Snow: The Fluffy Stuff

NJFemmie · 12-09-2009, 06:22 AM

I do love snow, and I don't even mind shoveling it - but I do get tired of it if it snows too much.
It just gets stale.

always2late · 12-09-2009, 06:34 AM

I like snow. I love being inside and watching it fall. I love snuggling under a blanket with coffee and a movie (or loved one) on a snowy morning. I love playing in it with my son and the dogs.....but I HATE shoveling it, digging out my car, having to go to work in it, etc.

Lynn · 12-09-2009, 09:16 AM

I love it more than I hate it. It's beautiful and when it's actually snowing, it tends to be warmer.

I like having the four seasons. But, I do miss the more temperate climate of Pennsylvania, where winter lasted three months, and then it was on to spring. Up here, near the North Pole, winter lasts for five or six months, it seems.

hottprof · 12-09-2009, 10:18 AM

I love snow. I love the sound it makes when it hits the ground, I love the taste of it, the smell of snow in the air, and even driving in it when it is coming at you and it looks like you are at warp speed (my nerdy side showing). I don't even mind shoveling it or scrapping off cars (as long as it is not going to make me late).

However, I really dis-like when people plow you in, and the two days later after math of slush that freezes...

Smiles

Ryobi · 12-09-2009, 10:51 AM

I voted that I love it. By the end of to day though, I won't like it much for a day of two. I have 2 driveways and 200 feet of sidewalk to clear.

We got 14 inches over night and it's still coming down. I have 5 foot drifts in the driveway. It's wet and heavy snow. My first project this morning was to take a broom and knock the snow off the cedars that were bent over, ready to break. I only lost one big branch. Those cedars are special to me. They're about 30 feet tall and I've been shaping them for 20 years now. They're plant children!

Enjoy the snow, it's only just begun.

Diva · 12-09-2009, 10:54 AM

I love the snow.....

amiyesiam · 12-09-2009, 10:57 AM

I love snow. everything looks so beautiful!
driving in snow I don't like so much

Ryobi · 12-09-2009, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diva

I love the snow.....

Wanna help me? You can run the snow blower.

theoddz · 12-09-2009, 11:18 AM

Ugh. I detest snow.

I'm a Southern boy, born and raised, but I've lived in the Midwest (Southeast Iowa/Mississippi River area) and also spent 5 years living on the coast of Maine and I just deplore the snow and ice. The ice is worse than the snow, actually, but both make getting around difficult and messy. When "The Blizzard of '93" hit New England, I was there. I spent over 2 years making the 35 mile (each way) commute to/from college in Portland, from Brunswick, and it sucked. I had the worst cases of flu I've ever had when I lived in "the icebox" that is Maine. Of course, I was going to school for Respiratory Therapy, so I was being exposed to every kind of disease and infection there is, so it's not a surprise that I was sick as all hell each of the 4 winters I spent there.

I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother.

~Theo~

MsDemeanor · 12-09-2009, 11:51 AM

I love snow. I haven't lived in it for 30 years, but I still love it. I will not shovel it, though. If it snows, that shit's gonna stay right where it is until someone else moves it.

Softhearted · 12-09-2009, 03:24 PM

I LOVE SNOW!!!!! I'm a winter person

suebee · 12-09-2009, 04:10 PM

You mean that fluffy stuff that's piling up outside my door as we speak?

NotAnAverageGuy · 12-09-2009, 05:54 PM

I love snow and I wish Texas had it more, well the southern parts of Texas I should say!!!

WolfyOne · 12-09-2009, 07:06 PM

Growing up in Chicago and living there most of my life, I deplore the snow for so many reasons. Shoveling a long driveway and having to drive in it on any road or express way there during rush hour really sucks. However, looking at it after it first falls is a beautiful sight. Now that I live in Oklahoma, all I've ever seen for the past couple of years is a slight dusting on the ground that's usually gone by noon. I am not fond of ice storms either, so it's a toss up living here or there.

WILDCAT · 12-09-2009, 07:47 PM

... the beauty of the fresh fallen snow hanging on my pine tree branches here is breathtaking.

How pristine and magical everything can seem looking out a morning window after a night of snow. Driving up the road just staring all around in amazement at all the various snow/ice formations on the trees and bushes. These times I love...
__

Shoveling can be fun and artistic for me, but shoveling when you HAVE to is a big pain in the ass - and I HATE scrapping off the windshield of my car. (When the snow brushes easily off without ice on the glass, then I'm happy.)

