Looks like winter is here!

Ouch I saw that on the news. Got the Jeep/plow
all set so I'm ready whenever we get our share.
At least your dogs are having a good time.

Summer has come back to the south! 75* today! I had to run the a/c last night for a few hours!

Not a problem just a baby storm, didn't even do the long form preparation.

Do need to stock up on shear pins before the next one though.

SmokeyTheBear said:

Not a problem just a baby storm, didn't even do the long form preparation.

Do need to stock up on shear pins before the next one though.

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i'm from away, good sir.

please enlighten me as to these shear pins to which you refer.


*ah for the old snow blower. google is my friend.

btw- the snow is really dry and light here.

St_Earl said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

Not a problem just a baby storm, didn't even do the long form preparation.

Do need to stock up on shear pins before the next one though.

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i'm from away, good sir.

please enlighten me as to these shear pins to which you refer.


*ah for the old snow blower. google is my friend.

btw- the snow is really dry and light here.

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Yeah, you are from away, no doubt about it not knowing about shear pins and all.

My neighbor needed to borrow my snow blower, he got caught short (had someone coming to do a bit of pumping) and didn't have his snow blower attachment on his John Deere yet.

He has about as much luck with mechanical devices as someone buying a used stove has getting a completely clean one, namely slim to no luck at all.

So I started the beast, did a couple of swipes (about 600 feet long), and left the blower with him. Next thing I hear is the sound of the blower tossing some rocks, followed by silence.

Long story short three shear pins later I decide it is in my best interest to finish the job for him and then I might stand a chance of doing my own driveway, etc...

Several thousand cubic feet of snow later everything is good to go and all I want is a warm spot, something to eat, and a brew.

The snow here is a bit wetter than you had, a couple of snow bands closer to the coast.

Glad to have some more members to winter.
Us up here were getting lonely
Happy Thanksgiving

Heavy wet snow is the worst. Rain here, no snow, about 35*. 50's and 60's sunny next 5 days......

10 inches of heavy snow up here in northern VT today, but the old Cub Cadet tractor and snow blower took care of it and the PB105 pellet boiler took care of the heating.

Only got about 3" here but it is the heavy wet stuff. Oh joy, winter is here!

GrahamInVa said:

Summer has come back to the south! 75* today! I had to run the a/c last night for a few hours!

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Graham, I don't think I like you and your comments about having to run AC and being 75*. Ha Ha!! We don't even need AC in the summer.

We got 7 inches of heavy wet snow. And it's only the beginning.


Tom C.

silverfox103 said:

GrahamInVa said:

Summer has come back to the south! 75* today! I had to run the a/c last night for a few hours!

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Graham, I don't think I like you and your comments about having to run AC and being 75*. Ha Ha!! We don't even need AC in the summer.

We got 7 inches of heavy wet snow. And it's only the beginning.


Tom C.

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hello there.

we lived in littleton for three months last summer.
we were kind of just searching for where we would land after we had been taking care of my g/fs mom for two years in new jersey. (i'm from portland oregon most of my life)
loved the cafe there in littleton.

what is so funny to me is tht your avatar is the beverly hillbillies.

we had been moving around and when we came over to littleton from our all too long stay of two weeks in st. johnsbury, i just shuttled all our stuff over in our subaru.
we were singing the beverly hillbillies song during that time when i had dressers and chairs strapped to the roof of the car.

What was wrong with St. Johnsbury?


Tom C.[/quote]

hello there.

we lived in littleton for three months last summer.
we were kind of just searching for where we would land after we had been taking care of my g/fs mom for two years in new jersey. (i'm from portland oregon most of my life)
loved the cafe there in littleton.

what is so funny to me is tht your avatar is the beverly hillbillies.

we had been moving around and when we came over to littleton from our all too long stay of two weeks in st. johnsbury, i just shuttled all our stuff over in our subaru.
we were singing the beverly hillbillies song during that time when i had dressers and chairs strapped to the roof of the car.[/quote]

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What was wrong with St. Johnsbury?


Tom C.

