Meh, I will take the snow and cold as long as I don't have to deal with multiple ice storms like my BIL seems to have to deal with every winter in the KC area. I'll take snow before ice every day - and twice on Sundays.
The Little Things I hate about Winter
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I can also confirm that Minnesota-born gals don't expect to shovel.That's where the Ukrainian mail order brides excel and trounce the petitie SE Asian gals.
And don't expect any southern belle gals to shovel. Ain't happening. Can confirm.
Facebook is awesome, isn't it.People that complain they missed their exercise class cause they couldn't get out their driveway.
Multiple rubbers is also good advice if you're visiting a brothel in Puerto Rico.Back in the day, when people dressed up for white collar work, I'd be wearing dress wool pants and sport coat. Would sloush in from parking lot with rubbers on to protect nice dress shoes and pants rolled up to keep salt and stuff off them (same as rainy days). Would sometimes notice much later at work that I still had the pants rolled up like some sort of geek/nerd.
I'm the type of guy who sweats a lot. My gripe is how sweaty I get when doing snow. I'll look like I just took a swim. The hat and neck warmer are drenched. My shirt looks like a ran a marathon.
I take a shower and it's mostly over, but I get about as sweaty as when I mow in July.
I take a shower and it's mostly over, but I get about as sweaty as when I mow in July.
Wife driving into the garage without stopping in the street to knock the crapcycles from behind the tires. Soon they fall off and leave their filth all over the floor. Although today I may have won a battle (if not the war). Told her how dangerous it would be when all the gunk freezes again as the temperature drops. I may now have a 10% chance that she knocks the stuff off before driving into the garage.
She will stop right in front of the door and knock if off so you have big, dirty ice chunks right in front of your garage door.
I prefer that to having all the mushy gunk on our no-drain and poorly leveled garage floor.
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(.1% chance)It's too cold. Why don't you back my car back into the road and take care of it for me?
People that complain they missed their exercise class cause they couldn't get out their driveway.
Luckily a friend clued me in on an ingenious device that simultaneously removes snow from your driveway and fat from your ass and gut.
My wife parks both her vehicles inside, the rest of us are outside so she knows that when she backs out she needs to scoop the crud out. We do have a decent drain and does have a heater in it.
I have a prominent case of that in my sidewalk, I've lived here 10 years, I still hit it and somehow I'm surprised every time, like it's the first time I encountered it.
I replaced my septic system last summer and the treated discharge water pipe sticks out over the ravine in my back yard. The snow covered it up, so it packed up with ice. Standing on the side of a 45 degree hill pouring hot water out of a 5 gal bucket was not on my list of things to do today.
I don't have kids so can't talk from that perspective, but I think it's kind of nice to get to school and then call it a day at 11AM. It counts as a full day of school and isn't made up at the end of the year. Now, I'm sure with kids its difference because you have to plan for that inconvenience of letting school out early.
For example, Waukee did this yesterday. I think one could have guessed they would let out early so plan for it. I saw some people were upset about having their kids goto school and then closing early.. but again it still counts as a day!
1. Chapped lips
2. Driving in "the elements."
3. A routine errand could take 3 times as long if you have to scoop snow in the driveway, warm up the car, scrape/brush the car.
4. Low number of daylight hours. (Although I like how the daylight increases noticeably by late-winter; it's worse on the front-end).
2. Driving in "the elements."
3. A routine errand could take 3 times as long if you have to scoop snow in the driveway, warm up the car, scrape/brush the car.
4. Low number of daylight hours. (Although I like how the daylight increases noticeably by late-winter; it's worse on the front-end).
Most schools I know have went to hours. So if you go 3 hours and at the end you needed 4 that day. You get another half day for sure.
Hey...anybody wanna buy a used snowblower?
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