Do you need a sherpa for bags and whatnot?
I usually wait until the end of March/first of April to be freeze proof.

That is so wrong........:doh::doh:

Todays word for the day is " filicide ".
Can anyone use it in a sentence ?

I don't know that we got amongst the greatest amounts of snow, but we definitely got the stickiest.... Still have 70% of the powerlines here in town covered in 1-3" of ice. Lots of them pulled down so low that a semi would probably hit them. The trees, poles, and houses are still covered on the north side. Once I got out of town I saw none of that on my way to a hockey in Andover. Must have something to do with the fact that Marblehead is surrounded on three sides by water and juts out into the northeast.....

oh how completely ASSUMPTIVE of you Larr!

i'm an Union Ironworker, for 24 yrs, and we don't go home unless it's
30-35 below w/ the windchill. i work in subzero temps, regularly.

last winter i was over 250 ft in the air, during a blizzard, taking apart a tower crane. my partner and i were sitting on 4" needle beams setting the trolley so we could dismantle the tower sections, then we were climbing up and down the tower sections and driving the 5" diameter link pins out of each section with 12# sledge hammers. it was soooo COLD, the hydraulics froze and we had to replace the pump. 12 hour days into nightfall for three days. THOSE 3 days were the coldest i've ever been. i've also dealt with a minor case of scoliosis my whole life that makes a "bad back" a daily affair and trips to the chiro pain maintenance,,,,,,,, about as far from cushy as one can get, my brutha!!

before that, i worked in the oil fields of Oklahoma~ again in sub-zero temps ~pulling water wells, and oil wells for my daily bread.

i'm 50 and i absolutely LOVE the sticky white stuff, snow angels with my daughter, sledding, snow caves, and shoveling snow is simply one of the toils of winter. let us not forget our elderly friends and family, likewise.

just found it humorous that your "Sick of Winter", when it's only just begun!! and you do choose to live/work/play in New England's wintry wonderland, no? at the risk of reiteration,,,,,,,,,COLD is a state of mind and preparedness, imho. i choose to embrace it and it definitely makes me long for Spring!!! :fishin: :fishin: :fishin:

thanks Ross~~~
the above was posted before i saw the previous posts.

didn't mean to ruffle your feathers, there, Snow Chicken!

or did aye?? perhaps the backbone comment was a bit COLD.
kinda like sending people to the Vineyard on a snipe hunt for Stripers!

but hey, if Winter was supposed to be warm we'd ALL be in Aruba.
:lurk: :stir: :stir: :stir: :lurk:

sorry to hear about the mechanical mishap

funny stuff,,,,,,,,,,,quick Robin, to the snow blower rescue Batvan!
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:

GREAT dawgs, gents!!

gottsta LOVE their Spirit~~~
:jump1: :jump1: :jump1:

1300 clams for one of them huge snow thrower's

gonna get me one of them bad boys someday

the chunks (square blocks) of snow that slid off of the hoop house looks kinda like a sidewalk all destroyed by an earthquake

this is cool
 

now .....i'm thinkin LOL

New gadgets to fight snow and ice

Guys are kind of on hold. Everything is done except for windows and siding. it has been too cold and snowy to side. They were actually willing to do it and did the Tyvec and corners but I told them to wait until the weather breaks a bit.

Larry likes to Wine

My grandfather used to call it "poor mans fertilizer".

AS it should have bothered him. Sounds like the kid is part of the entitlement generation. We have a neighbor who's kid is like that.
The mother says he has ADD....:smash:

I say he is just a lazy schlep. He stands on the porch smoking a ciogarette watching his step father shovel (step father is in late 50s)