Sometimes the wild ass kid in my LOVES driving in a blizzard. Sometimes my logical "adult" brain side, does not find this very amusing.

*AS a kid, I did make some KICK-ASS igloos. I would spend all day and into the evening working on them (taking a flashlight outside once it got dark). My parents would have to insist that I come in after so many hours.

And snowball fights were kinda fun. (I "packed" a mean on!)

So, it's like Corkey said, a "love/hate" kind of thing. And Unn said: "ask me in Feb.". And cabin fever here is INTERESTING late winter. Plus, occasionally I do get physically snowed in!

But, burning the firewood is heavenly. Watching the fire. Feeling that kind of warmth - and then looking out the windows...

And it's here, like it or not. When I moved away from it in the past... (?) I won't say here.

WILD

cara · 12-09-2009, 10:09 PM

I haven't voted yet. I would like to live somewhere that snows then doesn't turn into a sheet of ice within 24 hours. It literally stops our city because 1) people aren't used to it and don't know how to drive in it, and 2) the city doesn't have the proper equipment or planning for when the snow and ice hits. I walk quit a distance between buses to get to/from work and worrying about whether I am going to slip and fall is not so fun. So...I guess my vote is for no. But I do like to go up to the mountains and play in the snow every once in awhile. In fact, my college town got so much snow each year that we snow banks waist deep. It was great for building snowmen!

violaine · 12-09-2009, 11:12 PM

[QUOTE=theoddz;18776]Ugh. I detest snow.

I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother.

~Theo~

doors were frozen closed today on my automobile. ugh. is right

torchiegirl · 12-10-2009, 11:14 AM

I love the snow. I can not wait to make a snowman....rolling it through dead leaves and poop and then seeing my favorite scarf wrapped around it's neck.....or to go to the snow hill and wait for the squallin' to start.....good times, good times (really, they are. You look back and can finally laugh at it all when you were certain at that time you were going to have a nervous breakdown)

Blaze · 12-12-2009, 05:25 PM

I love the snow, I just hop over the Yellow snow, usually left nice and pretty by the dogs!

That is when it snows here in Texas

Kimbo · 12-12-2009, 11:11 PM

It's a love/hate thing..I love the beauty of the snow and how it can transform the landscape. I love how it blankets the earth in it's powder and then nurtures the earth with fresh water that we so desperately need. I don't care for the cold and ice it brings...

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12-09-2009, 06:22 AM	#1
NJFemmie Senior Member How Do You Identify?: The original lime-twisted femme Preferred Pronoun?: I answer to most things, especially lesbian. Relationship Status: Still loving my Mare ;) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New Jersey Posts: 4,683 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,343 Thanked 11,419 Times in 2,976 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I do love snow, and I don't even mind shoveling it - but I do get tired of it if it snows too much. It just gets stale. __________________

12-09-2009, 06:34 AM	#2
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I like snow. I love being inside and watching it fall. I love snuggling under a blanket with coffee and a movie (or loved one) on a snowy morning. I love playing in it with my son and the dogs.....but I HATE shoveling it, digging out my car, having to go to work in it, etc. __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi

12-09-2009, 09:16 AM	#3
Lynn Member How Do You Identify?: Unabashed Feminine Lesbian Preferred Pronoun?: Her, She Relationship Status: Married! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 689 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,499 Thanked 2,414 Times in 505 Posts Rep Power: 9668976	I love it more than I hate it. It's beautiful and when it's actually snowing, it tends to be warmer. I like having the four seasons. But, I do miss the more temperate climate of Pennsylvania, where winter lasted three months, and then it was on to spring. Up here, near the North Pole, winter lasts for five or six months, it seems. __________________ In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. Maya Angelou Wedding Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=22b092b98c

12-09-2009, 10:57 AM	#7
amiyesiam Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: she/they Relationship Status: single Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: pa Posts: 2,703 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 17,488 Thanked 10,135 Times in 2,161 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I love snow. everything looks so beautiful! driving in snow I don't like so much __________________ A year from now you will wish that you started today~Karen Lamb

12-09-2009, 10:18 AM	#4
hottprof Member How Do You Identify?: female Preferred Pronoun?: Miss to you... for hym... Relationship Status: Crashes One Femme Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 335 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 180 Thanked 549 Times in 188 Posts Rep Power: 4984838	I love snow. I love the sound it makes when it hits the ground, I love the taste of it, the smell of snow in the air, and even driving in it when it is coming at you and it looks like you are at warp speed (my nerdy side showing). I don't even mind shoveling it or scrapping off cars (as long as it is not going to make me late). However, I really dis-like when people plow you in, and the two days later after math of slush that freezes... Smiles

12-09-2009, 10:51 AM	#5
Ryobi Member How Do You Identify?: TG Stone Butch. Over all, I identify by living my life. Preferred Pronoun?: He/His Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Upper Midwest Posts: 633 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 683 Thanked 1,238 Times in 357 Posts Rep Power: 12468329	I voted that I love it. By the end of to day though, I won't like it much for a day of two. I have 2 driveways and 200 feet of sidewalk to clear. We got 14 inches over night and it's still coming down. I have 5 foot drifts in the driveway. It's wet and heavy snow. My first project this morning was to take a broom and knock the snow off the cedars that were bent over, ready to break. I only lost one big branch. Those cedars are special to me. They're about 30 feet tall and I've been shaping them for 20 years now. They're plant children! Enjoy the snow, it's only just begun.

12-09-2009, 10:54 AM	#6
Diva Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Diva Preferred Pronoun?: Diva Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chez Diva Posts: 11,879 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,263 Thanked 17,175 Times in 5,239 Posts Rep Power: 0	*I love the snow.....*

12-09-2009, 11:18 AM	#9
theoddz Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Cranky Old Poop Preferred Pronoun?: Mr. Beast Relationship Status: Married to a beautiful babe whom I don't deserve. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,547 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,163 Thanked 9,942 Times in 2,518 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	Ugh. I detest snow. I'm a Southern boy, born and raised, but I've lived in the Midwest (Southeast Iowa/Mississippi River area) and also spent 5 years living on the coast of Maine and I just deplore the snow and ice. The ice is worse than the snow, actually, but both make getting around difficult and messy. When "The Blizzard of '93" hit New England, I was there. I spent over 2 years making the 35 mile (each way) commute to/from college in Portland, from Brunswick, and it sucked. I had the worst cases of flu I've ever had when I lived in "the icebox" that is Maine. Of course, I was going to school for Respiratory Therapy, so I was being exposed to every kind of disease and infection there is, so it's not a surprise that I was sick as all hell each of the 4 winters I spent there. I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother. *~Theo~*

12-09-2009, 11:51 AM	#10
MsDemeanor Member How Do You Identify?: queer stone femme Relationship Status: Happily married to MisterMeanor, the man of my dreams Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 703 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 165 Thanked 1,852 Times in 511 Posts Rep Power: 2698181	I love snow. I haven't lived in it for 30 years, but I still love it. I will not shovel it, though. If it snows, that shit's gonna stay right where it is until someone else moves it.

12-09-2009, 03:24 PM	#11
Softhearted Member How Do You Identify?: --- Preferred Pronoun?: ---- Relationship Status: --- Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: --- Posts: 298 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 454 Thanked 285 Times in 109 Posts Rep Power: 1556235	I LOVE SNOW!!!!! I'm a winter person

12-09-2009, 04:10 PM	#12
suebee Member How Do You Identify?: TOWANDA! Preferred Pronoun?: Queen Bee Relationship Status: Good 'n married. Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Eastern Canada. But if I make a wrong turn at the lights I get stopped by a border guard. Posts: 1,499 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,355 Thanked 2,756 Times in 820 Posts Rep Power: 16450093	*You mean that fluffy stuff that's piling up outside my door as we speak?* __________________ "Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." -Albert Schweitzer

12-09-2009, 05:54 PM	#13
NotAnAverageGuy Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Trans Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 1,723 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 109 Thanked 282 Times in 178 Posts Rep Power: 0	I love snow and I wish Texas had it more, well the southern parts of Texas I should say!!!

12-09-2009, 07:06 PM	#14
WolfyOne Magically Delicious How Do You Identify?: Gentle Butch Relationship Status: Single and content Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Minnesota Posts: 6,558 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 22,052 Thanked 15,391 Times in 4,138 Posts Rep Power: 21474859	Growing up in Chicago and living there most of my life, I deplore the snow for so many reasons. Shoveling a long driveway and having to drive in it on any road or express way there during rush hour really sucks. However, looking at it after it first falls is a beautiful sight. Now that I live in Oklahoma, all I've ever seen for the past couple of years is a slight dusting on the ground that's usually gone by noon. I am not fond of ice storms either, so it's a toss up living here or there.

