no other stars out for some time
Riddle Sideways: binoculars were shaky ㋡
Riddle Sideways: not sure if some Jupiter moons were seen or it was a trick of the light
Riddle Sideways: fantastic
Adams Rubble: apparently the moons of Jupiter and Saturn were visible
Adams Rubble: thank you for the description of the appearance
Riddle Sideways: much clearer on YouTube

Riddle Sideways: and Thank You for the description of appearances and gratefulness in your blog(s)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: yw
Riddle Sideways: word painted pictures

Adams Rubble: we are going to have a weather extravaganza Thursday and Friday
Adams Rubble: heavy rain turning to snow with all the snow
Adams Rubble: with all the snow on the ground will be some flooding
Riddle Sideways: The Extravaganza

Adams Rubble: have you noticed that this time of year many people want our money?
Riddle Sideways: oh yes
Riddle Sideways: This year especially
Riddle Sideways: did the year end gifting yesterday
Riddle Sideways: whew
Riddle Sideways: so many great causes
Adams Rubble: yes
Riddle Sideways: took longer this year then any other
Riddle Sideways: felt so bad holding the postcard and envelope from a very good cause, but had to draw a line someplace
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: so little money or time to give and so many good places to put it
Adams Rubble: many museum are desperate
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: and the little struggling local library
Adams Rubble: we have a special library tax now
Riddle Sideways: we don't
Adams Rubble: that's an accounting trick to make it look like our municipal taxes are not being raised as much :)
Riddle Sideways: love it
Adams Rubble: those pols are clever
Adams Rubble: It's not ME who is raising your taxes
Riddle Sideways: honest, it is not me
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: it is Those Others

Adams Rubble: lately they have shifted much maintenance of the water system to our water bills
Riddle Sideways: oh yes, here too
Riddle Sideways: we still have the extra amount on our bills because we all saved water during the drought some years ago
Riddle Sideways: and every week or so, somebody on the nextdoor website asks if anybody else's water bill just jumped by a thousand
Adams Rubble: yikes
Adams Rubble: so many leaky toilets
Riddle Sideways: yes, standard water company response "you have a leak"
Riddle Sideways: so ya hire people to come fix it and they can't find any leak
Riddle Sideways: and your meter is running slow

Riddle Sideways: and please don't get started on our bankrupt power company that is passing the lawsuit payments on to the customers
Adams Rubble: :(

Adams Rubble: I started a nasty thread
Riddle Sideways: no! let's go back to appreciating that tree over yonder
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: the one with the star on top
Riddle Sideways: and the fun snow swirl
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: or maybe a fairy flying round and round dropping dust
Adams Rubble: we had too many fairies here last week (giggles)
Riddle Sideways: aw

Adams Rubble: I guess you saw that Binghmpton NY got almost 4' of snow
Riddle Sideways: oh dear, did not see that
Riddle Sideways: poor little town that does not diserve that
Riddle Sideways: this storm is missing my little hometown
Riddle Sideways: but, they have gotten 4' in one day before
Adams Rubble: I was wondering about further west in NY
Adams Rubble: nearer the lakes
Riddle Sideways: Tis the season to be covered in nice fressh blanket of snow
Adams Rubble: rough winters
Riddle Sideways: No such thing as Global Warming

       Enters a visitor that does not want to be recorded

Riddle Sideways: snow
Riddle Sideways: the beauty and the cold
Riddle Sideways: do you still not want your voice in the recording here?

Riddle Sideways: I did some asking, and we have no documented statement
Riddle Sideways: just the guidelines
Riddle Sideways: Adams blogged about the silence of snow and the appreciation
Riddle Sideways: the topic is almost about the Solstice too
Riddle Sideways: the length of night
Riddle Sideways: Adams is selfish and got most of our share of snow
   --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: eastern coast got big storm
Riddle Sideways: something so peaceful about big SL snow flakes

