Since we are such a geographically mixed group, it might be fun to add a photo of what we see when we look out our windows while playing MM. Any interest? Might be interesting for new players, too. I, for one, am intrigued by what brell sees in Husavik!

Hehe.  When I play MM I am located in a room in the basement of my house and do not have a good view though the window.  Believe it or not:  My camera is not working so I cannot put a picture here for the moment.  Hmm....  computer, camera, and my TV seems to be getting old these days.

Here in Iceland we have an "official" first day of winter the last Saturday of October, so yesterday was the first day of winter in Iceland.  And lo and behold!  We got the biggest low so far this autumn.  Wind speed up to 40 m/s with blizzard more or less all over the country.  The road to th nearest town, Akureyri, has been closed now since Friday.  The harbour here in Husavik was damaged by big ocean waves.  The temperature has been fluctuating around 0 °C

My view:  The street on the front with about 30 cm of snow.  At the back I have a view of my backyard with birch and gran trees. And behind that a primary school playground.  The time is now 17:07 and it is slowly getting dark.

A picture will surely follow later  8-)

Hi brell -

Read this and weep! I am about 150' from the Atlantic Ocean, it is 4:00 PM, the temperature is 23 C, 74 F, the sky is blue, and it is a beautiful afternoon. Photo to follow when I find my camera. Please do send a photo - when you leave the basement.

P.S. My husband says that Iceland is supposed to have the most beautiful women in the world.

Hehe.  Yes, of course.  And the biggest bank crisis  8-)

brell wrote on 27.10.2008 at 04:16:57:

Yes, of course.  And the biggest bank crisis  8-)

We can sympathize with that, Brell.

I do not open the drapes in the computer room because there's nothing front or side but other houses.  My camera is at hand but will pass on sending a picture since the scenery is not choice. :D

Sherry, I envy your view......

Well, as I live in a concrete jungle, with houses all around, I too keep my curtains semi - closed.  My computer room is on the 2nd flr.  I have my huge flat screen TV in the middle of the window, so that the people across the street cannot see me.  My desk is to the right of it.  That way I can see the TV while a play MM and do my paper work.

My view is of two 3 story semi-detached victorian houses.  Houses all around. No real view to speak of.

BTW:  I hate winters in Toronto....very damp and very cold.  Last year, we in the city had so much snow and no where to put it.  What a mess!

So......Question to all of you....who do you think will win the Presidential USA election?  And why?  

brell wrote on 27.10.2008 at 04:16:57:

Hehe.  Yes, of course.  And the biggest bank crisis  8-)

Apparantly Icelanders hate the Brits now, is this true?  :'(

My view at night:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/lararuffle/mm.jpg

Lara wrote on 28.10.2008 at 01:28:52:

brell wrote on 27.10.2008 at 04:16:57: Hehe.  Yes, of course.  And the biggest bank crisis  8-) Apparantly Icelanders hate the Brits now, is this true?  :'(

No Lara, just Brown and Darling  ;)

You have lost so many cod wars against us anyway  8-)

Mmmm I like cod. Fish and chips - yum!

Yes but if Icelandic fishing companies don't get paid from British fish factories due to the bank crisis, then you won't be getting any fish and chips in the near future.  I understand from the news that a member of your parliament from Grimsby or Hull has been trying to warn the government about this problem in order to get UK banks to transfer money from the English buyers to the Icelandic sellers.

But now I am getting rather off topic  ::)

I finally found my 'camera to computer' cord to download the photos from my window. I am very lucky to have a small condo at Kure (pronounced curry) Beach where we spend as much time as possible. The view says why we do. Our home is about 25 minutes away in Wilmington in the woods. Here I look out on my birdhouses (really squirrel houses!). I've also included a photo of an "addition" outside this window - wonderful to watch and appropriate with Halloween tomorrow in the states.

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The "squirrel" feeders

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The visitor outside my window

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WOW Sherry,

You are sooooo LUCKY (except for the yukkie spiders of course!)

We in the concrete jungle really envy you!
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Hi Missy,

The spider is actually amazing. He/she is about 5 inches leg to leg. The bottom of the window is about 10 feet above the ground, and he/she is in the top 1/4th of the 5 foot window. I thought he/she was dead - no movement in a couple of days - but he/she is in a different position today. Yeah.

Thanks for admiring my views out my windows. I really am lucky.

Hey Sherry,

You are sooooo brave!  Me, I am bug/spider/millapead phobic. Creepy crawlers freak me out.

I prefer lizards and snakes.....love them, play with them.....but not bugs or spiders. yukkie.

Raccoons are plentiful in the city....they are all over the place.  I keep my outdoor cat at home night time because of them.  
Some of them are huge.  In our coldest winters, in the middle of the night,  I wake up to a God awful terrible high pitched child like squealing.  
The night is so cold, crisp and quiet except for this skin chilling squealing.  I run to the front, then back of the house, hoping to see what it is.  There, way up in the bare tree branches is one huge Raccoon hanging by the tip of a thin branch bending to the breaking point (he's the one making all the noise) and another huge and I mean huge snarling, growling Raccoon at the base of the branch edging his way closer and closer.  The trees are 5 stories high and the tip of the branch is bent to about the 3rd story.  Suddenly I notice that there on the 3rd story roof tops of the 4 houses are 6-7 more huge Raccoons perched and watching.  
You have to picture this.....there I am in my jammies, no coat, freezing crisp snow piled so high that I can barely open the screen door, with my slippers sinking into the snow as I make my way out as close to the fence enclosing the neighbors tree, making snow balls, throwing them up as high as I can, with now frozen fingers and hands to discourage the snarling Raccoon from forcing the one holding on for his life, to plummet to his death.....trying with a shushed voice to disperse the band (so as not to wake up the entire neighborhood......(my feet are also frozen as I am standing knee high in the snow) lololol
It is quite the picture and this happens every year during our cold snap and prolonged snow drifts.  Poor little things.  
That is the only adventure I get with the animals here in the city.  lololol
I actually build a parking pad in lieu of the grass in the front of the house so as to avoid going up/down the driveway to the back of the house to get my car...because I would always meet a Raccoon the size of a mini car late at night.  None of us can figure out where they live. We are over ridden with them and no way of moving them out up north.

Sherry, your husband is a Vet....What is the life span of a Raccoon?

At most 5 - 7 years in the wild. In captivity they can life up to 15 years. Our problem here in NC is that they are a vector for rabies. I think we've had 3 or 4 confirmed cases of rabies in raccoons in Wilmington. Always scary. I feed a feral cat and am always trying to find ways to discourage the raccoons from eating her food. They always win - much cleverer than I am!

The little Scamps!!!  hee, hee, hee.  They are real cute tho.

Re: the rabies, that's why I built the new driving pad!

Hi Suztours -

What is out your window? You must see some amazing places.

Hi - We are in Easton Connecticut at my husband's best friend's (since 2nd grade and they are now in their mid 60's) Christmas tree farm. We come back here every year for their busiest weekends to sell trees. All trees, regardless of of size, that you cut down, are $58. They have 90 acres of trees - we take the people out to cut down their own tree, we bring them back and bring back the tree they tagged. The farm has been in our friend's family since 1740 - that's right, 1740. The continuity is amazing. The included are photos out my window in Connecticut