Snow: The Fluffy Stuff

[Selenay]

Oh, what an appropriate forum in which I can implement my poll. . .

Snow: do you love it, or do you hate it?*

*If you find that your frosty feelings are not as strong as love or hate, please chose the answer that is closest to your opinion.

[T D]

Oh, what an appropriate forum in which I can implement my poll. . .

Snow: do you love it, or do you hate it?


Neither - LOL

[Corkey]

It's a love hate relationship. Love to see it come down and shimmer at night, hate to shovel it during the day, and before Ami gets home.

[QueenofQueens]

I hate it. I just saw some far away on the mountaintops this morning after not seeing it for five whole years. I nearly went into anaphylactic shock. At least it wasn't trying to get on me or throw my car off the road, though.

:candle:

[Unndunn]

I voted that I love it, but if you do the poll again in Feb. I'm sure I would answer that I hated it. It's still new and fresh for me this winter.

[Gemme]

I love snow. I love playing in it and making snow angels and snow people and looking at it fall gently to the ground. I don't even mind driving in it.

However, after the first two or three days of shoveling walkways and scraping my car, I am DONE.

So, it's a love-ish relationship. :penguin:

[NJFemmie]

I do love snow, and I don't even mind shoveling it - but I do get tired of it if it snows too much.
It just gets stale.

[always2late]

I like snow. I love being inside and watching it fall. I love snuggling under a blanket with coffee and a movie (or loved one) on a snowy morning. I love playing in it with my son and the dogs.....but I HATE shoveling it, digging out my car, having to go to work in it, etc.

[Lynn]

I love it more than I hate it. It's beautiful and when it's actually snowing, it tends to be warmer.

I like having the four seasons. But, I do miss the more temperate climate of Pennsylvania, where winter lasted three months, and then it was on to spring. Up here, near the North Pole, winter lasts for five or six months, it seems.

[hottprof]

I love snow. I love the sound it makes when it hits the ground, I love the taste of it, the smell of snow in the air, and even driving in it when it is coming at you and it looks like you are at warp speed (my nerdy side showing). I don't even mind shoveling it or scrapping off cars (as long as it is not going to make me late).

However, I really dis-like when people plow you in, and the two days later after math of slush that freezes...


Smiles :frog:

[Ryobi]

I voted that I love it. By the end of to day though, I won't like it much for a day of two. I have 2 driveways and 200 feet of sidewalk to clear.

We got 14 inches over night and it's still coming down. I have 5 foot drifts in the driveway. It's wet and heavy snow. My first project this morning was to take a broom and knock the snow off the cedars that were bent over, ready to break. I only lost one big branch. Those cedars are special to me. They're about 30 feet tall and I've been shaping them for 20 years now. They're plant children!:)

Enjoy the snow, it's only just begun.:D

[Diva]

I love the snow.....:stillheart:

[amiyesiam]

I love snow. everything looks so beautiful!
driving in snow I don't like so much

[Ryobi]

I love the snow.....:stillheart:


Wanna help me? You can run the snow blower.:nyahnyah:

[theoddz]

Ugh. I detest snow.

I'm a Southern boy, born and raised, but I've lived in the Midwest (Southeast Iowa/Mississippi River area) and also spent 5 years living on the coast of Maine and I just deplore the snow and ice. The ice is worse than the snow, actually, but both make getting around difficult and messy. When "The Blizzard of '93" hit New England, I was there. I spent over 2 years making the 35 mile (each way) commute to/from college in Portland, from Brunswick, and it sucked. I had the worst cases of flu I've ever had when I lived in "the icebox" that is Maine. Of course, I was going to school for Respiratory Therapy, so I was being exposed to every kind of disease and infection there is, so it's not a surprise that I was sick as all hell each of the 4 winters I spent there. :cold:

I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother. :cold::sigh:

~Theo~ :bunchflowers:

[MsDemeanor]

I love snow. I haven't lived in it for 30 years, but I still love it. I will not shovel it, though. If it snows, that shit's gonna stay right where it is until someone else moves it.

[Softhearted]

I LOVE SNOW!!!!! I'm a winter person :anothersnowman:

[suebee]

You mean that fluffy stuff that's piling up outside my door as we speak? :deepthoughts:

[NotAnAverageGuy]

I love snow and I wish Texas had it more, well the southern parts of Texas I should say!!!

[WolfyOne]

Growing up in Chicago and living there most of my life, I deplore the snow for so many reasons. Shoveling a long driveway and having to drive in it on any road or express way there during rush hour really sucks. However, looking at it after it first falls is a beautiful sight. Now that I live in Oklahoma, all I've ever seen for the past couple of years is a slight dusting on the ground that's usually gone by noon. I am not fond of ice storms either, so it's a toss up living here or there.

