The Turkey of My Discontent

[tyro]

I thought you might like to see the view from here. This is basically what we have had to look out at for almost the whole month of December.

Pretty isn’t it?

It’s quite the strange month because seeing so much snow caught in the branches of the trees is usually something that you only see for a short time after a winter storm, but we have been getting snow on an almost continuous basis.

Some blue sky and a warm sun would be welcomed for the change it would bring.

It’s a bit like someone forcing you to eat your favourite meal for every day for a whole month.

In fact, it would be more like having to eat your favourite meal for every meal of the day for a whole month.

No, wait… it’s worse than that because you only have to put up with meals at mealtime.

This is persistent and the only relief comes when the sun goes down and then it is dark.

There’s another major storm coming up from the US (I wish they would keep their weather to themselves). It’s hitting New York and is headed for the Maritimes where flooding, storms and high winds are getting to be the norm.

So why am I complaining?

I’m stuck in a winter wonderland like it’s turkey leftovers since thanksgiving and a fresh load of cold turkey has just been added to the refrigerator with reports of a herd of more turkeys trotting my way.

[Joe Guy]

I'm sorry you're having fowl weather.

Here's to hoping that the sun shows up and gobbles that snow away soon.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Oh for the love of God. Quit bitching. You live in Canada, a choice that would assume you understand why it's called the Great White North. Meanwhile, here south of the border we have gotten a continuous blast of the white stuff and are ill prepared for it. Even Atlanta had a white Christmas.

As far as sending you bad weather, it will stop when you come down here and collect all your shitting geese and take them back.

Now that's really fowl.

[Gob]

You think you've got it bad..

Think of us poor Ausralistanis, nothing but sun, sun, sun, day in day out...

If I'm forced to have another BBQ on the beach I'll spit.

[Aard Vark]

We are having so much rain both my dams are breaking their banks, next door's dam broke yesterday flooding my back section and that is why one of my dams is running into the place behind.

We have bogged the 4x4 twice in the driveway and step daughter put her car into a spoon ditch on Boxing day. Well it has been dry for the last few years now it is the purest mud you could ever ask for.

Your having a white Christmas we are having a sticky brown one, so make the best of it we are going to play in the mud race around till the Jeep gets stuck (again)

Gob You will get your turn soon. Get your wellies out your going to need them

[Sean]

Same here Aardy, it's been pissing down for a few days now with no sign of stopping...

[loCAtek]

Oh, we had a gray Christmas, in Cali no less. Emergency Responder sirens by the hour too...

[Aard Vark]

We have had no rain for 4 hours now. That is the longest we haven't had rain in 2 weeks, ok range between bucketing down to misty drizzle.

[tyro]

It has been snowing all day again.

You know that water is the basic substance of life and it pains me to see it frozen and rendered inanimate.

It just doesn’t seem right, drifting quietly from the sky like so much confetti from hell.

It reminds me a bit of some scene from that movie, “The Day of The Triffids”. I would have been that guy whose eyes were bandaged up when it began and the only one left to see them quietly collecting about and getting ready to do what ever it was they were getting ready to do.

Only thing is, all of the water is frozen and I can’t hose them down.

There’s so many of them.

And they keep coming.




I wonder if I should alert Steve.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Gads man, the answer is simple. Use the household flame-thrower.

[Lord Jim]

Gads man, the answer is simple. Use the household flame-thrower.

You mean like the one you use on Halloween?

[loCAtek]

Time to hibernate, says I

[Rick]

Only thing is, all of the water is frozen and I can’t hose them down.

Wouldn't matter.

It wasn't JUST water it was Sea Water...

[alice]

We have had no rain for 4 hours now. That is the longest we haven't had rain in 2 weeks, ok range between bucketing down to misty drizzle.

Are you in any of the areas being evacuated?

[Aard Vark]

Thanks for asking.alice
No we weren't but the two main roads out of here were closed so it was along the old back road. But that was a shallow swim as well.
The worst was getting out of the drive way, got the 4x4 stuck twice getting out of the new shed. (The dirt wasn't been packed down before the rain)
One car went into a ditch and the young feller put his Jeep in a deep mud pit in the back yard.

What a way to spend Christmas day after lunch.

So we got out of it really easy compaired to some

Edit to say
If you want to have a look at the water leavel go to my face book
aard_varks_ring@hotmail.com

[oldr_n_wsr]

We got over 16inches of snow sunday/monday here on Long Island. took most of monday to shovel out. Of course the starter mower on my tractor died so I had to do it by hand. Oh well, what can you do.

[Sue U]

We had about 8" of snow in my part of NJ. Just as it began, I headed over to the hardware store to buy a new snow shovel. Then, standing there with shovel in hand I started thinking about last year. I threw the shovel back in the box and bought an electric snowblower instead. Best decision so far this winter.

[tyro]

We have been blessed by a brief respite. Proof that even Mother Nature needs to inhale from time to time.

This is what it looks like today.

To the unversed viewer, it may just look like another picture taken from a different angle and I must admit that such an opinion would be spot on. But for me it proves that the sun still exists and that the distant mountains are still there.

[loCAtek]

I keep waiting for the Sasquatch appear...

[oldr_n_wsr]

You don't see him in that picture? He's right there in the middle.