What do you consider 'cold'? (home, weather, live)

[triton1]

Originally Posted by Rance

It actually burns like fire after you get out! The water ain't so bad...it's the cold air and wind when you get out!

in fact, i absolutely will not even jump into water that is any colder than 70 degrees!

[Rance]

Yeah but you don't live in Alaska. You might find water that temp at an indoor pool.

[AKMammabear]

My dad calls it Lion Weather: When a guy jumps in the water, all you see it the tip of the lion's nose and his mane...

[Baltic_Celt]

Originally Posted by EugeneBKLYN

Wow, I don't know how you do it.

At that time, financial necessity forced me to tolerate high temps.

It's finally getting warmer here in Boston. In the 80's today, but as it's been so cold, it didn't feel very hot. Not much humidity yet. Was very comfortable & pleasant. Good ice cream weather. I guess that's how I judge "good weather"... If I can eat ice cream, it's all good.

[Rance]

I eat more icecream in the winter than summer! Serious!

[AKMammabear]

Originally Posted by Rance

I eat more icecream in the winter than summer! Serious!

And somewhere I read that Alaska sells more ice cream per person than any other state...

[EnjoyEP]

Originally Posted by AKMammabear

Living in Paradise

Jan. 10 5:00 P.M. It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. The wife and I took our hot buttered rum and sat by the picture window, watching the soft flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful!

Jan. 11 We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantle. I shoveled snow for the first time ever and loved it. I did both our driveway and our sidewalk. Later a city snowplow came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled it again.

Jan. 12 It snowed an additional 5 inches last night, and the temperature has dropped to around 11degrees. Several limbs on the trees and shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards, the snowplow came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now brownish-gray.

Jan. 13 Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell on my butt in the driveway. $145 to a chiropractor, but nothing was broken. More snow and ice expected.

Jan. 14 Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4x4 in order to get her to work. Slid into a guardrail anyway and did a considerable amount of damage to the right rear quarter-panel. Had another 8 inches of the white stuff last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today. That darn snowplow came by twice today.

Jan. 15 -2 degrees outside. More blasted snow. Not a tree or shrub on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and a kerosene heater, which tipped over and nearly burned the house down. I managed to put the flames out, but suffered second degree burns on my hands and lost all my eyelashes and eyebrows. Car slid on ice on way to emergency room and was totaled.

Jan.16 Darn blasted white snow keeps on coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the mailbox. If I ever catch the jerk that drives the snowplow, I'll chew open his chest and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to open our driveway again! Power still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.

Jan.17 Six darn more inches of blasted snow and sleet and ice and God knows what other kind of white crap fell last night. I wounded the snowplow jerk with an ice ax, but he got away. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going snow blind. I can't move my toes. I haven't seen the sun in weeks. More snow predicted. Wind chill -62 degrees. I'm moving back to Albuquerque.

This has to be one of the more hilarious things I have read on this forum in a long, long time!! Just hilarious...great, great stuff (I currently live in Albuquerque and I am just picturing myself as the writer in this story! ).

Great stuff...thanks for sharing!

[ulsterscot]

Originally Posted by Rance

I eat more icecream in the winter than summer! Serious!

On the Food Network the other day, they said that nationwide, more ice cream is eaten in wintertime. So you're not alone

[Lisa_from_Debary]

Originally Posted by Rance

I eat more icecream in the winter than summer! Serious!

Just curious, what does water that temperature do to Big Ed and the twins...??

[Rance]

Oh they go directly into hibernation!