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SALUDOS. FELIPE

Thaanks Filipe, I just put a card for your call in the mail this morning. Judy

Here we are, escaped for the moment waiting for another storm on the weekend and then next Tuesday too.

I have to admit, Judy, that the snow in D.C. looks beautiful...those trees are like an etching..
.however, to have to live with all that snow, with more on the way? :-(
Take care...'tis going to be a loooong winter said the groundhog yesterday. Sending you good people some Greek sunshine to warm up your spirits!

I have a lot more beautiful photos of the snow in my camera but I have to wait to display them in the cafe until I get off work. Meet me for a glass or two of wine later with a photo exhibit?

Sure, why not...hopping on Olympic airways flight Thess. to Munich, Munich to D.C. See you soon. (Will they allow bottles Greek sunshine on the plane?)

We will do it over the internet that way you can show us your sunshine. I doubt if they will allow any bottle of anykind on a plane that lands in DC. And you have to sit and can't go to the bathroom for the whole hour before you land.

Sorry to be a fly in your ointment (shell in your omelette?) but according to the news tonight, because of the economic crisis, Greece will have to ration the amount of sunshine it exports and that also means that it will be very expensive, keep those wooly pullovers at hand, enjoy the view.

Yes, your euros are highly over rated.

Ha! Rod my boy,
Greek sunshine is here for the taking ( or is that "for the basking"?)
"The best things in life are free..."
:-)

Bottling that sunshine:
"I got sunshine on a cloudy day....
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May...."

Right let's all pack up all our cares and woe move to Greece (I have had enough of my cold knees and feet) and we'll get in a few bottles of sunshine, bask on the beaches and talk about days when stamps were made for licking.
You are right Judy, Money... it's a crime, share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie. Pie and sunshine... this is becoming a parteeeeeeee!

I am coming Rod, with wine and aching feet from walking on cold cement and dampness.

Looks cold in D.C., not that it is exactly "hot" in Greece...but the sun is shining,come on by ya awl!
Here in Greece, the stamps are still made for licking...and sometimes the printer forgets to add the sticking glue, so we glue by hand! duh. The US and other countries are aleady "advanced" to self-stick stamps...but it has to be hard for stamp collectors? However, with self-stick stamps you can send mail art in transparent plastic sleeves and plastic laminated cards because self-sticks..stick! No can do with lick on :-(

This is serious business here, Katerina we are getting ready for 12-24 inches of snow beginning Friday through Saturday. I am overstocked with groceries since the stores sell out of toilet paper fast. Will take photos.

Hi, Judy - Hang in there - I know the heavy snow will shut down your area for awhile - Here where we normally get over 250 inches a year 2 feet of snow would slow us down - but we have a low population and lots of snow moving equipment. Hopefully your power stays on. Hopefully you have enough water too.

"white, white, white, WHITE HOUSE!"
Geez...this is serious, the snow in D.C. made the
Greek newspapers this morning.
Stay warm, stay in, take care!

Tom, we don't have the plows and facilities you do. This area is awful and where they will put all the snow is on the curbs so we have to climb over it to cross the streets. Maybe it will melt fast.

Judy, how goes the storm? I know Detroit and the metro area were never able to handle heavy snow - they often waited too long before they treated the roads and the plows seldom got around to the neighborhoods making it almost impossible to get out onto the main roads.

Hi Tom, so far the snow is melting as soon as it hits, we are still too warm 36, the forecast is up to 28 inches with 4-6 falling today and 8-15 overnight and ending 7pm Saturday. This city can't handle anything including all the politicians hot air which is probably why it isn't sticking while they are arguing about whatever and the beefcake from Massachusetts just got sworn in to Kennedys old seat. Have fun!

Real winter is here. 14 below and dropping. This is winter. Winter. Blow blow. Snow. Ice . Winds sludge.Winter. Stay in dont go out. go OUT dress Hot Like a Polar BEar. Winter in Russia and Canada

Poor D.C. When you don't have heavy , hard winters, then even a few inches of snow is horrid. My friend in Maryland who works for a gov't agency was sent home at noon. Hope you are now home, safe and warm.

I am home, it is more like sleet and now it is blowing. They predict 12-20 inches of snow over night and more tomorrow which will be colder. So far we have been above freezing. Very messy.

