Snowed in today
 

We're in the mountains and woke up snowed in. Absolutely fantastic!
My wife, from Russia, does not think it is winter without snow. But she grew up in Murmansk, above the arctic circle. Now she is happy.

And our new dog loves the snow. He eats it and jumps in it and has a great time.
The only bad thing is he gets so excited that he pulls on the leash and almost pulls me over if it is icy.

I love the snow because I have never had to work in it. As a kid in upstate NY, it was playtime. As an adult in SoCal, snow was where you went to ski. Now, as the owner of a mountain cabin, I have to shovel the driveway, or I can just stay down near the coast.

But I feel for the people suffering from the horrible winter throughout the country.

We have about 8 inches of snow on the ground. We went the month of January without any new snow until a couple days ago.
They tell us we are still above our normal average at this time. It's 5 degrees outside right now.

And I assume you're like me that if the family (wife and pup) are happy, then you're happy. Wow, Murmansk, very cool and interesting.

That's pretty much me. I'm from FL, so not really any snow experience there. But when dad went into the Navy, we moved to northern Japan where I had lots of experience with snow as a kid. We went back when I was a teen, so I did a little shoveling then, but only remember the fun. When we lived in NoVA, we got snow a couple of times, but that mostly meant that it was play time. That gave me a little experience driving in it since I was a teen by that point. If it snows here, the world comes to a stand-still, so I don't have to worry about anything, and it melts before I'd have to do any shovelling.

Yeah, there are folks that have had to deal with some crazy weather this winter.

Snow is supposed to stay up in the mountains, and stay out of my area. If I go nuts and want to see snow I will go visit it up in the mountains. If it never snowed here again I would be just fine with that.

We have three days of sleet now and a thunder-sleet storm yesterday. Yuck.

My commute is 14 steps down the hall to my office. I only went outside a few steps to throw the kitchen trash in the big wheelie bin, and out to the mail box and back. Done.

They should make snow illegal in my area.

February is generally our snow month. So far winter has been very easy to deal with.

Yep, <knock, knock, knock> so far it's been fairly mild. We've had some cold weather and a really hard freeze back in Dec, but other than that, not too bad. I'm hoping the trend continues. We got almost the avg amount of rain in Jan which was good after last year.

We are currently iced in.

Probably Thursday at the earliest before it's reasonable to venture out.

I get my essential supplies in on regular deliveries so have a nice stockpile of TP, cat food, and a couple cases of wine showed up Saturday.

I'm good.

The weather forcasters lied to us. We were supposedly getting up to a few inches of snow. It's pretty cool out but clear and sunny. We love getting about two snow events each winter. We get the beauty of it snowing, a cover of a couple of inches to make it beautuful for a day, & then it's gone. That's about perfect for us.

I just wish that the dang clouds would leave me alone long enough to view Comet E3. :(

I went outside at 7am today to roll the garbage bin to the road.
It was 5F and no wind. I could hear cars starting up that were a half mile away...it's amazing what can be heard when the temp is that low with no wind.
A very peaceful time.

winter is great. one of my favorite seasons, the other being fall. shame its going away.

I got a dusting a couple weeks ago (last week, maybe?) that was melted by 11 a.m. I love my Arizona winters. :D

We had a light dusting of snow this morning north of Seattle, first since before Christmas.

Very mild winter so far, got my Targa out last 2 days in a row, sunny and cold... she likes it that way!

Snow rides are the best, always full of adventure...........and winching!


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Those are exactly my sentiments but I am in Zone 4/5 so "winter" may mean different things.

We get a few large snow storms (defined as more than peck, less than a cackle) every few years but we are always set.

winter means the best racing season of them all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12Rbuj3E2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvsFEtXwb0s

Growing up in NJ, I still remember that wonderful feeling of looking out the window in the evening to watch the snow pile up and thinking, "No school tomorrow!"

^^^
I look outside and relish the thought of firing up the snow thrower in the morning now.

That thing is fun.:)

Record heat yesterday and today Naples FL. Where I lived a year ago has 6” of snow on the ground and has been getting in the teens. Don’t miss it at all.

^^^ Has the Naples Pier been restored after the hurricane yet?

I've got a thermometer on my desk that has a few remote sensors. Last night when I went to bed it was 34º outside. This morning when I got up and came downstairs to my desk, it was 34º outside. I've probably glanced at the thermometer on my desk 50 times today, and every time it's said 34º. It's crazy for the temp to be that steady for that long. I can't of course say that it didn't go up or down during the night, but I have no reason to think that it might not have been steady the whole time.

Apparently, 34º and windy is past my limit for archery. 18 arrows and I was back inside.

How is the charge in the batteries?

My backyard. We've had snow on the ground continually since before Christmas. Every time it almost melts off, we get another round of cold and another inch or two. After 8 years of an 18" snowblower I bought used, I sold it for a decent sum and got a bigger one with a few more bells and whistles.

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Spent first four years growing up in north Wisconsin. I remember getting geared up to go out to play in the snow was quite a production. Then once out the back door into the winter wonderland for a bit before I had to take a pee or whatever and it was back inside to reverse the process. My dad would flood the back yard to make a skating rink. I learned to skate pushing an old chair around. Then we moved to Arizona, Okinawa and the Philippines where there was little snow. Next was north to Alaska and over to New Hampshire for plenty of it. Back to the tropics on Guam and finally settling in Gulf Coast Texas. Every few years we get a little. Now I get my snow fix by visiting my brother in Colorado. Next week I head up there to do some snowshoeing in the mountains to overnight in a few 10th Mountain Division Association huts way up along the continental divide.
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From a few years back when we were still cross country skiing.

Still going bang, bang, bang... (I can't remember if these are energizers or duracells, but the energizer folks have better commercials)

It blipped down to 33º last night for a bit before bed but went back to 34. This morning it's back down at 33º. It rained before I got out of bad, and it looks like it was liquid.

For what I assume is most of the rest of the country that's worse off than us, stay warm!

I bought this beast two summers ago at a swap meet… the 11 hours on the hour meter saved me $1,100 off retail.

Thing is, it has not snowed in metro-NY yet AT ALL. We just broke a 50 year old record for latest measurable snowfall, and counting. Last year I used it ONCE for a light 4” snow that I could have kicked to the side of the driveway with my boots if I had to. As of this writing at least, this wasn’t my wisest purchase. :D

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At least you didn't pay retail!

I'm going to say that it was money well spent. If you HADN'T bought it, you'd probably be setting records for snow fall. The reason that you haven't been getting snow is because you bought it. It's kind of like the opposite of washing your car and then having it immediately rain.

[QUOTE=gsxrken;11911515]I bought this beast two summers ago at a swap meet… the 11 hours on the hour meter saved me $1,100 off retail.

That is a very nice looking snow thrower. Very good find.
Honda's are very sought-after.

My thrower, which I bought about 10 years ago for $390 is on sale at Lowes now for $999

We average about 8" of snow annually here in southern ID and most comes in December. I like it, the kids and dogs like it, I get to run the snow blower to clear the driveway and sidewalks, and then a few days of sun and it all goes away. This week we got 2" on Saturday night and the cold blast of arctic air followed with temps down to 5F one morning. That was just a little too much fun but the sun came out today and we will be in the 30s tomorrow.

I guess you could call this "winter lite".