I have a driveway full of it you can have.
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Do you have a snow blower? Every once in a while I am tempted to get one, but I don’t care for the idea of storing it for the 360-ish days a year I would not use it.
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Yep. Snowblower has its own little cubby in the garage. Gets a lot of stuff piled on it over the course of the 9 months, but I do dig it out a couple times in summer just to run it. Makes the neighbors laugh.
Sounds just like my snowblower situation. All kinds of stuff gets stacked on it, but I run it a couple of times during the summer to keep the carburetor from gumming up I always feel like an idiot with it running on the driveway when it’s 90-some degrees outside.
With my gas powered lawn tools, I’ll always winterize them (drain gas and fog engine) at the end of the season so I don’t have to worry about them sitting and not running over the winter. Is there a reason you keep gas in your snow blowers all year round instead of winterizing them? I like gas power for my lawn tools since they get used so frequently, but I was looking at electric for a snow blower since it would get used so infrequently.
I fog my boat for the winter…hmmmm, no idea. Cuz that’s how my dad kept the yard tools?
I do put stabilizer in the yard tool gas. Similar to fogging.
Corded electric or battery electric?
I had a corded walkway clearer. Kinda like a dumb snowthrower. And a corded leaf blower. Hated both. Not only are you getting that cord underfoot, sometimes I do outdoor work in the rain and that’s not…uh…healthy.
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I empty the fuel from my chainsaw and leafblower and fog both (the lawnmower is electric). The snowblower is a different story. It’s big, heavy, cumbersome, and a pain in the butt to drain.
Every time I think about it, all summer, I say to myself that it can wait for another day. The summer days go by and turn into fall, and now it’s December. I have no idea whether the dang thing will start the day after tomorrow, when a big storm is supposed to hit. I should head to the garage to see if I can get it going, but it can wait until tomorrow.
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If I were to get an electric snowblower, t would be battery. Definitely don’t want to be towing an extension cord. This early snow we got last week was a wet, heavy snow and got me thinking about it. In reality, I doubt I’ll get one. We just don’t get enough snow to justify having one sitting around.
Yesterday was such an unseasonably warm day, it was a moral imperative to play hooky from work and get in a bike ride.
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Here’s it is unbearablely hot, as its summer and bush fire season.
When we’re experiencing such weather, we usually close all windows and blinds to keep out the heat and stay cool. Or go to the beach and eat 
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Nothing remarkable here. It’s cold, rainy, snowy, sleeting, cloudy, lather, rinse, repeat 
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And after RKK gets done with the weather, it all comes over to my house 
Snow last weekend. 1/8" ice last Wednesday, just enough to make the trees pretty, but not deadly, and gonna be something near 50° tomorrow and staying that way until Wednesday. Looks like we’re getting the January thaw. Such a tease before deep, dark, loooooong February.
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Come to think of it, February is indeed the longest month of the year.
Here in Toronto the weather has been just a tad above seasonal. Snow, yes, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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This seems to be the case. My least favorite month.
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Hi there, but here in Ireland is very cool but i think soon will be GREAT AGAIN !
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I’ve never experienced snow. 
Showers sometimes seem useless now
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We have the opposite situation. I’ve never experienced a winter without snow.
Yesterday, it snowed most of the day. Today, it’s well below freezing, and the sidewalks are covered with ice. You’re missing nothing but inconvenience and frostbite. I hate snow!
Humidity is always low here (Utah), so it’s never a problem. We even have a humidifier in the house to raise the humidity in the winter. Summer temperatures here are hot, but the low humidity makes it a bit more bearable.
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But I always thought, you can warm up more easily in winter than you can cool down in summer. That’s what its like here
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That’s true, but it’s only part of the story. When cold, snow, and ice team up, the picture changes.
I can no longer do any of my favorite things: go cycling, ride my mountain bike, ride my motorcycle, ride my SxS, enjoy watersports, go camping or backpacking, hike in the mountains, go running, or even work in our garden.
There are workarounds, like snowshoes, but they’re like walking through deep mud with tennis rackets strapped to your feet. Snow skiing is an option, but ski resorts are crazy expensive, and cross-country skiing, sort of like snowshoeing, isn’t that fun for me. And ice fishing? Um, no way. I could buy a snowmobile, a trailer to haul it, and a bigger pickup truck (utes in your part of the world?) to pull the trailer, but I don’t have room for them, not to mention what it would do to my bank account.
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Considering a Ford F250 can cost over $100,000…
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