Temporarily out of contact.
 

Ladies and Gentlemen.

I will be unavailable for approximately 10 days... I will not have access to phones, and will likely only have very sporadic availability of WiFi.

My guard dogs will be on duty at the house, and my house sitter has his CC permit, so I would not advise a visit in my absence... :D

Will check in and tell you all about it when I get back.

Y'all behave yourselves while I am gone, or Ed Tinker will bring the hammer down on you! :order:

Kind regards, -John S.

and the weather here is icky, so my temper is short :D

safe travels my friend

OK John! Look forward to a report! Hey Ed. 82 degrees here yesterday!

I wish you all the best! (whatever is the reason of your being "unavailable")

Sergio

To go away and be totally out of contact with the World is Heavenly!! Have a safe and wonderful trip.

No worries...

I'll Moderate both Ed and John Sabato for you folks..

John D.

Where in the world is John Sabato? Do you know?

Beijing, China. Forbidden City, or thereabouts. Looks like he's having a grand time!!

I'd say from the picture, Leavenworth, WA - they are having a late winter Oktober fest :)
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Whats funny is that a good friend of ours and her daughter are heading to China on Thursday for a trip :)
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Nooooo, he's not, he's only having us on.
I recognize that building on the background, I saw it in Disneyland ...


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Everyone in winter coats at Disneyland or Disney World? I think he's in China.

He is definitly not here in Florida!!!

Obviously you've never been to Florida when the temps dip below 60 degrees ;) All the Floridians are out in parka's, mittens and ear muffs... HA!!!!

:thumbsup:

John D.

No doubt that*!!! We used our fireplace at Christmas at 60 degrees. We are still running our AC!! ~~Eric

Now that's pretty funny - as so are we..???
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Ours is "Natural A/C" - and somehow - we can't "turn it off"..!!!!
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And yes - that "white stuff" falling from the sky right now is SNOW... ;)

best to you!

John

John can we trade for a while~~~I do miss it, maybe for a week or so!!!!

You bet!!!!! I'll even fill up the snow-blower with gas....! I should warn you though - we do have quite a few walkways, decks and outside stairs..?? How do you feel about shoveling?? ;)

Best to you!

John

And give-up the indoor heated pool? NOT!

You are killing me here... Really... I'm not kidding...

:D

John

We lease our home for $1300/mo everything included ie pool, lawn, water and cable. You can fish from our living room!

Well - I lease my home for $1300 a month as well - and you can even snowshoe out the back door..!!!! AND - as a bonus - all the servers/circuits/routers reside in my office above the garage - so you can bring this site (and all the others I host) "on" and "off" to your hearts delight..! In fact - you can even BAN Ed Tinker from those servers and systems..??!

Just sayin' ....

:cheers:

John

Simple, Thank you John for every thing~~~~~

Sunrise...

You are killing me here.. A beautiful, serene sunrise..!! Nicely done..!

Here is what we woke up to - about 8"-9" of new white stuff...

- John

Disneyland ? Disneyworld? NOT!
 

Apparently we have a "globe hopping couple"?? Taken early this morning (2/19/14 @ 10:24 AM).. But - which timezone and city??

;)

- John

Hmm, looks to still be PRC, but in front of a Western-style government-looking building. Shanghai, perhaps? I would say Macau, but they look to cold to be standing in Macau...

Hong Kong would be warmer, too. My guess would be that they are still in N. China. Manchuria?

Background not ugly enough to be N. Korea, and certainly John would have more sense than to travel there!!!

ETA: Guess 2; Like Cirelaw's guess: Moscow, perhaps? Not familiar with the building(s) in the background, looks very SovBlock, with apt. buildings in the background for the apparatchiks...

Of course I was only joking about Disneyland!

Anyway to John Sabato and family: have a very nice Holiday
To John D.: thanks also for sharing the above mentioned photos
and to Eric: well I'm a bit envious, you seem to live in a really gorgeous place; here we are experiencding rainish days and foggy mornings.

Never mind let's wait for Spring.

Moscow!!! Red and Yellow flags in background!= The former U.S.S.R. ~~ Da??

Trans-Siberian railroad journey?? Wow, that would be awesome! Want to visit Volgograd (fmr. Stalingrad) very badly...


ETA: True, T-S Railway journey takes about 3 weeks, if I recall correctly...

Good Guess but not in their limited time~~

It got to 40 here today and Sunny, I was walking around in a t-shirt it was so warm!

please send some of that 40 degree weather a little North and East.! We started off today sunny.. As of 2PM (two hours ago)? It's snowing again and still coming down hard...

I feel like I'm in Siberia... Even though I've never actually been to Siberia, I'm pretty sure Siberia feels just like this... Maybe.. Just saying... Sort of...

Nevermind...

Carry on ;)

John

So you are saying that you have snow like in the pictures ?

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Hmmmm... OK - actually, those pictures actually me feel a bit better... Not much, mind you - but...

;)

John

The pictures show the conditions in part of Russia.

And people wonder why Napoleon Bonaparte had problems there.

Napoleon was short and was probobly buried in snow half the time!!!

Starbucks coffee on the rock - and obviously "tourists", as they've clearly parked their scooter in the "NO PARKING except for Police and Fire Official Vehicles"...

A view of downtown Cairo from an evening cruise on the Nile...

I guess...

;)

- John

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please take a lot of pictures. Where have you had the finest food? Eric