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

[joebryant]

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Oh, shut up!

 

[Overeasyplz]

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lol mine too I thinkg they are boycotting me

 

[cameldairy]

Okay, if you want me to feel sorry for you I will, just don't worry about me, a few bugs and humidity is no biggie. I used to break horses for a living and now I am about to start up the second camel dairy in the U.S. A., (and yes, I know first hand what it feels like to have been kicked in the (bad) knee from a camel who was not wanting to be milked!)

 

[b.hromada]

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OT - One day DH and I stopped at our local stop and rob to buy a coke. There was a half-starved, (obviously) mama dog hanging around outside. Inside the store I used the all the change I had in my pocket to buy her a couple of hot dogs.
As I fed them to her, my DH shook his head and said, you can't save them all you know. My response was, no I can't. But there's one dog that's not going to sleep hungry tonight. Sometimes that has to be enough.

So true! Just one good deed does the heart a tremendous amount of good!!

So very, very true!

 

[cameldairy]

OH Pompano Beach!!!! I used to train race horses on your wonderful tracks down there! Loved the area.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Your sympathies are appreciated from this Northerner but hardly needed. Many of us LOVE THE COLD. I lived in Georgia. I miss the people but not the weather. I just put my dogs out on their runs in my shorts and tshirt. I also stopped in to visit my birds and turn off the lights. It's 40 degrees out, warm for this time of year. To live somewhere with no seasons is out of the question and I've lived other places. There is nothing like a 20 degree crisp clear night. You can taste the air. My motorcycle just went inside for the winter, only because there is ice and sand on the roads. Sea kayaking this time of year is breathtaking. The water is clear, the air is crisp, and the seals are active and curious.

The ski slopes are covered and the snow guns are blazing away. The ponds have a thin layer of ice and the winter scenes are stunning.

Until you experience the glory of a real winter you just haven't lived.

 

[TipsyDog]

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Terrific! I can barely take another winter up here. Please PM me your address. I have started packing. Anything you'd like me to bring from up here? Some fresh maple syrup perhaps?

 

[gritsar]

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I have experienced real winters, living in Colorado. Nah, no thanks. You can keep them. As far as I'm concerned Arkansas winters stink, not too cold but I like to see the sun sometime between October and April, for more than a few hours.

 

[SC_Hugh]

Any "snowbirds" out there?

Snowbirds are the retired folks from the northern states that relocate to Arizona for the winter. If you attach your chicken coop trailer on the back of your motor home, then you AND your chickens can be SNOWBIRDS!

Otherwise, enjoy the snow, I am heading up to Lake Tahoe on Friday for three days of skiing and snowboarding, chickens have to stay home though...

--Hugh

 

[Freeholder]

I've thought of building a mobile barn on a trailer frame for my goats, chickens, and a few meat rabbits. Problem is that would only leave us a camper on the back of the pickup to live in. Can't figure out any way to tow two trailers with my pickup, LOL! (And horse trailers with a camper in them are EXPENSIVE!)

I do get tired of hauling buckets of water through ice and snow to the animals, but other than that winter doesn't bother me. You mentioned (Cameldairy) that you were raised in Florida -- I was raised in Alaska. I guess a lot of what we can tolerate in weather has to do with where we grew up. I'd probably enjoy winters in your locale, but couldn't tolerate the summers. Summers in New Hampshire were almost more than I could stand (lived there for twelve years).

Kathleen