[WILDCAT]

... the beauty of the fresh fallen snow hanging on my pine tree branches here is breathtaking.

How pristine and magical everything can seem looking out a morning window after a night of snow. Driving up the road just staring all around in amazement at all the various snow/ice formations on the trees and bushes. These times I love...
__

Shoveling can be fun and artistic for me, but shoveling when you HAVE to is a big pain in the ass - and I HATE scrapping off the windshield of my car. (When the snow brushes easily off without ice on the glass, then I'm happy.)

Sometimes the wild ass kid in my LOVES driving in a blizzard. Sometimes my logical "adult" brain side, does not find this very amusing.

*AS a kid, I did make some KICK-ASS igloos. I would spend all day and into the evening working on them (taking a flashlight outside once it got dark). My parents would have to insist that I come in after so many hours.

And snowball fights were kinda fun. (I "packed" a mean on!) :cheesy:

So, it's like Corkey said, a "love/hate" kind of thing. And Unn said: "ask me in Feb.". And cabin fever here is INTERESTING late winter. Plus, occasionally I do get physically snowed in!

But, burning the firewood is heavenly. Watching the fire. Feeling that kind of warmth - and then looking out the windows... :awww:

And it's here, like it or not. When I moved away from it in the past... (?) I won't say here.
:snowysmiley:

WILD

[Gemme]

You mean that fluffy stuff that's piling up outside my door as we speak? :deepthoughts:

That's the stuff! :penguin:

[WolfyOne]

I do love snow, and I don't even mind shoveling it - but I do get tired of it if it snows too much.
It just gets stale.


Stale, now that's a good way to put it after it's been around too long.

Pretty to look at when it first falls and play in when not bitter cold

[cara]

I haven't voted yet. I would like to live somewhere that snows then doesn't turn into a sheet of ice within 24 hours. It literally stops our city because 1) people aren't used to it and don't know how to drive in it, and 2) the city doesn't have the proper equipment or planning for when the snow and ice hits. I walk quit a distance between buses to get to/from work and worrying about whether I am going to slip and fall is not so fun. So...I guess my vote is for no. But I do like to go up to the mountains and play in the snow every once in awhile. In fact, my college town got so much snow each year that we snow banks waist deep. It was great for building snowmen! :)

[Tommi]

Growing up in the east, a place of 4 seasons, and moving to Southern CAlifornia (never will snow) left me longing for the snow at Christmas...

I bought a place in the mountains near Palm Springs, a two hour drive from home and driving a windy road to 6,000 ft. altitude.
Snow is now down to 2,000 ft/ and absolutely lovely to look at the mountains several hours away,,,,from my window in 70 degree weather.

[violaine]

[QUOTE=theoddz;18776]Ugh. I detest snow.

I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother. :cold::sigh:

~Theo~ :bunchflowers:

doors were frozen closed today on my automobile. ugh. is right :censor:

[torchiegirl]

I love the snow. I can not wait to make a snowman....rolling it through dead leaves and poop and then seeing my favorite scarf wrapped around it's neck.....or to go to the snow hill and wait for the squallin' to start.....good times, good times (really, they are. You look back and can finally laugh at it all when you were certain at that time you were going to have a nervous breakdown)

[Mindy]

I would love it, IF and only IF it could snow when it was 80 degrees out, and still stay on the ground being all purdy! I just hate cold and I hate shoveling.

I feel like doing this :smileywhip: to people who actually pray for snow! :slapfight: Bad bad bad people.... lol

[Jett]

Growing up in Minnesota (Minnesnowta right) I have seen, driven in... played in and cursed while being simultaneously awed by more than my fair share of the white stuff.

I don't hate or love it, but am very happy to have moved away from it.

[Blaze]

I love the snow, I just hop over the Yellow snow, usually left nice and pretty by the dogs! :dogwalking:
That is when it snows here in Texas

[Kimbo]

It's a love/hate thing..I love the beauty of the snow and how it can transform the landscape. I love how it blankets the earth in it's powder and then nurtures the earth with fresh water that we so desperately need. I don't care for the cold and ice it brings...

[amiyesiam]

Last year we had just over 145 inches (in one winter LOL)
60 inches is our average
last year we got over 20 inches by THANKSGIVING

[amiyesiam]

I posted snow and ice on the lake pictures!!!!!!!!
in gallery


and last year a business spraypainted the word "FREE" on a huge pile of snow

[TheSqueeze]

I don't mind the snow so much but I do mind all of the things that go with it...the salt that mucks up the hardwood floors and stains my carpet in the car and makes the doggies paws sore, the ice that forms when the snow melts and re-freezes, the list goes on...

[Words]

I love watching snow fall and to see it when it's settled on the ground.

I hate walking in it though. I'm always worried it's covering dog/badger/fox/whatever shit:(.

