Snow Pictures

[Junkman]

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thats 65f to -22f for the Fahrenheit users... More than just the Americans use the Fahrenheit scale.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Worksmart]

Naw...I wouldn't do that Junkman. She's only a '66. The '49 is safely tucked away and she's getting all the respect a lady of 55 years should receive!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Steve_Miller]

Check out the pics in this website. Click on the pics at the top right hand corner.
http://www.sharbean.ca/main/template.php?EntryID=750

Steve

 

[tracdoc]

Grumpa,

I envy you, but only for 3 months a year (Dec, Jan, Feb). Having lived in Chandler (a suburb of Phoenix for those TBNers not familiar with AZ) for a few years, we tired of the temps being over 100 from March through October. The old-timers told us it wasn't that way until the building boom with concrete everywhere--- acts as a heat sink, so evening temps would also be in excess of 90-95, instead of what you'd expect in the desert. My Mom loves it--it's good for her arthritis. But, the family likes the 4 seasons better. Different strokes, I guess...

 

[GRUMPA]

WE as like you are getting tired of the high temps for 8 of the 12 months of the year. We're moving this spring to our ranch . Just as you said its all the building that retains all the heat, during the summer months up there as soon as the sun goes down the heat goes with it. Not at all like the city when its 10pm and its still 95deg.

 

[_RaT_]

Ken, thanks for converting the centigrade to farenheit for us. Now can you explain why the Canadians are still using inches and feet instead of the metric units? I went to a class on building ICF homes put on by a Canadian company. He mentioned the only time they use metric is on gvernment contracts.

 

[frank_f15]

GRUMPA; thanks for shareing that with us, my daughter lives in Tempe and she is always telling me how cold it is 50 deg. on a bad day /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif next time i am out there u can buy coffee. here is a pic of a light snowfall in western N.Y.

 

[JayC]

I think those of us that live in these snowy areas have to be the most privledged people in the country. Those who don't see snow year round are probably in some sort of denial phase because deep down they know they want snow. There's nothing like it. Fighting colds, slipping down the icy roads, digging out of monster blizzards, turning into a Yeti after snowblowing, being so cold you can hardly move. Watching huge, fluffy lake-effect snow flakes falling is a beautiful site. Yep. I wouldn't trade it for the world! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Btw, keep the snow pictures coming. I love to look at the winter pics!

 

[GRUMPA]

Its really odd how that works, up north the last time I was up there the high was 50 and I was in short sleeves building a shed and sweating up a storm but its 6000'. Down in Phoenix its 60 and I feel like its freezing. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[tracdoc]

Grumpa,

Congratulations on your upcoming move this Spring. That is one beautiful piece of God's country you've got for yourself /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I think you will find that you can go outside there and cook up something on the BBQ without roasting yourself as we did when we lived in Phoenix. Enjoy.

 

[slowzuki]

We have a strange obsession with feet and inches! Every knows how big a cm is or a mm, but no one uses them for common everyday stuff.

I like others tend to use a mix!

mm - small stuff
cm - almost never except for small snowfalls
inches - used for everything over 1 inch
feet - used for height and building related
yards - never used
metres - almost never used
km - distance on highways
miles - never used

Almost all our building supplies are built to cater to our largest trading partner, the USA so it is all in imperial.

Imperial is great for building because of the no math triangles and ease of squaring stuff up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[m1greg]

Here's a pic of my CK20 cleaning off the last snow ( 11.5") that fell. I am using the loader and box blade for now but will get a loader blade by next winter.

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> "Btw, keep the snow pictures coming. I love to look at the winter pics!" </font>

Me, too, but for a totally different reason. Every once in a while I get nostaligic for my years in Massachusetts or my roots in Western Pennsylvania. All it takes is a few pictures like these to remind myself once again why it was that I got out of that part of the country. But, I'm glad there are those who like it -- there isn't enough room down here for all of you!

 

[Nasty135]

m1greg, That is a good picture Greg and a nice tractor /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif


Okeedon, Where in Western Pa? If I might ask, as I too am from the Western pa. area, a place called Belle Vernon near Charleroi, But that was 42 yrs ago... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Whew I'm getting old... I always seem to have the memory that the folks up that way were Nice people.

 

[JayC]

<font color="blue"> But, I'm glad there are those who like it -- there isn't enough room down here for all of you! </font>

That's ok. I'll take a blizzard over four hurricanes any day. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

Here ya go, western PA

front yard

back yard off the porch

 

[GoodGuy]

Yep, we got snow !!!

 

[GoodGuy]

Seat Time !!

 

[_RaT_]

<font color="blue"> Imperial is great for building because of the no math triangles and ease of squaring stuff up. </font>

That's interesting. I have heard the same. As much of a fan as I am of the metric system, I have seen where in construction, even folks in Europe prefer other units then the metric unit. I do prefer my metric wrenches over standard even though most of my life was based on 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16" sometimes 5/8"& 11/16" and of course 3/4". When I got my first car, a VW, that changed to 10mm, 13mm, 17mm. Those wrenches, a scredriver and a floor jack and I could have the engine out in less then 22 minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> "Okeedon, Where in Western Pa? If I might ask, as I too am from the Western pa. area, a place called Belle Vernon near Charleroi" </font>

I was raised northwest of Pittsburgh, in Bellevue, only a few miles from where Henro lives, now. We moved to Greensburg in 1961, when I was 21 years old. That's where I met my wife. My Dad's family was originally from Connesville, and my wife's Mother is from West Newton, so we have ties all around the Belle Vernon area. We moved to Boston in 1964, so it's been about 42 years since we lived in that area, also. We moved to Florida in 1972 and have been here ever since, absolutely no regrets, and do not miss anything about the weather, seasons, or any of that other malarkey.

We have 4 seasons in South Florida, they're just a little more subtle than the differences up North. We don't have to cut the grass nearly as often in the Winter as in the Summer....