I can't imagine living in the North....

[Brunty_Farms]

Wow.... other Ohio people... You must live in the middle of the state?

If you move up towards the lake you get great winters. Full of snow... the weather is always changing here in the Northeast. Last two days it's been gloomy but it's a typical December day.... minus the snow.


You guys need some lake effect!

 

[lilcrow]

Not the middle, SW corner, I really don't want the lake effect much. It's pretty cutting. Although I'll admit it's MUCH more beautiful on the lake. Erie is a beautiful lake now. You look like you're too young to remember when it was a cesspool. Years ago it was so polluted it killed almost every fish in it, but it is pristine now. I've seen it when the air and the water were hard to tell apart. That is a beautiful look also. Crazy seagulls, luv feeding those silly things.

 

[possumqueen]

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GOOD GRIEF!!!! I just THOUGHT cows were bad!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, all you northerners up there. We'll keep our hot, drippy summers down here if you'll keep your freezing winters up there!

I don't like snow. I really REALLY don't like the 90s and 100s in the summer! But I SURE like the folks in the south! They're the main reason I'm a d_________d Yankee -- which is a Yankee that came and stayed, as the locals put it. I've been here since '72. The folks are mighty fine.

That said, those pictures you're putting on here about the snowy winter scenes sure are pretty!

 

[Amyable]

BuckCreek, that yard shot looks mighty familiar.

I love living where Christmases are white, fall is kaleidoscopic, and spring and summer are shades of green.

possumqueen, another winter wonderland pic, during the blizzard last week that dropped 14" of the white stuff.

 

[rhoda_bruce]

No perfect place to live I guess, but I can do what I do pretty good here. It is too bad about all that freezing weather in the north.
We do have a hurricane every few years, but I just pull out a chainsaw and harvest next winter's firewood from the mess......maybe the next few years. Might as well bloom where you are planted.
And then I can honestly say that the grass is still green and slightly growing, so you know the northern people are catching it with their feed bills.
t does get very hot, but that is why we plant so many shade trees. 10 to 20 degree difference under one of those. We do have a hard freeze from time to time though. In fact we actually had snow about 5 years ago for Christmas morning. My only white Christmas in 43 years. But I'm so used to foggy or rainy Christmas' that to me that is normal Christmas weather.
My godmother has two residents. She finds it too cold in Michigan in the winter and too hot in Louisiana in the summer, so she goes where she can tolerate the temps. She is previleged and we can't all do that, for sure.
I can sympotize with our northern friends. The closest I can come to their problem is when it is flooding and we have to go out in high boots and rescue everything. That means I keep a few outside buildings (which are up on blocks) as empty and clean as possible. Fortunately we have an awesome levee system, so floods are usually quickly pumped out. (although FEMA denies its existance)

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Long long dark freezing winters and a two-week growing season seems like h.e. double toothpicks to me, but a little colder.

 

[wildorchid053]

gee anyone want to swap houses for a couple of weeks.. i need some warm weather..

 

[Akane]

I don't mind snow but I hate cold. I kept telling everyone I was allergic to cold and then it turns out I kind of am. Cold weather asthma. It hits 10F or lower (which is several months straight) and my respiratory tract closes off. My nose also runs all winter every winter. My blood flow is fine but my body doesn't seem to produce enough of it's own heat. I get cold to the touch when it's 50F out and I've had mild frostbite. Several of my fingers and toes will turn yellow and go numb instantly if exposed to cold water or snow. So I have plenty of reason to whine about winter.

But I can't move for various reasons.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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Sounds like NC!

 

[AtholCoop]

Dunno, the cold and snow acts like a filter of sorts. If you're an idiot you won't last long.

Here's my coop about this time last year. We ended up getting over 10' by the time spring came around.

And here's the snow pile from the year before.

I look at it like this, at least we don't have any snakes, tornados, or hurricanes. Snow I can shovel, and plow.