[lee07]

can you all believe that i didnt see snow until 5 years ago? and then i seen again this year, got caught in the blizzard tryin to go up to CO. blah lol i fell in love with it

[Gemme]

Weather reports are known to change, but.....I really hope that ours doesn't. No snow until the day AFTER Christmas! Woot!

[hpychick]

....just got our first big snow....it's gorgeous

[Vlasta]

I like snow and white christmas , but please keep it out of this southern town .... we cannot handle it ...... we wouldn't have a piece of bread in the grocery store .

[Abigail Crabby]

I love snow

Because

I DON'T HAVE ANY LOL

:happyjump:

[Bit]

Yaktrax (http://www.yaktrax.com/) for anyone who is as worried about falling on snow or ice as I am... these things make it possible for me to say I love snow. :cheesy:

[turasultana]

It's just starting to snow here! I'm excited, but I'm also hibernating for the day. I'll watch it out the window. :)

[hpychick]

Yaktrax (http://www.yaktrax.com/) for anyone who is as worried about falling on snow or ice as I am... these things make it possible for me to say I love snow. :cheesy:

I love my YAKTRAX!!!! I've had them for 2 years now. I bought some for regular wear and one for heavy duty wear when I go hiking (it's amazing how slopes get icy.) Thanks for your post...it made me smile!!!

[amiyesiam]

we got snow, a little bit!

[Andrew, Jr.]

Well, we are now over 2 feet of snow. I love the quietness of snow falling. And how it looks. However, I am tired of shoveling it.

I am loosing my patience in having to constantly keep up with the snowfall. It is just not stopping. :freak: :snowballfight: :anothersnowman:

[Blue_Daddy-O]

Well choice number 3 works for me...LOL! ...and yes, I have really seen snow, and I always say, "If I want snow I'll go to it I don't want it comin to me...that goes for most of the time...but I don't mind snow at least a few times a year...and I do enjoy snow skiing! Does that answer your question? LoL!

[amiyesiam]

snow-that stuff we should have feet of by now,
but when i look out the window, I see green grass.
Not that I am complaining, but I keep wondering when is it going to hit.

[Just_G]

So I voted that I like snow....I really do. HOWEVER......I have about 14 inches of it in my yard, and 4 foot piles where I have had to shovel paths for the pups.

I am now officially OVER snow. Please, whomever ordered this much so soon in the year, come get it. I am done!

Thanks.

[Corkey]

snow-that stuff we should have feet of by now,
but when i look out the window, I see green grass.
Not that I am complaining, but I keep wondering when is it going to hit.


Um, Honey... it's hit.
:blink:
:cold:
:penguin:
:downhillski:
:snowballfight:

[Soon]

Hate
The
Snow!!!!

:sigh:

[Unndunn]

I'm not a huge snow fan, but today my wife stayed home since we have steep hills leading out of the backwoods.

In the last week Ive had to buy a down jacket and some warmer boots that don't have a steel toe. When that piece of shank gets cold its painful.

Changing the oil in the truck in 33 degree weather on the driveway was also
the suck. But a 5/30 viscosity is much better for the engine in the winter.

I spent today closing foundation vents and covering outside hose bibs.

I think the wife will be home a few more days this week, Im gonna have to get some weight in the back of my truck bed for traction, I think a 1/2 steel plate in the bed for the winter months would do the trick.

It must be hard to live in a place that isn't really designed for this sort of freezing, snowy weather. How heavy is the steel plate? We've used everything from cinderblocks to firewood to weigh down the backs of rear wheel drive vehicles. When I had a rear wheel drive car I used to put a couple of big bags of kitty litter in the trunk for snowy days. The cheapest bargain brand stuff I could find. Bags of cement work well too if you put them in plastic so there's no mess if they tear. Also, if you don't have a basement or a well insulated crawl space under your house you might want to let one of your household faucets drip overnight. That's usually only necessary if it gets down to below 20F

[Niceguy]

I'm not a huge snow fan, but today my wife stayed home since we have steep hills leading out of the backwoods.

In the last week Ive had to buy a down jacket and some warmer boots that don't have a steel toe. When that piece of shank gets cold its painful.

Changing the oil in the truck in 33 degree weather on the driveway was also
the suck. But a 5/30 viscosity is much better for the engine in the winter.

I spent today closing foundation vents and covering outside hose bibs.

I think the wife will be home a few more days this week, Im gonna have to get some weight in the back of my truck bed for traction, I think a 1/2 steel plate in the bed for the winter months would do the trick.



Yeah, I had a fun drive home Sunday night. You would've freaked out if you had been in the truck with me. I was a little surprised that even the highway was covered. Unfortunately it was melted by mid morning Monday.

