Northern weather

[healey36]

Tramp - Beautiful home...it does my heart good to see such a fabulous old house not shrouded in vinyl siding and its trim intact. That said, I don't envy you the task when it comes time to paint.

Hoping you've seen the worst of winter...

Healey

[aterry11]

Snow has finally come to Nebraska didn't see one play of the super bowl actually slept sun/mon in the truck thank god for snow suit and emergency stuff. this is old photo of backyard now same just way more snow

[v8vega]

Wed. 78/45 Thur. 80/45 Fri. 75/46 This is our rainy season and no rain, we've had years of drought and need a goodly amount of rain badly. The Democrat party which wholly controls this state will use this as a excuse to raise taxes.

[sarge]

Tramp, mate:

So nice to see New England hasn't changed a bit from my childhood.

This robin is about a week earlier than normal for him. He is a scout, and I fully expect hundreds on the property by this time next week, given today is his first day here.

The objective is the pair of holly trees, one of which is a good fifty feet tall, and the berries they currently have in great abundance. This usually happens in the third week of February. For three or four days, robins in great numbers will strip the berries, sounding for all the world like a cheerful church picnic; lots of chatter and song.

Then, as quick as they came, they'll be gone. Silence will return and winter's slumber will continue, but only for another two weeks or so. Then, the robins return for real in ones and twos.

The Stripping of the Hollys is an annual event at Dungfield Manor, and happens with far greater reliability than any rodent could be assumed to provide! Punxsutawney Phil "ain't got sh*t" on the Dungfield Robins!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Everybody sign!

When the Robins come back to Dungfield Manor.......

[sarge]

Everybody sign!

When the Robins come back to Dungfield Manor.......

When Tramp said we were just broken old hobos, I don't think he meant we were all stone deaf!

"Everybody sign"?

Sing, dammit!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Everybody sign!

When the Robins come back to Dungfield Manor.......

When Tramp said we were just broken old hobos, I don't think he meant we were all stone deaf!

"Everybody sign"?

Sing, dammit!

Yeah, the fingers get out of order....kick into automatic pilot mode...and spell check won't pick that one up.

OTOH, I suspect that a good number here do sing as if they were stone deaf and have trouble carrying a tune in a bucket unless they are in the shower,

[AG]

Well,
I sing, the problem my trend has not be discovered yet.

Andre.

[Tramp]

I like this Norther Weather thread. Let's sing:


Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm.
Raineth drop and staineth slop,
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver,
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.

Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,
So 'gainst the winter's balm.

Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm.
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

[sarge]

But in only eight weeks it will be:

Spring Tyme is icumen in
Lhude sing, Llawn Mawr
Sing Briggs
An’ Stratton praises yet.
Cursed be Tecumseh.
Sing, mawr!

For Lo the Yuppies hath emerged
In Numbers greater still,
Brin’ forth Llawn
Maintenance
Creating feelings, Ill
Sing, mawr!

Sprae ye Round-up full-lustily
Rejoice! Th’ wilde flowers wither
Blight ye Nature
as ye will
Send snake and frog out thither
Sing, mawr!


Originally sent me by our good mate Biker Mike, updated a little by me only because I had to write it out from memory...

[healey36]

Eight weeks?...ugh.

now in five weeks I shed the life of the bean-counter...I'm looking forward to that.

[sarge]

Eight weeks?...ugh.

now in five weeks I shed the life of the bean-counter...I'm looking forward to that.

Congrats! You'll love it, though a rethink of the exchequer will be in order.

Let me know before the meets happen locally and I'll meet you there; old retired guys ogling Brit cars...

Take heart, lads!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Eight weeks?...ugh.

now in five weeks I shed the life of the bean-counter...I'm looking forward to that.

That will be interesting.

I have set the clock and date of my escape now to be Groundhog Day 2017.............

[Mitch]

Damn you all!!! I'm not eligible 'til November of '17! #$%#!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Damn you all!!! I'm not eligible 'til November of '17! #$%#!!

I've been eligible for over a year. Just not ready until I finish a few things to wrap up a career.