You Know You're a Northerner When...

[BantyChooks]

I still don't know what a Black fly is.
Are those at the coast in upper MA ? I may remember those when I was a kid but have not seen them since and never saw them on the Cape.
I think those were sand flies.
nevermiind

I am jealous!

Ok..that tops shoveling the deck....

I drove past a man shovelling his roof off today. I used to have to shovel the coop roof off.

 

[tigger19687]

I have a "Roof Rake', that is what they are called here.
Just make sure that the 1/2 the pole doesn't unclip while it is at the highest peek Yup, happened to me last storm but on the carport.
Darn good thing I felt it before it fully unhinged.

When the temps raise 15 degrees from " -something" and you yell Heat Wave !
.. or anything over 0F

 

[itsasmallfarm]

black flies...

did not know they where a north only thing.

there awful.

 

[adrikeen]

EEK!!!!!

 

[adrikeen]

We're bracing for an "ice" storm now. I'm curious to see what happens. All the schools/daycare/etc. have already closed for the day. It's causing havoc as I work in a nursing facility and staff can't exactly leave to go get children, etc. Interestingly...we've had two power outages yet the weather hasn't hit yet. Hmm......

 

[lazy gardener]

Is this black fly like a horse fly? Those are horrid!!!

Deer fly, horse fly, moose fly. Those are hypodermic needles with wings. Usually one at a time, and they fly circles around your head before sneaking up in stealth mode, and you don't feel them till they've jabbed their needle into you. Hurt. Oh man, those things hurt.

Know from experience, eh??

WAY worse.

They are small enough that some get through screens.

They breed in running water.

They come up in swarms.

They like the cool damp weather that makes up most of our spring and summer.

They go for the face.

Their bites hurt wicked bad, swell up, and ooze.

Need I go on?

Way, way worse! They surround you in a swarm. They love to crawl into secluded dark places: up your nose, in your ears, under your hair, up your pant leg, between pants and shirt, down the front of your shirt, into your bra, in your eyes. They love to get between my eyes and glasses, then ping back and forth in that space until they land in my eye. I once had one fly down my throat. I choked and gagged on it so bad that I peed my pants. Now, that's the ultimate insult! The worse thing is that these suckers are so irritating that my skin welts up even if all they do is land on me. They don't even have to bite before I'm in total skin misery.

A bit of a spoof that gets lots of folks totally wound up every season at the height of black fly season:

http://msmomainmaine.blogspot.com/2014/01/maine-blackfly-breeders-association.html

 

[tigger19687]

We are going to hit 50 on Thursday /Friday ! Wooo hoooo

Not sure if this is a Northerner thing or not, but I am about to get nailed with Ice Dam drainage Landlord sucks and knows we get this but alas... doesn't care.
Glad to know that when I move the ceilings/outer walls in EVERY room upstairs has water damage from 2 years ago. And now it will get more.

 

[BantyChooks]

Deer fly, horse fly, moose fly. Those are hypodermic needles with wings. Usually one at a time, and they fly circles around your head before sneaking up in stealth mode, and you don't feel them till they've jabbed their needle into you. Hurt. Oh man, those things hurt.



Way, way worse! They surround you in a swarm. They love to crawl into secluded dark places: up your nose, in your ears, under your hair, up your pant leg, between pants and shirt, down the front of your shirt, into your bra, in your eyes. They love to get between my eyes and glasses, then ping back and forth in that space until they land in my eye. I once had one fly down my throat. I choked and gagged on it so bad that I peed my pants. Now, that's the ultimate insult! The worse thing is that these suckers are so irritating that my skin welts up even if all they do is land on me. They don't even have to bite before I'm in total skin misery.

A bit of a spoof that gets lots of folks totally wound up every season at the height of black fly season:

http://msmomainmaine.blogspot.com/2014/01/maine-blackfly-breeders-association.html

 

[DwayneNLiz]

any more

 

[tigger19687]

You notice the SECOND you have more day light !