The next round has just started. The sleet is coming down pretty good in my area now and the roads are starting to get slick again. It looks like central AR will have a nice sheet of ice on the roads for rush hour in the morning. I usually put concrete blocks in the back of my truck, but I'm leaving it in the garage tomorrow and riding in with a coworker who has front wheel drive. I would think your toolbox in the back should help with the weight, so you'd probably be fine with just a little added firewood.

I'm definitely leaving my faucets dripping the next few nights. We haven't had temps this cold in over 25 years. It appears we're gonna have around 5 consecutive days with the high temps below freezing and the lows in the teens and single digits. I think I would use the worklight under the house idea if I had a crawl space. It can't be any more dangerous than the Christmas lights! ;) R told me today that alot of pipes froze in the dorms at the medical school last night and it was the biggest mess! And those dorms are only a few years old. Have you seen the heat tape that you wrap around the pipes and then plug into an outlet?

[Diva]

I'm not a huge snow fan, <SNIP~A~LICIOUS>

Changing the oil in the truck in 33 degree weather on the driveway was also
the suck. But a 5/30 viscosity is much better for the engine in the winter.

I spent today closing foundation vents and covering outside hose bibs.

I think the wife will be home a few more days this week, Im gonna have to get some weight in the back of my truck bed for traction, I think a 1/2 steel plate in the bed for the winter months would do the trick.


Yes, Jack....

I have found, in my automotive studies, that a 5/30 or a 6/31 viscosity is ever so much better.

And You may wish to consider a 3/4 steel plate....it looks pretty good with a set of them on a crisp white linen table cloth.....go on, try it! :simplelaugh:

What might REALLY be cool would be to put the casket in the back of the truck with me inside and I could pop up the lid and wave to people just before they swerve off the road. . :thud:

[Gemme]

I have never, ever...in any capacity...ever said the following:

"my back end is just too light"

:blink:

[Random]

With ever snow flake, with ever negitive degree.. I hate snowy winters more and more..

It's going to be -22 tommorrow morning.. and there is black ice.. People shouldn't be where it is -22.. and ice you can't see until you are spinning off the road or flat on your back in the parking lot..


I'm wearing pants to work because of the weather.. I had to go buy another pair... I wasted money on pants..

Enough is enough..

[Diva]

With ever snow flake, with ever negitive degree.. I hate snowy winters more and more..

It's going to be -22 tommorrow morning.. and there is black ice.. People shouldn't be where it is -22.. and ice you can't see until you are spinning off the road or flat on your back in the parking lot..


I'm wearing pants to work because of the weather.. I had to go buy another pair... I wasted money on pants..

Enough is enough..


You could move to Texas and sweat Your hiney off in July and August.......<giggle> :cold:

[amiyesiam]

You could move to Texas and sweat Your hiney off in July and August.......<giggle> :cold:

Hell would freeze over first

You all have BUGS not bugs but BUGS

and fire ants

I will take the cold and snow and ice for 12 weeks to avoid the bugs

[Gemme]

With ever snow flake, with ever negitive degree.. I hate snowy winters more and more..

It's going to be -22 tommorrow morning.. and there is black ice.. People shouldn't be where it is -22.. and ice you can't see until you are spinning off the road or flat on your back in the parking lot..


I'm wearing pants to work because of the weather.. I had to go buy another pair... I wasted money on pants..

Enough is enough..

I agree. It's abnormal and NOT natural for there to be negative degrees. Humans are not designed to withstand freakin' negative degrees. :wtf:

Hell would freeze over first

You all have BUGS not bugs but BUGS

and fire ants

I will take the cold and snow and ice for 12 weeks to avoid the bugs



Your cold and ice is only for 12 weeks? That's not a bad deal, I'm thinking. :thinking:

[Unndunn]

I agree. It's abnormal and NOT natural for there to be negative degrees. Humans are not designed to withstand freakin' negative degrees. :wtf:



Your cold and ice is only for 12 weeks? That's not a bad deal, I'm thinking. :thinking:

No! No! Nooooo! Don't let it fool you! On paper it looks okay. But you have to remember that winter weeks are kind of like dog years. One week of snow and ice and cold is like a month of nice weather. Every November/December I tell myself that's it no big deal, it won't be long before spring is here. And then in January I start asking myself how long it's been and isn't it time for spring? In February I'm sure it's time, but it's not. Then March comes and we all start wearing short sleeves when the temp gets above 45F because we're sure the warm weather is right around the corner. Then when we recover from getting sick from wearing short sleeves in the winter weather we go back to telling ourselves and each other that it's just about over. Then we finally hit April and it's still cold but they say that it's spring so we try to act like we're warm.

