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Did anyone have a white Christmas?

218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
Did it snow for you this Christmas,or on Christmas Eve?There was snow on one front yard down here last night..about 6 inches of it.It was beautiful!!.218
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,339 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It finally snowed here on Christmas eve and off on on today. Only about an inch, but it sure looks great....
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    No Snow here in South Central Kansas but it is plenty cold, The Rivers are icing up, If it is going to be cold I would just as soon that it did snow.....Auto
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hey To BEE or not To BEE, are you kick'n ole auto's tires I just looked at your profile and it says you live in Naples Florida, Man I bet with that much snow they cancelled the Swamp buggy Races HA! Auto
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    It was fake snow,in one guys front yard.It looked real,..it did,..cause I seen real snow before!!Do ya like them buggy races?I`ve known half the drivers over the years,since the 60s..Lonnie Chesser was the best..now his son ,Eddie is..218
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Come ta think of it..the first time I ever saw snow was when I was 9 years old ,we went to Hutchinson(sp?) Kansas.Didn`t see it again till I was about 22 years old ,and went to Westchester PA..218
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Bee I was on the way from Fort Myers Beach to the Everglades on vacation one year and stopped in a gas station to buy some gas not knowing anything about Swamp Buggies, I am from Kansas all we have is guys in hot rod trucks hunt'n "otes" any way the lady said "are you heading to the Swamp Buggy Races" being the kind of guy that likes anything that goes fast I couldn't resist,I think Lonnies Chesser won the race that year but my favorite part was when the queen was shall we say "Crowned" man did it work wonders for her dress and dew! Still a fan to this day and watch them when they are on TNN. By the way what are you doing up so late? I have already been in trouble once over this computer today with the wife unit but I need to do a little research on the Gurkhas then go to bed!
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    All this sand is pretty white in some places.(Watch me wax like Mudge)Will the smartalek.
    Eat healthy, exercise, avoid smoking........Die anyway. will270win@aol.com ~Secret Select Society Of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    Yep! we had snow here in N.W. Ohio.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Yeah,I get nagged at about it(computer)to sometimes.Actually,I am from Chokoloskee Island,south of Everglades City..I was born here in Naples,cause that`s where the hospital was.I live up here now.Did you ever make it to the Everglades?Do tell!!I`m gunna hit the sack..check ya tomarrow night..look forward to hearing abaut the rest of the trip!.218[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 12-26-2001).]
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't never get no snow here in SoKal...Thank God!!!! (Tho we do get snowed with gun laws, so maybe I ain't so lucky after all...)
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  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    We got about an inch here in Jackson MI.Looks good for bunny hunting this weekend.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bee, you are welcome to all the snow in my yard all winter long. It looks pretty for the 25th, but after that it gets old real fast.
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  • j2k22j2k22 Member Posts: 329 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    got a white Christmas of sorts: not snow, but 30-foot waves are making a lot of white water!
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  • 7mm_ultra_mag_is_king7mm_ultra_mag_is_king Member Posts: 676 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .250, I did see snow in needles one time, that was weird. Snow is what we yankees need up here to keep them non driveing southerners outa here! .218, I just had to do that since you pick on us all the time! lol
    when all else fails........................
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We've got snow EVERY Christmas up here!
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is and has been since November about a foot of the stuff all over the place. It's now 12:20PM and -6 degrees F. Went down to -18 last night. Glad I'm not over in the Whiteclouds or up in West Yellowstone. It got cold there.Clouder...
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    Where's "up here", .280?
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does the hair on my head qualify?
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  • anderskandersk Member Posts: 3,627 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, we had a white Christmas in New Brunswick. It was a few days old but still white.Bonne Chasse!Joyeux No?l et Bonne Ann?e!
    Ken
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Simonbs -Nor' Dakota, two seasons - winter, about 7 months, and "not winter", the other 5 months.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    280 - perhaps this will help your definition: NH, 6 months of snow, 6 months of repairing frost-damaged roads.
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BeeKeep- I can't figure out if you are "telling one" or not. If you had 6 inches of snow you are blessed. Up here were it is suppost to snow all thr time all we are getting is cold, wind,and dust. Just like the 30's.
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    HEY CLIPPER, READ OLE BEE'S POST REAL CAREFULL HE WAS JUST FUNN'N I THINK THE GUY IS A MAN OF CHARACTER!!!!
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  • old single shotsold single shots Member Posts: 3,594
    edited November -1
    Ayah we had a white Christmas.Up here in Maine it,s winter and the 4th of July.
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  • biganimalbiganimal Member Posts: 135 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a rebel born & raised in NY and I hate snow and cold and plan to retire soon to someplace warm!!!!!we had a green christmas but 100 miles west of us in Buffalo they got 2 feet on the 24th and nearly a foot today and they are expecting 2-3 ft this weekend......hope we don't get any ever!!!!
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  • pops401pops401 Member Posts: 616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    .218 send me your e-mail address, got something you'll like.bucknbea@bellsouth.net
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Ok pops,I`ll send it.Otoman,you never did tell anymore about your trip down here..218
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Well lets see, I was on the way to the Florida Keys looking for a smoking jacket and
    oh well I lost my train of thought. e-mail me and I will tell you the whole story no sence boring these guys with that story on this gun site. rphancock@sktc.net
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    This is general discussion,man!..We talk about boring stuff all the time..I mean,we`ve resorted to talkin` about snow,man!(which is actualy exciting to me)I`ll E-Mail ya,but they are doing some work over at the site where I get my E-Mails,but I`ll try.What could be boring about a trip to the keys?I think lots of folks would like to hear it.It`s not everybody that`s been there..218
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    YupIt snowed & blowed in W WA
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  • mountain manmountain man Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a white Christmas here in Montana!
