Simply random stuff

[ar surround]

I am happy to say I have not had to live where it snows to much extent for decades.
Never intend to ever again. Never could adapt well to it and cold weather.
Y'all can keep it with my blessings.

Thank you Boonie. If everyone liked winter, New England would be even more crowded than it is. If everyone liked heat and humidity, Florida would be even more crowded than it is.

Unfortunately, you've got people who like all four seasons...They are called New Jerseyans; and there are over 9 million of us who like to drive on the roads all day long. I keep reading that NJ has led the nation in migration out of state six years in a row. Well, it ain't enough. People, please get the @#$% out and give me some more space.

 

[mandrix]

Thank you Boonie. If everyone liked winter, New England would be even more crowded than it is. If everyone liked heat and humidity, Florida would be even more crowded than it is.

Unfortunately, you've got people who like all four seasons...They are called New Jerseyans; and there are over 9 million of us who like to drive on the roads all day long. I keep reading that NJ has led the nation in migration out of state six years in a row. Well, it ain't enough. People, please get the @#$% out and give me some more space.

No offense, but don't send them down here! We like visitors, just not all those who come and stay.
Man alive this state has seen a sea change since I was a kid.

 

[jimfisheye]

It was always cliche to talk about the weather for safe small talk. But not anymore! (There's a c-word often followed by "change". They will be triggered and need to explain it's not real. This will escalate.) Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[cbmmm3]

snow --and flying saucers

 

[zdjh22]

Those are tiny flying saucers. Here are BIG flying saucers.

 

[zdjh22]

I am happy to say I have not had to live where it snows to much extent for decades.
Never intend to ever again. Never could adapt well to it and cold weather.
Y'all can keep it with my blessings.

My wife is Colombian, from the coast (Barranquilla). Her first winter was when we went to graduate school in Urbana-Champaign, and what a brutal winter! She had never owned a winter coat. That was the year that the Chargers had a playoff game at the Bengals with real temperatures well below zero (-20’s IIRC?). In any event, she’s not happy unless it’s quite warm, and humidity doesn’t seem to phase her.

OTOH I was born and raised in Colorado, and I crave cold weather (not windy though) compared to hot and humid (central Illinois, ugh - hot and humid summers, frigid and dark winters, the worst of both worlds). I never minded when I had to travel frequently to the Minnesota boundary waters area to work on an experiment in a deep iron mine when the temperatures when I went to the head frame early in the morning were -20 to -30 F (but, very little lake effect snow there, just lots of black ice).

Somehow we are compatible.

I always say if it’s cold, I can always add layers. If it’s hot and humid, I run out of layers to remove.

 

[inspclouseau]

My wife is Colombian, from the coast (Barranquilla). Her first winter was when we went to graduate school in Urbana-Champaign, and what a brutal winter! She had never owned a winter coat. That was the year that the Chargers had a playoff game at the Bengals with real temperatures well below zero (-20’s IIRC?). In any event, she’s not happy unless it’s quite warm, and humidity doesn’t seem to phase her.

OTOH I was born and raised in Colorado, and I crave cold weather (not windy though) compared to hot and humid (central Illinois, ugh - hot and humid summers, frigid and dark winters, the worst of both worlds). I never minded when I had to travel frequently to the Minnesota boundary waters area to work on an experiment in a deep iron mine when the temperatures when I went to the head frame early in the morning were -20 to -30 F (but, very little lake effect snow there, just lots of black ice).

Somehow we are compatible.

I always say if it’s cold, I can always add layers. If it’s hot and humid, I run out of layers to remove.

and then arrested once you remove all of the layers.... unless you are fortunate enough for no one to see....
We like cold too. Most of our families are from Tennessee, Missouri and Texas. Yup...not fans of humid at all... Mom was born in Texas. Dad was born in Colorado.

 

[mandrix]

and then arrested once you remove all of the layers.... unless you are fortunate enough for no one to see....
We like cold too. Most of our families are from Tennessee, Missouri and Texas. Yup...not fans of humid at all... Mom was born in Texas. Dad was born in Colorado.

I used to live in El Paso, Texas. I liked the desert. It snowed very lightly a couple of days down to the perimeter road around the "mountain", I think Alabama street? IDK but all but the sandstorms in the desert I could abide.
Oklahoma, I spent 3 days there in the winter near Oklahoma City. Man the wind was brutal. No snow at the time though.

I've lived and worked in hot, humid climates most of my life, only in the past summer did the heat really start catching up with me.

 

[mandrix]

OK guys. Fun is fun. Take it back! Take it back I say! Take the cold y'all sent back away from me!
Supposed to be 29* here in the morning. (sniffle, cough)

Had to hobble out and cover up my big Staghorn ferns. The biggest one, I built an A frame to support it out of 4x4's. Had to use a come-along to jack it out of the back of the truck when I had the huge tree it was hanging from removed...tree was launching acorns into my goldfish pond, don't you know.
Anyways, the fronds from side to side used to measure 8 ft across. But I used to haul it into the shed every winter by hand. Can't even lift it in my old age now, so it sees some cold damage every year. I use tarps to cover them now.

The big one was a small thing when it was given to me. I put it in the biggest heavy duty wire frame basket I could find at the time and man she took off. Spawned many others for many people by pulling out a frond and rooting it in light soil.
There exist bigger ones, of course, than her. There's one in Sarasota that is spread out many feet in two directions.

 

[GOS]

OK guys. Fun is fun. Take it back! Take it back I say! Take the cold y'all sent back away from me!
Supposed to be 29* here in the morning. (sniffle, cough)

Had to hobble out and cover up my big Staghorn ferns. The biggest one, I built an A frame to support it out of 4x4's. Had to use a come-along to jack it out of the back of the truck when I had the huge tree it was hanging from removed...tree was launching acorns into my goldfish pond, don't you know.
Anyways, the fronds from side to side used to measure 8 ft across. But I used to haul it into the shed every winter by hand. Can't even lift it in my old age now, so it sees some cold damage every year. I use tarps to cover them now.

The big one was a small thing when it was given to me. I put it in the biggest heavy duty wire frame basket I could find at the time and man she took off. Spawned many others for many people by pulling out a frond and rooting it in light soil.
There exist bigger ones, of course, than her. There's one in Sarasota that is spread out many feet in two directions.

Wow!!! I had no idea this cold snap was going that far south. That is nuts....

 

[soesbeout]

OK guys. Fun is fun. Take it back! Take it back I say! Take the cold y'all sent back away from me!
Supposed to be 29* here in the morning. (sniffle, cough)

Had to hobble out and cover up my big Staghorn ferns. The biggest one, I built an A frame to support it out of 4x4's. Had to use a come-along to jack it out of the back of the truck when I had the huge tree it was hanging from removed...tree was launching acorns into my goldfish pond, don't you know.
Anyways, the fronds from side to side used to measure 8 ft across. But I used to haul it into the shed every winter by hand. Can't even lift it in my old age now, so it sees some cold damage every year. I use tarps to cover them now.

The big one was a small thing when it was given to me. I put it in the biggest heavy duty wire frame basket I could find at the time and man she took off. Spawned many others for many people by pulling out a frond and rooting it in light soil.
There exist bigger ones, of course, than her. There's one in Sarasota that is spread out many feet in two directions.

I'm acclimated now that I've been here Florida since 05 not liking this cold, that's why I moved.