[Gemme]

No! No! Nooooo! Don't let it fool you! On paper it looks okay. But you have to remember that winter weeks are kind of like dog years. One week of snow and ice and cold is like a month of nice weather. Every November/December I tell myself that's it no big deal, it won't be long before spring is here. And then in January I start asking myself how long it's been and isn't it time for spring? In February I'm sure it's time, but it's not. Then March comes and we all start wearing short sleeves when the temp gets above 45F because we're sure the warm weather is right around the corner. Then when we recover from getting sick from wearing short sleeves in the winter weather we go back to telling ourselves and each other that it's just about over. Then we finally hit April and it's still cold but they say that it's spring so we try to act like we're warm.

This cracked me the Hell up! :rofl:

I live in the PNW and this year has been so fantastic! It HAS to be, to make up for the disaster that last year was. :blink:

I think you are right with your dog year theory. I also think it's like childbirth. Oh, that was last year and I don't remember it hurting too much, yanno? Then it hits and you are reminded that, indeed, it hurts. :bigcry:

[amiyesiam]

I agree. It's abnormal and NOT natural for there to be negative degrees. Humans are not designed to withstand freakin' negative degrees. :wtf:



Your cold and ice is only for 12 weeks? That's not a bad deal, I'm thinking. :thinking:

:snowballfight:

One has to understand that come March, when it is 40 degrees people will be wearing shorts and tee shirts. If the roads are clear then it is nice out (even if there is 4 feet of snow) I try to think positive. Generally Jan Feb and March are the hard core winter months here. Last year was way worse and not normal. Having said all this sometimes we have snow before Halloween!

[Leigh]

I have no problem with snow, its the sometimes -40 or lower temperatures I have to deal with that I really dont like. Not only that, but it lasts a few months generally except for some odd reason this year has been mild .......... the cold temps have only so far been hitting us this week but man the winds we've been having up here are bitter cold so I hope it goes away soon!!!!

[Hudson]

Snow on the ground and 16 degrees here. Fun moving weather! (I mean that.)

[labete]

I like snow. I just don't so much want it delivered to me. I'd generally rather go to it. :cold: I don't think I could live where there's snow most of the winter -- much less where you have to dig out your car, shovel your walk, or FFS shovel out your house because there's snow higher than the front door -- and keep my remaining sanity. I don't know how y'all who live in such conditions do it. I'd go nuts. I'll take the fire ants and palmetto bugs any day if that's what the options are. :watereyes:

My brother and sister-in-law are in the process of moving to Laramie, WY for my brother's job, and I'm fairly certain they're nuts. A Georgian and a Floridian moving to Wyoming in January???

[MsDemeanor]

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

[amiyesiam]

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

Actually I feel for ya. I do not like cold and damp. Snow usually means cold and dry. I think (i could be wrong) it is easier to get warm when it is cold and dry.

[Gemme]

Actually I feel for ya. I do not like cold and damp. Snow usually means cold and dry. I think (i could be wrong) it is easier to get warm when it is cold and dry.


I agree. Once the chill from dampness gets into your bones, you're done for. It's shivering, icicle city for you, bucko.

Brrrrr....

[Niceguy]

Ahh... finally back to Arkansas weather! It was a toasty 58 degrees today! :clap: Now if we can just maintain our winter average highs until February is over, that would be great! :thumbsup:

[Jess]

We still have some frozen "snow" from the week before Christmas. It has been too cold for it to melt. Def the "coldest" winter I can recall.
There are some flakes blowing around out there right now, but it is not expected to accumulate. I think this is the first day in a few weeks it has been "warm enough to snow" LOL...

Blessed are the wood choppers!!!!:cuttree:

[Random]

You could move to Texas and sweat Your hiney off in July and August.......<giggle> :cold:

Woman.. don't tempt me..

I've been craigslisting apts in your area for about a year now!!!

If I could have found a cute lil craftman ANYTHING in my price range.. I do belive I would pack up the kiss of cats and the butch and head that way...

[Random]

No! No! Nooooo! Don't let it fool you! On paper it looks okay. But you have to remember that winter weeks are kind of like dog years. One week of snow and ice and cold is like a month of nice weather. Every November/December I tell myself that's it no big deal, it won't be long before spring is here. And then in January I start asking myself how long it's been and isn't it time for spring? In February I'm sure it's time, but it's not. Then March comes and we all start wearing short sleeves when the temp gets above 45F because we're sure the warm weather is right around the corner. Then when we recover from getting sick from wearing short sleeves in the winter weather we go back to telling ourselves and each other that it's just about over. Then we finally hit April and it's still cold but they say that it's spring so we try to act like we're warm.



Nods.. Nods..

Dog years.. that is it exactly...

There has been snow and ICE.. (My new personal phobia) on the ground for two freaking months... But it feels like 100 yrs...

Sigh.. It get's up to 20 and there is partial sun... It's like spring break.. everyone is out sunbathing..

[Random]

I'm guessing that this is not an audience that would appreciate my complaints about the fog having not lifted for three days and how the damp 40's temperatures mixed with the wet air creeps in through every window and crack and through gloves and coats and stuff.

Nods..

The coldest winter I ever spent was in savanna, ga...

I was frozen for 4 months..

[Bit]

Snow's due in tomorrow... this would not be a problem if we had had a normal January, but nooo... after the Arctic chill that almost did me in, we had two weeks of--I kid you not--SPRING. 50+ degrees, day after day! Non-freezing nights! The lilacs are budding!

And tomorrow the high temp will be twenty degrees lower than today, and it will snow. The low temps will drop into the teens again. Sheesh.

The thing which made the snow so hard for me before was that I've never lived in a house in snow country--in the apartment complexes, there were long carpeted hallways between the outside world and my front door. Here at That House, it snows right up to my front door even though I have a full-size covered porch. :blink: I really don't understand that, lol...

I'll grant you that my floors are not exactly beautiful right now, splotched with old carpet glue as they still are... but SHEESH, having melting snow tracked from the front door to the back really bothered me! It took me quite a while to figure out what to do.

Now one of my best bathtowels has been sacrificed to the snowy-shoe gods so that we have a place to let shoes dry, and one of our bath sheets plus another towel have become a sort of carpet that extends a good five feet into the living room. Voila! No more salty slush melting into our hardwood floors!

*hey, they aren't gonna get ruined on MY watch... so glad I figured out how to avoid it!*

Bonus: doorway puppy accidents are contained, too. :cheesy:

[violaine]

auggggh!


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[Blade]

Love snow, hate ice. We don't get much of either but people down here don't know how to drive in either. I live out in the county and go to work early so I'm usually the one making the new path to town. But I must admit my butt draws up if I meet someone on the road, ya never know how they are going to be driving.

[christie]

Snow's due in tomorrow... this would not be a problem if we had had a normal January, but nooo... after the Arctic chill that almost did me in, we had two weeks of--I kid you not--SPRING. 50+ degrees, day after day! Non-freezing nights! The lilacs are budding!

And tomorrow the high temp will be twenty degrees lower than today, and it will snow. The low temps will drop into the teens again. Sheesh.

The thing which made the snow so hard for me before was that I've never lived in a house in snow country--in the apartment complexes, there were long carpeted hallways between the outside world and my front door. Here at That House, it snows right up to my front door even though I have a full-size covered porch. :blink: I really don't understand that, lol...

I'll grant you that my floors are not exactly beautiful right now, splotched with old carpet glue as they still are... but SHEESH, having melting snow tracked from the front door to the back really bothered me! It took me quite a while to figure out what to do.

Now one of my best bathtowels has been sacrificed to the snowy-shoe gods so that we have a place to let shoes dry, and one of our bath sheets plus another towel have become a sort of carpet that extends a good five feet into the living room. Voila! No more salty slush melting into our hardwood floors!

*hey, they aren't gonna get ruined on MY watch... so glad I figured out how to avoid it!*

Bonus: doorway puppy accidents are contained, too. :cheesy:

You could also use cardboard boxes - its what we do (Jess is brilliant!!)

Break the box down flat... slushy wet nasty shoes have a place to live!

[Jess]

You could also use cardboard boxes - its what we do (Jess is brilliant!!)

Break the box down flat... slushy wet nasty shoes have a place to live!

That reminds me... have boxes at ready...

We're supposed to get some snow( beginning Friday- Saturday ) also. So after the last lil bout of 18 or so inches we are a tad better prepared...

Icemelt.. check
Food.. check
Movies.. check
Extra wood.. check
Daddy wood.. grin
Happy snowbunny.. check check

Try to make the best of it Miss Bit! Our lil guys do NOT like their feet wet, so finding a dry patch to haul them to is kinda fun. I need a double puppy papoose!

[BestButchBoy]

Snow. Loathe it. Especially when I'm shoveling it.

[Bit]

Aww, Christie, thank you but I don't think cardboard would absorb it all and then dry out again.... I couldn't believe that everyone who came over just blithely tracked the stuff in as if I don't give a damn about my floors... SHEESH.


Try to make the best of it Miss Bit! Our lil guys do NOT like their feet wet, so finding a dry patch to haul them to is kinda fun. I need a double puppy papoose!

Oh lord love a duck, Jess, I thought mine would be cooperative, and *I* don't want to be tracking through snow and ice--so I put a puppy pad on the porch. :thumbsup:

They ran away from the doggoned thing, couldn't wait to get down in the yard "where they belong." *eyeroll*

I suppose this is actually a good thing, right? I mean, who wants the stuff on their front porch, really? But it sure threw me for a loop, what with taking the puppy out 672 times a day at first!

