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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 9, 2009 17:39:02 GMT
When "they" can legally sign a contract and make the payments it can be "their" land again, until then, I will put up my big azz privacy fence and keep nasty turkeys out unless they have an abode in my freezer for Thanksgiving do you own the airspace over your house too or can birds fly over your house? Yes you own the airspace over your house up to the heavens. But due to specific legislation, planes are allowed to fly over it. Birds aren't, unless you give them permission too. And what you do with the airspace above your house will also be limited by planning laws and building laws and the like. But theoretically you own it a coelo usque ad centrum. As they used to say. When they spoke Latin.
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 9, 2009 18:40:29 GMT
When "they" can legally sign a contract and make the payments it can be "their" land again, until then, I will put up my big azz privacy fence and keep nasty turkeys out unless they have an abode in my freezer for Thanksgiving I probably wouldn't have a problem with the deer......but the turkeys would freak me out also! Huge feathered animals........just something about them.......emus, ostriches....those suckers just aren't right.
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Post by sadie1263 on Jan 9, 2009 18:41:39 GMT
do you own the airspace over your house too or can birds fly over your house? Why don't you try flying over and we'll see what happens? ?? Cheffie......how do you feel about some skeet practice???
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Post by gg on Jan 9, 2009 19:01:35 GMT
do you own the airspace over your house too or can birds fly over your house? Why don't you try flying over and we'll see what happens? ?? Cheffie......how do you feel about some skeet practice??? maybe because I can't fly I do get high occasionally but that has nothing to do with wings. If she gives me her coordinates I will fly over her house in my simulator
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Post by gg on Jan 9, 2009 19:04:03 GMT
When "they" can legally sign a contract and make the payments it can be "their" land again, until then, I will put up my big azz privacy fence and keep nasty turkeys out unless they have an abode in my freezer for Thanksgiving I probably wouldn't have a problem with the deer......but the turkeys would freak me out also! Huge feathered animals........just something about them.......emus, ostriches....those suckers just aren't right. I would end up buying extra feed for them. It's people I would have a fence for.
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Post by gg on Jan 9, 2009 19:05:54 GMT
do you own the airspace over your house too or can birds fly over your house? Yes you own the airspace over your house up to the heavens. But due to specific legislation, planes are allowed to fly over it. Birds aren't, unless you give them permission too. And what you do with the airspace above your house will also be limited by planning laws and building laws and the like. But theoretically you own it a coelo usque ad centrum. As they used to say. When they spoke Latin. but we quit doing that sometime after I left Rome
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Post by swl on Jan 12, 2009 23:27:50 GMT
I can't tell one type of bird from another I'm afraid. School was a bit basic in my day. We were told there were three different types of birds -
-Small, fluttery ones -Big, flappy ones -Ducks
That knowledge has served me well so far.
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Post by beth on Jan 29, 2009 23:23:13 GMT
I think they're just fluttering along as best they can around here this week. We have had 6 inches of snow, then 1 1/2 inches of ice, then 2 more inches of show - and it's brrrrr cold. This photo (poor little fellow) was taken yesterday, 30 miles from my home.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 30, 2009 18:37:18 GMT
Goot photo Beth.
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Post by beth on Feb 4, 2009 23:04:38 GMT
I thought so, too. It was taken in front of my older daughter's office, but I'm not sure who took it.
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Post by beth on Jan 6, 2010 1:20:41 GMT
It has been almost a year since we have used this thread. I'd like to suggest using a sticky to permanently affix it to the top of this topic so it will be handy for day to day chit chat. Such as . . . The news today says England is due to have the worst show in 30 years. Are any of you experiencing this, currently? Our weather forecast for the rest of this week is quite daunting - a lull tomorrow with 6 to 8 inches of show on Thursday & Thursday night. Ack!
Temps on Saturday, high 17 F . . . low 7 F and that doesn't include the wind chill.
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Post by mikemarshall on Jan 6, 2010 1:29:19 GMT
Beth, we live in West Yorkshire now and the weather in our part of the world has been appalling.
We've had snow flurries for the last week or so but it hadn't settled before except on the higher ground.
This morning we got up and snow was already falling. It was still coming down eleven hours or so later.
