BYC Café

[Mtn Margie]

I usually just make things from scratch, just because of where we live. If you want good food, well learn to cook or die (drive actually) but it sounds more dramatic this way don't you think? Thanks for the link but there is no product in the whole state according to their website....

But anyway, I have a broody hen this AM. Her name is "Psycho Broody" and she is a very scary but really great mama. Nothing gets within range of even looking at her eggs or chicks or they face The Wrath of Mama. Spring is here, I just can't see it - snowing too hard.....

 

[scottcaddy]

Snowing and cold as well and I have no idea how much is on the ground. It is called the snowpak and God help you if you if you fall off the path.

8" to a foot predicted, sub 0 temps.
But all is well cause I have my "Coffee Clutch" groupies! Enjoy the day - I'm getting the fire going and I should make cookies or something.

I have fallen off of a snow path a time or 3, it really sucks when you are in snow thats deeper then 4 foot and the path is narrow! I learned that day to make a snow path wide enough 2 people can pass and to mark the path with poles so I wouldn't loose it again, when it snowed yet again.

Fun times LOL!!
Scott

 

[krista74]

I have a snow question - and you all seem like the right people to ask!

If you have, say, 5 feet of snow, can you walk on it? Like, is it hard like ice, or would you sink to the bottom and disappear until the next thaw?

Sorry for the newbie question, but as I said - no snow where I am!

- Krista

 

[sourland]

People have been known to disappear until spring thaw. Paths must be made and maintained for the daily routine. Skis and snowshoes are used for navigating when off paths - along with snow machines, etc.

 

[3goodeggs]

That's terrible! So dogs and children and the addled elderly can go missing and ...THAT"S TERRIBLE!!!!!

 

[Godsgrl]

I have a snow question - and you all seem like the right people to ask!

If you have, say, 5 feet of snow, can you walk on it? Like, is it hard like ice, or would you sink to the bottom and disappear until the next thaw?

Sorry for the newbie question, but as I said - no snow where I am!

- Krista

I think it depends on what kind of snow you have. There is packed, hard snow, then there is light fluffy snow. The light stuff you will literally fall right down into it. Dh (who grew up in WI) says that when snow first falls, it is very light, and you can fall right through. After some hours, such as overnight, it hardens up and is more packed. Although some of it can be frozen over, and some still light to where you will fall through.

 

[Mtn Margie]

That's terrible! So dogs and children and the addled elderly can go missing and ...THAT"S TERRIBLE!!!!!

But at least we don't have alligators or crocs dragging them under! I guess it depends on what terribles you choose to deal with....

Welcome Godsgrl to the cafe! Ostrich wrangling eh? I bet there is a story in that one....

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: Very good point.

More dogs than people, but still....

 

[starbuck123]

Good morning everyone, it's Wednesday here, almost 8 a.m. and I'm freezing in my little home office with the space heater on and two dogs at my feet. The coffee is doing nothing - yet. Windchills of -20 F something again. When it gets that cold the car really fogs up inside when I drive the kids to school.

On another note, I started another thread here titled 'dumping' your garbage service. We produce so little waste that I'm considering cancelling our curbside pick up. We recycle or compost 99.9% so I think it's do-able. I'm awaiting a callback from the recycling place to ensure that drop offs are free as well as specifically what they will take..empty bags of flour? TP rolls? I need the details before we take this plunge. Could you do it?

 

[3goodeggs]

Before our city had curb side recycling, I was always surprised, not by how little we put out, but by haw many cans our neighbors put out each pick up. We had two pick ups a week, and they would have four to five cans full twice a week. And I do not mean one set of neighbors. I mean almost all of them!

Then I realized that we do not purchase stuff.
Our groceries are not boxed, canned or bagged. I try to buy fresh and low packaging products.
We are not weekend consumers.

My son did not ruin his toys. We still have them to hand down to his kids.
But then again, we purchased sturdy quality toys that he enjoyed versus cheap plastic things that broke quickly.

One neighbor threw out her kids things if they did not put them away. The easiest way for her to clean up was to put everything in the garbage.
I felt sorry for those kids.
...and our landfill.
....and the kids that could have enjoyed the clothes and shoes and toys and books- if only she had donated them instead.
The trash can is too easy of a solution for too many people.


Good for you!