Normal

Back to Polelnta's question about in vitro - yes it is troublesome and expensive. May not always work. Know some folks, including my daughter, who eventually opted for adoption. She came to us through another couple, but she's ours. The Universe knows what it's doing!

mdawrcn

Ok, I know for sure now that I am a part of the TD family. I actually dreamed about two people on here last night. I woke up and remembered the dream and the details at the time, but now, after a full day, I can't remember anything. Should have written it down while I had it.

Normal

At least it's the people you're dreaming about, not the little bits & pieces!

Dragon

I've had 2 or 3 TD dreams including a dream about a TD convention of sorts with quite a few TD members attending. It was fun, we had coffee together. :p

polenta

Thanks Normal for your answer then. We'll see what my niece and her husband decide... hope they don't have to adopt though.

mdawrcn

Dragon, I have thought that a TD gathering would be a lot of fun. I think my dream was triggered by the new postings to the self portrait challenge. I was looking through there and getting a bit of an idea of what some people looked like. Interesting.

Baldur

I don't look much like myself at all.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Mary J. Blige, Lee Ritenour, Naomi Judd, Clarence Clemons, Jean Chretien, Lev Demin, Grant Tinker, Alexander Calder and Alexander Hamilton.

mdawrcn

And what do you look like Baldur?

polenta

What I know about Baldur is that he used to be much more overweight than he is now. Am I right Baldur?

Dragon

Red Deer has the most incredible Sun Dogs right now, for those of you who don't know what they are (you only see them when it's crazy cold out so most of you are probably outside the range that gets them) here's a little info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dogs

I ran out to take a picture of them and it looks almost identical to picture shown in the article.

lynnspotter

Beautiful Dragon! Have to admit I've never heard of them.
Polenta, don't forget Baldur's hairy~ness! Or tattoos!

Brunnhilde

Must add for Polenta that adoption can be really successful - lots of examples in my family have added tremendous love and joy to my own life.

Baldur

Despite the avatarlike image that I display here Baldur is caucasian and ethnically Lithuanian from both sides of the family tree.
I'm slightly over 6 feet tall and as polenta has mentioned have lost 50 pounds last year, though would still not be considered thin.
I'm rather hirsute, balding and overly tattooed. None of the tattoos are visible even when wearing short sleeved shirts.
Baldur tends to like wearing corduroy or wool trousers, argyle socks and Scottish tweed jackets, I also wear a necktie (sometimes bow ties) quite regularly
In regards to modern culture one could say that I look like a biker who has been dressed up to resemble a British professor.

Baldur

What a great day, we are smack in the middle of a tremendous blizzard here at Boughbreak. 12 inches of snow fell last night.
Trees are bending from the weight, some will certainly lose limbs.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Pixie Lott, Heather Mills, Keith Anderson, Rob Zombie, Luna Vachon, Kirstie Alley, Joe Frazier, Long John Baldry, Kreskin, Glenn Yarborough, Ruth Brown, Ray Price, Maharishi Maresh Yogi, Sergei Korolev, Tex Ritter, Georges Carpentier, Texas Guinan!, Jack London, Swami Vivekananda, John Singer Sargent and John Hancock.

Baldur

Baldur just went outside to retrieve the newspaper, it appears that we actually got 16-18" of snow so far.
I needed to go back to the garage and get a broom to beat the snow off of some of the ornamental shrubbery along the road.
There is a border of Burning Bush, Bridal Bower, Corkscrew Willow, Forsythia and Rose of Sharon there The shrubs were sagging under the weight with half of the branches in danger of getting shorn by the town's passing snowplows. After fixing that issue I noticed the lower limbs of the Canadian Hemlock were having the same problem, a previous Winter storm (in 2006) had forced me to prune a good number of the lower, mangled limbs.

mdawrcn

Thanks for your description Baldur. It paints a very interesting picture. Are your tattoos of any particular theme? And you can say if it is none of my business. I have a very small tattoo of a sunburst that I got just above my bikini line when I was very young (early 20s). Needless to say it has moved around a bit since then.

You must still have power after the storm. That's good and I hope you don't loose it. Power, that is. Stay safe and warm.

Dragon

16-18 inches! Goodness, I think the technical term for that amount of snow is a Crapload. We too have been getting snow, but nowhere near that amount. We have had some very cold weather for the last few days and I finally got the winter tires put on my car yesterday. I really should have had it done months ago but I only had 2 tires and, appearantly, they won't put just the drive tires on a 2 wheel drive car so I had to buy more tires. Sigh, winter is expensive.
Marius had asked me in an e-mail a while ago if we used all-weather tires here in Canada and if so why would we need to switch to winter tires. I answer to her, yes indeed we do use all-weather tires but they're really only good in the non-winter months. They're a bit like flip-flops, while you can wear them year round they don't really offer much traction in slippery conditions.
The frustrating thing is you have to remember when it gets warm to switch them back as winter tires don't do well in summer. They tend to be softer and the hot weather will cause them to deteriorate and become useless. As they're more expensive than regular tires you want them to last through several seasons. Just one of the joys of living in Canada.

Dragon

I could just imagine our Baron of Boughbreak out there beating the snow off the shrubbery. I'm thinking those shrubs are heaving a sigh of relief now that they don't have to worry about the snowplow rending their limbs from them.