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We got about 20 inches here at the house in the first load last week, another 6 or so Sunday/Monday, and forecasting another 6-8 for Christmas Eve/Day. Winds & drifts have been almost worse than the actual snowfall. As of right now, I have 1 driveway, room for all 3 cars to park off the road, the graders came by last night & re-buried my mailbox :mad: , a broken snowblower
But hey, it's Christmas! Maybe my Christmas present will be a repaired machine!
Cheers!
Paul
As long as you're asking for things, maybe ask for a new back?
Merry Christmas!
tom
We have 6" to 8" on the ground here in Boise and my wife has been commuting in the Outback. I had to run errands this morning and the minivan got out of the neighborhood ok, but it wouldn't make it back up my driveway.
We had 2 days of below 0F temps, finally back in the 20F's today...but more snow.
Need to figure out what to do about the snow on the 2nd level roof of the new house, it is overhanging the gutter. I use to be able to rake that off on my old house which was a ranch.
-Brian
The TV and radio coverage went on for a while.
Fortunately my wife and I were working, plus the kids were in school, so we never even noticed the loss of water pressure during the day.
............weigh-in is Jan 01.
I'm now down to 200 even... Minus 18 lbs...
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What we have here are some of the manual tranny lovers in my house, Kate, Charlie, & Colleen, though I have to confess that Charlie is having a bit of trouble with heel-toe since his heel to toe distance is rather small and every time I start to say, "heel..." he moves over next to me in the passenger seat.
Merry Christmas Crew!
Not to mention he keeps sticking his head out the window.
is Charlie adopted? ... it's a bit harder to see the family resemblance ...
Merry Christmas from Frank, Laura, Sabrina & Brianna!
Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy/Merry Holiday Season!
Hope everyone got what they wanted!
(As for the diet weigh-in: Tuesday I was down 12 lbs; after last night I'm afraid to go near a scale
Happy everything to everyone!
Mark, Helen and the cats
OTOH, I got 2 Foresters in the family, so life is not all too bad
Glad to see so many familiar faces in our Crew here!
Happy holidays, everyone.
nice day ... his sister and her family drove in from Texas (through some of the ice storms...)
we're home ...went in the subie - of course - although the ice was in our street and in his mother's driveway ... in between was fine .. lol
Hope you all survived Christmas and storms. Just listening to the latest forecast for the US and Canada and it sounds cold.
Of course, you are all welcome to come over and leap in our pool. Currently sitting on about 30C (about 86F) air temperature and kids are complaining that the pool is not warm enough! I asked Judy if she would go back to England to avoid the heat - she thought one moment and concluded the ice and snow were not worth it when you have kids to shepherd to school. She does not drive and used to slip and skid down the pavements - yuk!
Thinking of you all at Christmas
Cheers
Graham
Bob
Happy holidays to all.
I've been very busy steering through this awkward economy to keep my business alive. No great accomplishments but I'm still here.
Haven't caught up on the earlier posts yet but I wanted to take this time to wish everybody a happy and a healthy new year.
Charlie
-Frank
The pool is sitting between 25C and 30C. I think the kids would have been in today but we have been to a family Christmas celebration at my mother's place. She is 81 and still on seven acres of fairly high maintenance property, by herself. Fortunately, one very handy nephew is on university vacation so will do a variety of tasks for her.
The trip down and back was fairly wearing. Although only 70 miles on pretty good freeways, there seem to be more than the average number of nutters on the road.
One charmer careved me up badly leaving less than six inches clearance after avoidance and then repeated the same move several times. Short life expectancy, I would guess.
Cheers
Graham
My brother just sent me pics of him and his kids playing in the pool - Brazil is just starting their summer season now. Of course it's never cold in the tropics, it just goes from "hot" to "hotter".
Happy Holidays from chilly, damp DC.
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I believe I deserve the blame for the horrible idea of weighin in on January 1, but I'm at 211 today, which is 6 pounds less than I started. 6/217 = 2.8% weight loss.
I bottomed out at 206 IIRC, but the cold combined with holiday feasting brought me half way back.
At least my cholesterol was down, also.
How about everyone else? Here were the starting weights, from my last post (add yours if I missed you):
Weigh-in: AJ started at 217, Bob at 200, volkov at 186, xwesx at 192, lucien at 178, Mark at 198, Serge at 161. Frank at 204 lbs. paisan at 300#. pf_flyer at 247#. Brenda 165.9#. hypov 142 lbs playing in reverse! bigelm at 188 lbs. Charlie at 256 lbs.
