Yard work in winter - YUK!

[Lindsey]

Eek yard work!!! Yesterday I shovelled 6-inch deep snow from all of our sidewalks and a giant square around my car in -45 degree weather lol. I lost feeling in my fingers and legs halfway through and had to come inside to let them burn for awhile while the feeling came back.
I wish I could be out doing real yard work!

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by Lindsey

Eek yard work!!! Yesterday I shovelled 6-inch deep snow from all of our sidewalks and a giant square around my car in -45 degree weather lol. I lost feeling in my fingers and legs halfway through and had to come inside to let them burn for awhile while the feeling came back.
I wish I could be out doing real yard work!

OMG! LINDSAY! I would never make it in Canada. If it's any consolation, it is 45 here today - a far cry from 84 yesterday. You are one tough chick!

[Lindsey]

lol I would love to live somewhere where I don't have to worry about severe windchill warnings and keeping track of how many minutes I can be outside without getting frostbite! Before I went to bed last night I checked the weather network, and it was -40 C without the windchill factor (also -40 F) and WITH windchill was -53 C (-63.4 F)! I'm staying locked up in my house today Counting down the days until summer!

[Janet]

There is just no way I could ever live where it can get that cold. I know from pictures you've posted that it is beautiful in the summer, but the winters are bad enough here.

[judy]

You mean there is a yard under all of that snow? I forget - it's green right?

My front landscaping is now fenced in to keep the deers from eating the bushes. I don't have anything to do with it anyway. The condo takes care of it.

Enjoy your yard work and the warm weather you southerners!

[gja1000]

How much snow do you have right now???

[Marilyn]

Okay, the weird double post thing is striking again. My full post is below. Thank goodness for the edit feature!!

[Marilyn]

There was a guy I used to work with who would fly down from Toronto to work with me from time to time. He loved to come in the winter and to rent a convertible and drive around with the top down and no shirt. Even when we thought it was too cold to do that, he said it felt good. He hated the cold winters, but his family and livelyhood were in Toronto. Haven't talked to him in a long time. His valves were very good, but very expensive and hard for us to sell.

BTW, he didn't drive like that on sales calls of course. When he'd leave us to drive to his next stop in Houston or somewhere or in the evenings he would do this. He liked the longer days we had here so far south. He was really a beach bum deep down.