Can you find the bike rack on this car?
Bike rack? I can't find the car!!!
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Can you find the bike rack on this car?
Bike rack? I can't find the car!!!
Found it!!Quote:
Originally Posted by owlice
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Is this like "Where's Waldo?"
Heard from my son last night. Left Anaheim on schedule, the airline telling them "no delays." Of course, being a semi-native New Englander, he was skeptical. Their connection was in Phoenix, where they promptly were told that that couldn't get to Philly until Monday. Funny, how the tough Marine calls Mom and Dad in these situations! Anyway, since he's stranded in the "desert of his birth," as he puts it, he called my DH's sister and will be visiting his aunt and uncle, and grandmother, along with his wife's cousin.
We have about 8-10 inches, but it seems to be tapering down. South of here, it's a mess, with a lot of power outages. Just about a half hour NW of here, there's no snow at all.
Blizzard here! It's so windy my French doors blew open in the middle of the night.
It is definitely a blizzard here. We have probably 15-18 inches although it is really hard to tell because of the wind and all of the drifting. We have drifts of 2-2 1/2 feet right outside the back door. Fortunatley I don't have to be anywhere today!
Here's the view out my front door and off the deck, looking down the hill.
Crankin - pretty! :)
Um - we had frost this morning....
Y'all stay safe in blizzard country. Is this where you switch from bikes to snowshoes and x-country skis? :p
Beth, I thought the same thing when I went out just a little bit ago- we have frost. I'm SO glad it's not feet of snow. I just LOVE all the pictures!!!! Snow is gorgeous when looking at it on the internet.
Just got in from shovelling the driveway and digging out the truck (with a push broom). My beautiful Seven ID8, which lives in the laundry room between rides, has been reduced to a titanium and carbon hat and mitten dryer! :eek::(
That is so WRONG!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
I stuck a ruler into the snow in the backyard and was surprised that it only was 12 inches. I wonder if it has already started to compact? I'll take some more pictures in a bit when I go out to dig out the cars.
Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ritamarie
I've added pictures to the photo album.
Beautiful clear deep blue sky today. I suppose this means I should go shovel.
After I finish my coffee and pumpkin bread, I mean. :D
I'm going to wait a few more hours before I head out to clear off the car.
They still haven't come to plow the parking lot in my courtyard or shovel our sidewalks. It makes sense to wait until they do the lot so I can shovel through the giant ridge of snow they'll leave in front of my car. Besides, my car is parked in the sun so I'd just as soon let it warm up as much as possible before I start to work.
I'm kind of wishing I had snow tires for the bike.... I'm kind of wishing to know what my closest trail looks like in the snow.
This might be because I now have long underwear, fleece tops, full-fingered gloves, and wool socks. :D
Unless things change a whole lot here in Vancouver, anyone coming for the Olympics from Snowy northeast U.S./Atlantic Canada might be quite surprised to see....no snow. At least not at the foot of the mountains. Whistler most likely is different, just haven't checked things there right now. Unless one is an avid skier or snowboarder, it's like another world..at least to me. There are other local mountain areas closer (and cheaper) to where we live, to do stuff.
Don't despair...you really don't want to wander around in deep cold/snow for hrs. while walking to and from the main Olympic buildings around here with tons of people. A big dump of snow will cause even more congestion downtown..with 100,000 extra people visiting daily.:)
This will be my first white Christmas EVER! :D
Not looking forward to this shoveling but here I go...
I was really looking forward to shoveling snow this morning. I know...weird. But it's great exercise and it brings back wonderful memories of growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania. However, my nice neighbor insisted that he shovel the huge mound that was behind my car. I kept telling him that he didn't have to but he kept insisting that he doesn't have anything to do all day and he was inside all day yesterday, so gosh darn it, he's going to shovel me out! I did take all the snow off my car (all by myself!) and that was a workout.
None of my neighbors own a shovel so they are all borrowing mine. Hmmm...I could make some money if I really wanted to...:p
It's still snowing...
I thought it would be stopping around 11. The sky is kind of brightening up, though. Did some yoga and studied my Spanish, but I am itching to go out. I do want to wait until the snow stops falling, though.
Owlice, why don't you try hiking, skiing, or snow shoeing the trail? You might find it looks different than when you are riding!
When I lived in Mississippi for school, people were all very fascinated by the scraper to clean off the windshields. I thought it so funny that no one there had one. Even if you use it once a winter, it is worth the 5.95! I was very popular with my scraper!Quote:
Originally Posted by pfunk12
ETA Yeah yeah yeah - scraper not scrapper. :)
Some of my neighbors were using a dustpan and brush! I should have taken a photo of that!:D
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Originally Posted by Possegal
I let it go once but I can't let that slide twice. But it does make for an amusing mental image ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Possegal
I still have a scraper that my parents got when we lived in Alaska. It has the name of some gas station on it.
It looked like all the snow from our lot ended up behind my car!Quote:
Originally Posted by ny biker
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Ugh... 5 hours of shoveling, but I'm done! DH cleared the lane with our backhoe since as previous photo shows our plow wasn't ready for this storm. DH and I both breathed a sigh of relief when the backhoe started. It's not a fan of winter either! I am going to be SO sore tomorrow. I promise, these are my last snow pics!
Love the castle effect on the fence!
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Hydrants are frozen. Should have had the heat tape on before now. Carrying water to the barn is oh so fun.
