It's in the lower twenties, Farenheit, here. ~-4 to -6 Celsius, here. It finally feels like December.

It's double Den's temperature where I live XD! It makes wearing a jacket too hot, but wearing just a sweater a bit too cold.

XD And I was dumb and went out without gloves... because mine stank and were in the wash.

Ouch, poor fingers Dx.

I wore a t-shirt and shorts, with sandals on my feet, when I went out shopping today...

*sticks my cold hands on you*

*ditto that, Toho. You're getting cold fingers from both sides!*

That's really warm Toho o.o. Do you ever need to wear a jacket?

Sometimes, yeah. XD Today's high is 60.

Of course, I don't ever wear actual winter coats, unless I go up north somewhere. Light jackets, hoodies, that sort of thing.

stop bragging about your warm weather D:

I think I'd go bonkers in a place with no winter.

...Well. MORE bonkers.

It's the way things have always been for me. "real" winter has always been a thing to visit.

Light jackets/hoodies don't count as jackets XD!

Today's high is 41 degrees, and the temperature highs are noticeably getting lower fast on the weather predictions '~'

I was in a place without snow once. Chihuahua Mexico in the summer. Right at the start of the rainy season. I got heat stroke so bad that I was laid up for a full day, and I can still remember the pain. And then, on our way back to El Paso, there was a solid wall of water falling down from the sky and moving across the desert. The cows were running from it, and anything cows run from has gotta be drowning from above, this farm girl thinks (but it's only a theory). LOL

The cows? -pictures a bunch of cows running willy nilly under the rain-
Ouch, heatstroke D:
I like the rain a lot, but hot places not very much.

No. They were in front of the rain, running away from it. Like I say, it was coming down in a solid sheet.

Hmmm -goes to look at a video of rain in sheets-
Ohh, I think I get it. I've never seen rain in sheets before :o!

I've had a few occasions where I found the edge of a very slowly moving rainstorm, and so there was a visible line where it was raining on one side and not on the other...and I could go back and forth, hehe.

That sounds really cool Toho! Wow that sounds really amazing :o. I wonder though, would the rain have been only drizzling at the edge or would it have been raining hard..?

it was raining fairly hard.

I've also watched a wall of rain sweep across a field. That was fun. :P

That sounds really amazing! I had no idea that kind of rain existed :x

I've only ever been in regular rain xD

Rain in sheets usually happens around here in the spring and summer... along with rain so thick and heavy that you can't see ahead of you more than a couple feet and have to pull off the road. We occasionally get rain so hard even semi trucks will pull off the road and wait it out.

Wow, I can't even imagine it XD. I like walking in heavy rain during summertime, but if it rained that hard that wouldn't even be possible X"D!

Wow Tam, do you live in Alaska or Siberia xD

It neverrrr gets that cold here. Our winter is like, 10C =(((((

Naw, Tam's Canadian. She's one of two people from her hometown that I know, and one of three people from Canada who I have as friends. :)

That rain I was talking about sounded like big hail, but it was just water!

Edmonton Canada. And the cold is rare nowdays.

Let me live in your dog house D:
I want to see snow before I die!

Sorry, mdon. You're outta luck. I don't even have a ME house. LOL

So I went to a party last night (first time in almost two years that I've felt like going to an event for the group hosting the party), and we played a game called Iceberg Races, where we had to kneel/lay on scooters made to look like the tops of icebergs... The idea was that we'd pull ourselves along the floor using plungers, but that wasn't working so well, so we all pretty much abandoned the idea and pulled ourselves along with our hands... I ended up with a couple of parting gifts...

The second "parting gift" looks heart-shaped x'D.

Plungering the floor sounds fun though

It was a good concept, but the floor wasn't cooperating. lol

Huh? Heart? *looks* Oh yeah. Huh.

*dives into a pile of books*

I was just reading another autobiography of people who wrote down a language for the first time, and I was struck by the different reactions that people have to being able to read in their own language for the first time. Some of them are indifferent and don't see any need for it. Others, you have a riot the day the first book is made, even if it's just an ABC book.

That's for adults who read in their own language for the first time..?

I guess so. *shrug*

It's for whole people groups who read in their own language for the first time.

Ohhh, okay. Is this they start off illiterate in all languages or they know a language not their own :o?

It's people from one of the hundreds of language groups whose languages have never been written down yet. Many can't read in anything because the official language from the schools is so different from their own that they have a hella time learning it. And there are, even now days, some people who have never seen a book of any kind in their lives.

WHERE BE MY LAWTAN BUDDY