All on a winter’s night…
Welcome newcomers! Make yourselves comfy…
Come on in!
Wide selection of drinks and snacks available
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Games and decks of cards available on the lower bookshelves |
Please recommend (and unrecommend earlier Cafe/Lounge) |
May the Eggnog be with you!
The spouse and I will be out this evening, so thought I’d go ahead and put up a fresh Cafe/Lounge…be back in a few hours…
Where is the picture you used up top from? Do you know? It looks like the place I am going to in Jan/Feb..Storybook.
Hey there, have fun and come back soon.
That other thread left me with a heavy heart. I hope this one is lighter. I’m going to stop consuming the news.
Can I get a gin & tonic with lime, please? I need one after today!
It looks too cold for a winter drink. I’m going to have a Manhattan — Can I sit with you?
the seasons change.
As the solstice approaches
I do not see things
in the same light as others,
and seek whatever solace I may find
in the pursuit of beauty,
and peace in the present.
Peace
Hi, Everyone!
xxoo
Good evening Katiebird. Sounds like the wedding was a really cool event.
It was nice, we had enough fun that we’re planning a reunion in Carmel Valley, CA on the week of July 4.
p.s. I love your .sig. What a wonderful democratic platform. Do you think you can get it accepted?
(snort) I’m going to do my best — I guess we’ll see how successful it is.
Are you interested in helping?
I’ll take a nice glass of cabernet which I will sip quietly while I focus on the fact that Monday is almost over. Thank goodness.
It does look good! But I’m addicted to Manhattens since the Wedding.
Every now and then I’ll have one in his memory. Thanks for triggering a pleasant memory or two about him, katiebird.
My folks used to drink them when I was a kid and I always love the way they smell and taste.
So, I decided to drink one whenever it was offered (at the Wedding events). It turns out half of my siblings and cousins drink it also. So that was pretty fun.
Manhattans are a good wedding cocktail but are usually too strong for me. My mom is a Manhattan drinker. When I was growing up she and our neighbor Helen (who is a like a second mother to me) would get together of an evening for Manhattans. Actually they still do, but not as often since they don’t live next door anymore. My mom likes “perfect” Manhattans which have an olive instead of a cherry. (Also might use dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth?)
They are strong. But I like them for the smell as much as for the taste. So, I can sip one drink for hours.
Exactly what my mom says. She just keeps adding ice to hers — and it lasts for hours. Isn’t a Roy Rogers the same as a Manhattan except it uses Scotch? Or am I thinking of something else?
Every recipe I found look like this:
Roy Rogers Recipe
Ingredients
1 tsp. Grenadine
1 can Coca Cola
Mixing Instruction
Stir and serve in tall glass with ice.
I must be thinking of something else. That’s basically a pink coke? A Shirley Temple Black. Ok — it’s been a long day.
I’m sitting here doing some paperwork for tomorrow, keeping an eye on various blogs and listening to ITunes — my Holiday Play List on shuffle. And it just played a song I’ve never heard. “It Happened in Sun Valley” played by the Glen Miller Orchestra. I swear I’ve NEVER heard that before. It came from one a CD “I’ll be Home for Christmas — Songs that won the War” which I probably picked up on sale one year. Isn’t it weird how you can think you’ve heard every Christmas song that was ever written at least 500 times (not counting Musak) and then suddenly there’s one you’ve never heard. From the 1940s.
I think I know what you mean. In the early eighties a DJ played a Beatles song that I’d never heard (I wish I could remember which one it was) or didn’t recognise anyway, it was very disorienting.
I’m reposting this question from last night because that cafe closed before anyone could answer and I really want to know if anyone knows.
The really fun thing about Puget Sound latitudes compared to Ohio Latitudes is the swing of the setting sun from north to south and back in a year’s time. I put it at about 90 degrees difference between farthest northward movement of the setting sun to farthest southward movement of the setting sun six months later.
Does anyone know if there is a sliding scale for setting of sun (or the rising) compared to latitude?
Don’t know. But its a good question. Maybe somebody will have an answer.
I don’t even understand the question??
lately I’ve been getting links at the top of my Gmail page to a Yahoo service, “Ask Yahoo!” where they answer questions like the origin of the term “hat trick” or which has been around longer, ESPN or MTV.
Ask your question at http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/ and maybe you’ll get an answer!
I’m not sure exactly what the ? is, but, the total variation in maximum solar altitude (measured at solar noon, ie: @90° so) for any location is 47°.
Here is a link to the LOF Sun Angle Calculator that may give you a clearer picture of the geometries involved. Plus you can compare the charts for various lats.
LOF Sun Angle Calculator Should be 1st selection…fingers crossed.
Hope this helps
Peace
She’s asking about the progression of sunsets (or rises) from the most northerly to the most southerly between the summer and winter solstices.
I think at the equator it would be identical to + and – the exact angle of tilt of the axis.
It’s pretty obviously a trig problem but as I’m now a gluer-and-screwer, and starting my 2nd evening beer, eez not my yob.
Shoulda looked at my charts before posting. I believe what you’re addresing is azimuth v altitude and you are correct in your observation that, indeed the sun appears to swing much farther north to south at sunrise and sunset the further N you are in latitude.
Ohio is approx.40° N Lat and the az differential between sunrise and sunset in the solar year is approx 61° ( 59%deg; S to 120° N.)
Puget Sound @ approx 48° N Lat the differential is approx 74%deg; (53° S TO 127° N.)
Damn, now I’m muddying the water. Best quit while I can, check out the charts tho, they’re really very easy to use. Goose should be able to decifer them in no time, sailor that he is.
Peace
Located here. Plop in your latitude (about 40 degrees for Columbus, Ohio, or about 48 degrees for anywhere around Puget Sound, as the US-Canada border is the 49th parallel), and the date, and you’ll get a the azimuth at the horizon (that is, where the sun rises) for the sun. Put in December 21 and June 21 to get the ranges. For Columbus, the sun rises at an azimuth of 57.9 degrees (a little more than 30 degrees north of due east) on June 21 and 120.5 degrees, or a little more than 30 degrees south of due east on December 21. For Puget Sound, the range is 52.4 degrees to 125.3 degrees, so it’s about 73 degrees. Not quite the 90 you imagined, but not far short of that, either.
At the equator, the range is 47 degrees (from 67.5 to 113.5), just twice the tilt of the earth’s axis. At the Arctic Circle, the range would be from zero to 180 degrees if the orbit of the earth around the sun were perfectly circular. It isn’t, so the results are just approximate.
Actually, if you play around with the numbers they’re all approximate, since some calculators make elaborate corrections for the earth’s elliptical orbit and even for the precession (the wobble) of the earth’s axis.
thanks much!! I’ll follow the links and give it a try tonight when I get back home.
I love it when a question has an answer.
I had been eye-balling the location of the sunset (can’t see the sunrise–there’s a hill behind us) compared to land marks on the near horizon from the same place (out our front window)…. like the ancient astronomers.
Thanks again
Goodnight everyone!
Puget4 — email me if you’re interested in working on that platform idea.
I don’t think I’d be much help. I don’t have much time… that’s why I’m not here on a regular basis.
Keep me posted though. I’d like to know how you’re doing.
Drive on over!