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This is as far as I got, i did have to shovel that last little bit where the plows piled the snow.
During the 96 blizzard - when I finally ventured out to my car (with no shovel as I'd lived in Mississippi for years and then was in an apartment) to see what I could do to get it out, some idiot was shoveling out his car, and piling all the snow he was moving, right in the back of my car. I was livid. I lost it on him. He was such a total arse. Now I was even more doomed without a shovel (and of course there were none to be bought in all the DC area) and stranded in my car parking spot now with about 6 feet of snow. Well the beauty of my tiny little subaru, when the idiot got his car out, I was able to maneuver my little car back and forth and back and forth and back and forth - until I was out of the spot - then I promptly moved it into the spot he had cleared. That being snow behavior that is very much unacceptable under most circumstances - I learned very good snow etiquette growing up in Pittsburgh. But this moron was not deserving of my good behavior. :)
What a mess. DH and I walked to the 7-11 to get newspapers (ours weren't delivered today). Futile trip, they were sold out. We were able to have pizza delivered, though! :)
Our road is impassible--it's a steep hill and has yet to see a plow. It's too deep for anything but a vehicle with a high undercarriage. Our subarus are too low to the ground... When (if) the plow comes though, we'll have to dig out the cars again (we don't have a driveway). Some neighborhood roads were plowed but they are now icy because they weren't salted. Main roads are wet, probably will be black ice tonight if they aren't treated.
Cars parked along the roads that were plowed are really socked in with snow. I'd say more than two feet high banks of it, maybe higher. They will turn into ice walls overnight.
It's cold but very sunny. Some of it is melting. Now they are predicting a "wintry mix" for Thursday. Thank goodness we Federal employees get a half-day holiday Xmas eve and should be home before it starts....
Thinking glass half full: tomorrow is the solstice---the days start getting longer again! :D:D:D:D
Ninety days until April!Quote:
Originally Posted by mickchick
Ritamarie, post all the pics you want! I've enjoyed seeing them.
Crankin, I don't have skis or snowshoes, nor boots as high as the snow is deep. Some of the snow will be gone in a couple of days, though, so perhaps I can try a walk on the trail then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Zen, you're an inspiration. I shoveled the front walk and driveway, cleared my car, and even made a path to my kitchen door so it opens now, yee-haw!
(My whole neighborhood is hilly, so my house is above the roofline of my across-the-street neighbors' house. This means my driveway is a short but steep hill... and I've gotta wonder at the wisdom of parking a car directly opposite my driveway in snowy/icy conditions, especially since there have been times when I've walked outside to find that my car has slid down the hill into the street!)
I laughed out loud at that. Good to see priorities are being maintained. :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by mickchick
An inspiration, or a nagging little voice in your head ;)?Quote:
Originally Posted by owlice
Our new neighbors came knocking on our door, looking to borrow our snow blower. We don't own a snow blower. All of our shovelling is done by hand...and we both hate to have a messy driveway:
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Our neighbors were amazed...and overwhelmed at the amount of shovelling they had before them.
As usual, however, our street still hasn't been plowed. DH (ahem!) will have a hard job clearing out the berm that is made when (if) a plow does ever show up.
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What's the difference?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Zen
7rider, you hate a messy driveway? I have one that could still use some neatening up, if you're looking for things to do!
Teddy has his own stash of snowballs.
Clearing our driveway for tomorrow's commute.
And I miss the first snow day of this winter. Federal gov't shuts down for Monday, but me, I'm not there to enjoy it.
Ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
I did that a bit with my subaru today.
Then I kept seeing little green/yellow spots in the snow.
Since I haven't been peeing in the snow, I think it's leaking some antifreeze from somewhere. Maybe I knocked the radiator hose loose. I keep looking under there and not seeing anything though.
Wow, 7...impressive!!! Looks like you and Tom had a great workout today!!
Uh-oh. I saw one little yellow spot but just assumed it was from an animal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catriona
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kmehrzad
My Ranger was like that too.
Went for a quick snow shoe after DH finished snow blowing. The snow was really fluffy, although the trails had been used already by both snow shoers and x country skiers. We stayed to the side, so as not to ruin the ski tracks. I must say, that the snow shoes felt a bit heavy on the legs that have already had quite a workout on the trainer this week. We saw a grandfather and a mom plus small boy skiing on the main part of the trail, after we left our neighborhood trail.
We climbed the ridge back to our street; it's, no kidding, about a 20% grade at some spots. I wished I had my poles with me, but, it feels good when you are done. The picture is from near the spot where this climb ends and the trail intersects with my street (a 300 foot hill), not far from my house.
I am a little late getting on here, mainly because we didn't have satellite yesterday and I wasn't about to keep going out and cleaning the thing off! Total of 26 inches on my deck - the only semi-level spot in my whole 4 1/2 acres. I am a mile back on a dirt road and though the roads got plowed by a neighbor, they were (are) only one tractor blade-width wide. That same neighbor came down and plowed our driveways this morning but that doesn't mean anything. DH has to work tomorrow but I do not. We will see if he can get out. Attached are a few pics from the wilds of VA.
In the pics attached, that birdbath is 3 ft. tall. Note the big Christmas balls beind it - they all have snow hats! In the second, somewhere, is my Element, looking really tall! And the last is DH as he tries to clear off the deck - dropping snow 12 ft. onto the shrubs below. :eek: