Bring it on!....I'm ready for ya

breederman · December 06, 2005, 03:40:40 PM

Winter that is.Even though its been cold and a little snow for a while now I have offically given up on fall.
Next years fire wood is in a heap next to the wood shed,old Massey is put up in the barn,goat shed is tightend up,freezer is so full I could hardly get my ice cream sandwiches in the last time the "truck with the duck"came,tools etc.picked up,new snow tires on all the cars,carharts in the breedermobile so I won't freeze to death the first time somebody gets stuck and Mr nice guy decides to help out,Christmas tree is on the porch.
Yep I'm as ready as I'm gonna be,so ole man winter lets see what ya got!

SwampDonkey · December 06, 2005, 03:49:05 PM

Well sounds like a pretty good spot to spend the winter to me. ;D

asy · December 06, 2005, 03:57:06 PM

What's a carhart?

I understand what you mean, we prepare carefully for winter too.. Making sure there's enough ice cream in the freezer here too...

Sometimes it even gets down under 20C... Brrr

asy :D

Modat22 · December 06, 2005, 04:01:00 PM

I wanna get about 2 more cords of wood before it breaks lose.

SwampDonkey · December 06, 2005, 04:02:02 PM

I like your shiny nose ASY :D

breederman · December 06, 2005, 04:03:31 PM

carharts are warm canvas duck work coveralls etc.
Its going down under 1o degrees f wed. night.
Put another log on the fire

_earmuff

crtreedude · December 06, 2005, 04:16:49 PM

It has been a little cool here - I had to actually put on socks this morning!

Riles · December 06, 2005, 04:56:32 PM

Asy, I have two questions for you. The first one I'm sure I know the answer to, it's that obvious, but I have to ask it anyway ("There are no dumb questions...").

1. Since Down Under was settled by people from Up Top, is winter hot or cold there? I know you haven't changed the calendar or the physics of being south of the equator, but you have changed the dictionary at times. So did the original settlers still refer to December and January as winter or did they decide to try to shift the confusion to June and July? ("It's too DanG hot to be called winter, let's call it summer anyway! Merry Christmas, Mate")

2. To me, British, South African, Austrailian, and Kiwi accents sound related. I can tell the difference, but they sound close. Not surprising, considering the origin. As an american, I don't have an accent to myself, it's in my blind spot, so the question to you is, Do American accents sound related to British and South African accents?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Patty · December 06, 2005, 05:21:09 PM

REALLY cold here the past 2 days. I think we got up to 2 degrees farenheit today. BRRRR! smiley_bouncing This is me in my carharts all bundled up. :D

Ianab · December 06, 2005, 05:46:46 PM

Quote("It's too DanG hot to be called winter, let's call it summer anyway! Merry Christmas, Mate"

Yeah.. thats about it. :D
No laws of physics being broken, just the seasons are reversed. Personally I think summer makes for a far better Christmas, much easier to be festive with long days and warm weather.

Accents.. ummm... we dont have one either :D
I know Canadians get upset when we mistake their accents for Americans tho :

American accents are very different to English AND South African to us. The SA accent seems more influenced by the Dutch than some. NZ and Aussie are similar, we can tell them apart, but I can understand the rest of the world getting confused :

Of course England has about 100 different accents , depending on where someone grew up. :

It is all fascinating tho

Ian

beenthere · December 06, 2005, 06:07:50 PM

Quote from: Patty on December 06, 2005, 05:21:09 PM
REALLY cold here the past 2 days. I think we got up to 2 degrees farenheit today. BRRRR! smiley_bouncing This is me in my carharts all bundled up. :D

MMmmmmmm? Looks are deceiving, but the carharts are cut off above the knees, and the chainsaw looks like its gettin heavy. :D

crtreedude · December 06, 2005, 06:54:33 PM

We are actually in the same side of the world as the USA, but our seasons are totally weird. For example, we are about to start summer - which depends on the part of the country goes from December to about May - Summer for us goes from January to about mid May.

Winter is from mid-May for us to the end of December, unless it is an odd year.

We don't need no stinking calendar! We just stick our hand outside! If it is the rainy season, it is winter, if it is the dry season, it is summer.

Oh, and we only have two seasons. Rainy, not rainy.

What could be simpler?

Don_Papenburg · December 06, 2005, 08:23:06 PM

Patty where did you get white carharts?

ohsoloco · December 06, 2005, 09:10:01 PM

I have about two cords of next year's firewood drug out of the woods. Been working on cutting, splitting, and stacking it the past few days. I'd really like to get a couple more out before the white stuff gets too deep. A friend of mine asked me the other day why I was already working on next year's fuel already :

Been pretty cold the last few days, but the wind has been calm, so it's nice

Had to leave the doors open for a while when I went home for supper...upstairs was about 80 degrees, and the basement was at least 96 ;D

SwampDonkey · December 06, 2005, 09:12:42 PM

The furnace is working well ;D

ohsoloco · December 06, 2005, 09:15:11 PM

I find it much easier to just throw another log in the stove than to mess with starting another fire when the house gets chilly ;)

SwampDonkey · December 06, 2005, 09:19:38 PM

I let mine burn down to a few coals to give me a 'heat break' ;D :D All I need is to pull the coals toward my draft, lay in 3 small pieces and a couple big chunks on top, good to go for another 7 hours. ;D

isawlogs · December 06, 2005, 09:33:27 PM

I should be sarting the next years wood soon

I always like that time of year ... A few inches of snow .. the wood is nice and clean , no leaves to deal with ... and best of all you can see the deer that got away . I pull out a cedar tree every now and than for them to munch on . ;D

ohsoloco · December 06, 2005, 09:38:31 PM

I may have to let mine burn down as well, I have to sweat some shut-offs onto a couple supply lines...I may not need the torch :D If it gets down to just a few coals, it works best if I throw some wood on, then close the door and take the cover for the ash pan off. Those coals really rip then.

If we get much more snow, I don't know if I'll be able to skid with my three wheeler. The skidding is all downhill, but I have to get up there first :-\

SwampDonkey · December 06, 2005, 10:01:43 PM

Put the chains on ;D

We had snow, about 5 inches, now nuttin. Last week was a mess everywhere, water and muck. Had to pump the basement 4 times. :

Worst wet fall I ever seen.

ohsoloco · December 06, 2005, 10:04:32 PM

Chains on a three wheeler ??? Hmmmmm ;D

I'm glad to see the snow, now the dog only tracks wet paw prints in the house instead of muddy ones :D

Coon · December 06, 2005, 11:15:59 PM

We had over 6 inches on the ground a couple of weeks ago but the iit got warm and most of it melted. Guess we got about 2 or 3 inches now, not even really enough to skid logs in (to keep em clean). About -25 Celcius here right now but they say it'll be warm for the weekend. :D :D