Cob: "Ianto says..."

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Mark Piepkorn wrote:

>I laugh every time she does that.
>What I didn't write about were things
>like where the book instructs to not
>destroy something nice, like a stream,
>by building next to it -- but then two
>pages later recommends building tight
>up against a tree or... running water.

I read the same passages in the book and said "Wha?"  Thanks very much for
this post.  It's good to throw a little reality into the mix once in a
while.  Not that Ianto can't be realistic, but any realism is often
overshadowed by his idealism...and as you said, I get caught up.  Thanks for
the down-to-earth talk.  ;)

>but then fifty pages later, another
>anecdote relates that the outside
>January temperature on one chilly
>day was a positively balmy 64F --
>and a couple pages after that, it's
>revealed that "frozen ground is almost
>unknown here."

In Ianto's defense, a 64 degree day in January in Cottage grove is no more
likely than a 0 degree day.  In short, that's freakishly warm and very
unusual.  The average high in the Cottage Grove/Eugene area in January is
about 45-50 degrees (with lows in the mid to upper 30's).  Granted, that's
still hardly frigid, it does make a difference.

Brina