Are you ready for Winter this year?

[Kens Digital Media]

I realize I'm jumping the gun here a little because Fall is just starting but I figured.. why not.

Are you ready for the white stuff?
Did you get all your outside projects done yet?
Winterize your vehicle yet?
Well you get the idea right.

I still have a window to replace on the garage door. I did get the gutters on the house cleaned. I have around 10 other projects to finish before it gets too cold out.

How about yourself?

Don't forget to take the poll too

[ekarvala]

OMG! I'm still suffering post-traumatic stress from our last winter! Needless to say, I'm not ready--still need to get new tires on the Sebring and muster up some mental fortitude to deal with my long (and seemingly dangerous) commutes to work each morning. I'm hoping to talk the boss into letting me work from home a day or two each week during the winter months. Yeah, I've become a big stressed-out baby where driving in blizzards is concerned!

[dgridley]

I actually love the winter month's and am looking forward to the cold weather!

[Kens Digital Media]

What got me thinking about making a post/poll like this was:
I was driving around Saturday and it just seemed like it was about to snow, no kidding. The temperature was in the 50's (not under 32 but still a little chilly) and the clouds looked like those famous snow clouds. The next day it was almost 70?

I have a feeling we're in for a early winter.

[pk]

I actually love the winter month's and am looking forward to the cold weather!

Oh, you must have a short driveway or live in a complex that the parking lot gets plowed.

You must not have to get up and get kids to school on time and then back home again..(work doesn't count) lol

You must have a remote starter for your garage kept car. So not only is it snow free, but warm when you leave in the morning.

You must mean you like just the cold ... and not the tons of snow and ice?

Please tell me all of the above or most of it is right. Can anyone actually look forward to ice, snow, and all the other stuff that comes along with our winters??? lol

[Twoaday]

I'm definitely not ready for winter. I still need to compile a list of todo activities for winter time....

[pk]

OMG! I'm still suffering post-traumatic stress from our last winter!

I think that is my problem too. I have no idea why last winter seemed to be so awful to me....I lived in this area my whole life so I am use to winters, if anyone can actually be 'use to' winter around here.

But for whatever reason, last year just about did me in.

It could be that I just got my nearly new van that seemed to get stuck in everything and I was constantly made aware that I could put a dent on it and actually did without my knowledge as to how it happened.

Maybe it's because I am not suppose to go out in the cold (pneumonia problem when breathing in cold air) Yet I have a slight slant to my driveway that made me totally lose all traction on it with the smallest amount of ice.

So it could be because I laid out over 800 pounds of salt on that darn driveway over the course of the winter not to mention many bags of Kitty Litter when salt became scarce.

How about the huge blizzard that just kept dumping snow all day and our school district decided to be the only schools open that day in the entire state of Wisconsin! Of course my kids have perfect attendance so my oldest daughter (her son also went to school) and I shoveled all day keeping the driveways open so we could actually get the kids at the end of the day.

Oh...yeah. Now that I'm remember all of this I am sooo not looking forward to yet another long winter. blah...

[pk]

I do have to say that we did start getting ready today though..we worked all day long cleaning the garage out, getting snow blowers working, moving things around, finding the salt spreader and yeah...finding a couple bags of salt left from last year.

So, I have actually started getting ready. But we have a long way to go. I still have to have my fall rummage sale! Hopefully in two weeks. Pray it doesn't snow before then!

[Kens Digital Media]

This is making me think, maybe I should get some hockey skates for this winter.

When I was younger I had a blast skating. Last time I went skating ( older ) I walked out on the ice and my bottom hit before I went two feet, lol After that I was fine skating.

[pk]

The only thing I think winter is great for is taking pictures. I love to get them during a storm. Made me think of how I fell one time...I was out one night around midnight. We were having a beautiful snow storm that was coming down in huge flakes. I was in such a trance with all the white falling and taking pictures of it sticking to the branches with the night sky behind it and I fell backwards in a snow pile! As I was falling I was still taking pics.

Ice storms are get to get pictures of it all too. also love to run down to the lake when it's below zero, makes for an interesting time. Almost eerie how the waves are full of ice and sometimes the lake is frozen.. like all the life is frozen in time. Lake Michigan is huge and so full of strong waves so when you see it still, it can be humbling to think of what the bitter cold can do.

[dgridley]

I've lived in the northern states much of my life and, sure, there are some aspects of snow that I don't enjoy but I'd much rather have colder weather than not.

I've literally had to dig my way out of a house covered with snow, been in snow with drifts higher than a bus, and, yes, I've had to shovel many a walkway or driveway. I was once caught on a city bus in a snow storm seven hours trying to get home from college one year.

But, for me, Christmas is not Christmas without snow and lots of it.

Originally Posted by pk

Oh, you must have a short driveway or live in a complex that the parking lot gets plowed.

You must not have to get up and get kids to school on time and then back home again..(work doesn't count) lol

You must have a remote starter for your garage kept car. So not only is it snow free, but warm when you leave in the morning.

You must mean you like just the cold ... and not the tons of snow and ice?

Please tell me all of the above or most of it is right. Can anyone actually look forward to ice, snow, and all the other stuff that comes along with our winters??? lol

[pk]

I've literally had to dig my way out of a house covered with snow, been in snow with drifts higher than a bus, and, yes, I've had to shovel many a walkway or driveway. I was once caught on a city bus in a snow storm seven hours trying to get home from college one year.

But, for me, Christmas is not Christmas without snow and lots of it.

Digging to get out of a house...reminds me of back in the early 80's? or maybe very late 70's? We had a terrible snowy winter. (just across the border in Illinois). Really dumped on over and over. We lived in a large ranch home with a carport. We had to keep shoveling off the carport (fear of the heavy snow on it) and at times the drifts would get up as high as the roof in places. Started to wonder if we would ever see Spring that year.

Driving? Getting around the corners were near impossible at some intersections since the snow was piled way high from the plows just trying to keep up with the snow.

Our dog had a fun time that winter. Seems like every time she had to go to the bathroom the yard got higher and higher and she had to climb around to find a place to go! lol

But I don't really remember being too upset with it. Had to much fun helping kids make tunnels and snowmen and snow ball fights. lol

It's funny that most winters don't bother me except last winter. Please...oh please...tell me it's not because I am just getting older!!! My oldest brother (13 years older) has a home in Florida where he goes in the winter and I use to laugh at him. How can he miss winter?? It's part of life to have snow. Last winter I actually envied him. He told me that would happen when I got old! lol NOOOO! that can't be it! *stomping foot*