Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How do people stand more winter than this?

hey Bristoe,you need to get yer azz up here for a month.
Youll love kentucky winters thereafter.

You're not alone. It's cliche, I know, but the so-called dry heat I can tolerate some, but the heat with high humidity I abhor. South FL in summer, where it feels as if a wet, hot blanket envelops you, where even sitting in it has a man sweating, man, I loathe that kind of weather.

This pretty much sums it up for me:

"Best of all, he loved the fall..."

--Ernest Hemingway

Bristoe, I think California would be PERFECT for you and your bikes...

I'll take 92 degrees and sunlight at 8:30 PM,...a big slab of asphalt and 80 mph on 2 wheels.

That's when I'm alive.

,..sittin' here wondering why,..

I think maybe it's because I'm a type that needs some kind of jolt to the senses to work up a good "happy".

I don't guess it has to be a motorcycle. I suspect a P51 Mustang would do it real well,...but the most raucous thing available to me to get that jolt is motorcycles.

I can't afford a P51.

That must be why winter hits me so bad.

It's not so much winter itself,...but winter prevents me from getting my jolt.

Winter.



Is.



Too.



Damn.



Short.

Only thing nice about winter is that the Schlitz beers are always cool....Not enough whitefish in ND's icehole to make me like the rest....

I've got bullets to cast....

California is okay,...but it could never be home.

An old libertarian is going to be somewhat of a misfit anywhere he goes,...but California culture is way foreign.

Ya'll could room with Rasin head, He11 he could even show ya how to fit in.

I don't need to learn to fit in.

I fit in where I fit in. When I don't, I don't.

Way cool, ND. I've ice fished for a lot of years, both just on the ice and in a few shacks/huts, but man, I've never had the pleasure of fishing from a luxury condo before!

My sentiments exactly - only add hockey to the mix.

The water is a little harder, but at least you can drive where you want to go.
Jigging for whitefish in that pop-up. Offa Egg Harbor, Sconnie.

Wasn't too far from you this weekend. Spent some time in Franklin.... Leipers Fork to be exact...

Some go fishing using vodka for antifreeze.



Some grab some shoes and go for a walk.



Me, I sit sipping a martini and enjoy the view. Out back.



Or out front.



R&R.

Sometimes ya feel like a nut, sometimes ya don't!*































*Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't.


You go, B.

Left kaintuck in about '89. Been to every state in the lower 48 and 3 countries but call Northeast Ohio home right now. Love the winters and snow, been that way since I was a little boy. Lived in the desert of SoCal for a while, Christmas time just isn't the same without the white stuff on the ground.

Seems like every place I go people think I am from Texas, must be the Appalachian draw.

you'd love the coast in the Pacific NW...

You could try Central America. Guatemala In particular. I spent 3 mos. a year there for 4 years. I knew there was a reason the southern latitudes were settled before our northern border states.

At about 5000 ft. elevation the weather is an eternal spring. Very little wind. Most of the rain came about 4 in the afternoon. Sound perfect? well almost but these old ears don't hear well enough to learn Spanish and they didn't seem interested in learning English. But we enjoyed the people, the food and most everything about our stays. As you get older the commute gets harder. The country has many Americans. It is really a melting pot of people from all over the world. Try it you might like it.

IIRC, wasn't there a scene on the news a day or so ago showing a rather large snowfall(storm) hitting SC?

But anyway - I hear ya.. I've been, for the first time in my life, getting sick of this wintertime climate here.. For the last two weeks I've been planning the trip to Sturgis; thinking of what to get for the camper, getting the wheeldock set up in the garage, already booked the campground west of Custer (MUCHO cheaper than I expected) and planning the route to get there in as short a drive (yet avoiding I-90. Screw THAT highway) as possible.. I've got spring fever bad.. Really bad..