It has settled, of course, and the pavements have become skating rinks, the roads are full of car's travelling at snail's pace and I spoke with a young man this evening who works part-time in the local off-licence about his college studies.
He managed to get a bus into college and the journey took him an hour - normally the bus trip would be ten minutes or so. Then when he arrived he found that the college had closed down because of the weather. He then discovered that the buses in the area had also been taken out of service because of the extreme weather and had to walk back again on treacherous pavements covered in ice, snow and (in a few places) slush, the ideal conditions for people to have accidents.
I was supposed to go to the doctor's today to pick up a repeat prescription but I could not see any point in making the effort. I still have two days supply of that particular tablet left so I will endeavour to collect it tomorrow instead!
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Post by beth on Jan 6, 2010 15:39:04 GMT
Wow! I certainly can't one up you on this winter, so far. Although we are slated for what seems to me a lot of snow tomorrow (6 to 8 inches), you have a major winter blast to deal with. I followed Drudge's link to The Sun a little bit ago. they have good coverage with links to information and very nice pictures. The Sun Mr B has taken today and tomorrow off and we are going out in a bit to pick up a couple of bags of salt for the walks and driveway.
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 6, 2010 19:40:01 GMT
At least it's not snowing today but of course things are still chaotic. The roads here are much quieter than usual - maybe people are taking some time off work or something - and the shops are pretty dead too, even the local supermarkets.
The main roads have been gritted and some of the main streets as well (partly, anyway) but the side roads are slush over snow over ice and driving is a real pain.
The pavements on the side turnings are still like skating rinks - you need to be Torvill and Dean to walk on them at anything faster than about one mile an hour!
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 6, 2010 19:44:04 GMT
Our stretch of the local canal is also completely iced up!
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Post by beth on Jan 8, 2010 20:12:03 GMT
Yesterday was hellish - just as we had expected. The one bright spot was/is that the road crews had started treating the streets on Wednesday and, then, ran the scrapers through just at daylight yesterday morning so the traffic could flow. It showed all day at various paces and, then, today, came in bright, blue sky and clear with between 5 and 6 inches of snow on the turf and side streets, but with the main roads and highways clear. It is still bitterly cold - 12 degrees F at the moment. Some of our extended family left last week for a few days in the Bahamas. They are due home late tonight so we are hopeful this last leg of their trip is trouble free and they can handle the shock of going from temps in the high 70s (F) and white sandy beaches to temps in the teens and white snowy . . . everything.
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Post by beth on Jan 9, 2010 19:01:26 GMT
I stepped out of the car onto an icy patch earlier today. While I did not fall, I did twist my back so that the big muscle on the left side is very sore and my hip and upper leg on that side don't feel so great, either. I'm finding that sitting here, typing, is more uncomfortable than standing or sitting in a L. room chair. That means the couple of longish posts I was thinking about adding on Bits will have to wait. You guys in the frozen parts of the globe - take care. A patch of invisible ice can wreck havoc. Ouch!
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 10, 2010 3:06:30 GMT
I'm very sorry to hear it, Beth, but not surprised. Even now it's still pretty treacherous round my neck of the woods.
I'm having to walk at about 2 miles an hour and drive at about 5 rright now with the state of things!
Living on a hill doesn't help either!
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Post by beth on Feb 3, 2010 1:47:11 GMT
On the evening of Candlemas and Ground Hog day, there's good news and bad news. This morning . . . sunny and bright . . . the ground hog saw his shadow, scurried back in his burrow, and 6 more weeks of winter was, thusly, predicted. This evening . . . cloudy and chill . . . we drove down the street toward our house and saw, here and there, candles in the windows to welcome back the light and we felt happy to see the afternoon stretching out and warding off the night, just a little longer every day. I don't mind more cold weather, but I don't like the dark. This is one of my favorite (minor) holidays because it holds a hope for spring. Nice to see Anna's little skater girl "waiting for spring" . Hope everyone here who is tired of winter is looking ahead because in 6 more weeks, we'll have just 3 weeks 'til Easter. Joy!
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Post by DAS (formerly BushAdmirer) on Feb 3, 2010 2:36:56 GMT
I thought we were suppose to be experiencing global warming. Glaciers are melting. Oceans are rising. Greenland is, well, greening. We're told that we'll soon be able to reach the North Pole by boat. Where is Al Gore when we need him?
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