killingtime wrote:
MA Weather forcast

It's nice you're keeping track of the weather for Ma...

Your lows look like our highs...and rain..
We might finally get our snow back in force this week..I'm not sure I want it now!!!

dontwantaname wrote:That s*cks! Way too much snow. What are the grocery stores like?

After the second storm, they were empty. Before the storm, people stocked up to hunker down, and trucks couldn't get in to resupply after the storm hit. Last Saturday things were pretty much back to normal.

It's a little early for them to predict the snow amounts. I'm hoping for no more than a light dusting.

dontwantaname wrote:I need to get my tire fixed. I don't want to go!

Just go. Nothing like a fully functional and fueled escape vehicle to bring peace of mind.

dontwantaname wrote:
I need to get my tire fixed. I don't want to go!

I should go out too...just waiting on a pathetic phone call.

dontwantaname wrote:

No, why go when I can stay home and worry about it.
I woke up a billion times thinking about it. I could have gone a 8am. Read the newspaper and had a cup of coffee in the tire place and come back home to sleep......but nooooooooooooooo. Why listen to reason!
Especially when sons car is just sitting there till Friday!

I don't even listen to me!

Does son's car's tires fit yours? Hmm...

pooflady wrote:

How many times have you shoveled your driveway?

Once per storm. I think that's three so far. Wait, I shoveled it twice for the last one (one in the morning, one after it finished), so four.

dontwantaname wrote:No, every time it snows you need to move it around. I wanted to know if he was happy with the placement of the current crop of snow.

I just widened the drivable part of the driveway last night. Does that count as another shoveling?

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
I just widened the drivable part of the driveway last night. Does that count as another shoveling?

Does your wife help?

killingtime wrote:Does your wife help?

Uh...no.

dontwantaname wrote:

Yes! That is what happens. Then if it snows again, you need to make room for that snow. I hate the apron at the street with the heavy snow from the plow. The guys next door have a real plow, but by the time they get here I usually did it.

I have to drive over a little ridge to get from my driveway onto the street (which itself is several inches of hard packed snow).

dontwantaname wrote:

Yes! That is what happens. Then if it snows again, you need to make room for that snow. I hate the apron at the street with the heavy snow from the plow. The guys next door have a real plow, but by the time they get here I usually did it.

I used to have to keep the drive scraped to the cement. (it's inherited-my dad still does). I've gotten lazy & over it, about the only time I shovel is if we get more than 4-6 inches or after the plow goes by. (The drive is on an alley, so it doesn't get touched the same as the street)
I do, on the other hand, keep the front walk done--mostly for the mail carrier. We don't use the front most of the winter because of the alley access. Speaking of which, I should see how much snow we've gotten today.

Back later....

Uncorked wrote:
I used to have to keep the drive scraped to the cement. (it's inherited-my dad still does). I've gotten lazy & over it, about the only time I shovel is if we get more than 4-6 inches or after the plow goes by. (The drive is on an alley, so it doesn't get touched the same as the street)
I do, on the other hand, keep the front walk done--mostly for the mail carrier. We don't use the front most of the winter because of the alley access. Speaking of which, I should see how much snow we've gotten today.

Back later....

I hate slipping on driveway ice when I get the paper in the morning, so I try to shovel to the concrete before either my wife or I drive over the snow.

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
I hate slipping on driveway ice when I get the paper in the morning, so I try to shovel to the concrete before either my wife or I drive over the snow.

Yeh, you get that instant ice pack when you drive on it....it's a pain.
I quit being so particular about the front walk. A few years back (10 or 15, I don't remember) I always scraped everything down, everyday. Well, we had sun in th afternoon one day that melted enough snow to wet the pad at the bottom of the steps, it froze that night into black ice and a friend came over in the morning, slipped, fell & broke her wrist. The salt I had put down the day before basically had washed away.
Now I figure, alittle snow doesn't hurt and people are more careful if they see something there.....

Uncorked wrote:
Yeh, you get that instant ice pack when you drive on it....it's a pain.
I quit being so particular about the front walk. A few years back (10 or 15, I don't remember) I always scraped everything down, everyday. Well, we had sun in th afternoon one day that melted enough snow to wet the pad at the bottom of the steps, it froze that night into black ice and a friend came over in the morning, slipped, fell & broke her wrist. The salt I had put down the day before basically had washed away.
Now I figure, alittle snow doesn't hurt and people are more careful if they see something there.....

Often when it snows here, there's just enough to clog up the rain gutters on the roof. When that happens, water from melting snow tends to drip down on one spot on the front walk, which freezes at night to glassy smooth black ice.

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
Often when it snows here, there's just enough to clog up the rain gutters on the roof. When that happens, water from melting snow tends to drip down on one spot on the front walk, which freezes at night to glassy smooth black ice.

Ice damning?

killingtime wrote:

Ice damning?

Sort of, but there's not much water build-up; just a little dripping at one spot.

dontwantaname wrote:And yet this winter being so warm is driving me nuts! Yesterday and today were OK. I could wear my coat and there is a hint of cold in the air. Also the bedroom got cold enough last night to sleep.
On the warm days, even with the heat off, it has been 70 degrees at night in the bedroom.

Move to Alaska.

daj59 wrote:

You mean a new throw toy?

That's pretty...umm...thick.

killingtime wrote:

That's pretty...umm...thick.

kinda like fisting.

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
Sort of, but there's not much water build-up; just a little dripping at one spot.

freezing water torture!

stlwooter wrote:
kinda like fisting.

Do you mean "like" as in "similar to," or "like" as in "stlwooter prefers?"

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
Do you mean "like" as in "similar to," or "like" as in "stlwooter prefers?"

well, that chased everyone away very efficiently....

Uncorked wrote:
well, that chased everyone away very efficiently....

I,for one, am waiting breathlessly for the answer.

pooflady wrote:

I,for one, am waiting breathlessly for the answer.

I was wondering how he'd know what that would feel like...

Cambridge is afterall the most liberal place on earth...

qwertyuiop002 wrote:
Do you mean "like" as in "similar to," or "like" as in "stlwooter prefers?"

heh,
funny funny

killingtime wrote:

I was wondering how he'd know what that would feel like...

Cambridge is afterall the most liberal place on earth...

fisting is done in many, many places (geographically speaking).
I, however, have never experienced nor want to experience it. Nor performed it. Not my style.

stlwooter wrote:
fisting is done in many, many places (geographically speaking).
I, however, have never experienced nor want to experience it. Nor performed it. Not my style.

File that info, D'name.

stlwooter wrote:
fisting is done in many, many places (geographically speaking).
I, however, have never experienced nor want to experience it. Nor performed it. Not my style.

Poof was gettin' pretty blue holding her breath...good thing you finally answered

Uncorked wrote:
Poof was gettin' pretty blue holding her breath...good thing you finally answered

blue breath.... yep that is the thing you get from waiting to be fulfilled.

stlwooter wrote:
blue breath.... yep that is the thing you get from waiting to be fulfilled.

pooflady wrote:

"Is that your tongue, or are you just happy to see me............?"

Good night from here!!!!!!!!!!