Comments on: Sunny breaks

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:56:41 +0000

Oh, I used to live 2 blocks from Lake Michigan in Chicago suburbs. We had lake effect, where it was oh about 10 or more degrees cooler at home then when we went into our downtowm suburb (Winnetka).
Then it would be a little warmer in the winter due to the lake, was nice in that regard.
Or yes, we would have “lake effect” snow, as a kid pretty fun…

By: Kaz

Kaz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:55:48 +0000

How funny! I was only writing about monsoons on my allotment blog this week. I’m not sure if you have allotments in America - in England they’re small parcels of land (a full plot is 90 feet long and about 30 feet wide although you can also get half plots), usually owned by the local council, which people can rent out on an annual basis on which to grow vegetables and soft fruit. Growing your own food has become a massive trend here over the last year or so with waiting lists for plots now occasionally lasting years! I got a half plot in February this year and have been running a blog on it - fromweedstoseeds.blogspot.com - and this week’s entry has been about the weather (which has been awful here lately), so great minds think alike, eh?!

By: noreen

noreen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:57:32 +0000

Your pansies are beautiful, and they do like that Alaska weather.

By: GrannyJ

GrannyJ — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:15:53 +0000

In Jax Fla in my youth, we had small craft warnings, which usually extended from a mysterious place called Punta Gorda on up the Atlantic Coast to Cape Hatteras, another mysterious place as far as I was concerned at the time. In Chicago, I recall that late May was dress-up time for the Natl. Restaurant Show; one never knew whether to buy wool or a cool flimsy. As for the dust storm you described, we had those in Phx when I was a kid; Mom always ran around the house closing windows to keep the dust out & it got twice as hot as hot…