Thing's to do before the real snow gets here !!!!

isawlogs · November 27, 2007, 05:52:38 PM

I was out today trying to get thing's organized before to white stuff comes in for real

I really need to shorten the daily wish list ... Daylight is short ... Siesta is getting longer .... A 2 X 8 is much heavier today then it was ten years ago ... must be the old growth in my bones .

For some reason I just can't do what I did a few years ago

Coon · November 27, 2007, 06:10:20 PM

Marcel you're just getting old face it... :D :D The snow is already here for the duration. We are getting quite a bit at the moment. I'd say we got about 6-8 inches on the ground. Just came in from banking up the house and by tommorow I can do it all over again.

thecfarm · November 27, 2007, 09:59:27 PM

It could snow in June and I still would not be ready.I still have the mower on the tractor.I'll get to it when I see the white stuff on the ground.

Warbird · November 27, 2007, 10:18:09 PM

I had to give up and admit the snow was here about a month ago!!

mike_van · November 28, 2007, 05:46:40 AM

I always wait 'till the last possible day to put the chains on the tractor - Sometimes 1 day too long - :D

pappy · November 28, 2007, 09:04:59 AM

The ATV is stored and the sled has been used going on two weeks now... Got a foot a snow on the ground.... Got most everything done afore the white stuff landed ;D ...

It's OK Marcel you get smarter when you get older :

on some things anyway :D And yes I do concur those 2X8's do get heavier with age ;D :D

;)

OneWithWood · November 28, 2007, 02:19:17 PM

Marcel,
Here is what you do.

Sleep in later. You wear yourself out getting up too early.
Go to bed earlier. Your dreams are much better than anything on TV.

Invite the nephews over for dinner. Just tell them before they can eat X amount of firewood needs splittin' or x amount of other chores needs doin.

Anything else I can help you with? ;D

Radar67 · November 28, 2007, 02:24:03 PM

We don't usually see any snow....does that mean I don't have to do anything? :D

sawguy21 · November 28, 2007, 02:28:43 PM

You could visit Marcel to practice shoveling snow and stacking wood. ;)

isawlogs · November 28, 2007, 02:33:38 PM

Sawguy ... Between you and OWW , ya got it 'bout covered ... Thanks

Those two by eigths are still heavy ... I am gonna try OWW's idea .. early to bed and late to get up . ;D

Radar67 · November 28, 2007, 03:26:43 PM

I've got the wood stacking part covered...don't want any part of shoveling snow. ;D

woodmills1 · November 28, 2007, 06:44:48 PM

I hate putting the chains on when it is already white and or frozen. >:(

SwampDonkey · November 28, 2007, 07:41:29 PM

Marcel, glad your all mended up for another battle with winter. Maybe you can go up north this summer and build airports on permafrost? ;)

Ed_K · November 28, 2007, 08:30:25 PM

Chains are hard ta put on when frozen to da ground too

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isawlogs · November 28, 2007, 10:56:08 PM

Chains !!!!

Knew ah furgot sumthinn :

pappy · November 30, 2007, 09:27:29 AM

I better wax the snow shovel cause we're supposed ta get 8" to 14" inches of the white stuff come Monday,,,, some of the projections say it could also be in the one and two foot dumpin's range.... Plow's hooked up and the chains are already on and the pickup is full a gas and parked in the barn ready and a rarein' smiley_greg_walking_stilts ;D

sawguy21 · November 30, 2007, 10:03:01 AM

We are supposed to get 3 or 4 inches of wet snow tonight. Snow thrower sales are brisk this week. ;D It should be interesting tomorrow.

SwampDonkey · November 30, 2007, 10:34:28 AM

It's white here, but no more than 2 inches as we seem to get rain mixed in during these storms. Maybe Monday will be different. I've seen big predictions fizzle out many times during the snow season. ;D

pappy · November 30, 2007, 11:41:39 AM

Hmmmm SD you're only about 60 miles south a here and we got 12" on the ground !! A few years ago there wasn't any snow south Portage, about 27 miles away... Yup "predictions" :

39" at Christmas last year was supposed ta be only 14"

troutcreekman · November 30, 2007, 03:50:33 PM

We have 12" or more on the ground , does that mean it's to late to build a new storage shed for my WPF? Oh well! David

Don_Papenburg · November 30, 2007, 07:58:38 PM

Now is the time too build you don't get so muddy

Coon · November 30, 2007, 10:04:18 PM

Just heard from a friend of mine and about 2 hours northeast of me already has over 3 feet of snow and now it's averaging -25 C. They claim its gonna hurt the wildlife populations this year.... :(

WDH · November 30, 2007, 11:12:03 PM

There will be a low of 39 degrees F here tonight, and we have the woodstove fired up and hot ;D.

Furby · November 30, 2007, 11:21:05 PM

It's about 17° colder then that right now........... and I've yet to start up the furnace this season. :-\

low_48 · November 30, 2007, 11:33:35 PM

I was working this same kind of theme today, but wondering what to get done before the ice. We're supposed to get at least a 1/2" of ice starting midmorning to evening tomorrow. Probably should have gone to my Mom's and got the generator. She's just supposed to get rain since she's a little further south central IL. Sure hope they miss this one. Gets kinda crisp in here with only the little heater going in the basement when the electricity is out.