Snow

My last post, quite a while ago was “We Finally Got Some Snow” and since then we’ve been hit by storm after storm.  It’s a lot of work clearing out the snow and such, but it’s pretty cool to have a good Winter finally after several years of lame ones. We’re still in the midst [...]

Continue Reading Okay We’ve Gotten Quite a Bit More Snow

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Winter in the North East has been pretty mild lately. I’m a bit disappointed of course. My poor snow BLOWER (thrower? pshht!) is not getting the attention or work it desires and is becoming flabby.  As I told my folks it’s bellowing out in the barn waiting to be unleashed and I might have to [...]

Continue Reading Winter Is Passing Me By to Visit Washington State! Noooooo!

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We’ve gotten some of the Christmas lights up around here, I was a bit slow in initiating it and the holidays are sneaking up on us quickly.  These are the lights we’ve put up this year so far, all of the Christmas Lights installed this year were LED, they have a nice cold glow that [...]

Continue Reading The LED Christmas Lights Have Been Put Up

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I woke up this morning planning to get some flying in.  Got out of bed, peered out the window and nothing.  So I went to grab a shower, and was saying to myself moments before looking out the hallway window ‘It’s quite unlikely it’ll snow today’ (yes I talk to myself like that in my [...]

Continue Reading The First Snow Signifies Winter is Officially Here

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Winter 2008 was actually pretty decent in the new house, shoveling was a nightmare so we bought an Ariens snowblower / snowthrower (I’m not sure when everyone switched to saying ‘snowthrower’…) The exact model I picked up is the Ariens 924 DLE, it has a 9HP Tecumseh snow king engine in it and cuts a [...]

Continue Reading Surviving Winter ’08

Tags: Christmas, Porch, Snow, Snowblower, Snowthrower, tree, Winter