Happy Days!!!

cowboydoc · Mar 30, 2001

Well just off the phone with the golf course and made the first tee time of the year for tomorrow!!! Finally no more hitting wiffle balls in the pole barn!

RobertN · Mar 30, 2001

I looked thinking we'd see a Fonz thread /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif AAAAAYE

RobertN in Shingle Springs Calif

Thomas · Mar 30, 2001

Now thats a sign of spring you lucky rascal /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Oh sure Richard rub it in,for we just got another 12" of snow so far today,and still snowing like crazy.

Now if I had your nice pole barn right now,I would invite DFB down w/his H-D and we would ride around and around on our M/C's. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Have a grand time tomorrow!!

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

cowboydoc · Mar 30, 2001

Tom,
You are sure welcome to come down and use it!!! I sure won't be in it tomorrow /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

TWINKLE_TOES · Mar 30, 2001

<font color=blue>I looked thinking we'd see a Fonz thread </font color=blue>

Me Too BUCKO!!

Boondox · Mar 31, 2001

No golf around here for at least three more months, but I just found another reason to have golden retrievers. They are so stupid they'll happily chase snow balls in a field six feet deep in snow for hours on end! Now I love my dogs, but bright they ain't!

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

cowboydoc · Mar 31, 2001

Are you kidding me? You mean that you won't be able to play golf until July??? And then when does the snow start again? Boy and I thought I got cabin fever here!

Boondox · Mar 31, 2001

Usually we see the ground again in mid-April, the last of the snow is gone sometime in May, and the ground firms up in early June. This year has been a little different. Here it is the last day of March, and my gage still shows a snow depth of 54" in the yard. The 40x40x5' deep pit at the end of the driveway is filled in and piled over 8 feet high from me plowing all winter. That's gonna take a while to melt.

The big fear now in the lower elevations (I'm at 1500' and safe) is that any rain is likely to cause extensive flooding. They say our snowpack is the equivalent of 16" of rainfall, so the slower it melts the better for all concerned.

The first significant snow of the season usually hits us in mid-October, but doesn't stick till the ground freezes in November sometime. But you have to look at the bright side. Snow provides fantastic bucket practice, and New Englanders are some of the best FEL users around. Why, thanks to all that practice I'm just about to the point where I can scoop up a dog turd while going a respectable clip without disturbing the grass beneath it!

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Thomas · Mar 31, 2001

I second that on the FEL part. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
To bad we can't use the same motto as the post office,but than again if the roads are snow full or icy no mail,but us new Englanders just dig a little deeper.

Better chill another bottle,for the weather station 60%+ change of snow heading towards us. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

jimmoore · Mar 31, 2001

Pete, a 4wd SUPER pooper scooper??

jim

Boondox · Apr 1, 2001

Jim -- Yup. In New England we practice our FEL skills by picking up flops on the fly. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Not sure how they do it in other climes.

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

toddler · Apr 3, 2001

Perfect melting weather down here in the valley today Pete. Low 40's and sunny. Hopefully it'll just stay like this for a week or so. This is taxing the rivers and run off some, but one warm rainy day, and the lowland towns are sunk. Like I wrote a couple of weeks ago, "the 5th season, coming soon to a New England town near you".

This year, I'm buying higher boots! Knee highs if I can find a pair. That way I'll still be able to visit the back half of my yard.

Todd

Boondox · Apr 3, 2001

Todd -- We actually hit 40 yesterday, with a gentle wind that made it seem much cooler but that really went to work on our snowpack. Hard to tell how deep it actually is since the wind blew it around pretty much while it was fluffy. Some spots are 8 feet deep and others only 3 feet deep. The marker on my patio support shows a depth of 54". Either way you look at it...A LOT!

We're on the high ground, so the worst that can happen is our road becomes a stream and washes away. But the poor sods in Stowe and Moscow who built next to the Little River, and those in Waterbury on the banks of the Winooski, must be sweating bullets right now!

Pete

www.GatewayToVermont.com

Thomas · Apr 3, 2001

I believe those boots are call swampers. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
The weather.com calling for rain warmer temps this weekend, /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif but the forecast for next week so far high 50's to mid 60's,that should test the culverts streams etc.. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

toddler · Apr 3, 2001

Swampers. Really? I saw some "muck boots" down at lenny's shoes a couple of weeks ago. Duck boots with neoprin instead of leather that I'm considering. Sometimes I think I should dump a bunch of sand in my wettest acre and grow cranberries/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
If this week gives us a few more days like today, before the warm rains show up, we might do ok. If not, I'll have to go take pictures of that dam near five corners in Essex, and the winooski river down by the hydo plant. They sure are pretty when the water gets dangerously high.
A few years ago I was in Manchester NH for mud season. That water gets scarey high on a normal snow year Thomas. Look out this year!
Todd

bpence · Apr 5, 2001

Hope you were able to hit them long and straight. This coming Sunday is the first day out for me. I put my pin and flag out last night finally and hit a few balls to see if the clubs could still hit something other than wiffle balls inside the barn (yep, just like you). There seemed to be some kind of directional problem with the balls I was using........they all kept slicing for no apparant reason. I can't wait to get out and chase those little white balls around.

Bob Pence

Bird · Apr 22, 2001

Golf??? What's that? I laid off for 3 years after having the carpal tunnel surgery, finally played one round a week ago, then played in a tournament today; 4-man scramble. At least my team didn't come in last. There were 3 of the 20 teams that played worse than us./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I never played in a hurricane before; 40-45mph winds and gusty./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird