well...i guess I spoke too soon :)

A few weeks ago we were poking at each other about the weather...and I mentioned that its been like a cold spring all year...

ya....well yesterday...I was out looking at Wagons and Trailers....and it started kinda slushy...and then...it got white...and then I woke up to this ..this morning Wathaheck???
and thats not the worst of it !!...its been snowing all freekin day !!...must be close to 9 inches now !...and my powers gone out twice tonite

 

Let's hope the white stuff doesn't carry south too far - we've already had our fill of snow here in the Willamette Valley. It's raining right now though.

 

Momma always said, "Don't make fun of others!" But at least you can build one of these We end up with a carrot, hat, 2 sticks and a few buttons in a water puddle here!

 

Yup, we had the white stuff yesterday morning also, dogs just love it! Saw many a snow dude also, 2 across the street to boot. Heavy wet stuff, perfect for snow balls. I went out just after it got dark to walk the dogs and a friend across the street was having snow ball wars with his kids. He had his back to the street using cars to hide behind...... he didn't see me and ..................


Rite in the back of the head!

Kept snowing all day, not heavy but constant. Kept warming just enough to keep it at slush. This AM all is white again, but maybe 3-4 inches max including yesterdays snow.

 

We have been hitting high 60's to low 70's here already.

 

What it looks like out my front door @ 6:15AM Nothing deep, but I have heard several sirens heading up island all ready since before 5AM

Looks like one of the snow dudes fell over.....

Guess I'll finish my coffee, go out and sweep the side walk before the AM freeze over happens. I'll top up the bird feeder also

 

So how are the roads and anti-snow conditions over there? Here in Pennsylvania we have a lot of calcium anti-snow stuff that will eat through cars a lot if preventative measures aren't done. I heard in another state (Utah?) people just put chains on their tires and so their vehicles don't rust away like they do here in PA.

 

Well on my island, as I predicted, it froze but I got out there before it happened, but my drive way is a ice rink now..... And now it's 1/2 frozen rain. I'll be out in a bit to stick a heater in the Merc to defrost it.

They salt here now, been that way for a few years. They also use a liquid brime solution of some sort but only use that for frost and black ice.

 

Aaaaaaw Geee! Yesterday we had thunderboomers and hard rain all day. If it were snow I probably couldn't see out the windows. Golly I miss snow!
My kids back in Illinois keep having to shovel their roofs. Up in Michigan roofs are collapsing.
Now I remember why we ran away from the midwest. It's only 72 and sunny now. Nothing exciting to take pictures of.
And that Florida picture at the state line had to be Photocrapped.

I will admit from my living room at the monitor wearing shorts and T-shirt all of those pictures sure look purddy!

 

If you can still see grass and use a broom to Sweep you walk then it didn't really SNOW! That gentlemen is white rain...

 

My wife wants to move to Canada after seeing the pictures of Tedy's yard. I told her only if I could move next door to Tedy so he could shovel my driveway and sidewalks!

 

Very valid point, fannie.... But coming from Winterpeg getting rid of snow is .....you don't think, you just do. I guess dad's child slave labor training stuck I cleaned it off, kept on top of it, then it froze, then it rained today..... I can walk my drive way while all others on the street are complaining about the slush/ice mess in there drive ways/walk ways...... And I don't want my honey to slip on the ice

Beer fridge must be provided, none of that girly diet beer either or I'll shovel my snow on your drive way

 

thats true Fannie...

funny story....so it snows all sat/sun/and monday...monday nite i'm sitting at my car club meeting and one of the guys asks if I still have a spare wagoon roof?..I say WHY...and he says his temp garage fell on his Falcon and it might be done...I get a COLD SHIVER !!!
I excuse myself and drive home like the wind !!
Get home only to find that I have a FOOT of snow !!!! (picture included)(yes I finally found my camera)...(it was under the passenger seat of my Marquis that I drove for 1 whole day this summer... )....so yup....thats the end of a 'ruler' stickin out of the snow on the roof of the 63



Needless to say...I was up till 1AM getting the snow off the 'temp' garages that my 58 Bermuda and my 66 Squire are under !!!!!!!!!
Both of them had bent the uprights about 20degrees and the truss bars over the Edsel were only about 1.5 " off the roof of her

Boy that was close !!

Then Tuesday..we were right back to spring conditions...then I wake up this morning....peer thru the blinds...WTH?? Ill be darned if it didnt snow again !! Mind ya...only about a 1/2 "



I fear it may be time to build more garage

 

also took some bad 'phone' shots after driving like a lunatic in the snow

I put Herpes sideways into a few awkward slides last weekend

it aint easy to keep a 5500LB wagon going in the direction you want it when your still sporting Old BFG's on her

this one was real close to being in the WRONG driveway


then this the next morning !....hard not to love this place