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Old 02-03-2011, 06:57 PM
 
Location: Loving life in Gaylord!
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Awesome pix, M.M.M.!!!!

You got a picture of sparkly snow. I have not been able to get a picture of sparkly snow. I keep trying to tell people what I mean, and I get ???? in response.

Wow.... purty! How can anyone look at sparkly snow and not fall in love? Maybe I'm just crazy, but since my body doesn't do heat.... LOL, I can put on layers, but short of walking around nekkid, heat and I don't get along. I'm not interested in jail, or blinding folks.
Thank you. I was going for the sparkly snow...sparkly sun look. I wish I lived in the woods in northern MI....not many photo ops in my area.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:14 AM
 
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As a boy on the farm I was able to pick up a bunch of pleasant memorys from fall week ends where my dads brothers would gather at our home or theirs to buzz fire wood and have those huge platters full of food prepared by my aunts on Moms fire wood burning cook stove. The house was being heated and the cooking done with the wood burners when I left home in 1964 to strike out on my own. My folks finally put a oil furnace and a electric cook range in the house in 1966.
I lived in apartments and renatals till 1973 so I never worried about what heated the home. In 1973 I bought my home which was gas heated, I pretty much slept ther till 1985 when I bough where I live now. It has a wood burning furnace that has heated my home for just about 27 years now. You learn stuff when you heat with wood. You can run around the house naked even when it is 20 below ot side and the heat bill will not choke you. You use the wood ashes in the gardens to improve the soil, You make lye with it to clean 30 years worth of grease and oil of fthe old antique tractors you restore. You spread them in drive ways and walk ways to stop people from slipping and falling.

You learn to wipe your feet before you climb in the car/truck. You learn to wipe your feet at the bottom of the porch steps and again at the top jst before you go inside. Once inside you learn to take your shoes/boots off on the 4'x4' piece of carpet place there to catch and soak up any thing you didn't get off before that point. Just because we heat with wood does not mean we live in a cave.

Last winter my heating cost even considering my time was just a bit under a grand for the whole from Sept to June and the house never gets under 75F even during the middle of the night when it is blowing and holwing at 20 below outside. I fill the furnace in the morning and again when I go to bed. The ashes are removed every two weeks.

My heat is a renewable resorce, in fact my 10 acre wood lot is now starting on its third growth and the Ash killed in the woods by the EAB is not wasted rotting on the forest floor. It has heated my home for over 3 years now and provided me with much enjoyment.










Al
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Old 02-04-2011, 11:46 AM
 
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So Al, when you going to come out here to visit me in Chase and teach me your ways, homsteading Jedi master?

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Old 02-04-2011, 11:47 AM
 
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DOH!

Nice pics Al!

You have deer out? We had a herd of deer wander across the hills when we were looking at this place back in November. My husband said it was a sign.

But I haven't seen any since...
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Old 02-04-2011, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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All this positivity and good attitudes and great pictures are making me sick!!

- The Troll
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Old 02-04-2011, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Loving life in Gaylord!
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All this positivity and good attitudes and great pictures are making me sick!!

- The Troll
I love seeing people go with the flow and enjoy winter! I cant stand people who live here...know its coming... and what to expect, but still do nothing but complain. Keep posting pics. people!
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Old 02-04-2011, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Huntington Woods, MI
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Without snow one can't snowmobile. Having four seasons increases your outdoor activities. Winter is snowmobiling and snowboarding, spring is golf, summer is boating and jet skiing, and fall is ATV riding. None of those activities ever gets old in Michigan because after 3-4 months it's on to the next.
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Old 02-04-2011, 08:50 PM
 
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All this positivity and good attitudes and great pictures are making me sick!!

- The Troll
LOL, sorry, I'm watching It's A Wonderful Life too. Sorry, I'm a terrible influence.

Feel free to flog me now.
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Old 02-04-2011, 09:00 PM
 
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Without snow one can't snowmobile. Having four seasons increases your outdoor activities. Winter is snowmobiling and snowboarding, spring is golf, summer is boating and jet skiing, and fall is ATV riding. None of those activities ever gets old in Michigan because after 3-4 months it's on to the next.
Ah, see? Scolls is a great guy.

We all love our Michigan, don't we?

Found the winter gear and took the kids up our hill to sled. Made it half way up, but when the snow was up to my navel, I gave up. The sleds just sank into the snow anyway. Need to get our neighbor to plow one of them down a little bit or shovel them down a little and try again. But at least we got the snow stuff out.

Had to laugh at my youngest, he found the thinnest snow bank he could find, and wiggled and shook and pushed himself down it on every snow toy we had. He finally gave up and bawled, but I was so proud of him. Persistence. He has it.

We'll figure it out and try again.

Who would have thought, more snow is not necessarily better. I kept joking I must have 5 feet piled up back there, but really, I probably do.
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Old 02-05-2011, 08:17 AM
 
Location: Loving life in Gaylord!
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Looks like it may be "ode to mud" after next week. It looks like now there will be a huge warm up with temps around 40 to the mid 40's and rain. This warm spell could last for over a week...well see!
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