I am NOT ready for fall/winter......

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I live for snow. But, I'm in Hong Kong right now. It never snows here.

I love snow/winter so much that I'm only considering boarding schools where I've got a 90% or higher chance of snow.

I'm pretty much indifferent to the cold. I can go outside in 40 degree weather in shorts and a tank top and it won't bother me. One thing I hate about winter is that the sidewalk gets covered in ice and it makes it difficult to go out running. I also hate the roads getting covered in ice because I worry about my parents getting into car accidents on their way to work.

I love snow, looking forward to it.

Though it doesn't really feel like it's October already. I guess I'm not doing a very good job of getting into the Halloween spirit. The one thing that I hate is when Bush moved Daylight Savings Time, so that it wouldn't be dark out on Halloween Totally ruins it.

I just love dragging out godzilla the snow blower (10hp) out of the shed and struggle with it 'digging' in the gravel driveway to throw rocks at everything.....sarcasm When the front scoop hangs up then the drive tire digs a hole downward too.
If you let the driveway compact down on the first snow then the rocks are covered fine, but if it thaws and then refrezzes you have an iceway of a drive. (It's 90 feet @ 3 cars wide).We need a paved drive .

Is your trailer insulated well? Our one daughter just bought an early 80's one and I know the windows are going to be cold as they are the old single pane with the storm windows. My wife and first husband live in one as teenager newly weds, and she about froze from the floor end of things.
It gets to a low of -15 to -20.

My wife has cold feet so I installed a radiant floor heat system under the sub floor of the house as it uses hot water circulated in a one inch tube of 'pex' threaded throughout the floor joist system.

The hardwood floors are kept between 80 to 85 degrees with this setup and it actually will heat the entire house when very cold outside^ .... the furnace stays off the whole season. Thermostat controls input from air temp to floor temp. and you can use both inputs simultaneously or one or just the other.

Since the heat zone is inverted, , the warmer part of the house is on the floor and not the ceiling; as compared to a hot air furnace hot 120 degree air rises to the ceiling to stratify and to escape to the cold attic above. Energy is wasted this way and this floor system would pay for itself in time.
(15 to 20 % less energy)

I commissioned it last year, but have been working on it on and off since '04.

Bring on the cold, baby.

I think I do too, not only because of the lack of light in the winter. My mood is extremely sensitive to light. Yellow light and dim light is very depressing. Blue light and bright light is very comforting. Light from above is good. Light from eye-level or below is bad. Shadows are depressing. Diffused light is great. I prefer cloudy days to sunny days because there are no shadows and usually the sky is white if the sun is high enough.

I'll certainly try to relive this moment in the winter time...

i could use one of them things, roughly every other year we get dumped on. but a paved driveway has its own hazards, such as the summer sun's heat beating down on the blacktop and rendering it too soft to support motorcycle kickstands and such. and if you have black ice and your driveway slopes more than just a few degrees, that is also a hazard.



my feet are already freezing as i type this, it is in the low 40s outside now with the floor temperature not much above that. slippers are mandatory winter wear for me inside the tin can. luckily it is only 800 sq. ft. so even with an ancient forced-air electric heater my wintertime bills have maxed-out at $140 per month in the dead of winter, so far. it is the last of the old-style tin cans, made in '77, the models made since then look more organic and less aluminum. the windows are metal-framed but double-paned, but most of the vacuum is gone so they frost up good in the cold and fog up the rest of the time.



my, but that sounds nice. but "this ole house" will have to suit me until the wind blows down the doors and i push up the daisies.

I've come to the realization that I'm not as ready for winter, as I thought I was.

I also find that the higher the light is, the "better" it is. And light from above is "happy, while light from below is not.