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Post by michaeljohnson on Dec 28, 2010 0:58:35 GMT -5
I hate snow"- we have had the darned stuff now with freezing conditions for about a month now and I am really peed off with it all, and as far as I can understand the USA are now having great dollops of it too-everywhere, and as a general rule- what the USA gets-we are sure to get it about a week later over here in the UK. I am fed up with going out every morning to clear the ice off the car windscreens etc, before I can go out to the shops, I am fed up with all the arthritis aches and pains it brings to my back, legs knees and fingers, I am fed up with taking powerful pain killers to combat it every darned day, I am also fed up with having to put on three or four layers of clothes to keep warm-and of course a hat. Roll on spring and seed sowing time again ;D ;D ;D
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Post by coppice on Dec 28, 2010 8:38:18 GMT -5
Mike, I've moved to below the great lakes. The last Alberta clipper tore through north of me. Still its clearly winter here. About 2 inches of standing snow.
CFI's next meeting will be a seed swap. Jan 15.
CFI Community Food Initiative
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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 28, 2010 9:48:03 GMT -5
I lived in Nottingham, UK, for 4 years and remember a big snow dump once which melted after a couple of days. Not to worry though, I also rememeber daffodiles peeping up sometime in February or was that March. Anyhow, we won't be getting any bulb action until much later than that.
I would happily trade snow in for mild winter temperatures but since I suspect that's not on the cards, I'll have to hope for insulating snow. We haven't had really extreme temps yet - so far, just dips into -15C or so.
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Post by baby daddy on Dec 28, 2010 18:34:01 GMT -5
I'm in total agreement with you MJC, we just returned from Mexico about a week and a half ago , and I've been a grump ever since. Snow and cold conditions that keep it hanging on. Told my wife that I was ready to go back until spring, but unfortunatly, finances and work will not allow that.... Rats..... I guess I will just have to lay under my grow bulbs for a couple of hours each day..
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 28, 2010 18:49:35 GMT -5
I'm actually sorta okay with the snow and cold around me by now. I mean, I live in terror of power outages and car damage caused by heavy snow (the latter from when enough snow falls to cause trees to topple over into our driveway). But as for the actual stuff and the cold, I'm kinda okay. Basically I attribute this to my colledge days back in Itaca, where (being so close to the finger lakes) you basically had a massive windchill all around the clock all winter. That time taught me a lot of things, like what a scarf is really for (It's for tying around your nose and mouth so you can breathe without freezing your lungs) and just what a wonderful device of nature and warmth a thick, bushy beard can be (as well as a degree of sympathy for all of the poor boyars who suffered the modernization quirks of Peter the Great) After a couple years of that, nothing down here in the Hudson Valley really bothers me.
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Post by michaeljohnson on Dec 29, 2010 0:44:10 GMT -5
I think one of the worst things and problems that snow and freezing conditions brings- is when you go out to your car and you have to actually lever the doors open with something in order to get into it, and-after you have got into it-you find that the darned doors wont close properly again and keep coming open a couple of inches or so- one year it was so bad I had to drive down to the shops with the door tied up with a piece of rope-tied to the base of my seat in order to keep it closed whilst driving- it was a bit hairy to say the least when I came to a bend had had to lean over slightly onto the door. The when I got back home again I had to spend another half an hour freeing it all up before I could lock and secure the car again.
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Post by ottawagardener on Dec 29, 2010 9:41:47 GMT -5
We do the door bang in the morning after a freezing rain if the cars aren't in the garage. That's when you carefully but firmly smack the door with the heel of your hand until the ice cracks rather like releasing it from its shell. That and they sell lock defreezers though I've never had the privledge of trying one.
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