We've made it through winter! (Lewiston, Auburn: sales, purchases, camp)

[Maineah]

April 1 in my opinion means winter is over! We may get some snow (I've seen a foot or more in April) though it melts fast and soon all the greenery will start sprouting again! The birds are coming back, fishing season opens(all of it).The nights will soon stay above freezing, no more large oil purchases, minimal wood useage, from here on out it's all down hill until next fall. The towns will wake up, yard sales will give way to festivals culminating in agricultural fairs in the fall and the cycle will start over again.....and so it begins. Have a nice spring everyone! Enjoy this pretty, yet short, time and relax....you made it through another winter!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

And this weekend is that magic time when most of the back roads are dry enough to travel on and the black flies are not out yet. Take advantage of it. Month after next the days start getting shorter and before you know it we'll be snowmobiling again.

[shanemorgan2]

Thats funny to hear this. I find that there are 10months that are horrible here in Texas. December-January can be nice... if it gets cold at nights, but the heat+humidity here is just miserable. The Texas heat drains everything from your body, especially May-August. I have my AC and fan on my right now and it feels nice. So I would rather have 4bad months instead of 10.... just depends on if ya like the cold weather or hot weather. I love the cold. I visited Pittsburgh PA last year in February. It felt like I was breathing through a straw. I LOVED IT. I can always build a fire, turn the heat on, put more clothes on, and try and get warm. You can only take off so many clothes before your put in jail... and it still doesn't help escape the heat

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by shanemorgan2

Thats funny to hear this. I find that there are 10months that are horrible here in Texas. December-January can be nice... if it gets cold at nights, but the heat+humidity here is just miserable. The Texas heat drains everything from your body, especially May-August. I have my AC and fan on my right now and it feels nice. So I would rather have 4bad months instead of 10.... just depends on if ya like the cold weather or hot weather. I love the cold. I visited Pittsburgh PA last year in February. It felt like I was breathing through a straw. I LOVED IT. I can always build a fire, turn the heat on, put more clothes on, and try and get warm. You can only take off so many clothes before your put in jail... and it still doesn't help escape the heat

There are many people who feel the same way until they get here and experience cold first hand. A good many figure the heat "isn't so bad" after putting up with the weather from September through May around here and head back south. That's nine months of not so warm to down right frigid weather. It's 40 degrees out side right now and I'd be willing to bet you would not be comfortable sitting outside for more than a few minutes. By morning you'd be in hypothermia. On the other hand I can sleep outside when it's 70 degrees at night quite well.
I suppose one is as bad as the other though cold will kill you outright in a hurry where heat will kill you slowly. I wouldn't want either one as a steady diet.

[Fiddlehead]

Originally Posted by Maineah

There are many people who feel the same way until they get here and experience cold first hand. A good many figure the heat "isn't so bad" after putting up with the weather from September through May around here and head back south. That's nine months of not so warm to down right frigid weather. It's 40 degrees out side right now and I'd be willing to bet you would not be comfortable sitting outside for more than a few minutes. By morning you'd be in hypothermia. On the other hand I can sleep outside when it's 70 degrees at night quite well.
I suppose one is as bad as the other though cold will kill you outright in a hurry where heat will kill you slowly. I wouldn't want either one as a steady diet.

I think I will agree that the cold of Maine is the real deal, and might lose its sparkle after a bit. However, I do know a few people who do better in cold than heat. I wouldn't put myself in that camp, but the last few summers in Oregon, when it gets above 100F, I start to feel physically ill. Cold, bracing days on the other hand feel invigorating. However, -20F with a stiff wind is more than bracing.....What does sound nice about Maine, in comparison to Oregon, is the bright winter days. Our winter, though kind of long, are not very cold, but gloomy for days on end, with not enough snow to brighten things up. Snow rolled through this week, and it was gorgeous.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by Fiddlehead

I think I will agree that the cold of Maine is the real deal, and might lose its sparkle after a bit. However, I do know a few people who do better in cold than heat. I wouldn't put myself in that camp, but the last few summers in Oregon, when it gets above 100F, I start to feel physically ill. Cold, bracing days on the other hand feel invigorating. However, -20F with a stiff wind is more than bracing.....What does sound nice about Maine, in comparison to Oregon, is the bright winter days. Our winter, though kind of long, are not very cold, but gloomy for days on end, with not enough snow to brighten things up. Snow rolled through this week, and it was gorgeous.

Well I am definitely in that camp (preferring cold to heat), and yes, you can only take off so much before getting in trouble with the law. LOL I am hoping that this year's mild winter doesn't precede a very un-Maine-like summer.

[Maineah]

I think we're in for a warm summer here in Maine.The sunspots are back and that usually means warmer weather all the way around. Anything would be better than the wet, gloomy, cold summer we had last year. 53 degrees in July! We've already had a year's worth of rain this spring! A friend of mine in Cumberland's basement flooded for the first time in 25 years yesterday. The lakes and ponds are filled to overflowing!

[Maineac]

The most beautiful nights of the year in Maine are powder snow, windless, cloudless, subzero, full moon, silent midnights. When you can't hear a snowmobile or any other sounds and are far enough from town so there's no background lighting and you can work up a sweat cross country skiing. The only problem is that mustache icicle.

On second thought, a cool summer night a few miles north of Telos Gate on NO moon is pretty cool, too. You've never seen stars until you're out in the sticks on a crystal clear night.

[msina]

Originally Posted by Maineah

I think we're in for a warm summer here in Maine.The sunspots are back and that usually means warmer weather all the way around. Anything would be better than the wet, gloomy, cold summer we had last year. 53 degrees in July! We've already had a year's worth of rain this spring! A friend of mine in Cumberland's basement flooded for the first time in 25 years yesterday. The lakes and ponds are filled to overflowing!

I do hope it's a dryer summer than last year though I'm not keen on temp.s over 75-80 tops.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by msina

I do hope it's a dryer summer than last year though I'm not keen on temp.s over 75-80 tops.

It's supposed to be in the 80's by Sunday around Lewiston and Auburn!