12-09-2009, 07:47 PM	#15
WILDCAT Member How Do You Identify?: Very PROUD BUTCH LESBIAN! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 679 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 796 Thanked 551 Times in 238 Posts Rep Power: 761792	Voted "LOVE"... ... the beauty of the fresh fallen snow hanging on my pine tree branches here is breathtaking. How pristine and magical everything can seem looking out a morning window after a night of snow. Driving up the road just staring all around in amazement at all the various snow/ice formations on the trees and bushes. These times I love... __ Shoveling can be fun and artistic for me, but shoveling when you HAVE to is a big pain in the ass - and I HATE scrapping off the windshield of my car. (When the snow brushes easily off without ice on the glass, then I'm happy.) Sometimes the wild ass kid in my LOVES driving in a blizzard. Sometimes my logical "adult" brain side, does not find this very amusing. *AS a kid, I did make some KICK-ASS igloos. I would spend all day and into the evening working on them (taking a flashlight outside once it got dark). My parents would have to insist that I come in after so many hours. And snowball fights were kinda fun. (I "packed" a mean on!) So, it's like Corkey said, a "love/hate" kind of thing. And Unn said: "ask me in Feb.". And cabin fever here is INTERESTING late winter. Plus, occasionally I do get physically snowed in! But, burning the firewood is heavenly. Watching the fire. Feeling that kind of warmth - and then looking out the windows... And it's here, like it or not. When I moved away from it in the past... (?) I won't say here. WILD

12-09-2009, 10:09 PM	#16
cara Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer/lesbian femme Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Relationship Status: Married to my love 08.15.15 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 3,401 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,995 Thanked 13,255 Times in 2,725 Posts Rep Power: 21474856	I haven't voted yet. I would like to live somewhere that snows then doesn't turn into a sheet of ice within 24 hours. It literally stops our city because 1) people aren't used to it and don't know how to drive in it, and 2) the city doesn't have the proper equipment or planning for when the snow and ice hits. I walk quit a distance between buses to get to/from work and worrying about whether I am going to slip and fall is not so fun. So...I guess my vote is for no. But I do like to go up to the mountains and play in the snow every once in awhile. In fact, my college town got so much snow each year that we snow banks waist deep. It was great for building snowmen!

12-09-2009, 11:12 PM	#17
violaine Timed Out How Do You Identify?: atypical Preferred Pronoun?: plague words and phrases Relationship Status: love wise guys of the avian world Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: wekiva springs basin Posts: 3,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,934 Thanked 3,293 Times in 1,301 Posts Rep Power: 0	thank you, no. [QUOTE=theoddz;18776]Ugh. I detest snow. I detest snow and ice. In fact, I talked to Mother this morning, who lives in Illinois, and she's snowed in today from last night's snow storm/blizzard. Her doors are all frozen shut and my sister is having to go over there and thaw them out with a hair dryer. Ugh. I hate snow/ice. Poor Mother. *~Theo~* doors were frozen closed today on my automobile. ugh. is right

12-10-2009, 11:14 AM	#18
torchiegirl Member How Do You Identify?: femme Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in the mitten Posts: 1,282 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,807 Thanked 1,610 Times in 549 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I love the snow. I can not wait to make a snowman....rolling it through dead leaves and poop and then seeing my favorite scarf wrapped around it's neck.....or to go to the snow hill and wait for the squallin' to start.....good times, good times (really, they are. You look back and can finally laugh at it all when you were certain at that time you were going to have a nervous breakdown)

12-12-2009, 05:25 PM	#19
Blaze Senior Member How Do You Identify?: With my drivers Lic. Preferred Pronoun?: Gentleman.. Depends on the Situation. Relationship Status: Last Rodeo, what a ride, many sunrises & sunsets to be had... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: where a realtor had me sign the dotted line Posts: 1,901 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,466 Thanked 5,456 Times in 1,450 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I love the snow, I just hop over the Yellow snow, usually left nice and pretty by the dogs! That is when it snows here in Texas

12-12-2009, 11:11 PM	#20
Kimbo Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: Eligible Butchelor Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Posts: 591 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 432 Thanked 551 Times in 257 Posts Rep Power: 120	It's a love/hate thing..I love the beauty of the snow and how it can transform the landscape. I love how it blankets the earth in it's powder and then nurtures the earth with fresh water that we so desperately need. I don't care for the cold and ice it brings...