This puts a kink in my riding. But it is beautiful

[Wizzard]

About 2 hours ago my back yard

[Bighead]

Nothing beautiful about that IMHO
But am glad some can live with it because it would get too crowded down here

[Pappy!]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

[scooperhsd]

Don't need any snow here in NC for this Kansas transplant. These people have issues dealing with rain, nevermind anything that is frozen....

[The emperor has no clothes]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

You've never been in snow ?

[old2soon]

We git some of dat white kaka stickumtogroundmakegroundslipperystuff.  And when it DO stickumtoground I gotz food coffee and alcohol!    I NO go nowhwere!  RIDE SAFE.

[Wizzard]

Well,, just inside the door I took that picture out of,, this is my answer to it all

[Crackerborn]

This Florida Cracker never saw snow until a cross country trip when I was 18, on a CL450 Honda at the top of the Rockies. When I left the Boulder area I swore I would never get stuck in the white snot again. Fast forward 22 years and somehow the wife convinced me to move to WI. (A long story that needs adult beverages for the telling.) Truth be told, even with the white garbage that fell tonight, I don't plan to leave the land of cheese until I am on the wrong side of the grass. If you have to put up with the cold, you may as well have snow to play in and we have no intention on staying in the urban corridor south of Milwaukee once the wife retires. Forest Rats, Walleye and Musky are beckoning. Not to mention all that pavement between two oceans that needs to be closely inspected by this here product of the Sunshine State.

[Hooter]

Got the same up here. Setting in my stand right now deer hunting and it's a nice morning to be in the woods.

[Gryphon Rider]

We just received a couple of inches since Sunday morning.  This week's predicted temperatures in Calgary (°F):

Mon High 5 Low -8
Tue H -2 L -17
Wed H -8 L -17
Thu H -4 L -15
Fri H -11 L -15

We can't really complain, as we've had an unseasonably warm autumn until yesterday.  I'll have to string out the power cord to plug in vehicles; this morning my old truck had to crank longer than usual before firing.  It's time to drain the oil and pull the battery from Gryphon, shimmy it over in the garage, and cover it up for the winter.

[TJ]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

       

[solo1]

So far, we have only a trace of snow here in NE Indiana, and too far south for 'lake effect' snow (normally  ).

I'm ready with snow tires on all four wheels of my Mazda Six. I just bought shoes with Vibram 'Arctic grip" soles.  Geezers don't do well if they fall.

I hope that we don't get the snow that we got two years ago, like this pic from my apt.

[Pappy!]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

You've never been in snow ?

Yep, but usually only for a few minutes or longer walking between an airport and a rental car or hotel to the car. Usually work related, when I had to visit Waukegan, Ill. and the home office from down here in Florida. Also one time I was sent up to Minn., again for work. I did get to see some pretty scenery while up there. One of the guys I was working with took me out to where he hunted and it was gorgeous.
Have hunted in ice storms in Alabama. That was like walking in an ice cathedral. Cold but amazing to see. 

[3fan4life]

Better You than me!

It's good to look at but I'd prefer not to have it myself.

[BF]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

You've never been in snow ?

Never....well, except at work where we snow on aircraft all the time (and that's enough for this Florida boy). But I've never been in it and wouldn't have a clue how to deal with it or live in it.

Except for that one year a couple years ago when we had an ice storm (and that was weird), it's only dusted snow here a few times...but never anymore than that.   

[Beardo]

Well, from a Florida Boy.....that is something I would love to see one day. Looks great to me......long as I am inside watching with a fire going.

You've never been in snow ?

Yep, but usually only for a few minutes or longer walking between an airport and a rental car or hotel to the car. Usually work related, when I had to visit Waukegan, Ill. and the home office from down here in Florida. Also one time I was sent up to Minn., again for work. I did get to see some pretty scenery while up there. One of the guys I was working with took me out to where he hunted and it was gorgeous.
Have hunted in ice storms in Alabama. That was like walking in an ice cathedral. Cold but amazing to see. 

Because I'm a nice guy...as a favour to YOU, I would be willing to let you move into my house from December til about April...just so you can truely get all the enjoyment that is winter.  We'd be willing to stay at your place.  Again...as a favour to you.

There is nothing more breathtaking than -40. You'll love it.

[The emperor has no clothes]

There is nothing more breathtaking than -40. You'll love it.

Well, except for -40* and 30 mph wind.  I spent a year in Kotzebue, AK. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

[Hook#3287]

The thing I've come to either enjoy, or hate, about a snow "event" is, everyone's all gung ho running their life and then Mother Nature steps up, drops 12 inches of snow, and it's all "Day Off"

Except for Craig, he's busy pushing it.

[Jopson]

There is nothing more breathtaking than -40. You'll love it.

Well, except for -40* and 30 mph wind.  I spent a year in Kotzebue, AK. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Those are the good "character building" days those are! We get a few of those here in South Dakota.

The cold keeps the weirdos away!

[Crackerborn]

The cold keeps the weirdos away!

For some reason that doesn't seem to work here, they just hibernate for a few months.

[cookiedough]

NO idea how you guys survive in parts of Canada (or Alaska for that matter).  Anything -30 and below is just plain looking for a death wish if out in that stuff for any length of time, with winds whipping as well 20-30 mph.

Been ice fishing in bitter cold temps -20 below with 15-25 mph winds for 3 days straight a decade or so ago in Devils Lake ND and can honestly say I had enough sitting in a portable shack when my eyelashes starting freezing shut.   ???

[Beardo]

NO idea how you guys survive in parts of Canada (or Alaska for that matter).  Anything -30 and below is just plain looking for a death wish if out in that stuff for any length of time, with winds whipping as well 20-30 mph.