Riddle Sideways: Tis ugly sweater season

Riddle Sideways: thinking about the length of night darkness last night
Adams Rubble listens
Riddle Sideways: and the lights people have on their houses, yards, fences
Riddle Sideways: and extra trees and lights in the houses
Riddle Sideways: heard the price of trees this year has jumped way up
Riddle Sideways: but, many of those good organizations are raising money from tree sales
Adams Rubble: feasting on light

Riddle Sideways: sorry, too peaceful here for much chat
Riddle Sideways: need more soapbox getting up on topics :))
Riddle Sideways: no, not really
Adams Rubble: I have been so stressed it is hard to get myself poeaceful
Adams Rubble: I look at the newspapers and the anxiety takes of
Riddle Sideways: the most appreciation comes during quiet grateful silence
Riddle Sideways: found a good use for the newspapers yesterday.
Riddle Sideways: turned them upside down so they could not be read
Riddle Sideways: spread them out
Riddle Sideways: and cleaned the wax off menorahs
Adams Rubble: :)
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: the online newspapers are not good for that
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, no
Riddle Sideways: would be a complete waste to print them out for wax collection
Adams Rubble: would be hard to use the keyboard

Riddle Sideways: Tis the season for many little artsy crafty activities
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: yes

Riddle Sideways: and decorating and cleaning up from decorating ㋡
Adams Rubble: there is much to be grateful for
Riddle Sideways: grateful for so many things
Riddle Sideways: and the extra items brought home from the grocery to over indulge in/on

Adams Rubble has been thinking of how all the people in the past went about the dark days
Adams Rubble: some snowed in
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: families close together; they had find ways to keep each other in good spirits
Adams Rubble: singing
Riddle Sideways: throwing snowballs
Adams Rubble: had to suppliy their own youtube and Alexas
Riddle Sideways: throwing pieces of jigsaw puzzles at each other
Riddle Sideways: there was one year the snow was so high and then froze that we could not get grandma the two blocks to our house for three days
Adams Rubble: funny image
Adams Rubble: not the grandma but the jigsaw
Riddle Sideways: hahahaha
Adams Rubble: /me thinking of lonely grandma
Riddle Sideways: that grandma was not good at missing a party, gathering or just getting out
Riddle Sideways: that town really did have horse drawn sleighs
Adams Rubble: we road in a horse drawn sleigh on the farm
Riddle Sideways: horses with bells
Adams Rubble: once it broke far away from the farmhouse with a load of cousins
Adams Rubble: everyone had to walk back across the fields in deep snow
Riddle Sideways: fond to look back on Now
Adams Rubble: was not fond of the walk then
Riddle Sideways: hindsight
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: makes it all better
   --BELL--
Adams Rubble: I think I was very young
Adams Rubble: not so ready to go for another sleigh ride after that :)
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: ready to leave dashing through the snow to others

Riddle Sideways: We had a long 10-person bobsled and long country frozen/snowy roads
Riddle Sideways: dad would drive pulling the bobsled and kids up the hill road
Riddle Sideways: then we would sled down
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: once the other father pushed us fast to get going and jumped on
Riddle Sideways: but fell off and grabbed me as was falling
Riddle Sideways: burned into a young memory is watching the bobsled go away while sitting on ass in the road
Adams Rubble: :(
Riddle Sideways: and the loving sister that re-re-retells that story over and over
Adams Rubble: winter fun not for the feint hearted :)
Riddle Sideways: right. the things that could have gone wrong back then
Riddle Sideways: winter has many dangerous things about it
Adams Rubble: yes

Adams Rubble: people used to give their age by how many winters they survived
Riddle Sideways: how many times the sun had reached that lowest point
Adams Rubble: soon each day will be brighter

Adams Rubble: thank you especially for the wintertime stories
Riddle Sideways: soon we will have a brighter future
Riddle Sideways: now want hot cocoa and hear more stories
Adams Rubble: well the orange apparition will be gone from the white house

    The editor dint read da next lyne firt and corrected mosst of the tipos
Riddle Sideways: maybe will leave the typos in this session ㋡
Riddle Sideways: many are so funny

Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very good day or two or more :)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: yes! let's All go have some good days
Riddle Sideways: by All
Riddle Sideways: and Thanks