Another lame Winter

Change is a good thing.

Can't speak of this being evidence of climate change, but it's certainly warmer than I like, though colder than last winter by a little.

I complained in another thread that I couldn't ice fish last year, and this year has been the same. That's a first in my lifetime. However, today my father was able to take my boy ice fishing for a bit, but I couldn't take advantage because of work. Ice became safe Sunday night into Monday for a local lake. With the weather though, the ice he was on today won't be trustworthy by the end of the day tomorrow.

Ugh, back to muddy dirt roads, muddy dog, sad me

Has been easy on the wood supply though!

PLEASE...talk about the Winter all you want, but do not turn this thread into yet another endless discussion about climate change...at the very next hint of that here I'll vaporize this thread.

Wasn't a "threat", nor was it directed at you, Stax, or any particular individual. If Super Moderator pen or anyone else continued in that direction, I'd fire my phasers. Nothing here to take personally. Rick

That certainly wasn't the direction I was intending to go. My apologies

pen

I know, buddy, just using your name to help me make my point. A chat about the weather we're experiencing is a good, fun thing. But we really, really don't need to talk ourselves back into the abyss of the whole global warming/climate change thing, where we've been so many times before...it only ever leads to the Ash Can. Rick

I remember that disaster quite well, zap. I lived in Northern Virginia then (not affected, but certainly attentive/sympathetic). Rick

Oh, I wish my wife Marsha was still alive (for lots of reasons, of course, but right now to have fun with this post). Marsha held a PhD in Clinical Psychology, and I just wish I could hear her reactions to a Fire Chief posting that he burns wood for psychotherapy. Rick

We got bombed Jan. 8 in 1996 zap. 29 inches and winds making eight foot drifts. 4,000 of us had received our "being downsized" notices just before the storm. I called in and told them I could "not do anything" from home and I would take my chances on the next performance review. Put more wood in the stove, refreshed the candles and made another pot of coffee and breakfast on the stove.

It was over a week before I could get to the road. Over the next few days it added up to three feet.