How do all you Northeners do it?

[kla37]

La Nina is really showing her face this year.

 

[goldenluver]

up here in the PNW it is about 40 and pretty balmy, saw a few snow flakes yesturday when it was 29 out, but nothing stuck. haven't had any snow stick since the week before TG, and that lasted a few hours

 

[Cat Water]

I had 5 degrees here. We had a snow day from school because already there is more than a foot of snow. With the wind chill, it was like -1.

I got locked out of the house this morning, so I threw a can of soda at my sister's bedroom window until she let me in! I was outside without a coat for half an hour!

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

A balmy -20F here this morning!

 

[chicken stalker]

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[sgtmom52]

We are retired so we can just sit in front of this if we don't want to go out ~

But if we need to dig out we have this with a 5' plow ~

This ~

And one of these ~

We have a 250' driveway with large parking area to clear as well as paths to the coops, bee hives and if it's too deep a potty path for our beagle.

 

[woodmort]

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Actually it isn't La Nina or La Nino--it's the North Atlantic Oscillation that is causing cold air to move further south.

 

[Frosty]

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We only went down to -15 last night

Up to -2 or so now. I was talking to my mother last night (she's in PA) and it was -10 at the time. I was musing that -10 is 42 degrees below freezing. 42 degrees above freezing is 74. I'll take that! And it would only need to go up 84 degrees to get there!

 

[woodmort]

Besides, if it weren't for the cold and snow, when would you find time to sit by the fire with your feet up and go through the seed catalogs planning next summer's garden?

 

[Frosty]

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Then again, it's obviously giving me too much time because I have been working on my chick wish list. Now I need to find a way to trim it down, I don't think DH would like me getting $600 worth of chicks (though some are poults). And I haven't even touched the hatchery catalog yet!