Chat thread

[blasterdad]

I'm starting this thread to post whatever, or to bring straying topic chat here...

I'll start off with complaining about the weather, it's up to 29 degrees today, 
after a week of below zero & single digit temps, along with 4 day winter storm warnings,
a good 2 feet of snow, & 150 car pile ups on the interstate, ect...

[BDA]

South West Michigan, at that. Of course, I guess you pretty much get the same weather as Chicago or Gary which can be pretty frigid. I hear that Michigan is beautiful, but then I've heard that Alaska is beautiful too. I can't understand someone intentionally subjecting themselves to that kind of weather! You know there are some very pretty areas of the South too! 

I do hope you all get a reprieve soon, though! I know that's got to make it tough. It's not nearly that cold here in NC and I allow it to crimp my style. I guess I'm a weather wimp! When I lived in New Orleans, my garage was heated and cooled! Now that's the way it ought to be!

[blasterdad]

@BDA
It's pretty much the same as Chicago, except we get "lake effect & lake enhanced" snow.
Moisture from Lake Michigan mixes with the prevailing winds & turns into a giant snow machine,
or adds to a regular system of snow.
The result is us getting hammered, no matter what.
It can be beautiful up here too, lots of winter activities, skiing, sledding, skating, ect.
But as natures design, beautiful things are often deadly.
You have to learn to how to respect it...

[3929R]

Please share your snow. We'd love as much as we can get!

[blasterdad]

Please share your snow. We'd love as much as we can get!

Lol, if I could I'd share with everyone, we have plenty to spare,
got almost 130 inches last year, we still had melting piles of snow at the end of April...
(Our back porch) Snow & ice from roof..

[BDA]

Man, I'm glad I don't know what you're going through! But I hope for your sake that it doesn't last long.

[blasterdad]

@BDA, That pic is from around Valentines day last winter, not that bad here yet... Just really cold,
-15 this morning, up to 16 now. Supposed to warm up by the end of this week, highs in the low 30's.

[blasterdad]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, off to build a house I go...
Yay Yay, Yay Yay, Friday is payday!...

[BDA]

Are you going to build your house? or are you a carpenter? 
Happy Payday!!!

[blasterdad]

@BDA... I'm a carpenter, I build custom homes 9-5.
At night & on weekends I "renovate" our own house, (my wife has a different description of it.) 
Which means I am also an electrician, plumber, drywaller, painter, tile setter, sider, roofer, & occasionally, my favorite, a Lotus mechanic! 

[BDA]

It sounds like you have a very useful collection of skills! What would it take to get you to move south? I'd like a custom house (as well as some help with some repair on my house) and garage. 

[blasterdad]

It sounds like you have a very useful collection of skills! What would it take to get you to move south? I'd like a custom house (as well as some help with some repair on my house) and garage. 

This time of year, all it would take is an address, I'll leave NOW! 
But seriously, we do plan on heading south once the kids are off to college...

[BDA]

Might I suggest North Carolina? 

[blasterdad]

Might I suggest North Carolina? 

Why not, as long as there's a lake nearby that doesn't freeze over in the winter,
because daddys' jet boat will be coming too...

[BDA]

 Come on down! There are four seasons. It only snows maybe a few times a year and there are a couple of lakes nearby for your jetboat!