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Yes, *C, but at -32*, they are roughly the same !!! Enjoyment is a given, 4 family in a group of 10 friends.
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Yeah man, will you look at that !
I just remembered something from grade 10, high school biology.
Gots ta feed the mitochondria !
That was 35 years ago.
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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,..supposed to be almost 70 here Saturday. I'm headin' to the range.
No disrespect to you people who live up on the tundra,...but just knock me in the head on the day that I have to move someplace where you have to wrap ya car up in an electric blanket from Halloween to Memorial Day.
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Bristoe, it's mostly just bored whining(from me) regarding the cold.
It's really not that bad unless you actually have to be outside working. Or if something freezes up, or breaks down, or it's windy....
And hey, winter certainly seems to aid in keeping a certain group of riff raff from moving in.
It's just a bunch of Scandinavians and Indians around here!
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The thing is it's not that cold for the entire winter. I usually bitch more about warm snaps melting the snow, freezing rain and the stuff that ruins winter.
A cold snap for a couple weeks isn't a bad thing. Typically it coincides with brilliant blue skies and 100+ mile views.
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Paul.
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Fishing;
Paul.
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Lott, exactly!
You really do get acclimated and forget that it's even 'cold'.
The warm ups and cool downs are a pain.
Powder is way easier to deal with than friggen' ice.
Teens up into the 30's today and a guy didn't really even need gloves, a hat or a coat. It's truly amazing how the body adapts and adjusts itself. And first time without long johns in a long while!
Paul, you and your wife are winter warriors!
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Snow machining; Snow boarding; Good time to build schidte ! Go to work & shift snow;
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Sam, we just choose to embrace whatever life throws at us ! Both turned 50 this year & can still have fun & run with the kids ! Oh, & we do cook a lot in depth of winters grasp.
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Great stuff Paul!
I hear you on the cooking/eating/drinking during the long nights.
And I've been chasing my wife around the house like a rutting bull moose.....laughing
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Sam, we just choose to embrace whatever life throws at us !
Me too. I embrace it by gettin' on I-75 and going to Florida. Headin' down there in February. By the time I get back, spring will be knockin' on the door in the Bluegrass.
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Lott, exactly!
You really do get acclimated and forget that it's even 'cold'.
The warm ups and cool downs are a pain.
Powder is way easier to deal with than friggen' ice.
Teens up into the 30's today and a guy didn't really even need gloves, a hat or a coat. It's truly amazing how the body adapts and adjusts itself. And first time without long johns in a long while!
Paul, you and your wife are winter warriors! Agreed on all counts! I enjoyed winters on the prairies, even with the deeper cold, than the warmer wopinters in Wisconsin. It gets just warm enough in Wisco to make lots of ice, and I hate ice! We don't get ice here on the Gulf Coast. Me likey.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
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Not sub-zero but 4 degrees. I almost drown during a duck hunt a few weeks ago. Driving wind blowing from the North. I launched my kayak to recover some ducks I'd shot. Water was calm in the lee of the North shore cliffs, but when I got out further the wind caught the kayak, lost sight of shore in the fog, water turned to whitecaps, and I was not able to fight my way back into the lee of the cliffs. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! I was forced to take a tack where the whitecaps wouldn't breech into the boat. More than an hour later I made it into the surface slush that had not yet turned to ice in the flooded tamarisks on the West end of the reservoir. From there I worked my way to solid ground which took about another 45 minutes. The REALLY scary part came when I was safe on shore. My light kayak had built up so much ice that it was too heavy to pull up the slope of the shore. I knocked more than 150 lbs of ice off the boat and realized I had been riding way too low in the water for the choppy conditions that day. It wouldn't have taken very much more ice to do me in ... and all to try to recover a stupid duck.
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-50 here today if any of you boys have an itch to test some cold weather gear, come on up
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Good whether for sitting by a roaring fire sipping a glass of good whiskey.
Not much good for anything else, but nothing ever wrong with enjoying an adult beverage of two by the fire.
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Great stuff Paul! I hear you on the cooking/eating/drinking during the long nights. And I've been chasing my wife around the house like a rutting bull moose.....laughing A fella does have to stay active !!
Paul.
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Great stuff Paul!
I hear you on the cooking/eating/drinking during the long nights.
And I've been chasing my wife around the house like a rutting bull moose.....laughing LOL! I can identify! One of my three kids was conceived in the middle of a long, dark, deep winter cold snap. You eventually get tired of beer and you can only watch so much hockey, y'know...
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
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