OOOh baby it's a white world

[tahoostas]

Back is getting sore keeping the trails to the wood shed clear! What a year.

 

[Sinngetreu]

Wow! We have the cold, but we don't that kind of snow.

 

[bag of hammers]

I've cut a path across the back yard so the pup could get out in the yard to do her business (snow too deep for a newf to cross). Getting dumped on today and had to shovel it out again. What a winter so far....

 

[gzecc]

Coldest winter for me in the NY/NJ area

 

[BrotherBart]

Building that wood shed just outside the breezeway entrance two years ago was the smartest thing I have ever done. The light in it was the second. Wish I had done it twenty years ago.



ETA: And building a genny shed on the end of it. When this happened in 2010 and the power was out for seven days I had to dig out to the wood stacks four times and to the genny shed three times.

 

[fossil]

...Wish I had done it twenty years ago.

Oh, there are so many things....

 

[Applesister]

Theres a point where that much snow must start to work as insulation.

 

[BrotherBart]

Oh, there are so many things....

Well, there were those two.

 

[fossil]

Theres a point where that much snow must start to work as insulation.

It certainly insulates me from ever moving back to Northern Virginia.

 

[BrotherBart]

For sure fossil. Done 29 years here and this one is, well, different.

 

[tahoostas]

It's been a crazy winter. Cold and snow. The wind was just ripping today but I had to just stand and watch for a while. Was pretty beautiful. Until I picked up the shovel.

 

[ClintonH]

2-4 inches tonight, gusts up to 40mph. I got up to check the chimney (double-walled stainless that goes up on the south side of the house and installed in October). Snow blowing in AROUND the sliding door frame (not the opening door part). I guess fixing the door is added to the 'to do' list.

 

[BobUrban]

I am a winter over summer guy for sure but this silly zero and negative temp stuff is getting really old "fast"! Give me 20-25 degrees and I am in my happy place but brutal bitter is just rude. You people in Duluth are tough!

The up side - I have lots of wood and the 30 doesn't mind at all.

 

[razerface]

I pushed 3ft drifts off a 1/4 mile driveway this morning. It was good fun. I like plowing,,but only because it isn't every day. Boss power v blades are the stuff fun is made of,,,,

 

[JRJ]

I'm ready for spring myself

 

[Paulywalnut]

Wow you have a lot of extra work there. I thought maybe I was clicking on a Cat Stevens parody Ooh baby baby its a......

 

[tahoostas]

That song was playing in my head!

 

[Flatbedford]

Lots of cold, but not much snow here in the Lower Hudson Valley.

 

[Get Wood]

Talking to a friend today who said he had heard this was the first of seven winters like this, this pattern won't change for six more years.
I might change my mind about building a house in Ontario and come back to the south.

 

[weatherguy]

You guys are lucky, we haven't had much snow but we're at our seasonal average, I love the way above average years. I'm a winter guy but do look forward to golf and summer. I like winter to act like winter, cold and snowy.

 

[tcassavaugh]

........look at the bright side, it will help get rid of some of the bugs .....right......

 

[weatherguy]

........look at the bright side, it will help get rid of some of the bugs .....right......

The extreme cold helps get rid of bugs, I think the snow insulates them and protects them.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Can we remind you about the bugs next June?