How’s the weather?

[Niki_up]

When I read the title of this thread and saw you posted it I thought it was weird bc your such a young kid….this is an old people topic ? we old people only like to complain about the weather…it’s too cold, it’s too hot, too rainy today bob!

I say bah humbug you winter as well, even though it arrived late this year there’s no denying that I still loath that it is here. Cold, shoveling, and icy cars are not my favourite. Today was only -10 but last week was -29.

I much prefer walking around my house in a tank top and underwear with a balmy glisten to my face vs long pants, sweater, and a blanket while on the couch. Plus the underwater and tank top lend itself well to water changes and tinkering in the tanks…sweaters really limit arm length for working inside The tanks!

I too like jjohnwm wish I had chosen an alternative place to come into this world! I would have chosen a few thousand kms closer to the equator

 

[esoxlucius]

I much prefer walking around my house in a tank top and underwear with a balmy glisten to my face

Me too!!!!

 

[jjohnwm]

Well, the image of Niki_up doing water changes in that get-up brought a smile to my face as I threw a fresh piece of wood on the fire. I did a water change today that, like all my wintertime changes, involved running a couple hundred feet of hose across the yard to drain into my fallow field. Otherwise it puddles and freezes too close to the house. I much prefer warm weather changes; just open a couple of valves and pump out through my buried drain lines. I really must install heat trace on those for year-round use...

Anyway, as the wood crackled and the flame danced, I thought back to my water changing garb...down parka, pac boots, fur hat, snowmobile mitts...and compared it to that mental image of Niki dancing around in her lacy skivvies. I could almost hear soft jazz playing in the background...

...and suddenly my reverie was shattered by the mental image of Esox furiously pedalling his bike through a torrential rainstorm, hurtling down a steep hill on a cobbled road, on a collision course with a double-decker bus, a terrified grimace on his face as he shouts some incomprehensible British profanity, his sodden tank top plastered to his chest, his underwear tangled in the bike chain...

Ya know that sound effect used in movies and TV...the sound of a phonograph needle sliding across an LP with a horrid jarring SSSCREEEEECHHHHH...?

Yeah...that...

 

[esoxlucius]

Well, the image of Niki_up doing water changes in that get-up brought a smile to my face as I threw a fresh piece of wood on the fire. I did a water change today that, like all my wintertime changes, involved running a couple hundred feet of hose across the yard to drain into my fallow field. Otherwise it puddles and freezes too close to the house. I much prefer warm weather changes; just open a couple of valves and pump out through my buried drain lines. I really must install heat trace on those for year-round use...

Anyway, as the wood crackled and the flame danced, I thought back to my water changing garb...down parka, pac boots, fur hat, snowmobile mitts...and compared it to that mental image of Niki dancing around in her lacy skivvies. I could almost hear soft jazz playing in the background...

...and suddenly my reverie was shattered by the mental image of Esox furiously pedalling his bike through a torrential rainstorm, hurtling down a steep hill on a cobbled road, on a collision course with a double-decker bus, a terrified grimace on his face as he shouts some incomprehensible British profanity, his sodden tank top plastered to his chest, his underwear tangled in the bike chain...

Ya know that sound effect used in movies and TV...the sound of a phonograph needle sliding across an LP with a horrid jarring SSSCREEEEECHHHHH...?

Yeah...that...

I'm sorry, but any thoughts of you in your arctic gear doing a water change, or me killing myself on my bike have been put on the back burner for the time being.

I'm all of a fuzz at the minute still thinking of Nik prancing around the house in her undercrackers! Lol. Damn you girl, you fish keeping siren you, lol.

 

[jjohnwm]

As delightful as that mental image of Niki may be...referring to her lack-of-attire as "undercrackers" somehow detracts from the whole thing.

Brits...

 

[cmsbthebest]

We are in the midst of an 8 day stretch of much needed rain.

Makes my job hard, but I absolutely love the rain and the salmon need it!

 

[CrazyPhishMan]

We're a little warm for December here in Massachusetts. The farmers almanac is calling for a long and heavy winter, which makes sense given the last two were somewhat mild- cold without a lot of precipitation. We have random days where it approaches 60 and that cannot be good for the local flora and fauna especially those that hibernate. if it keeps up like this we are due for a destructive winter, when the trees freeze with too much moisture you get losts of downed limbs

 

[Niki_up]

As delightful as that mental image of Niki may be...referring to her lack-of-attire as "undercrackers" somehow detracts from the whole thing.

Brits...

Well I’m glad to put smiles on a couple of faces with my undercracker water changes haha

 

[Niki_up]

We're a little warm for December here in Massachusetts. The farmers almanac is calling for a long and heavy winter, which makes sense given the last two were somewhat mild- cold without a lot of precipitation. We have random days where it approaches 60 and that cannot be good for the local flora and fauna especially those that hibernate. if it keeps up like this we are due for a destructive winter, when the trees freeze with too much moisture you get losts of downed limbs

That sounds dangerous with the tree branches breaking off with the extreme cold

 

[CrazyPhishMan]

That sounds dangerous with the tree branches breaking off with the extreme cold

It can be- sometimes they sound like gun shots when breaking in that condition