You Know You're a Northerner When...

[tigger19687]

YES !! August means get your Winter shit together LOL

 

[CapricornFarm]

When you don't put the snow shovel away till June 1st .

When snow hits you watch the news, not to see when it will be warmer but to see if you got the MOST snow and cheer about it (then bitch about it the next day LOL)


BTW, here in MA we had 5-6 blizzards in 5-6 weeks, ALL on MONDAYS (if I remember correctly)! more or less. It was in 2015 from end of Jan to March. Great for me because I had stopped working the ER (12 hr rotating shifts) to a desk job with one of the Surgeons M-F and I got E-V-E-R-Y monday off as a snow day !


But I think NY takes the cake when south of Buffalo got like 9 feet in 2 days .. Is that right? Maybe it was 10 but it was like non-stop snow ! F that !

I lived outside Albany, Buffalo always get slammed by lake effect snow.

 

[BantyChooks]

...You use old syrup jugs for hauling winter water.

 

[tigger19687]

You go out in your Pj's (or shorts) to shovel and THEN go get ready for work

 

[BantyChooks]

Your chickens write "Florida" on a piece of cardboard and stand by the road with their wings out.

 

[CapricornFarm]

You bring the tree you cut down in the woods into the house and the snow does not melt! Right @Alaskan?

 

[itsasmallfarm]

when -20C is a warm spell after weeks of -30C weather (it sucks)

when your watching others to find out when the ice is thick enough to drive out on and ice fish.

 

[Alaskan]

You bring the tree you cut down in the woods into the house and the snow does not melt! Right @Alaskan?

very true.

We stopped heating... since it got up to freezing.

 

[lazy gardener]

When your chickens work on their flying skills, b/c they refuse to step in the white stuff. I just watched my birds go in to bed. they each flew from the low roost at the edge of their sun room across a 10' expanse of white poison to land on the edge of the pop door.

When you keep a pair of winter boots at front AND back door. One pair for poopy excursions, one for all other excursions.

When you keep a set of ski poles at both front and back door, when you put Yak-Trax on your boots, and leave them on all winter long. When you put gaiters on your boots and leave them on for weeks at a time. When you have a pair of snow pants, and use them often.

When you drive the snow blower more often than the car.

When you get excited any time you see the sun.

When you trade in your wheel barrow for a kid's plastic snow sled for all of your "carrying" tasks.

When you never go out the back door without lugging a jug of water with you.

When you go out to collect eggs 4 times/day, so they don't freeze.

When you eagerly check the mail box and take any seed catalogs to bed with you.

When you wear a snow hat to bed.

When you take a side trip to the plant section at Lowe's every time you "go to town", or veer towards the floral displays at the grocery store, just so you can look at growing plants. When you have to pick them up and sniff them.

Every time you take a load of laundry down to the laundry room, you bring a load of firewood back up.

You still have a BBQ, even if it is snowing outside.

 

[tigger19687]

@lazy gardener

SO TRUE on all of those