Get on those scales, folks.
Let's say you have to report back by the end of the day on Monday, past the holidays, so we can announce a winner on January 6. Is that enough time?
Started at 218, so 17/218 = 7.8% loss..
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Bob
Drum roll.........175 lbs on the scale first thing this AM.
That makes for 11lbs or 5.9%. Surely not near the winners, but I do really want to thank everyone, because just having this little challenge was a real motivation for me to get serious. I'm quite certain I would not have achieved anything without the community.
Happy New Year, folks
Rumor has it that one of our servers had a bit too much bubbly.
Steve, visiting host (and I'm maintaining nicely thank you....).
BTW - a Happy Belated New Year to one and all.
Mark
Very interesting article in the Melbourne Age this morning confirms that Subaru were the only car maker in the USA to see a sales increase in calendar year 2008, largely due to the Impreza and Forester. At least there is some good news!
http://news.theage.com.au/business/subaru-posts-2008-sales-increase-in-us-200901- 06-7an7.html
Cheers
Graham
I realize that after having a car with keyless entry for 2 years it's a lot more convenient than I initially gave it credit. It's nice to go up to my car and not fish in my pocket for a key, the car unlocks when I grab the handle and I get in and push a button and start it up. I guess that's why most luxury cars have it, but a lot of more inexpensive cars are getting it too. It's not a big deal but certainly a nice option to have.
Hopefully Subaru will benefit from a relationship with Toyota and offer it here in the next Legacy/Outback and other cars. (They have it Japan now, I believe)
tom
kyfdx 218 201 17 7.80%
Volkov 186 175 11 5.91%
Mark 198 187.5 10.5 5.30%
AJ 217 211 6 2.76%
lucien 178 175 3 1.69%
Serge 161 158.4 2.6 1.61%
Bob 200 211.75 -11.75 -5.88%
But...many more still have to report, so let's try to get a hold of those folks first.
They are:
xwesx 192
Frank 204
paisan 300
pf_flyer 247
brenda (classified, asking may result in bodily injury)
hypov 142
bigelm 188
Charlie 256
Send them a reminder if you have their e-mails.
If you prefer e-mail me on coach juice man at gmail dot com (remove spaces) and I'll put just the % loss.
I'll try to make it to the scale ... I'm afraid of it ....
Still hammering at it... if only I wasn't such a good cook!
I was at the doc this week for some routine poking and prodding, and was astounded to find myself at 207. I want to get back to 165-170 where I was April 2005. My annual physical is in April each year, and I want to make real progress by this year's physical.
I have a new professional scale on the way - the dieting starts in earnest next week.
kcram - Pickups/Wagons Host
You probably missed my Fitday.com recommendation a while back KC.
I dunno, I think perhaps I need to get a scale as well. Never had one, never wanted one. But, somehow, I think it may be useful to have one now.
Name Start End Loss % loss
kyfdx 218 201 17 7.80%
Volkov 186 175 11 5.91%
Mark 198 187.5 10.5 5.30%
pf_flyer 247 240 7 2.83%
AJ 217 211 6 2.76%
lucien 178 175 3 1.69%
Serge 161 158.4 2.6 1.61%
Bob 200 211.75 -11.75 -5.88%
xwesx 192
Frank 204
paisan 300
brenda 165.9
hypov 142
bigelm 188
Charlie 256
Sorry for the delay.
Unfortunately I have stayed the same.
Regards
Charlie
Bob
Name Start End Loss % loss
kyfdx 218 201 17 7.80%
Volkov 186 175 11 5.91%
Mark 198 187.5 10.5 5.30%
pf_flyer 247 240 7 2.83%
AJ 217 211 6 2.76%
lucien 178 175 3 1.69%
Serge 161 158.4 2.6 1.61%
Bob 200 211.75 -11.75 -5.88%
xwesx 192
Frank 204
paisan 300
brenda 165.9
hypov 142
bigelm 188
Charlie 256 256 -no change
I think we should keep this going though. It is motivational enough for me that it has at least started me thinking about my weight.
Still waiting to hear from Frank, paisan, Dave, and Elmer. Plus Brenda (did you e-mail me?)
I can keep track until July, sure. Let's go until the full year is done, and see who is ahead around then.