What's happening for you all today?

[Jasin]

Cool photos Sophia.

[Black Orchid]

Great pics! Thanks Sophia. Mine will be covered in a blanket of white lol.

[mellie]

Gorgeous pis. Wow, how I would love to be there in the snow, a Northern hemisphere Christmas. A proper Christmas requires snow.
I have however convinced my family to go to Michigan for a family Christmas so.....

It may happen for us soon.

[Sophia]

Geez finally something uploaded for now! Was not what I intended but the pretty lights aurora borealis will do.

Pretty avatar. I'll probably go to Finland in the new year. It's supposed to be the best vantage point until 2036.

Guess what! It was on tv tonight, the Travel Guides in Finland. They all raved about it, quirky etc yet they all loved Finland. Showing the cold dip in lake looks frightful!
Are you doing that?
I once got flipped in cold water when on a jet ski and body goes in shock mode and I was unable to breathe!
That was scary! I thumped my chest to get the lungs in action but nothing. I pulled myself back in ski and headed to shore and luckily I started breathing again!

[Jasin]

I've swam in lake Wanaka in just shorts. The trick is slow emersion, rather than the quick shock to the system plunge.

[Bobby]

Geez finally something uploaded for now! Was not what I intended but the pretty lights aurora borealis will do.

Pretty avatar. I'll probably go to Finland in the new year. It's supposed to be the best vantage point until 2036.

Guess what! It was on tv tonight, the Travel Guides in Finland. They all raved about it, quirky etc yet they all loved Finland. Showing the cold dip in lake looks frightful!
Are you doing that?
I once got flipped in cold water when on a jet ski and body goes in shock mode and I was unable to breathe!
That was scary! I thumped my chest to get the lungs in action but nothing. I pulled myself back in ski and headed to shore and luckily I started breathing again!

I had a similar thing happen to me once -
I fell out of canoe into an ice cold river and my legs stopped moving when I tried to swim.
It was scary - at least my arms still worked and I was able to save myself.

[mellie]

Absolutely terrifying, I can't imagine too many things worse than suddenly becoming paralysed from the waist down in a frozen lake.

The stuff of nightmares.

I was dumped by a huge wave in a warm qld surf and went into some kind of fleeting shock, and that was bad enough!

It felt surreal, like I was slowly rolling like a doll then must have found my last breath and was suddenly up on the beach, coughing salt-water up, and my poor Dad was charging towards me with a towel.

It's the part when u realise that the beach was closed for a reason.
I was 13 or 14 at the time, and a strong swimmer, it's just the elements on that day were stronger.






As for what's happening today, I'm on/off doing housework and need some tips on what's the best way of getting rid of large boxes without fire, my daughter’s bunks and bedroom furniture looks great, but now my living room looks like box city. Had planned to donate to our church for kids holiday program, but they're not doing box city this year, so now I'm stumped.

If I tear or cut them up my hands will ache for days, RA, and I want them gone asap, even though our cats enjoying them.

Would chuck them in firepit but can't, fire restrictions.

Any creative ideas appreciated.

Oh, and my cars very small.

[Sophia]

@Mellie
That reminded me exactly what happened to you is what happened to me when I was 13 back in the 60s.
And in Qld too!
I’m standing facing away from the water, in ankle deep water like “little miss self conscious what I looked like”…when a big wave whacked me from behind and I was rolling … then it stopped and I was so embarrassed!

Since then I watch the waves!

Re: cardboard boxes… here’s a trick…. If you are on fb market place…. Offer something for free… but in condition they take the cardboard.
It happened earlier this year… I got 3 black bar stools free and he said if I didn’t take cardboard boxes he’d be upset.
I assured him we would and we did.

[Jasin]

Use a Stanley knife to cut up boxes or even cut that tape on the bottom so they fold and flatten.
Stanley won't mind

[tllwd]

Cardboard is handy on a lawn or veggie patch to control weeds.