Is it fun to be in the snow and ice ?

[chickenfeathers]

Is it fun to be in the snow and ice ?

Well, maybe not!: :|

 

[Scrambled Egg]

 

[chickenfeathers]

 

[cknmom]

It got to 38 degrees yesterday.DH finally came in from making the pad for the storage container at 4:30 it was 34 degrees and who know what with the wind chill added in,probably 28. By 6:00 it was twenty. When I got up this morning it was 20 degrees at 6 am. We are in CA!!

 

[Rosalind]

Bah, I will add to my list:

-If all your pipes are REALLY well-insulated (mine are not, as it turned out today)

-If you have All-wheel drive (not 4WD--really makes a difference) and snow tires
-If your city is good about plowing and putting down cinders/salt/sand
-If you are owed some vacation days at work, so you can take a snow day as needed

I was thinking about it, you know what I would miss more than snow and ice? Sleeping weather. You don't really get it down South. When it gets to about mid-60s during the day, and you can nap in a hammock outside without waking up feeling fried/sunburnt, and at night it gets down in the 40s so that you can sleep with a window open just a crack and the cool night air blows a breeze over your face, with the warm blankets snuggled up around you...Wake up the next morning after sleeping 10-12 hours because it was so good. I can't sleep well if it's over 75 at night, I always wake up too hot and thrash around looking for a cool spot on the sheets.

 

[chickiepoo]

Yeah, Rosalind. I like to sleep that way also. I keep the thermostat so low DH usually walks in and declares you could hang meat in the house it is so cool. But he lived in Fl. for 25 years and hasn't been back long enough to get acclimated even to our mild weather.

 

[Catalina]

Diary of a Snow Shoveler

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

I can't sleep well if it's over 75 at night, I always wake up too hot and thrash around looking for a cool spot on the sheets

Well we have a remedy for that. You set the thermostat on the A/C down to 68 and make it sleep weather in your house. With humidity close to 100% and lows in the mid seventys here, you only sleep with the windows open if you are dirt poor! A/C is not a luxury it is a necessity. Better not to sleep outside, mosquitos will eat you, well not eat you, but suck your lifes blood out and replace it with west nile virus! We always look forward to at least one night at freezing temps so the little buggers will get frosbit and their population reduced to manageable numbers.

When I was in Hawaii, I always laughed when the tourists complained about the two or three mosquitos we had there. There are times when you inhale them if you go outside and breath!
Cattle here have been known to suffocate from breathing in mosquitos .
Not complaining mind you its just the way it is.​

 

[Alleyoops25]

Well where I live I dont lack having snow. Last year when Colorado got hit hard people actually started selling it on ebay. I live in a bowl. So in every direction I look I see mountians covered in snow, which is breath taking. How ever I have seen a few Texan's come up here and then about a year later they head back due to the extreme winter weather. I used to love going out and playing in it as a kid. But now I dont much care for it. We live on a small hill and we have to shovle it of really good other wise we cant make it up the drive way. The animals are harder to take care of. Their water freezes and you have to change it periodically through the day. You have to keep heat lamps running so the birds dont freeze to death. We spend from Oct. to about the first of May battling blizzards, and some times you end up driving 5 miles an hour to get to town to buy groceries and then to return. And these months leave me in pain from the constant cold, and in coming storms. I dont like it but I would rather deal with it verses the Hurricanes, tornado's and earth quakes. If you would like feel free to come up this way. Or I could mail you a bucket or hundered of the stuff. I have 2 feet on the ground right now. Good to look at but not so much fun to be in. Just ask my chickens.

 

[TxChiknRanchers]

We do plan to come to Colorado one of these days, I'll let you know when. I would love to see the sites you describe! Winter may not be the best time to travel there by what you say but I'll bet its beautiful. That being said, I probably would be one of those Texans that bail when it gets too cold! I'm a palm tree, pinacolada, hammock kinda guy myself!!!
Thanks for the mental pictures though!
BTW send a bucket or two of snow on down I'll sit out under a tree on a real hot day and hang a toe in some.
Randy