Lava Rock

What happened to Sept and Oct? Seems odd seeing flakes already

Lt snow, albeit wet. 34.3f

I really don't feel like bringing wood into the garage this wknd, but I looks like we'll need the stove next week.

Lol, 3-5" a few days ago to partly sunny Fri.

Fire up the stove

I'm in. As usual, I will bitch my way through every storm

I mentioned and asked this a few years ago. Don't recall the response that was given

The only "contract" per se is from the original sub division land owner that sold each plot of land to each of us. Included in the sale was a copy of the "Association" which had some definitions and requirements, but ultimately other than not being able to put a trailer on the house lots, it was left up to us and future land owners at the time to put something more formal into place. At a minimum we should probably set up a bank account where all dues can be kept, but it's been so simple that I put a copy of the monthly plow invoice into our current neighbors mail box and they leave us a check. I told the out of state guy I'll shoot him a text with a copy of invoice. Silence. He visits the plot a couple times a year, usually during the Summer. The other issue is the road is in need of new gravel. Will need to figure out how to collect that money next year.

Question about home owner assoc dues. We built our house on a 4 lot sub division in 2012. We moved in in Feb 2013. Up until last Winter we paid all plowing costs of our road which is ~1/4mi long. On avg, plowing/sanding costs $1200; a pretty big winter expense but we dealt with it until last year when someone else built the 2nd house. We split the plow bill last year, no issues. The other two lots are owned, but not built on yet. I know both parties; one guy is local and the other lives out of state. The local guy has his property up for sale and offered to chip in his share for plowing. I initially told him don't worry about it, but then figured if he needs access for potential buyers to look at his property over the Winter, why not accept his offer. I contacted the out of state guy and asked that he start contributing and recall him offering a few years back. We said no at that time, don't worry about it. Well he's now saying he doesn't recall the conversation and doesn't seem to want to pay his part. I get that fact that if you don't actually live here yet, maybe you can argue you shouldn't have to pay for road maintenance, but I know other friends that live in HOA's around the lakes and it is expected that you pay up even if you live outside of state during the winter. The cost for this guy would be ~$300 for the season. I'm not going to be a jerk about it if he doesn't want to pay, nor can I force him to, but I thought it was expected that you contribute to HOAs regardless if you don't live where the property is located. We've been sucking it up for nearly 8 yrs and figured why not ask the other two guys to help out. Are we wrong? There is no formal assoc on our road so it's more about being neighborly.

Agree. Don't want it this early anyway. I'll take the cold though

You'll probably jack. 12"+ on the picnic tables?

I don't have my snowblower hooked up to the tractor yet. Still have to get wood into the garage. I'd take a pass on this if it's more than a couple inches.

Only sub 32 once so far. 33f atm.

Is there a problem with some pics not showing?

345 for us today since it's really 445. Funny how my liver knows better when it needs fuel.

Makes me drink earlier on weekends

Lots of snowmaking days ahead

Bourbon/ beer out of a pumpkin last night

Speaking of beer. Was at a Halloween party last nite in Raymond talking to a guy. Turns out it was founder/CEO of allagash. Nice guy

29.8. first freeze

was this frcst to be this bad? Seems like an overperformer.

there's goes all your qpf for the winter

Power out at home. I was surprised it didn't go out earlier.

Only one outage here in Raymond. Our house faces S/SW, with little trees in the way. Back of house took the brunt. Not the best night of sleep

Might be the windiest since we've lived here. 34mph gust. Power hasn't even flickered...yet