Edited to add---- I tried making that dry patch, shoveled the snow away, etc---they insisted on going into the unshoveled snow!

[Jess]

Snow. Loathe it. Especially when I'm shoveling it.

Yo! Big Apple! Don't you have a doorman???? Where's Carlton when you need him???

[Andrew, Jr.]

More snow this weekend. How much more and how much longer? I want to just scream. And I mean scream. :overreaction: :training:

Andrew
:cigar:

[Medusa]

We have freezing rain and sleet here and they expect more snow throughout the day.

We have the fireplace going and I have a pot of homemade chili, some cocoa, and lots of candles ready (in case we lose power).

Gracie was NOT happy when she had to go out in the ice this morning. :P

[Blade]

It's on it's way here, guess it will start out as rain as it is only 43 degrees right now but the temp is suppose to drop pretty quickly after while. Then they are currently calling for a few inches of snow and 1/2 inch of ice mixed in. Just enough to drop the power lines. So I guess I'll be practicing my survival skills this weekend.

[Medusa]

It's on it's way here, guess it will start out as rain as it is only 43 degrees right now but the temp is suppose to drop pretty quickly after while. Then they are currently calling for a few inches of snow and 1/2 inch of ice mixed in. Just enough to drop the power lines. So I guess I'll be practicing my survival skills this weekend.

Word!

I told Jack to bust out my dutch oven in case I had to improvise. Im also prepared to hang a quilt over the arched entry to the den to keep as much of the fireplace heat in that room as possible if our power goes out.

I just heard from my sister who lives an hour south of us that her power is out so I doubt it will be long for us :rainsing:

[Mister Bent]

I love snow. Usually I look forward to it, then go out and make an anatomically correct snow man.

But, being in the landscape business means I'll be spending my Saturday running a plow and shovel crew. At 4 am.

I hoping for rain.

[Queerasfck]

I love snow. Usually I look forward to it, then go out and make an anatomically correct snow man.

But, being in the landscape business means I'll be spending my Saturday running a plow and shovel crew. At 4 am.

I hoping for rain.



Poor Mr. Plow.
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[Mister Bent]

Poor Mr. Plow.


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[Queerasfck]

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O, I forgot the catchy jingle! Who knew you sang too?! "Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow!"
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[Mister Bent]

O, I forgot the catchy jingle! Who knew you sang too?! "Call Mr. Plow, that's my name, that name again is Mr. Plow!"

In front of my house...
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[Niceguy]

I'm just glad I finally got a snow/ice day where I didn't have to go to work! After crashing my truck trying to get out of my neighborhood a few years ago, I told my boss I'm not getting my truck out on the ice anymore. Our clinic never closes, and I'm shocked at the patients who show up for their clinic appts when there's ice on the roads!

I'm lovin' my day off snuggling on the couch with my neighbor's cat! I think he has moved in with me permanantly! :cat: :)

[Sachita]

I wouldn't mind it if I didnt have to go out in it. I think its pretty and love a nice warm fire going with a pot of something hanging over it BUT when I have to put on HUGE space boots, big ass coats and gloves, wobble like a chinese woman to the coops and barn hoping I dont slip and fall on my ass- hell no.

I could easily do without snow. If I really want snow I'll go somewhere and visit it while sitting in a hot tub sipping champagne.

[Jess]

SNOW DAY!
It's 7:52 am.. we currently have about 6-8 inches on the ground, a whopping 23 degrees and expecting snow to continue through tonight with temps continuing to drop to around the lovely teens ( wind chills in single digits). WHEE...

So far it looks like the icy/ sleety stuff may stay south of us. I am keeping fingers crossed, co it just makes shoveling a beatch. Hoping that at least for a few more hours the roads will remain car free. Keeps the landscape pretty and allows for the pups to be out for at least a while off leash. :)

Sounds like some spots have gotten hit pretty hard by the ice. Saw that LR, Ark got a bit of a pounding. Oklahoma too, looks to be in a bit of trouble.

Hoping everyone can find at least some fun in the fluffy stuff and it's not all just a burden! :snowysmiley::anothersnowman::snowballfight:

[Bit]

Well, it drove me to tears yesterday, shoveling and reshoveling; Lady was entirely too cold and wouldn't go no matter that I actually shoveled part of the yard for her. I was a wreck by the time Gryph got home. But today the snow finally stopped and the sun came out.

I sort of forgive it for being 10 degrees this morning, with a wind chill of zero. It would be easier to forgive if the sun hadn't melted so much of the snow on the sidewalks... cuz yanno that's gonna freeze now.

And Lady is STILL too cold; she comes inside limping hard on her bad knee, and even the pup is starting to have trouble, came inside this morning with his bad leg drawn up as if it were a gun in a holster.

