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Monsterlover

#90
February 08, 2018, 04:20:27 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on February 08, 2018, 03:28:20 AM
We got about a foot yesterday.

Same. This is the point during winter I start to really miss motorcycles.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

herm

#91
February 08, 2018, 05:28:13 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on February 08, 2018, 03:28:20 AM
We got about a foot yesterday.

Same on the coast.....with a nice ice finish to top it off.  :P
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pigs like it...

ducpainter

#92
February 08, 2018, 07:56:40 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 08, 2018, 04:20:27 AM
Same. This is the point during winter I start to really miss motorcycles.
...and hate snowblowers. :P
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


Monsterlover

#93
February 12, 2018, 08:43:03 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on February 08, 2018, 07:56:40 AM
...and hate snowblowers. :P

I *should* have run mine a lot more than I have this year. I kinda have the make the beast with two backsits toward the snow this year.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**

ducpainter

#94
February 12, 2018, 09:12:27 AM
Quote from: Monsterlover on February 12, 2018, 08:43:03 AM
I *should* have run mine a lot more than I have this year. I kinda have the make the beast with two backsits toward the snow this year.
I got a new to me snowblower this year, and I'm trying to get used to it. It's very different from the tracked one I had. It steers harder. The tracked model was trigger steer. I get the make the beast with two backsits right around the beginning of March. It won't be around long, and if we can drive through it no harm, no foul.

Got warm, and rained all day yesterday.

Cooling off now...guess what...skating time. :P
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


OT

#95
February 13, 2018, 07:00:09 AM
What is it with human beings and snow?  Used to live in Rochester NY....started snowing 24/7 in mid-October and didn't stop until April. It was unbelievable...but everyone tolerated it because "the summers (2-months long) are great"...Used to live in Mobile, AL - coldest it ever got in winter was mid-30s at night in December, up to 60 during the day and warmed through Jan and Feb...played a lot of golf, even though the grass was 'brown'.

Point is - I never realized the physiological toll the cold winter takes on a person's body -- not spending a few winters in the 'deep freeze' while living in AL were very revealing.  Screw all the macho talk....I'll be heading south as soon as I can retire....maybe even sooner

The Architect

#96
February 13, 2018, 07:07:47 AM
Quote from: OT on February 13, 2018, 07:00:09 AM

Point is - I never realized the physiological toll the cold winter takes on a person's body -- not spending a few winters in the 'deep freeze' while living in AL were very revealing.  Screw all the macho talk....I'll be heading south as soon as I can retire....maybe even sooner



Couldn't agree more!

ducpainter

#97
February 13, 2018, 07:09:24 AM
Quote from: OT on February 13, 2018, 07:00:09 AM
What is it with human beings and snow?  Used to live in Rochester NY....started snowing 24/7 in mid-October and didn't stop until April. It was unbelievable...but everyone tolerated it because "the summers (2-months long) are great"...Used to live in Mobile, AL - coldest it ever got in winter was mid-30s at night in December, up to 60 during the day and warmed through Jan and Feb...played a lot of golf, even though the grass was 'brown'.

Point is - I never realized the physiological toll the cold winter takes on a person's body -- not spending a few winters in the 'deep freeze' while living in AL were very revealing.  Screw all the macho talk....I'll be heading south as soon as I can retire....maybe even sooner


I'm staying out of 'the waiting room'. I can't imagine a place I'd like to be less.

Maybe I'll get a few more years that way. :P
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


Popeye the Sailor

#98
February 13, 2018, 12:55:40 PM
Quote from: OT on February 13, 2018, 07:00:09 AM
What is it with human beings and snow?  Used to live in Rochester NY....started snowing 24/7 in mid-October and didn't stop until April. It was unbelievable...but everyone tolerated it because "the summers (2-months long) are great"...Used to live in Mobile, AL - coldest it ever got in winter was mid-30s at night in December, up to 60 during the day and warmed through Jan and Feb...played a lot of golf, even though the grass was 'brown'.

Point is - I never realized the physiological toll the cold winter takes on a person's body -- not spending a few winters in the 'deep freeze' while living in AL were very revealing.  Screw all the macho talk....I'll be heading south as soon as I can retire....maybe even sooner



It's what you make of it.

I lived for a decade in California-last couple years in socal.

Not a lick of appreciation for a nice day because they all were nice.
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

Bick

#99
February 13, 2018, 01:02:53 PM
Quote from: Satellite smithy on February 13, 2018, 12:55:40 PM
It's what you make of it.

I lived for a decade in California-last couple years in socal.

Not a lick of appreciation for a nice day because they all were nice.

A day is as nice as you make it.

Nate had a word for it...  Starts with a P... ;D
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

Popeye the Sailor

#100
February 13, 2018, 01:41:52 PM
Quote from: Bick on February 13, 2018, 01:02:53 PM
A day is as nice as you make it.

Nate had a word for it...  Starts with a P... ;D

Pwhiskey?
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

lethe

#101
February 13, 2018, 01:59:26 PM
Pvodka, the P is slient
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Bick

#102
February 13, 2018, 02:31:32 PM
It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger.

* A man can never have too much whiskey, too many books, or too much ammunition *

OT

#103
February 16, 2018, 06:24:34 PM Last Edit: February 16, 2018, 06:27:07 PM by OT
Quote from: ducpainter on February 13, 2018, 07:09:24 AM
I'm staying out of 'the waiting room'. I can't imagine a place I'd like to be less.

Maybe I'll get a few more years that way. :P
I used to feel the same way and never would have planned it, but after living there found that I (a NYC native) actually enjoyed the Redneck Riviera and Cajun hospitality...no synthetic  "Villages" full of oldsters having planned fun.  Fairport, AL, was one of the nicest tiny-little towns I've ever seen -  a hint of SF on the Gulf of Mexico.

More snow tomorrow here in PA....I'm hearing up to a foot around Tobyhanna  ;D

Monsterlover

#104
February 17, 2018, 06:39:55 PM
Well, it looks like it might be 65° on Tuesday.

Arctic before and after of course. It's sort of cruel.
"The Vincent was like a bullet that went straight; the Ducati is like the magic bullet in Dallas that went sideways and hit JFK and the Governor of Texas at the same time."--HST    **"A man who works with his hands is a laborer.  A man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman.  A man who works with his hands, brains, and heart is an artist."  -Louis Nizer**
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