Posted by Ken in SF (other posts) on January 30, 2014 at 07:31:43 Previous Next
In Reply to: Cold! [PIC] posted by TommyD on January 27, 2014 at 16:50:29:
: Greetings from the Midwest where it's -20 F, -29 C today and -40 F, -40 C! Someone told me I looked like a snowboarder with my hair today so I thought I'd share.
OMG, I'm originally from the Midwest (born & raised in a suburb north of Chicago, IL, not far from the Wisconsin border). I don't miss those Midwest winters one bit!!!!!!!
Bill's reply to you with the plum blossoms pic was downright CRUEL -- funny as hell; but still, very very VERY CRUEL.
Since I live in the same balmy frost-free city as Bill lives, I could easily be just as cruel... but no, I'll behave myself. I won't go on & on about all of the different flowers in the city that are just starting to bloom now, name the various different tropical and subtropical plants that are bright green and sadly never get to see even a light dusting of snow on them... No, I won't do any of that. You might even feel some sort of pity for me when I tell you it's raining outside right now as I type this, and that I might even have to close my open window right now -- not because it's cold at all in this early morning hour, but because I'm worried that I might get my hair wet....
No, I won't go on & on about how much we "suffer" here in snowless, frost-free San Francisco. I'll even spare you having to look at all of my endless winter-blooming flower pics that I have taken over the years, annually torturing friends and family who still live back in the Midwest by e-mailing and "sharing" these pics every January & February... (OMG, can you feel my "pain?" - LOL!)
- Ken in San Francisco