Just looked at the clock. It's winter! (and the days will be getting longer)
Winter Solstice 2015 and on to Winter!
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We survived the rituals and it is winter! We'll celebrate some more!
Squatch
Senior Member
We always mark the solstices and equinoxes. But this one was special. It means I've been retired exactly one year. I was off payroll 12-21-14 and my son moved into his own place the same weekend!
Squatch
Senior Member
I hope you folks didn't sacrifice any goats or chickens or stuff like that! Some folks get carried away with Pagan rituals!ski3pin said:
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Our rituals are sacrifice and alcohol free. 
Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
Why isn't today the first day of the new year? Seems like it should be.
SunMan
King Taco
Spent two of the windiest, snowiest nights in my camper the last two nights near mammoth. Perfect way to bring in the solstice !! Too windy for riding today so heading for home.
OP
OP
We're with you Doug! That would make much more sense. Those darn Romans!Doug Stewart said:
Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
3pins, the French Republican Calendar had 12 30-day months and began on the Autumnal Equinox, which also makes sense to me. The day was divided into 10 hours with 100 minutes each. There were 100 seconds in each minute. It might have taken some getting used to but decimal systems are much simpler in the long run.
OP
OP
I don't know...the extra 5.25 days each year, the non-month days, seems kinda "inelegant".Doug Stewart said:
I'd be in favor of this if they could move the Earth into an orbit a bit closer to the Sun so that a year would be exactly 360 days. Or move it out a bit more so that a year was 400 days, with 10 40-day months.
But even if they did that the real challenge would be getting people to accept metrication.
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We're with you Doug! That would make much more sense. Those darn Romans!
Watch it Ski,I represent that.
Happy winter. Sacrifice on.
Frank
We're with you Doug! That would make much more sense. Those darn Romans!
Watch it Ski,I represent that.
Happy winter. Sacrifice on.
Frank
Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
Ah, Mark, any inelegance that you might perceive in the Earth's orbit is the result of a god, gods, goddesses, or perhaps even chance so you have little chance of correcting it to suit your personal tastes. The five or six days added at the end of a given year in the French Republican Calendar were treated as a national holiday, which seems quite elegant to me. By "people" not accepting metrification, I presume you are referring to the American "people" since all the rest of the "people" in the world have long accepted the views of the French Republicans in those matters.MarkBC said:
Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
Frank, I'm sure any representations 3pin was making were not meant to be against the Roman Church but rather against the Roman Empire whose calendar the Church inherited. I hope this smoothed things over a bit.Casa Escarlata Robles Too said:
I hope my comments weren't taking the wrong way.
I have to laugh at the Roman idea also, Empire of coarse.
Don't give a hang about the church.
Frank
I have to laugh at the Roman idea also, Empire of coarse.
Don't give a hang about the church.
Frank
This winter (in central Oregon) sure is different than last winter...
As of today, Dec 22, local ski area Mt. Bachelor has a total snowfall nearly equal to the total for all of the 2014-2015 season!
That's total fallen snow, not maximum depth...but I think snow-on-the-ground may already have exceeded last year's maximum.
As of today, Dec 22, local ski area Mt. Bachelor has a total snowfall nearly equal to the total for all of the 2014-2015 season!
That's total fallen snow, not maximum depth...but I think snow-on-the-ground may already have exceeded last year's maximum.
craig333
Riley's Human
No work next week and no pay but, the truck has a full tank and I haven't seen decent snow in so long I think an overnighter is in order.
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Darn, just got done running the snowblower, could have put you to work shoveling.craig333 said:
craig333
Riley's Human
Shoveling? Whats this snow shovel you speak of? I knew there was a reason I lived where it doesn't snow
Smokecreek1
Smokecreek1
It is snowing-lot's of snow -----we even had a snow plow up here for part of the day. It's supposed to hit 6 degrees as a low tonight-i forgot that sometimes come with snow !
Smoke
-----we even had a snow plow up here for part of the day. It's supposed to hit 6 degrees as a low tonight-i forgot that sometimes come with snow !Smoke
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