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[arboggs]

Happy Birthday, Kathy & Michael!

[Caro]

Happy birthday Michael!

[jil]

Happy Birthday, Michael!

[Michael]

Thank you one and all. As for the photo, SleepyOwl, thank you. But, been there, done that, moved to a warmer place.

Hoar frost. Whitehorse -24C



Whitehorse, Yukon at -46C

[Vic]

Happy Birthday!!

[AvastMH]

Aha!! It is your birthday Michael!

Very many happy returns of the day

and may you have many more

A tea pot fit for a weatherman for you

I can just see Randi's cake underneath it - what a birthday tea spread that would be

[AvastMH]

It is the 40th anniversary of the lowest recorded temperature in the UK (-27.4 C at Braemar in the Scottish Highlands). It was -26 in Oxford and Toxteth, my feral cat friend, refused to go out and spent the night in front of the fire with me in the living room near the kitchen to save the pipes from freezing and bursting.

[Michael]

LOVE the teapot! Thank you, Joan. The tea abides! Thank you Caro.

[sleepyowl]

I'd freeze for sure. Where I am, it's 24 to 32 deg Celsius every day

Thank you one and all. As for the photo, SleepyOwl, thank you. But, been there, done that, moved to a warmer place.

Hoar frost. Whitehorse -24C



Whitehorse, Yukon at -46C

[AvastMH]

I wonder what the greatest difference of temperature is between us here? Sounds like we're getting around 50 degrees at the moment.

[Michael]

Six Roosevelt elk came to visit my sister yesterday. This is the first time she's seen them, and she's lived there for about 50 years.

[Morgan]

Happy Birthday, Michael! What a lovely idea, Reindeer for Christmas and Elk for Birthdays! Many Happy more! Morgan.

[Randi]

Happy Birthday, Michael! What a lovely idea, Reindeer for Christmas and Elk for Birthdays!

[AvastMH]

Wow - that's a cool photo. And I now know that there are types of Elk. Are these named after Teddy Roosevelt?

[Michael]

From Wiki

In December 1897, mammalogist C. Hart Merriam named the species after his friend Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the US Navy.[7]: 589  The desire to protect the Roosevelt elk was one of the primary forces behind the establishment of the Mount Olympus National Monument in 1909 by President Theodore Roosevelt. Later in 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the region and saw the elk named after his relative.[8] The following year he created Olympic National Park.

[AvastMH]

[pommystuart]

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[Randi]

I can't see the image and the link in your post doesn't work for me.
It seems to be tied to your email.

[pommystuart]

I could see it but will try to get another link.
(it did come from an email)

Try this one.

[Randi]

Yes, I can see the image