Gotta Love Winter...

First 4-day weekend in some time. T-F-S-S. Planned on detailing the truck. But no. Weather turned to complete crap. Constant rain. Now it is going to get cold tonight. Then more rain Sat/Sun. Just can`t win. Fine. I`ll drink beer and watch all the rain. I have the next 4 Fridays off. Hopefully we will get a decent weekend!!!
 
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First 4-day weekend in some time. T-F-S-S. Planned on detailing the truck. But no. Weather turned to complete crap. Constant rain. Now it is going to get cold tonight. Then more rain Sat/Sun. Just can`t win. Fine. I`ll drink beer and watch all the rain. I have the next 4 Fridays off. Hopefully we will get a decent weekend!!!
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No kidding. Bizarro weather around here. 60, 70 last week...welcome to a rainy and low of 37 this weekend.

Gotta change eventually...
 
I`ll blame our continuing wet weather for yet another two trees that came down this week. Had to clear part of one away just to get to bfast yesterday. My wife and I will be chainsawing all weekend again, but that beats hours with the polesaws!
 
I`m so done with this winter. I think this is going to be the year without a summer. They are calling for 3-5 inches today( whoever they are).

Edit: now it`s 3-6 time to drop the top and go for a drive.



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This morning it is as full on winter as you can get. Not going anywhere today. Wet heavy crap, and the winter tires are already off the vehicles.


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Coleroad said:
This morning it is as full on winter as you can get. Not going anywhere today. Wet heavy crap, and the winter tires are already off the vehicles.
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This is what a lot of people don`t understand about winters out west - it may not be the extreme negative temps they get up in the Great Lakes region, but when you`re up in the mountains, the season lasts a bit longer. My parents moved to Oregon from South Dakota, so they were used to some pretty cold winters, but they were not prepared for the fact that it snowed on the 4th of July their first year out there. :o It`s pretty rare for it to happen that late in the year, but not uncommon in April and May.

Time to break out the chains. Stay safe and warm up there!
 
Sitting here thinking. While a bit of a pain, in the grand scheme of things it`s not too big of a deal for people. I feel bad for like the blue birds that already have babies. Kinda hard for them to find any insects to feed them in this stuff. Changes my perspective tremendously.
 
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Sitting here thinking. While a bit of a pain, in the grand scheme of things it`s not too big of a deal for people. I feel bad for like the blue birds that already have babies. Kinda hard for them to find any insects to feed them in this stuff. Changes my perspective tremendously.
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That`s exactly what I was thinking!
 
And I`ve been complaining that my backyard is still wet with the constant rain all spring. I wouldn`t want to be running the snowblower after having the lawn mower out for a couple weeks now.
 
Coleroad said:
Sitting here thinking. While a bit of a pain, in the grand scheme of things it`s not too big of a deal for people. I feel bad for like the blue birds that already have babies. Kinda hard for them to find any insects to feed them in this stuff. Changes my perspective tremendously.
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Coleroad:
That was the BIG problem we had in Northeastern Wisconsin in mid-April of 2018 when we got hit with 25+" of snow. The migratory birds that normally returned for their summer-time residence, like Robins and Red-Wing Blackbirds, could not find their normal foods of insects and seed. Many were found frozen and died or became emaciated. The wildlife sanctuaries were inundated with bird rescues from well meaning bird lovers.

Funny as it sounds, I ended up swatting house flies that came out of hibernation on the south-side sun-warmed siding of my house and let them fall onto the driveway pavement. I counted about 100 flies that I killed and they were all devoured by sunset!

Must say, that is A LOT more snow than 3-5" in your photo. Do your fellow Coloradians let the "solar-powered snow shovels" remove the snow or do they actually shovel it? Here in Wisconsin, it is usually the former method mentioned above, as late spring snow falls usually only amount to a 1 or 2 inches. That was until last year. That one collapsed a lot of pole building roofs, like storage sheds and farm animal housing sheds, because it was so wet and heavy, and shut down business for three days (it fell on Saturday-Sunday) and schools on Monday. Hospital emergency rooms were swamped with heart-attack victims from shovelers and snow blower-mangled hands and fingers from the "unintelligent" blower operators. You know it was bad when a large grader with a side wing plow somehow got it stuck in a bank as it was plowing and needed a large front-end loader to drag it out. Yes, I watched it all unfold on the side street as I was shoveling.
 
Yea. A sad reminder it`s on it`s way. Detailing in PA is close to being over for the year. Calling for rain most of the weekend here of course.
 
Yeah the weather forecast says that we can get about those amounts next week here in southern of Sweden. On the higher altitudes in the north of Sweden they started to get the snow a month ago. I will looking at the forecast closely the next days if I need to be putting on the winter wheels already...
 
It was bound to happen. We`re not that cold here, but temps are steadily falling. We`re luck to see anything in the mid-60`s any more. Right now temps are getting into that range where I start debating whether to mount my winter wheels. Maybe I can go *one* more week....
 
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