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Title: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sheepdog on December 08, 2017, 12:20:37 PM
Here is something we don’t see every day in sub-tropical Waldheim (its been coming down for hours!). Our first snow in eight years...

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Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Tom on December 08, 2017, 12:44:30 PM
From the news....it's snowing in Houston.  :tongue:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: normzone on December 08, 2017, 12:47:03 PM
Our fire crews have requested that you send it over here if you can .... Nice picture.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: giusto on December 08, 2017, 12:49:11 PM
Here is something we don’t see every day in sub-tropical Waldheim (its been coming down for hours!). Our first snow in eight years...

(http://image.ibb.co/c5U4eb/93_A1_B416_0524_48_D2_907_C_A05_D11685033.jpg)

and did you make a snowman or snow woman?
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Tom on December 08, 2017, 12:50:30 PM
Snow person.  You have to allow for a transgender one.  :grin:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sheepdog on December 08, 2017, 01:19:03 PM
and did you make a snowman or snow woman?

No, but I did write my name...
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: tazio on December 08, 2017, 01:24:51 PM
From Hotlanta, with love.

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Oh, and it's "snow angel"  :boozing:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: oldbike54 on December 08, 2017, 01:31:03 PM
 40 F and pleasant here  :tongue:

 Dusty
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Ncdan on December 08, 2017, 02:34:32 PM
We�re supposed to get 4-5 inches through tomorrow. I reckon I�ll have to wait a bit for the fuel mileage test on the Calvin:(  but I love the first snow of the winter in NC:)
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Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Lcarlson on December 08, 2017, 04:10:21 PM
Up to 6” for us tomorrow.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: mojoe on December 08, 2017, 04:44:06 PM
Just thinking out loud, but does snow have a nationality?
 coz we are having it here in UK right now and it sure feels like British snow!!!

Sorry but I am working my way through a bottle of red wine and head is full of silly thoughts and ideas:
 I nearly bid on a BMW k1300s on Ebay a few minutes ago  :boozing:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Ncdan on December 08, 2017, 05:30:53 PM
Just thinking out loud, but does snow have a nationality?
 coz we are having it here in UK right now and it sure feels like British snow!!!

Sorry but I am working my way through a bottle of red wine and head is full of silly thoughts and ideas:
 I nearly bid on a BMW k1300s on Ebay a few minutes ago  :boozing:
Lol Mo, if it won’t for red wine me and the misses would never, well, you know what, 😂
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: JeffOlson on December 08, 2017, 05:52:05 PM
"Lucky!"

I wish we would get more snow. It is so beautiful and quiet, and everything looks clean. Instead, we usually get 33 degrees and rain or 31 degrees and ice...

Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: twowings on December 08, 2017, 09:54:50 PM
What's the difference between snowmen and snowwomen?  :cool:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Lannis on December 08, 2017, 10:39:13 PM
What's the difference between snowmen and snowwomen?  :cool:

Snowvaries.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Kiwi_Roy on December 08, 2017, 11:13:16 PM
Just thinking out loud, but does snow have a nationality?
 coz we are having it here in UK right now and it sure feels like British snow!!!

Sorry but I am working my way through a bottle of red wine and head is full of silly thoughts and ideas:
 I nearly bid on a BMW k1300s on Ebay a few minutes ago  :boozing:

The Inuit have 52 different words for snow, I'm sure British snow is different again
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/inuktitut-words-for-snow-and-ice/
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: mojoe on December 09, 2017, 03:28:28 AM

"What's the difference between snowmen and snowwomen?  :cool:"

I guess a couple of extra handfulls of snow and 2 chocolate buttons  :grin:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: kingoffleece on December 09, 2017, 05:17:21 AM
Everybody knows it's snowballs!
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Pop on December 09, 2017, 07:25:44 AM
Lanis,Lanis,Lanis your mind is in the .... But I did like "snoveries"
The south must be the new north. Here in 'Joisey' , not a flake. A lot of idiots, scumbags, and general losers. But no flakes.
You guys can have it all, don't miss the snow.
Pop :boozing:
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sheepdog on December 09, 2017, 08:38:00 AM
I’m with you, Pop. I was stationed at West Point when I was in the Army and got a lifetime of frozen stuff in my three years there. A dusting every eight years or so is still too often for me...
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: wavedog on December 09, 2017, 08:38:54 AM
The closest I ever want to get to snow is a photograph. Even then it gives me the chills. Woke up this morning and it was 45 degrees. Screw that. I went back to sleep.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 09, 2017, 09:05:54 AM
Belle was having a good time with a stick this morning..
 :smiley: notice the ice auger laying there ready for action in lake Como, Wisconsin.
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Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: guzzisteve on December 09, 2017, 10:33:05 AM
2 1/2" here, quit snowing and sun is out @ 40*, it'll be gone in a bit. Never did freeze here, roads just got wet.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Lannis on December 09, 2017, 10:38:21 AM
Lanis,Lanis,Lanis your mind is in the ....

It's a fair cop but society is to blame.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on December 09, 2017, 11:08:24 AM
 Are you speaking of the Waldheim down by Nawlins Loosyanna?
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sheepdog on December 09, 2017, 01:23:07 PM
Are you speaking of the Waldheim down by Nawlins Loosyanna?

Yes, Jim. A little unincorporated place just north of Abita Springs...
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Pop on December 09, 2017, 06:29:38 PM
Awe crap, it got here.. The grand daughter loved it, grand pop not so much. I live about 15 miles east of the stadium where the Army lucked by the Navy.
Winter sucks.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Motormike on December 10, 2017, 07:23:52 AM
Abita Springs...good beer!
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Mr Pootle on December 10, 2017, 07:36:44 AM
We don’t often get snow in England, so the councils don’t gear up for it, and car owners don’t bother with winter tyres.  There was a heavy fall last night, and the roads are paralysed. I stayed with a friend just north of London on Friday and Saturday and was supposed to be driving the 200 miles home today. I got about 5 miles along a major highway, in my car, not on my V7, I hasten to say, in an hour, and gave up. I’ll go home tomorrow.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Sheepdog on December 10, 2017, 07:44:53 AM
Abita Springs...good beer!

We frequent both the Abita Brew Pub (great food!) and the Abita brewery. The brewery has a fantastic lounge where all their beers are served. It�s pay as you go, but is a great place to hang out...many fun events are held there. The entire Abita Springs community is really tight, with free concerts at the trailhead of the St Tammany Trace all through their summer, Water and Busker festivals, and some great restaurants. They even have a celebration at Mardi Gras called the Push Mower Parade. And when we get bored, New Orleans is just an hour away. Pretty idyllic...the occasional snowfall notwithstanding.
Title: Re: A Visit From the North
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on December 10, 2017, 09:27:28 AM
Belle sez it's booger freezin cold.. :smiley:
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