After seeming like it's been fall forever, with the temperature in the 60's, it's finally snowing.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001

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Just rain here, in the 40's today, will be in the 50's most all next week, wonder how much snow we would have if it was cold enough to be snow coming down out there?

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001

No snow here; none on the ground either. Pretty cold today, as it should be, never got above thirty. Pond finally has a crust on most of it; I'm concerned about that Pekin duck out there, but don't know what I can do about it. Hope someone on the other end of the pond is feeding/sheltering it.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001

All well, turned to rain. Left just a little coating. I really do hate snow and was getting too used to the nice weather. Even started working on some delayed projects that are now partially finished. DH said it was going to be in the upper 50's again next week.

Hey, how's the weather up north? You guys have been having snow for a while now, haven't you?

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001

No snow here. Cold enough now, but no precip. Rain predicted for Wednesday. Weird.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001

We lost all our snow in an enormous rain/hail storm that knocked out power (really high winds) on Wednesday I think it was. It is really bizarre to look out and see green grass in December. Usually, it is about -20 F by this time, and at least a foot of snow all over. Then it chilled down and froze, and as of today we have a powdered-sugar sort of dusting of snow. And global warming is a myth?

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

I haven't seen one flake yet. The grass is a beautiful green. I have some snapdragons in bloom, with more buds forming. Also some blue perfection violas, and a few foxy foxgloves are blooming that are against the house. Amazing! Picking lettuce a few times a week and pulling carrots yet. Haven't even covered Tom's strawberry patch, it's too warm yet. In town there are roses still blooming!

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

Is anyone here old enough to remember the winter of 67?? Let's see, wonderful fall almost till Christmas. Little snow at Christmas but melted right away. January 27th I went to work without boots or hat or gloves; got there about 8:00 am. By 1:00 pm absolutely NOTHING was moving and it was that way for days. It was a week before we finally walked in to our farm from the closest plowed road. Took us about 4 hours to cover a mile and 1/2. Didn't see the ground again until almost the end of April. Keep an eye on this one!!!

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

I remember that winter Diane, yes, you are right, some the worst winters started out very innocuously and we all got to thinking that we had been "spared" from the blizzards and cold. About that time is when real winter hit us with a vengance and then some that made up for all the mild weather previously.

I think I'll have all the fuel tanks (gasoline, tractor diesel, and home heating oil) filled this week, prices have been lower right now than when we usually have them filled in the summer, but I gather that as soon as the temperatures plummet on the east coast and in the mid-atlantic, those low fuel prices will be a thing of the past!

Prices here are 89 cents for home heating oil, 1.04 for tractor fuel (has road tax on it, go figure), and 1.19 for propane. What are the fuel prices for propane, fuel oil and tractor fuel in your areas everyone???

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

Well, I'm OLD enough to remember '67 -- I would have been in high school. And what I remember of that was SNOW and COLD every single dang winter, especially as I staggered, in the pre-dawn dark grey, the few blocks for the LONG (over an hour) bus ride to school. But that was NORTHERN Wisconsin, so we often had snow when further south there was none. I remember going to Rockford in the winter a few times when they didn't even have enough for sledding on.

Sometimes it's better to be in the colder areas. In March of 1996 (one of the worst winters that I remember), in snow up to our butts (literally), we would hear weather reports of the folks in the Ohio Valley covered in ice, rain, snow, sleet, sometimes all at once, and horrible flooding. I'd rather have plain old snow, even deep snow!

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

In '67 I would have been 10, but gee, don't remember what the weather was like. The absolute worst here was that blizzard in 78.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

Wow Diane and Annie, you must have some memory! I do seem to recall that '67 was the year I graduated HS, but I sure as heck don't remember anything about the weather.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

Class of '69 checking in here!! I don't remember any big snowstorm in '67, but at that time I was living on Cape Cod in Mass. Didn't get much snow there...just slushy stuff and bone-chilling dampness!! I'm with you, Joy. I'd much rather have the deep snow than ice/sleet/rain/slush!! We actually got an inch of snow last nite, but it's supposed to be in the 40's and 50's again next week. I want snow for Christmas!!!!! Does anyone remember the snows of '78 or maybe it was '77? It was our first winter here in Maine and we loved it!! Four feet of snow on the ground, in the single digits for the temperature, but it was such a dry cold it almost felt warm!! Built many "snow forts" that winter with our son who was 4 yrs. old at the time. Ahhhh, the good ole' days!!!

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

I was seven in '67 and I seem to remember my brother and I walking through snow tunnels.

Last year, we had a freaky snow storm. The dog went to go out the doggie door and smacked her head. I let her out on the front porch, she took one look at the snow and peed on the porch. I went to feed the animals and sunk in up to my waist. My husband found me laughing hysterically because I couldn't move. Had to shovel a path to the barn and a path for the dog.

Oh, I'm not looking forward to this again.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

I was born December 8th, 1967. We had snow because my mother recounts the tale of waiting in the car the night before I emerged (or maybe the wee sma's)while my uncle was changing the tire in the snow, in the dark. I have a picture somewhere of me around 3 years old and my mom shovelling my Nanny's walk and the snow was about waist high on her. We just don't get snow like that anymore, where you have to tunnel to the barn (my Nanny's tale of life on PEI (100 plus years ago?) when she was a kid) and snow piles that reached the power lines. We got snow yesterday. Not much the the roads are really slippy yesterday and it seems today too thought I haven't yet been driving. Its plenty cold though. The water froze in the rabbits cage and the sheeps bucket last night in the barn. I would guess that when I was out it was minus 5 Celsius at least. That was in the sun.

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2001