Cold Miser

...I didn't think phone books were still a thing. This thing is about as thick as a lead pencil.

As long as I get one good panel.

That panel literally ensures futility for my area.

Ha. This was my hood back in my early days of living in Columbia County NY. Go back about 3 miles, and my house was on the right, only about 50 feet from the highway, not too far from the NYS, Berkshire Spur Toll booth which has since been taken down. I would go to sleep to the sound of I-90.

Mud season started around Christmas time.

I might have mentioned this before but growing up in the Albany area I had someone in my family who I remember as "Cousin Marsha" (I don't recall the relationship, but she was on my father's side of the family) who lived to be over 100 years old (maybe 106?). When I was 9 or 10 (79, 80) she was over 100 years old and she would tell stories of the great storm of '88. I think she was 10 or 11 years old during that storm. She had some awesome photos of Albany. For years I had been trying to find that photo album with no luck.

...Just when I thought I was out, winter comes back with a vengeance. Stay safe.

I pray for this to verify.

looks like route 2 coming into Norwich?

Ratter = shameful excuse for winter. No one argues it, but I suppose the interpretation is different to the individual. In my hood it means, I don't think it can get any worse. I just hope I never experience this again.

Porked, even for trying to reach futility. That would be a first.

This past weekend's cold shot solidified this claim. Global warming is dead.

I would do that, just not at a festival with 1000's of people. Too old for that shit.

Yup. Pretty much. Tuned up snow blower looking for something to chew up...might as well be me, while enjoying that wiener in the balmy February sun. I will be putting her back in the shed pretty soon. Usually I wait until the beginning of April. Not this god forsaken year.

I doubt there will be that one shot late Feb/ early March bomb for SNE that some have mentioned as a possibility. This will go down in history as the WORST winter in my lifetime. Hands down. This includes any of the winters growing up in the following locations; Troy, NY Lake George, NY Columbia County, NY Williamstown, MA, Bristol, RI Washington DC Boston, MA Windham county, CT The absolute, fucking W.O.R.S.T. winter. These season is definitely humbling.

lol at the guy in that yellow circa 1970's/80's sled trying his best to enjoy the scattered, snow. Dude must have been running his skis all over the frozen mud.

...Only to be dumped into April, with backdoors, and continued missery. This year, for many, misery from January, through April. The definition of a perfect, Tobin-Swan-Dive storm.

...With the whopping 2 day deep freeze past us, and temps climbing above 32, I declare winter (in my area) down and out. While there is a brief chance that mouth to mouth resuscitation can be performed on Old Man Winter, the chances of revival are slim to none. That is all. Thank you.

Ha...Cool. Wacken is my dream festival event. But at my age I would want to go there with the nice accommodations, lounge access, with access to the main field during bands that I like. They rent "cabins" and have showers and stuff. I just don't think I could tent it for 5 days. Yeahh..Rammstein has been in trouble many times. I was happy to catch the stadium shoe last Fall as it was quite a spectacle.

..looks and feels like winter...at least for a few days.

Yeah, same thing here. Out further it's all white, but I really couldn't get a good shot.

-9 or -10 for the overnight low here in Dayville. I think it hit -10 but very briefly. Last week the lake had zero ice, today, deep freeze. Winds lapping the water on to the stone retaining wall, encasing the shore line in ice. There are some concrete blocks in there too. Note the spray that turned into little balls of ice in the frozen water. EDIT: I wasn't able to upload at a higher resolution so I had to resize the pics smaller, which sucks becuase of the low resolution look.

I will be at the gym this weekend and surely overhear the, "what happened to global warming" question, followed by Bevis and Butthead type of laughter.

lol. Not sure if that's how it works.

-30 at our Adirondacks place.