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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

I wish to thank everyone for their commnetary on canning regarding my wife's 
concerns about sealing, all very usefull input.

> > On a different note, Del, please tell me :  What is a sun-dog?

Hélène,'sun-dogs' (parhelia) appear mid-winter on either side of the sun 
when the conditions of ice crystals in the air are just right to refract 
light. Quite beautiful, they are some a distance away from the sun.
see  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/halo22.html#c3
or    http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm
I would be interested to learn what the french expression for it is too,
Del

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