-=> Quoting Paul Hayton to Nancy Backus on 12-27-14  11:51 <=-

 NB>> And to you and yours as well...  :)  We would normally have a white and
 NB>> colder Christmas, but no snow this year, and temps in the 50s F... rain
 NB>> and/or snow had been forecast, but the closest we came was some
 NB>> iron-grey clouds that the sun managed to shine through for most of the

 PH> Gee Nancy if that keeps up you'll be having BBQ's outdoors like me ;-)

Practically...  I'd not be surprised if there had been some actually
doing their cooking outdoors.  We finally got some snow today, and
there's supposed to be a little more over the next few days... nothing
particularly heavy, though...

 PH> It does sound like winter over there is not as bad (in places) as it
 PH> usually is? That said I've also seen coverage on the TV of some quite
 PH> bad snow storms etc. that had disrupted travel for folks. I think that
 PH> was more around thanksgiving.
 
Yup, around Thanksgiving, there was a lot more snow activity... and then
it all melted away... weird weather..  Rochester often doesn't get the
huge quantities of snow that Buffalo and Syracuse (on either side of us)
tend to get... but then we are situated next to the long side of Lake
Ontario, and they are at the ends of it (and Buffalo also at one end of
Lake Erie), so they get the bulk of the lake effect snows... Buffalo was
especially whomped in that storm...  There was more snow at Christmas in
the midwest than what we had here... 

 NB>> day, and some rain sprinkles in the afternoon...  ;)  We went out and
 NB>> had Japanese food for lunch...  My extended family will be getting
 NB>> together on Jan 3 for a Christmas celebration...

 PH> That sounds nice. We had ham and lamb as our meats with a selection of
 PH> roast vegies and salads... I couldn't handle dessert in the end, just
 PH> too full! 

That's the trouble with the feasts...  ;)  Dessert needs to be a
separate meal, after one has had a chance to let the other settle and
digest a bit..   ;)   When my family gets together, we tend to have
hors d'oervres-y stuff, rather than make a full meal... we plan it well
enough so that one gets a reasonably balanced meal from it (as long as
one eats from it sensibly), but keep it informal pretty much.  :)  After
a while the sweets get added to the array...

ttyl        neb

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