Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, Please shine down on me!
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Ashful
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I was just thinking about how I'm going to get my March fertilizer down this year. Gonna be muddy, when all this white stuff melts. Would be fun putting it down on the snow, except some areas are not real drivable, and I'd be fighting runoff if we get a good rain.
Might try doing it at 5-7am, one night if the ground will re-freeze overnight after the big snow melt.
Might try doing it at 5-7am, one night if the ground will re-freeze overnight after the big snow melt.
We're gaining 2 minutes every day now. The sun's arc is starting to get high enough to be above a lot of the treetops. I love spring and think it's awesome even without a bad winter. Actually I think I appreciate it more since moving out west. Spring back east can often be over in a week or two as temps polevault into summer range. Out here spring lasts for months.
Ashful
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Yes, it's part of the vernacular. Out east and back west don't quite have the same ring.
It's a fairly well regarded way to get lime or fertilizer down into the soil by applying it when there are frost cracks. The fertilizer falls into the cracks and the ground closes on it when it thaws.
Not many happy faces in Kentucky right now:
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/28269573/beshear-declares-state-of-emergency-in-kentucky
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/28269573/beshear-declares-state-of-emergency-in-kentucky
Its hard to believe that what the snow country would brush off as a weather event completely decimates areas unaccustomed to it. It kinda makes me want to laugh, but it is no joke.
firefighterjake
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I know us northerners make fun of folks in the south panicking over a dusting of snow . . . but the truth be told . . . a) when a storm is forecast and hyped up here I see folks stocking up on the bread, beer and batteries in the stores and b) we get into just as many crashes in the snow.
Moreover . . . if for some reason a large tornado (we get some small ones very rarely) was forecast up this way I have a feeling most folks would have no idea of what to do . . . other than to go to the store to stock up on bread, beer and batteries.
firefighterjake
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The other day while reading a few posts I swear I thought Pook was back and living down south . . . 
I stock up on beer and bacon before a storm. If we lose power for a month I'll have beer and bacon. If power stays on, I'll have beer and bacon. I can't see a downside.
Dix
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Close. Adios Pantilones called him "Glowing Worm Balls". I totally lost it when I read that post. One of only two that have made me laugh that hard.
I imagine it goes back to the direction people were moving. What about "up" north and "down" south? Probably from the long-established conventions of cartography, I s'pose. When we got a place on the Shenandoah River in Virginia, I learned that those references can be reversed depending on the direction of flow of the local river. That river flows south to north, so, to the locals, things to the north are "down" (river), and vice versa. Where did "down" east come from?
firefighterjake
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I imagine it goes back to the direction people were moving. What about "up" north and "down" south? Probably from the long-established conventions of cartography, I s'pose. When we got a place on the Shenandoah River in Virginia, I learned that those references can be reversed depending on the direction of flow of the local river. That river flows south to north, so, to the locals, things to the north are "down" (river), and vice versa. Where did "down" east come from?
Downeast refers to the wind and wind direction that comes out of the south (down) and blows to the east. Here in Maine Downeast is generally considered by most folks to be folks living down past Bucksport ... some folks interpret it to be folks living closer to Lubec and Eastport.
Ashful
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Turned on the emergency radio tonight, when the power went out, to try to get a line on the cause. The local emergency services were busier than I think I'd ever heard them. In addition to several people stuck on the lifts at the local ski resort, there were numerous accidents (one of which caused our outage), a few fires, and a vacant house with burst pipes. They even had the turnpike closed for an accident. God bless our firefighters and police... they were busy tonight!
Mrs. Krabappel
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Dix
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