Snow: The Fluffy Stuff

christie · 01-27-2010, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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.

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 · 01-27-2010, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by christie0918

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 · 01-27-2010, 05:05 PM

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

Bit · 01-27-2010, 08:42 PM

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.

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Originally Posted by Jess

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.

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 · 01-27-2010, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BestButchBoy

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. · 01-27-2010, 09:18 PM

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

Andrew

Medusa · 01-29-2010, 02:24 PM

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 · 01-29-2010, 02:59 PM

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.

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01-27-2010, 05:05 PM	#3
BestButchBoy Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Male ID Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,925 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 406 Thanked 5,438 Times in 2,037 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Snow. Loathe it. Especially when I'm shoveling it.

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