What Winter Looks Like Outside

[Scott Danforth]

come on down. Not sure my boat will be back in the water for Gasparilla. However if you want to borrow my bead launching cannons, let me know. uses an dive tank as the air source. (I have the secondary regulator and all the plumbing to connect to a primary). Also have about 30 dozen beads yet (new in bags).

Im sure we can find a beer or three

 

[jkust]

Thanks jkust - glad I'm not the only one. Lived in the northeast for a half-century, and still love the snow. While it puts a pause in boating, it sure makes you appreciate it all the more when the water is back to liquid. My brother hates it, and moved to the southwest long ago - he says the only place ice should be is in the cooler.

I park the sleds right about where the boat lift sits in the summer the years we actually get snow at the lake. When the lake is frozen with a couple feet of snow, summer always seems a million years away. Sadly, we haven't had snow since the winter of 13/14 and I've had to go out west to the mountains and rent sleds. We get all the cold but none of the snow which breaks the contract.

 

[sphelps]

I feel so left out .... :cold:
Other than a rare flurry that melts before it hits the ground I have never been in snow ... out:
I want to make a snow angel sometime before I die ...:watermelon:

 

[bruceb58]

This is the view out of my house at Lake Tahoe a few years ago. Our lagoon is frozen over.

 

[jkust]

This is the view out of my house at Lake Tahoe a few years ago. Our lagoon is frozen over.

That looks nice.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Winter would be great if I could visit and leave it any time I wanted like Bruce........ It's the length of winter that gets me up here.....

phelps, plan a winter vacation.....:smow:

Nice pix, all.........

 

[sphelps]

Bruce , is the ice thick enough to walk on in your picture ?

 

[StarTed]

I like your view Bruce.

I spent a couple years in southern Cal. courtesy of Uncle Sam. Moved back north and stayed there. I can dress for the cold but only so much can come off before I overheat. Yes, I still overheat here in the summers.

After all, I'd miss ice fishing and where else can one walk on water?

Hunting season is the other thing I'd miss. A person needs to feel the crisp mornings once in a while in order to maintain a proper perspective. :joyous:

A couple days ago the wife and I went to the veterans cemetery at Medical Lake and helped the others place wreaths on the markers. Here's a picture. It was too cold for my liking with the raw wind blowing with gusts to 50mph.



Part of the Medical Lake Cemetery.

 

[southkogs]

Ted, was that Wreaths Across America that y'all did at the Cemetery? Looks great - we just did that at the National Cemetery here in Murfreesboro.

 

[bruceb58]

Bruce , is the ice thick enough to walk on in your picture ?

That day yes

 

[jimmbo]

Here are some pictures of what my thoughts of snow are

 

[StarTed]

Southkogs - yes that was the day.

They had a nice ceremony prior to the placement. I felt sorry for the airmen standing outside for the 21 gun salute facing directly into the biting wind. There was a large turnout so many of us had to stand outside of the shelter away from the wind. It took around 30 minutes for the speeches and another 30 minutes to lay the wreaths.

 

[southkogs]

Southkogs - yes that was the day.

They had a nice ceremony prior to the placement. I felt sorry for the airmen standing outside for the 21 gun salute facing directly into the biting wind. There was a large turnout so many of us had to stand outside of the shelter away from the wind. It took around 30 minutes for the speeches and another 30 minutes to lay the wreaths.

Awesome! Similar for us, but much warmer I had a cadet and a colleague up at Arlington for it. Thanks for supporting that - one of my favorites each year.

 

[garbageguy]

If you prepare for it, the rewards are wonderful

 

[WIMUSKY]

I prepared for it last spring. Sleds are ready to just gas and go. Just need enough snow to open the trails. Except now they're talking potentially a bunch of rain Sunday......

 

[StarTed]

We got dumped on last night. The tree with the fog frost now is loaded with snow.





This looks over the septic tanks down to the drops over the basalt cliffs to the hollow. Wildlife likes that area. Me included except during tick season.

Merry Christmas tomorrow.

 

[sphelps]

Snow sure makes septic systems much more beautiful !
Merry Christmas ST !!

 

[southkogs]

That bottom shot is fantastic Ted! Beautiful.

Merry Christmas!

 

[sam60]

60 mile drive to a Christmas buffet today...kitchen was clean when we got home.

 

[roscoe]

I feel so left out .... :cold:
Other than a rare flurry that melts before it hits the ground I have never been in snow ... out:
I want to make a snow angel sometime before I die ...:watermelon:

You just stay where you are.
You are not prepared for snow, and may end up dead like this boy from Florida.

Sad tragic story.

The boy was killed Wednesday night after a late-night, 35-foot fall from the ?Dragon?s Tail? water slide at Mt. Olympus.

The boy, whose name has not been released, was on vacation in the Dells with his family and was sliding down nearby snow-covered hills with a brother and a friend Wednesday night.The youths apparently decided to scale the park?s 7-foot security fence, and the victim attempted to traverse the ?Dragon?s Tail? in a plastic snow saucer. Halfway down, he slipped and fell approximately 35 feet to the ground. It was the boy?s first time being in the snow and cold, Hardman said.
The family came up to Wisconsin from Florida because they had never experienced snow.