The Whining Thread

[Joe46]

Still dumping here. Time to go get wood for the stove. Drove into work this morning. Wasn't as bad as I expected. Just maybe most of the idiots have already found their place in the ditch.

 

[Sport Faller]

Patty, you got more snow than we do!!

Weird weather this year.

don't be hurtin yer creaky old back shovelin snow, and make sure you wear a pair of YakTraks (hippie calks) whenever you go outside :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Metals406]

don't be hurtin yer creaky old back shovelin snow, and make sure you wear a pair of YakTraks (hippie calks) whenever you go outside :hmm3grin2orange:

Gotta rice bag on it even as I type. . . I think our new mattress is/was aggravating my back muscles, and the vehicle lifting sent them over the edge.

Ever since we got the damn thing, I sleep like crap. :msp_thumbdn:

 

[Steve NW WI]

don't be hurtin yer creaky old back shovelin snow, and make sure you wear a pair of YakTraks (hippie calks) whenever you go outside :hmm3grin2orange:

Hippie calks - I love it!. Indispensable for ice fishing this year, with no snow on the ice for traction. Getting old enough I don't relish fallin on my butt on the lake anymore.

 

[Sport Faller]

Gotta rice bag on it even as I type. . . I think our new mattress is/was aggravating my back muscles, and the vehicle lifting sent them over the edge.

Ever since we got the damn thing, I sleep like crap. :msp_thumbdn:

yeah, I gotta have a pretty firm matress or my back is shot to hell

 

[Metals406]

yeah, I gotta have a pretty firm matress or my back is shot to hell

This is a pillow-top mattress my wife wanted. . . Me no likey.

 

[RandyMac]

Noisy here, over an inch of rain since midnight, gusts into the high 40s, power is fading in and out.
The "best" is still offshore:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Samlock]

Gotta rice bag on it even as I type. . . I think our new mattress is/was aggravating my back muscles, and the vehicle lifting sent them over the edge.

Ever since we got the damn thing, I sleep like crap. :msp_thumbdn:

Buying a mattress is something to whine about. A salesman, wearing too much after shave and ads on his teeth, always recommends you a way too soft mattress. And if you say you need something more firm, they'll reply that a soft mattress is just soooo much better for your back.

Small potatoes, but I think buying a mattress good for a worker's spine is more difficult than scoring a left handed chainsaw (not that I'd need one).

 

[slowp]

I love our Socialist Power Company! They are good. The power went out earlier, and is already back on. Only a 3 hour outage, so far. I shoveled out trails to the woodshed, and shop, and an area for the Grapple Cat to do what cats must do. I was melting snow for a shower tonight, and went out to scoop up more and here come my neighbors up the road, plowing with two little bobcats. They said they were bored, and worried that I might need to get out. I was just getting ready to work a bit more with the Finlander Yooper Snow Scoop.

There was no looting during the outage, just an act of kindness.

It is now raining on top of the snow. And I cracked my plastic snow shovel, not my back. Gots a Swedish Tempurpedic mattress. It is the best for my creaky old back.

The snow is so deep that The Used Dog has to hop through it like a rat dog!

I'm hunkering. I am hearing those scary CRAACK noises once in a while, as a limb falls off a tree.

 

[paccity]

lotts of rain, blowing good, minor flooding . yaquina bay bridge is closed because of a tracktortrailer got blown over on the bridge. had some 110mph winds. just a good westcoast winter storm.

 

[paccity]

Grab yer grain shovel, them trees ain't gonna unbury themselves!!
you can come shovel this concrete anytime. we don't get much fluffy stuff around here.

 

[slowp]

A Happy Result

Some good came out of this storm. I decided to wear my tin pants to shovel snow in. I put them on, and there in the pocket was the set of keys that I've been looking for. I had written them off and paid $33 to have a new Chevy key made, then a shop key, and so on. :msp_smile:

 

[HorseFaller]

My dogs are loving the snow not the cold. I watch them switching feet trying to walk on the ice and bare concrete. Will get a temp reading soon. Venturing out, getting a little cabin fever. It is cold I can't get the heat above 55 in the house. Stoves full and damper wide. My wife is wearing a blanket like a parka. I'm chilled to but won't let her know

 

[HorseFaller]

So it's 14deg at home and 19 in town. Took almost an hour to get to town. Usually a 25min drive


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[bitzer]

Winter finally showed up this week. It was 1 degree this morning when I left at 5:30. I couldn't get any air gaps between the bar oil jug and the saw so I just had to cut er off and let it booger all over every time. I'll have to start cutting it with diesel now. Still very little snow to speak of. We had 2 ft by this time last year. I could use a good snow day. Looks like fun out west. High of 8 tomorrow with wind chill -10 to -15. Maybe I won't sweat while I'm cutting then?

 

[HorseFaller]

My trip back from the store up the road. The last one is looking up my driveway. Still hanging around 15 deg.


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.916071,-122.120897

 

[Metals406]

It's 10° here and we picked up about 10" of powder today. . . The worst of it is hitting south of me. More snow in the forecast for the next 7 days.

 

[paccity]

over 6,1/2" rain n less than 36, not stoping soon . good old soggy day here.

 

[Sport Faller]

It's 10° here and we picked up about 10" of powder today. . . The worst of it is hitting south of me. More snow in the forecast for the next 7 days.

10"? Deezam, Mr. we got about an 1" and a half here

 

[slowp]

34 here and raining. It is even raining at the ski area. They doubled their snowpack in the last 3 days. It rained all night. Gotta check the river levels, on the computer, of course.