This Winter thing, where the temps suddenly drop ridiculously lower than they're supposed to... who thought of it, again? :| :hrmph: :rant: :readfineprint:

[Corkey]

It's 4* with wind chill, the snow and ice stayed south, but Canada opened the freeking freezer door again.
:cold::bringcoffee::hockey::snowballfight::

[violaine]

i am not amused with all the necessary clothing/layering, either!

[Bit]

Yikes on the freezer door, Corkey!!

belle, I soooo hear you on the layering. By the time I am ready to walk a dog, I am wearing* one pair of socks, two pairs of pants, two sleeveless tees, one short sleeve tee, one long sleeve tee, one extra-long sleep sweatshirt, one lined denim jacket, one quilted plaid jacket, one fleece vest, one polar-tex hood, and two pairs of gloves.

Then I wonder why I can't bend over far enough to get my shoes on. :blink:

It's supposed to snow again today.... oh, and I can hear that one of my neighbors is stuck in the icy, rutted road! Hope they get free soon!

*unmentionables unmentioned :cheesy:

[Jess]

The girl just left for her second attempt at driving back to Richmond this morning. She tried earlier but still way too much ice on the roads. The sun is out and has had a couple hours to melt some of it, so hopefully she'll have a safe drive. ( I keep the phone in hand for the four hours it takes to drive)

We're supposed to get some freezing rain tomorrow then more snow this coming weekend. This may have her stuck there over the weekend. So.. for today, I am not so happy with the fluffy stuff. Makes me worry about her and miss her more.

I hate the layering too. Between taking dogs out and stoking the woodstove ( outdoor wood/water furnace) I go through more changes than a runway model.

Hope everyone is faring well!

[Bit]

Safe travel to Christie, and may she come safely home again!!

Taking the dogs out is driving me NUTS. I actually shoveled a path and patch in the yard for Lady but she is so picky. She doesn't want to use the same spot more than once, and I haven't got the physical capability to shovel anything more. We finally have a pretty even path trampled from the front to the back, and I managed to kick the snow out of a pretty big patch in the back yard too, but of course--she's already used it.

So we go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth in the bone-chilling cold, me all the time worrying about her back leg--and half the time we come back in without her having gone. Aaaaarrrrrgggghhh.

Then yanno, when she finally does deign to go, weird things happen... like Trooper gooses her with a snowy nose while she's peeing. *buries face in hands*

Now that we have the path trampled out, it would actually be okay if it stayed cold and cloudy... but no. The sun's supposed to come out tomorrow, which will melt areas of the snow, and give us big patches of ice. :bolt:

Ohhh sheesh, there goes my neighbor again. Yanno where he got his truck stuck? In MY driveway. He managed to get pulled straight out of the driveway by about two feet last time. I'm glad he's gone now, but he left behind some nasty tracks that Gryph will have to walk through on his way home from work tonight.

Maybe getting so badly stuck will teach the kid to stop using our driveway. He does have his own, after all.

So Cath is learning a huge lesson about Winter, and what serious inconvenience does to her temper. Say hello to Crabby Girl. *sheepish look*

[Niceguy]

I didn't realize that bananas were on the list of groceries that people ran to the store to buy just before it snowed here! I still don't completely understand the milk, eggs, & bread thing... but bananas? :wtf: :bananasplit:

So we get another round of ice/snow late Sunday night/early Monday morning. I was prepared and had plenty of groceries, but there's something about knowing I can't just hop in the truck and go to the store if I want something that makes me want everything that I don't have! Even if I have 100 different food options in the house, I'm gonna want the things that I don't have! :overreaction: :cheesy:

Finally around 10pm Monday night (less than 24 hours being iced/snowed in) I put on my coat, hat, gloves, and hiking boots and take off walking! :downhillski: The Kroger isn't that far from my house, but the foot of really wet snow made for a fun hike! I get to the store and they are completely out of bananas! I've never seen them be completely out of bananas! They usually have a HUGE stand of bananas! And they even had milk, eggs, and bread left! I ended up with three bags of other stuff, but no bananas! :annoyed: :cookielove:

[The Oopster]

so as i was driving through huge puddles today I kept thinking ... damn if these were only snow drifts!

[violaine]

certain aspects of it are so lovely-

misted ghostly swirls and dervishes on the lane .

snow-twisters alive in silent fields .

[Jess]

Having not had a really good snow in many years, I was very excited about it. The first time... this is round three or four now and I am pretty much OVER IT!

We haven't lost power yet this week and for that I am beyond grateful. The storm that was supposed to come through here yesterday by passed us, staying a tad south. Today we have winds from hell!

The girl got some snow up in Richmond and I am hoping it clears up before I drive up to see her this weekend. We have plans to go out dammit!

Hope everyone is staying warm!

Sends nanners to Niceguy! that does suck man! LOL