I can't warm up! I was even cold at work today and I am NEVER cold at work. This winter is a brutal one.

i'm almost embarrassed to admit i was puttering around in the garden this afternoon in shorts and a t-shirt.

sorry muji...hoping for a defrost of all my frosty friends!

Wish I could share some of the summer heat wave here in Oz with you. We'd both be better off :) Hope it warms up there soon for you.

Oh yeah!

Mojo, throw some white sage in that garden! I have about used my stash...plaus it is not happy growing in MI.

Hehe! Love the title!

Yea, I'm stuck in the house from the extreme cold too.
Tonight -5 to -26.

This morning we had over 800 closings just in NE Ohio. The majority of our schools have been closed since last Friday, and most closed again tomorrow.

I canNOT stand feeling closed in, so I have to keep myself occupied. This stinks Muji.

white sage is my favourite smudging source. also cedar and some baobab wood i brought back from overseas, but mostly white sage :)

problem here is we have deer. there is a family that lives on mine and my neighbour's property. anything that's not walled-off can and will be pilfered.

they do a gazillion dollars damage and people are wanting to cull them. i figure it's our fault, as we built our homes on THEIR turf. high price of living in a rain forest.

sage wouldn't stand a chance. hehe

It was at least above zero here today. More freezing rain/snow on the way. Anyone up for a bonfire?

if i did not have hot flashes? I would be using the longjohns i have not worn since i moved south. fifteen years ago. Eek!

Let's make a bonfire of our problems, toast some marshmallows, or maybe just roast them on my head!

Mojopaw,

Im not trying to be nosey, ok well maybe I am a little, but you live in a rainforest?! That is a nice image to have in January!

yuppers, jen is exactly right.

i live in the southern part of the great bear rainforest, which stretches from north-western washington state right up to alaska. :)

this vid was shot just a stone's throw down the road from me. and these aren't even the real out there, beautiful spots. this is just `ho-hum' tourist spots. haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snfctxV6K7E

I am terrible with geography, Jen. I had no idea we even had deserts and rainforests out that way?!

Mojo - That video was just beautiful and the sounds so calming. I'm not sure if I could stand anything "more" beautiful. After the video, I looked up the great bear rainforest, ridiculously gorgeous! You are very lucky to live there.

Muji - Today is our last awful day for a while. Heatwave this weekend - middle 20's. Are you guys going to warm up anytime soon?

Take me to your island, Mojo. Here in the Appalachian mountains where I live near Camp David, the presidential retreat, it's beautiful, the most beautiful place I've ever seen. But this winter is just bitter cold.

Somebody see if they can't tilt the sun more our way just a teensy weensy bit, would you? It's 4 degrees right now, not counting the wind chill. I know that's nothing like Minneapolis. My old college roomie called me from there last night and it was minus 12.

But it's been a while since it was above 32 degrees now. My icicles have icicles.

we currently reside in one of the lower desert plain areas in west texas, but even we are feeling the effects of the cold. tow little heats to move around our two story house with us from room to room so we can ration the propane. last night it dropped below zero and it din't really get to warm today. i guess it is a kinda good thing i grew up in minnisota so i am a little more used to this but desert style cold is very different. every few minuts Bow or Bridgit mention pitifuly that its too cold lol.

mojo i almost cried i miss trees so much. love my cotton feilds forever but teribly miss trees *tear*

muji i remember the winters out in pennsilvania. i am feeling sorry for that whole lot up and down that side of the country.

i love white sage (actually need to smudge again, specially after earlier tonight) love it with lavender

Cold triggers flashbacks in me. At one point my sister and I slept in a shed with no electricity; no bathroom; no heat. Being cold brings back unwanted childhood memories.