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Offline Sasquatch Jim

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It's May
« on: May 04, 2017, 11:41:54 AM »
Fer crissakes where is the sun?
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Re: It's May
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2017, 12:12:04 PM »
Fer crissakes where is the sun?

Back there on that island where you left it.

The sun never comes out in Illinois .... or did the Chamber of Commerce leave that out ... ?   :grin:

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Re: It's May
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2017, 12:53:11 PM »
You'll have to climb above the cloud layer.


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Re: It's May
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2017, 04:37:33 PM »
Don't know where you are, but @ my place, oh dear Thundershower & Hail warning tonight!

It rained 28 out of 31 days in April and it doesn't help when total sunshine this year is only 70 hours so far...

MIGHT be good next week...hoping...

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Re: It's May
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2017, 05:16:33 PM »
Fer crissakes where is the sun?

YES!!...and May is Motorcycle Awareness Month!!  :1: :thumb: :cool:  (90+ degrees and sunny here in Vortex-Land!! ("WHEW!!!") - Summer is a comin'!!! :laugh: :grin: :wink:
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Re: It's May
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2017, 08:55:38 PM »
  Excuse me Timmy but my April is only 30 days long, even in a leap year which this ain't.
 How come you rate an extra day of rainy weather?
 On what day did you get 70 hours of sunshine?
« Last Edit: May 04, 2017, 08:59:04 PM by Sasquatch Jim »
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Re: It's May
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2017, 09:23:03 PM »
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Re: It's May
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2017, 09:58:06 PM »
The sun will appear soon enough. Patience, grasshopper. I lived in Illinois as a kid and the sun did appear. Of course that was between the thunderstorms, tornados and cicadas. I quite enjoyed it.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2017, 10:23:44 AM »
  Excuse me Timmy but my April is only 30 days long, even in a leap year which this ain't.
 How come you rate an extra day of rainy weather?
 On what day did you get 70 hours of sunshine?

HAH..oops, yes, it is supposed to be 30...maybe it did felt like that long with all the rain...LOL

as for 70 hours, that is the total sunshine since January 1st 2017 up to last week when May rolled over.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2017, 06:36:06 PM »
 Well it didn't rain today.  in fact went outside to do some yard work as the temperature rose.
 Eventually it got up to 65 and I was in fear of the cancer risk of so much surprising solar phenomena.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2017, 08:10:34 AM »
It's been an unusual year weatherwise, so far, in the smallest state.  Every month there have been a few days that are nice enough that I've been out on the bike.  So far, I've put on 1700 mi this year, surprising considering that I don't start a ride if it's raining or below 55F.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2017, 06:37:27 PM »
 She used... sarcasm. She knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. She was vicious.

She sounds like my ex wife.   So you knew her too?
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Re: It's May
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2017, 07:14:47 PM »
60F, blustery dry wind, frost on the higher mountaintops, just great.  In addition to a fine ride, took the little ones to the Asheville Museum of Science.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2017, 02:31:47 PM »
Squatch...........r emember when I told you about Kingman, Az.?  It's sunny here almost all year.  :wink:  Kinda like Hawaii in that respect.  We can ride all year here if we want to.  When we get snow maybe 2x a year,  it melts by the end of the day so take a pic before it does.  Well, you made your decision........... :azn:
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Re: It's May
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2017, 08:09:59 PM »
  Yeah, my decision was mostly financial.  When I lived here before, I was a year round rider.
 But I was younger then.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2017, 09:10:04 AM »
Jim, the wx has been totally freakin crazy this year. It's definitely not "normal" but I'm afraid it may never be "normal" again. I can count the nice days we've had this year on one hand. Welcome back to the midwest.. <grumbling and shuffling off>
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Re: It's May
« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2017, 04:11:29 PM »
 Chuck, are you one of those folks I used to see when I would go to those mini rallies in western Indiana.
 They were at a defunct school building in the covered bridge territory.  Lotta fun they were.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2017, 07:55:53 PM »
Chuck, are you one of those folks I used to see when I would go to those mini rallies in western Indiana.
 They were at a defunct school building in the covered bridge territory.  Lotta fun they were.

Yeah, I took Peter Egan for a ride in the sidecar there. I didn't know who he was, just figured he was another Guzzi guy.  :smiley:
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Re: It's May
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2017, 07:59:02 PM »
I can tell you Jim, the sun ain't here.  :cry: and heading in to winter. :sad:
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Re: It's May
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2017, 08:33:55 PM »
  That's what happens when you live upside down.

 However according to Frodo you do live in a beautiful place.
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Re: It's May
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2017, 06:09:13 AM »
Rode to work today for the first time this year with the dash on the B11 showing 4 degrees Centigrade (39F)

Whats that all about in May!!!!
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Re: It's May
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2017, 08:46:57 AM »
Some sun from Scotland still only 12C though.




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