Mother Nature...

[semologger]

I wish i was YOUNG AGAIN.

[pigman]

semologger, good lying comes with age .

[semologger]

I guess mother nature does take its toll on ya.

[Texas Ranger]

Semologger, you bet, was in Columbia that winter, never got above -5 for three weeks. decided I could live some place else warmer.  Anyplace else.

[Coon]

The bad thing with these cold temps around here is as soon as it warms up we are going to get a whole pile of snow.  The second half of Febuary and March is when we usually get alot of snow.   Guess I had better get my "GOON SPOON" all polished up and ready for the day it starts.

[isawlogs]

 Ok Coon , we get the message , ya can turn the fan off  or turn the Dang thing around some . Ever since that thermometer was posted its been getting colder and colder and the wind has picked up , I did not let the horses out this morning because of the cold .
  My nephew and a girl friend are here for a visite , I saw them getting dressed this morning to go outside , thought they might be going to the barn    Noooooo  they where going skiing , even after I told um it was -2000 outside .    Ya cant get good help for da barn anymore    

[Corley5]

I've had it    Spent most of the day cleaning up after yesterday's lake effect blizzard.  We probably got a foot of snow but it's hard to tell the way it blew around.  It did make it to 15 degrees today    Supposed to get another 2-4" tonight too.  We're heading south Thursday in front of another clipper system.  Hopefully after two weeks in the sunny, warm south things will have moderated a bit here just not enough for the frost laws to go on    They can wait for a few days after I get back.  I apologize in advance if the cold follows us down.  It seems it usually does   

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah we had around 8" and I blew that out, then raked the snow off the lower shed roof with my new home make wooden roof rake. 

More coming Wednesday. 

[Radar67]

Just where may the cold be following you to Corley? I may have to arm up. 

[Corley5]

Ocala, Fla 

[Radar67]

That may be far enough off that the cold won't make it here then. 

DanG, you Florida boys might ought to dig out your longhandles.

[SwampDonkey]

Excerpt from 'Treasured Memories', by Peter Clark

Reminiscences of Wiley Currie circa early 1930's

"When I was a young fella I walked about a mile to a one-room school. In the winter time if there was a storm you waded it. Sometimes the snow got so bad that a man would come with a double team of horses pulling a long sled, 4 or 5 of us loaded on before we got to school. I remember those of us who had cross-country skis often skied. When we came back it was great, all down hill practically.

Our school was heated by an old cylinder stove about 5 feet high. Would that stove ever throw the heat! The janitor built a fire every morning. He got paid around 3 dollars a week.

...one time there was a bumblebee nest under the school on a granite rock. There was a crack in the school floor and when I got down to see the nest, one of the bees came out and stung me right between the eyes. Just then the bell rang and I took off and ran into a kid on the way into school. When I got to my seat, the teacher, Myrtle Thomas said, What happened to you, Wiley?

I said, I was lookin' in the bumblebee hole under the school and a bee stung me.

She replied, Good enough for you!

I remember there being a strap at the school but it wasn't used much....."

[Corley5]

Usually after the first coupla days we're there it wears off 

[Coon]

Well Marcel,  I'd come and help ya in da barn but it's a might long walk I'd have to take. Think I'll just have to stick around here.

Heck Marcel,  I have only got the fan on low. What you complainin 'bout atleast you got some trees around you for shelter we don't hardly have none right here.  Gotta travel a few miles to get trees.