Outside my Windows I - A Magical Morning

[theirishguard]

Dave, how is your Mom doing, handling everything?
Tom

[Richard S]

Suddenly out of the dark snowy night the "Demon Poodle" of mountain legend lore appears.

Egads, Holmes!  The Hound of the Baskervilles is at the door!

  

[MountainMan]

Tom
She starts chemo on Friday - hope it won't be too hard on her.  Thanks for asking.

Richard
I think this has been the coldest December in PA that I can recall.  Below normal temps for several weeks.  How is it up north?

Dave

[Richard S]

Dave:

So far so good here in East Tennessee -- the lowest nighttime reading to date at my place this season is 23° Fahrenheit.  Right now it is a balmy   33°.

[R9SCarry]

Dave - certainly a ''vigorous'' start this winter and I fear - a lot more to come.  

Tomorrow it seems we have a potential for more mess, even some freezing rain tho you and I being West PA may not get (I hope) too much of that!

Hovering around 30º today but night temps have been way down.

Many weeks ahead of chills and shivers!

[Rocnerd]

Well, you are all welcome to visit us down here in S. Florida.  Temps are mid 70s right now for highs and mid 50s at night with little humidity.    You can also easily obtain an out of state carry permit to carry while you are in Florida if there isn't reciprocity between your state.  I know there is with Pennsylvania (Go Steelers!).

[R9SCarry]

I'd be down there in a flash Roc - except - commitments, home security etc.

I have my FL non-res, so no carry probs.

[MountainMan]

Richard - meant down south - Bill is up north.

Roc - ok rub it in.  But in the fall will you see the beauty of leaves changing colors?  Of course you miss the fun of raking those leaves.  Still have piles I didn't get to and now they are covered in snow.   As I get older I do hear a call to a warmer climate in winter.  Won't happen anytime soon though.

Chris - the snow doesn't bother me -it is the bone chilling cold when it gets to the single digits or lower.  In fact I find the snow fun.  I have a half mile to get to the road.  I just turn on the bobcat with the heated cab and plow away.

Dave

[Rocnerd]

Roc - ok rub it in.  But in the fall will you see the beauty of leaves changing colors?  Of course you miss the fun of raking those leaves.  Still have piles I didn't get to and now they are covered in snow.  
Dave

Sorry to rub it in.  I do miss the fall the most being down here and from up north.  Going for a hike or just a walk in the woods at the peak of fall is something I miss a lot.  I also miss the crisp chill in the air from that time.  Raking leaves I don't miss.  That was always my least favorite task when I was landscaping up there.  I got a dose of leaf raking after Wilma went through.  Most of the trees looked like twigs after that storm.  The cold I didn't mind too much, but working in the freezing rain which was the norm up in NJ was miserable.  I'll take the heat over that any day.  

[Calvin Cooledge]

 Raking leaves I don't miss.  That was always my least favorite task when I was landscaping up there.  I got a dose of leaf raking after Wilma went through.  

Guys,
My world changed when I bought a mulching lawnmower. It's a Honda, is a work horse, and I just run it over the leaves and 'poof', they're gone!

I love technology. And my R9S! (Obligitory Gun Content-OGC)

Steve

[MountainMan]

Steve -  you haven't seen "leaves" on the ground until you have been to my house.

Just plowed the road - changing from freezing rain to snow, back to the freezing rain - and so forth.

[MountainMan]

Plowing my way out of the woods tonight to the road a half mile away.  Don't you warm state guys wish you were here.
Dave

[R9SCarry]

Well Dave - glad I don't have a half mile to do!  Mind you, Bobcat does make short work of the job.  

This morning one and a half hours tho of snowblower and shovel - trouble is it ain't just the front - pic here is after clearing up - and minus wife's car.  I have to clear all round side and down to rear where I keep my truck near office.  That takes even more time to add on!!

This stuff is not quite in the spirit of the thread's feelgood factor LOL!

[MountainMan]

Chris
Now we know how you get all of that hand strength.
Dave

[MountainMan]

SANTA COMES TODAY!


Santa delivered my new truck today.

Here is Santa, my lovely wife Nancy, who got me the new F250 Lariat for Christmas with the V10 engine.