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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
Any pond in particular 
? 
I'm down in sunny () Australia...kea is a little further down again in New Zealand 
And where are you 
??
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
Ah, well then, that'd be the Pacific pond...lol
I'm in Arizona, US...blah blah, boring out here...lots of sand...no water...quite hot, that sort of thing.
I'm such a baby...
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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
I always get my ponds mixed up
Oh, that sounds....warm......at the moment it's pi$$ing down rain here in Melbourne (Victoria)...but that's the beauty of Melbourne...sunny one minute...storming the next 
...well it's lunch time, so I better go take my Mum out to eat (it's her birthday, I should do something 
)
Back in a little while
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
Happy birthday, mum!!!
Lunchtime, eh? It's 7pm, these parts!
I'll be about, have fun, and buy mum the lobster bisque...
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
Erm.....why?
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The idea of big night skies...reading Barbara Kingsolver...people I have talked to who live there and love the desert...novels I've read...
I had a conversation years ago with someone from Arizona and his description of the desert ecosystem were beautiful.
I've probably watched too many American movies too
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
Well, I'm halfway up a mountain in the desert, rather odd weather up here. The sky is huge, and absolutely breathtaking at sundown. You see an insane amount of stars, because there is a law to keep down the lights so that you don't block them out. The air is beautiful...but I REALLY miss the @&$%^*# water. I'd give any of a number of appendages up if somebody would just put a large body of water within an hour of my home....
Other than that, I love it.
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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
I'm no good in the sun at al...I freckle and burn 
...give me rainy Melbourne any day of the week
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
It's the oddest thing. My face freckles...but that's it. The rest of me tans. By the end of July I tend to look like somebody cut out a picture of a freckly girl and stuck it atop a hispanic body.
You have to use sunscreen all year long here, because of the altitude, but I suppose you do out thataways as well. Haven't you a huge hole in the ozone round there?
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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
Oh yeah, we've got the biggest ozone hole around
I always look ridiculous in the summer...the brownest I get is a dirty shade of beige...even my blond blue eyed father tans better than I do ...as a result I stay out of the sun if I can
Sunscreen is usually only for summer, but further north (like Queensland or Northern Territory) you'd probably need it all year long...but I think it's pretty much *always* hot up there....
(All I know about Arizona is it's in a Beatles song )
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Mountains without rain? How strange.
Yes, I'd probably miss the sea, lakes, rain. You have big rivers though don't you?
That's great you have laws about the lights
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
Is it really?
I suppose I'll be lynched for this, but I'm not a particular fan of the Beatles...
what song was it?
I suppose I should hide now...I'm too young to be pulverized by Beatles fans weilding deadly plastic Ringos of destruction...
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I think the ozone hole is the worst in the Spring. I got sunburnt in August once
Sunscreen is problematic - if you wear it all the time it blocks Vit D metabolism which is not good.
*tries to think of Arizona Beatles song...*
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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
but he knew it woulsn't last
Jojo left his home in Tuscon, Arizona
for some California grass
tanzen
(random Beatlefreak 
)
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
There's no big rivers around here.
There is the one that goes thru the Grand Canyon, but that's 2 hours away. The designation "desert" apparently only has to do with the amount of yearly rainfall, so it doesn't make a difference that we're halfway up a mountain..lol
Monsoon season had better be good this year, we need the rain. When the monssons DO come, (which isn't nearly as much as it should've been, past few years) it's crazy. You'll see three full rainbows at once, because the sky is so big out here, clouds nearly never cover the whole thing. It'll be pouring crazy all about, but the sun'll be out across the street.
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
I don't think I've ever heard that one!
Tuscon is further south, low desert...hot with cactus a such.
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tanzen Posted Jul 5, 2004
It's "Get Back" 
Wow, it does sound lovely there though...Ranger lives out in the desert I think (in New Mexico)...I suppose if you're born there you get used to it ??
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I know that song, but I can never remember things like that when I need to
I've heard about rainstorms in the desert too 
The mountains in NZ are the central feature of our weather (that and our proximity to Antartica). Basically whichever way the fronts come they hit the mountains and drop bucketloads of precip (as the weather 
s call it)
So you can get very high rainfall on the windward side of the mountains, and then it's dry on the leeward side.
It's now getting annoyingly sunny outside here, so I might have to drag myself away from my comuter...
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madmonk-of wine and wibble, contemplator of those little specks you can only see in the sunlight and everyone says are NOT dust Posted Jul 5, 2004
it's getting a bit late here.
I have to get going.
It was nice being bored with you all, tho!
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