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we had to move w/o much research. there were a few houses we thought might be good for us to buy there. but in our price range it turned out they looked much worse in real life than on the realtors site (duh)
but i mean the one i thought would be good was just awful up close. and they wanted way too much.
the youtube i found later that the realtor put up, with string quartet music, just cracked me up. come on, man!
other than that, the apartment we landed in, while it served a purpose and let us have our cat there, was not really pleasant.
when the woman downstairs and the several adults (in laws, siblings and such), who she was sheltering started smoking, it would rise up and our eyes would literally water.
and i'm not excessively sensitive to smoke.

so i can't really say we looked very closely to find the good points of the town.
the first day i got there with the 17ft. truck full of our stuff, having driven from morristown nj, we discovered that the electricity was shut off from the last tenant having first moved to the downstairs apt. then not paying the upstairs bill. then bailing altogether.
add to that that we were told that the town would be shutting the water off the next for the rebuild project that was going on...

but it wasn't just all that. i just didn't like the feel of the town.
to be honest, it was just overall depressing to me there. what can i say?

what i miss from there is charter cable company. $50 a month, non special offer fee, 14 meg internet and unlimited digital phone service.
and the pizza from the place with the big old smokestack.
oh and there was a bitchin' radio station too.

as it is, i couldn't be much happier with where we did end up.
i love this house. just so solid and well built. and at a price that i never imagined we'd see.
and i love the town too.

Glad we only got rain down here! I got enough in the last storm to last me all season

Did I mention I hate snow?? Yuk!

winter arrived here 2 months ago! ...and it probably won't leave until June!

Hi St_Earl

Glad you landed up where you are happy. Never been to Millinocket, I know they have / had many papermills and I think there is a TV show about a logging company from there. We lived in Portland OR, maybe for about a year, my wife is from WA state. We have been in Littleton for 30 years, I am a New Englander. As for the Beverly Hillbillies avatar, I am into Buick Roadmaster Station wagons and that is the picture I use on those forums.

Tom C.

Just rain here. Temp was about 38 degrees all day.............pellet stove on 3 feed/5 blow kept the house nice and warm at 7 :smirk: degrees. No propane usage :cheese:

Just rain here on the coast. That's perfectly fine with me!
St_Earl...You mean Rumumto's? Great pizza! The wife and I spent two weeks in St Johnsbury last summer ('10) at a friends campground (Moose River) We came to see Dog Mountain and practically lived there. I came away with a fondness for the town. Saw more Subaru's that I thought possible, drove on more dirt roads that I have in my life, and found that the campground was in the only dead zone listed by Verizon.

Chan

CWR said:

Just rain here on the coast. That's perfectly fine with me!
St_Earl...You mean Rumumto's? Great pizza! The wife and I spent two weeks in St Johnsbury last summer ('10) at a friends campground (Moose River) We came to see Dog Mountain and practically lived there. I came away with a fondness for the town. Saw more Subaru's that I thought possible, drove on more dirt roads that I have in my life, and found that the campground was in the only dead zone listed by Verizon.

Chan

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yeah. that pizza is really great.
lol @ the subarus! i know what you mean.

we are actually glad to be here where a buick 4 door can be seen hauling a canoe around, and away from subaru central.
we see a few other outbacks around town. but we like it better that everyone doesn't drive the same car as us.
and to be fair, we saw only the most run down sections of st. jay. and didn't get a chance at all to explore the byways.
i am looking forward to getting out on the lakes here this coming summer.


but we were talking about old man winter...

my thoughts are just now turning to scrounging up some recreational outdoor firewood and digging a pit for some winter fireside time.
it's been two and a half years since i had a real fire.
my avatar is my pit from back in portland.
usually the fire was more above and outside the actual pit than in it.

we lived in a place where many fig and some apple trees as well as a great abandoned 35 ft. tall laurel lived.
i took down and/or trimmed up all the trees and had a great surplus of recreational firewood.
it was fun dropping the laurel and one of the figs down between two of the neighbors and one of our power and phone lines.

When I was there it was 100 degrees for almost the whole time we were there. I would go back again...but in warm weather only