Sometimes the slop is worse than heavy snow - and if it freezes......

Here it hasn't snowed much for a couple of weeks. But we still have around two to three feet in the yard. You have a good weekend to get projects done. Be safe.

It is going to freeze and make a nasty base for the coming snow. I have to go to work tomorrow, I work as an administrator in a luxury apartment building in Arlington, VA and I have to do rent checks and rent to whomever is nuts enough to come out. I am on the subway all underground with only 3 blocks to walk, easy.

I threw my shovel in the air! chantal! and then I found a glove! the glove said go back to sleep!

Katerina you are very thoughtful. I must explain there was 300 pounds of snow 3401 inches! and the city sank into a bewildering Epic poem that only Kazantakis and Homer could write! hahahah I ZOI!

Judy the subway I hope that subway is warm!_best wishes to you

C, Thanks for the good wishes, so far we have 10 inches of slushy, ice piled up and stinging your face. I had to use a spatula to slide it off my balcony (11th floo,r the top) because the stuff was piled against my glass door and leaking in. Good luck to my downstairs neighbors. Metro tunnels are cold and windy but dry. The trains are heated. Everything is coated with this wet disgusting no fun ice, good snowballs though.

Wow - so much snow! - I hope you're not snowed in. It's been crazy in England too this winter. The most since 1964.

Pretty - but not much fun if you have to get someplace. I don't think I would want to be in an apartment below street level. Wet snow and ice build up can be a problem on flat roofs too. Most houses here have steep pitched roofs and no gutters. Ours is metal so we get the sound of snow sliding off. People have roof rakes to pull excess snow off and on the flat roofed buildings you'll see folks either shoveling them or haul a snow blower up and use that to clean. Falling ice is always a concern in town. Hope you get a warm spell melt this quickly. Have a safe trip home.

American East coast snow was on the BBC news this evening, Washington mentioned.

Hi Rod, we now have about 20 inches in DC and I am at work in Virginia with more. I will put my photos on when I get home this evening. Fortunately the commuter trains are running underground so I can get to work. Walking in the street is impossible since you have to walk in the 2 foot high car ruts from the 4 wheel drive vehicles because a car can't move in this wet icy mess. Stop time 10pm and snowing hard still

Yep, a white D.C. was on the Greek news tonight,too. It is news because it is rare for such a snowfall in an area that usually has never seen so much. And it seems that D.C. doesn't have the snowplowing equipment that say, Buffalo,NY has. Soooooo, stay in, stay warm, enjoy the Super Bowl tomorrow :-)

Hi Katerina, we have about 30 inches at work and the owners just sent a bobcat and pick up with a front plow to get us out. Humans can't handle so much snow and the snowblowers are usless against this and the winds are arounf 30-40 mph and blowing this stuff all over the place.

Snowmagedon? :-(
Looks like Mother Earth knows how to lobbying at Congress!

I think the God and Goddesses are having an ice battle up there!!!

I think the God and Goddesses are having an ice battle up there!!! ___ Or they've rerited and something else took over!

And on a compltely different topic I came across this video

Snowball fight!!!

thats a good images gods and goddesses in a snow ball fight!

That is what caused all of this and in their images we are celebrating them!!!!!

What a beautiful scene from the cafe window

Spring...is coming :-)
Something to lift your snow-bound spirits:
"If you blossom now in midwinter,
scatterbrained almond tree,
the snow will come and destroy you,
"let it" says the almond tree...
every Spring"
(from Report to Greco bt Nikos Kazantzakis -
author of Zorba the Greek, too)
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The area highest total was 45.1 inches. Washington mid 20's where I work 20" Anew amount tuesday they assure us it won't be much. If you caan find the ground maybe there will be a frozen flower, keep singing to the winds of the seasons maybe we will warm up it is 17 degrees this am, wind chill 4. I have to work again, the weekend lady can't get out and lost electricity.

1722...3 feet of snow in the area, wrote George Washington and Thomas Jefferson :-)
Thanks, Judy, for the photos...
ah, soon there will be cherry blossoms in D.C. !
Sorry you have to work today...
how about some hot cocao and cake on my birthday?

A big birthday hug and kiss Kate... can I have a piece of that chocolate cake please?

Please accept this picture of daffodils from my garden last year... It won't be long before they are here this year.
Have a super day