What's annoying is that the roads were quite acceptable so long as you drove slow. It's just when you get to the slope right below the building that it gets impossible. The downside of the incredible view I gush over, getting up to that view. I look at pictures of houses with steep, short driveways in snow country, and I wonder how they survive.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2017 6:48:48 am PST #5019 of 30002
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-t - Jan 05, 2017 7:29:25 am PST #5020 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Connie. That's ridiculous that you are all at work in those conditions and clearly all sharing germs because not doing so would lose you a bonus.
I look at pictures of houses with steep, short driveways in snow country, and I wonder how they survive.
Traditionally you stop driving and ski everywhere, right? If that's not true, please don't disabuse me of my romantic notions.
I am lisah's polar opposite wrt cold drugs. I usually forget they exist and when I do actually try them I am amazed at how effective they are (at treating the symptoms, anyway, not actually making the cold go away, but that still amazes me!)
I have come to theorize that most, if not all, firemen (or aspiring firemen) are pyromaniacs.
Sounds right.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2017 7:34:59 am PST #5021 of 30002
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I have come to theorize that most, if not all, firemen (or aspiring firemen) are pyromaniacs.
Hubby said every fireperson he knew had an unhealthy love of fire. He said forest fires would talk to him. The firecrews all agreed that you shouldn't listen to what the fire was telling you, because it wanted to eat you. It gets very primal in the mind of a fireman.
Jesse - Jan 05, 2017 7:50:13 am PST #5022 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, Connie. That's ridiculous that you are all at work in those conditions and clearly all sharing germs because not doing so would lose you a bonus.
Yeah, that.
lisah - Jan 05, 2017 7:50:55 am PST #5023 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
My main cold symptom is a bad cough that lasts forever and nothing helps that, ime.
-t - Jan 05, 2017 8:02:53 am PST #5024 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, yeah, that one I just endure.
SuziQ - Jan 05, 2017 8:40:17 am PST #5025 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Hubby said every fireperson he knew had an unhealthy love of fire.
That fits with all the fire fighters I know. And CJ is giddy that he can set fires in the fireplace now. We won't even talk about his fireworks obsession. Especially the ones he gets over the border from Wyoming.
Connie Neil - Jan 05, 2017 9:11:38 am PST #5026 of 30002
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Oh, praise be, sunlight hitting the ground! I can cope with 18 degrees if the sun is out.
SuziQ - Jan 05, 2017 9:17:10 am PST #5027 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Our actual temp is almost double the forecast and yet we are still in single digits. CJ just went out for more firewood. I'm not leaving the house unless I have to.
askye - Jan 05, 2017 9:39:02 am PST #5028 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
It's supposed to snow here tomorrow night and early Saturday morning. I'm taking a wait and see approach to what will happen. Mostly because I have to leave the house at 3 am (in bad weather) to get to work at 4 am. I'm hoping for either no snow or enough snow at the right time that it will be easy to call out at work. What I really don't want is the snow to hold off until I'm headed back home and then can't get up the mountain and have to hang out in town and hope for the best.