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  • mountain manmountain man Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a white Christmas here in Montana!
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  • mountain manmountain man Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a white Christmas here in Montana!
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    O.K. Bee here we go. Sit down and load that pipe with a little Sir Walter Raleigh, put on White Bird by Lynard Skynard shift the Recliner into high gear and listen up. This is back about 26-27 years ago. First real vacation my new wife and I ever took. Went to Disney World in Orlando-Then to Fort Myers Beach and from there headed out to the Everglades and the Keys. Had always wanted to see the everglades since I was a litte Kid and saw the movie Swamp Fever.Although I think it was about the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Well on the way found out about the Swap Buggy Races that you already know about. After that my wife gets a real bad Pain in her head so we go to an emergency room along the way and they can't find anything wrong with her so its on to the Florida Keys and then back to the Everglades. Well we get as far as 7 mile bridge and both freak out with Claustrophobia over it, All the time she is still dying with this pain no one can figure out. At the South end of the 7 mile bridge We pulled over to a phone booth and callled back to the Motel in Fort Myers Beach and asked the guy if we could still get our room back. So we Turn around and head back to Fort Myers Beach without ever going out into the everglades, just remimber a restaurant with an airplane on the roof....Get back to Ft. Myers and the guy at the motel asked us what had happened and we told him about the wifes pain in her head. He says "I bet she has an abcessed tooth" and he call his dentist the next morning so I take her to the dentist and he starts a root canal. I get her back to the Motel to recover and I decide to take a walk down the Beach while she is mending up. Come across a guy who was from Wichita that used to be a Teacher at Wichita State University and had left the rat Race and was Renting Catamarans on the Beach. So It looked like fun to me so I inquired about it and he asked me if I had ever sailed before and I kinda streched the truth a litte and told him that I had. but he would have to show me how to operate this one.Well he spent about 20-30 minutes showing me how to operate it and cut me loose. Well I was kind of a daring young man and off I went way out into the gulf of Mexico. I get out there and I am having the time of my life, Porpoise's swimming along side the boat and all. I can see that the sun is going to set and I better get back to the beach. Serious problem, the boat wouldn't head that way no matter what I did and no one had explained Tacking to me so I am in a heap of dookie. but at least I am heading somewhere toward the shore but not where I want to go. The sun is about to set and here comes this boat right at where I am. its the guy that had rented me the boat and he is really Pi$$ed. So he ties a rope onto the boat and pulls me back to shore. I explaind to him that I was having so damn much fun I had flat lost track of time. O.K. now this is 2 lies I have told the guy. Well we got back and I paid him and walked backdown the beach.to the motel. The wife was worried about me but I had no way of calling her. I explained how much fun i had. so the next day we go back and the guy lets me go out again except with some additional lessons that included tacking. Now I am Seaman First class Automan! anyway we had such a good time sailing the catamaran for 3 days that I fell in love with the ole Sol-Cat the guy at the rental said it was an old sail boat and he would sell it to me for 500 bucks. If I could have figured a way to tie it to the top of the car I would have bought it..Later in life my sister bought a 27ft. clipper and I learned a little more about sailing. and at that time realized the guy in Florida new that I had been a big B.S.'er If you have any understanding about the things at all the principle is the same just more sails and more complications.....End of Story P.S. to this day I get a little edgy when I think about what would have happened to me if that thing would have turned over. had no way of knowing how to get it back upright. Well I am much more mature now and just do minor stupid stuff....
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    See there,now that was one of the single most entertaining things I`ve heard..and you never had to mention guns...As long as we have guns in the background!.218
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    O.K. Bee I went over to my uncles house today and he gave me an original "Stone" Knife its called a "Bird and Trout" Skinning knife. There is an old superstition that when some one gives you a knife you have to give them a penny so you don't cut the friendship so I did. Man I am more proud of this new knive than any of my guns, because the "Old Woodsman" gave it to me...He is 82 years old....OTTO now don't bee keeping me up all night again I have to help baby sit with my youngest Granddaugter tomorrow. she is 20 months old and has PAPAW wrapped around her finger...Good night
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Bee I must have put you to sleep with that story. But you won't belive it right after I sent it there was an hours worth of Lynard Skynard on the ole Sony Radio so I had to stay up and listen to that. I am beginning to think I would have made a good Rebel...I think here in Kansas we shot both Yankees and Rebels no one makes any boasts about our humble beginnings HA! I can tell you for sure there is not any Gators here! you may wake up in the morning and find some laying out in the snow in that ole boys yard. Besides is it true that originally those Swamp Buggies were for hunting Gators?
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  • apsanfordapsanford Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    YUP!Michigan had a white Christmas and "good Ole"Lake effect keeps on surging across state.A nice white blanket and very pretty with Christmas lawn decorations.Lake effect snow is pretty,fluffy and just floats on down!
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    I don`t know the difference between "lake effect" and any other...but I once saw sleet,in West Virginia,that was in the shape of perfect stars..like the ones in Campbells 'Chicken and stars soup'It was very strange to me,I told my old neigbor guy,and he just said.."We never pay attention ta stuff like that up in here".Auto,they built those swamp buggies to deer hunt,gator hunt,etc.Never did tell you that my dad killed more gators than anybody..did I?Did all his skinnin` with the little brown handled Barlow pocket knife..218
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    Glad you are back BEE I was worried about you but you probably had to go make some money today. Now why don't you tell us a gator story or 2...Auto
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