Been ice fishing in bitter cold temps -20 below with 15-25 mph winds for 3 days straight a decade or so ago in Devils Lake ND and can honestly say I had enough sitting in a portable shack when my eyelashes starting freezing shut.   ???

Canadians are just tougher.  Or maybe stupider. Takes the latter to be the former, I think.

Makes me think about my great grandfather and grandmother, coming over from the homeland, coming across the open prairie...thinking wow, look at all this open prairie, such great farmland. This is amazing. They build their sod house, start breaking land. Then that first winter comes. I can just imagine those conversations as it hit -30, -40, -45...cuddled up in the corner of that sod hut, trying to get the pile of frozen horse pucks to burn. I have to think we ain't heard nagging anything like that.

[cookiedough]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

[Gryphon Rider]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

It looks like it's time for you to bump the thermostat up to 71 (67 while sleeping is fine), and if you get too hot, put on your shorts and go shovel your neighbors' sidewalks.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

It looks like it's time for you to bump the thermostat up to 71 (67 while sleeping is fine), and if you get too hot, put on your shorts and go shovel your neighbors' sidewalks.

I can see the headlines now. Wisconsin man alias Cookiedough arrested for indecent shoveling.

[Valkorado]

We've been lucky so far this season, but a snow storm is bearing down on us right now.  I keep saying a snow blower is in my future, as shoveling is no longer compatible with my lower back.  I remember waking upsome years back to two and a half feet of wet cement snow.  I knew it was a doozy before even looking out a window when I heard branches snapping all around the neighborhood.  I was renting a place with doors that pushed out, and neither would budge.  Had to holler at my neighbor to scrape my porch off so I could get out.

[Wizzard]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

It looks like it's time for you to bump the thermostat up to 71 (67 while sleeping is fine), and if you get too hot, put on your shorts and go shovel your neighbors' sidewalks.

I keep mine at 68 and at night it goes down to 58. Comes back up to 68 about a half hour before I get up. I have a NEST thermostat that senses when no one is home and puts the temp at whatever I want and then senses when you walk in and adjusts accordingly. I can also control it via the web.
I love that thermostat.

[0leman]

I am sitting here watching the white come down.  Thankfully it only a couple of inches so far.  Suppose to be feet of white only 40 miles away in the high country (that is where it is suppose to fall, not here in town).  And yes there is a cup of coffee to keep me company.

Been more that a week since I have been able to ride because of weather.  Hopefully a break is coming.

[Gryphon Rider]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

It looks like it's time for you to bump the thermostat up to 71 (67 while sleeping is fine), and if you get too hot, put on your shorts and go shovel your neighbors' sidewalks.

I keep mine at 68 and at night it goes down to 58. Comes back up to 68 about a half hour before I get up. I have a NEST thermostat that senses when no one is home and puts the temp at whatever I want and then senses when you walk in and adjusts accordingly. I can also control it via the web.
I love that thermostat.

My wee wife would turn into a block of ice if we kept the thermostat that low.

[Wizzard]

Winter cold does not bother me, it is the drifting and wind that I totally dislike.  I do not mind shoveling as long as under 6 inches of snow and not that heavy/wet crap.  Only usually 2-3 times every winter we get more than 6 inches of snow at a time.  Now that I said that I can see a blizzard coming our way more often now?   

I notice my kid and wife who each have lost like 30-50 lbs. have now complained that they are always cold in our house set thermostat at 67 degrees.  I find it comfy since I still have that layer of polar bear insulation fat surrounding me....   

It looks like it's time for you to bump the thermostat up to 71 (67 while sleeping is fine), and if you get too hot, put on your shorts and go shovel your neighbors' sidewalks.

I keep mine at 68 and at night it goes down to 58. Comes back up to 68 about a half hour before I get up. I have a NEST thermostat that senses when no one is home and puts the temp at whatever I want and then senses when you walk in and adjusts accordingly. I can also control it via the web.
I love that thermostat.

My wee wife would turn into a block of ice if we kept the thermostat that low.

I also sleep in a water bed that is constant temp,, but if  you get up in the middle of the night in winter time with temp at 58 you don't waste much time. 

[Oss]

We havent had any significant snow yet, but the year isnt done

The program on the thermostat is set for 67 at nite. Usually we'll  go out to the hot tub (about 102) before turning in  and sometimes I will go in 1st thing in the morning if I am chilled or just having a lazy morning. Once steam is comin off your body it dont matter if its 10 degrees out you are now warm.

They do make heaters for water beds Wizzard, no way I would let the water bed that close to freezing and expect a wife to get into it

We got rid of our  28 yr old Somma water bed this past year and got a bed in a box from Tuft& Needle   King size for 750.00 cant beat it and 100 day money back no question guarantee plus Long Warranty

[Wizzard]

We havent had any significant snow yet, but the year isnt done

The program on the thermostat is set for 67 at nite. Usually we'll  go out to the hot tub (about 102) before turning in  and sometimes I will go in 1st thing in the morning if I am chilled or just having a lazy morning. Once steam is comin off your body it dont matter if its 10 degrees out you are now warm.

They do make heaters for water beds Wizzard, no way I would let the water bed that close to freezing and expect a wife to get into it

We got rid of our  28 yr old Somma water bed this past year and got a bed in a box from Tuft& Needle   King size for 750.00 cant beat it and 100 day money back no question guarantee plus Long Warranty

Lol,, I got a heater, ,that is why I said constant temp. Its warm no matter what. Have had my water bed for 40 years and now when I travel and sleep on a regular mattress, I wake up stiff in the wrong places