id like to take this opportunity to proclaim my hatred of winter. cold icy snowing winter. I hate it :x .I despise it :twisted: . my e looks like a giant salt crystal :shock: . I'm afraid it will be picked up by a snowplow and ground up for road salt.

oh lord. get me the hell out of ohio and back to california where i belong. ill be good. i promise.... :wink:

always nice to have a good whine now and again. much better lol


best to all.
D.

Actually, I like the fact that we've had some significant accumulations of snow and ice this winter. Helps me to justify buying my element. My old car (a volvo wagon) still runs great, but it can be a handful in bad weather. I once got stuck on a perfectly flat iced-over driveway in that thing. The element is great in all conditions, and makes my 40 minute morning commute really enjoyable.

I say, "Bring on the snow!!!!"

:D

Actually, I like the fact that we've had some significant accumulations of snow and ice this winter. Helps me to justify buying my element. My old car (a volvo wagon) still runs great, but it can be a handful in bad weather. I once got stuck on a perfectly flat iced-over driveway in that thing. The element is great in all conditions, and makes my 40 minute morning commute really enjoyable.

I say, "Bring on the snow!!!!"

:D

This California native agrees wholeheartedly!

Winters in the Midwest just suck. The snow is beautiful for the first two hours of the first snow of the season, and from then on it just means extra work to do friggin' anything. And after time at Mammoth, Big Bear and Tahoe, winter sports here can only be described as a sad and cruel joke.

And it's costly. I have a 10-y-o Explorer that despite meticulous attention to washing the crud off as soon as it went above freezing is too rusty underneath to sell for more than pennies. On the Left Coast this mechanically-sound vehicle would have had at least another 10 years of life. My mom-in-law's 32-y-o Mazda attests to that.

:evil:

After 5 years of unpleasant living in Northwest Arkansas, I moved back to California for good (or so I thought). I ended up in Anchorage for 1.5 years and that was HARD!

Anyway back to my point, I welcome both of you to return to the homeland. Unlike the midwest, we wont tell you to go back to where you came from!

Amy 8)

but true mike true. i love to watch the stuff fall. but then warming up is the pain in the rear. lol

i prefer to live with the lizard. on a hot rock. under the sun.

and watch those invites lae. you might find mike and myself ringin your doorbell lol.

best!
D

maybe the cold doesn't like you either... :P
go out on a friggin', freezin', cold night and look up at the heavens. then do the same on a muggy, humidi-day... i can appreciate crystalline clarity.

>i can appreciate crystalline clarity

So can I. You've obviously never seen summer night skies in the desert West. Think Dan Seal's "warm wind blowing the stars around" and you'll get the picture.

i travel back to northern california (shasta/ trinity counties) and look up at the night sky, you see clouds of stars. the milky way is a band across the heavens and you are just awed. in the mornings, you look out in 3 directions and you are greeted with ranges and peaks.

in northeast ohio. mostly due to light pollution. you look up on a cold night. and you only see the brightest objects. and well we wont go into the midwest definition of a mountain lol.

(and although we do have trout fishing...mercury and chemical contamination makes me nervous to actually EAT them.)

im glad i return to cal about every 6 weeks to visit my daughter. its a soul refresher.

to be fair tho. big cities bring us good things too. culture and education , things you dont often get to participate in in rural places.

best
D.

I'm lucky to have spent some time in California, and lots of other nice places too, but have gravitated to the "land of my birth" the upper Mississippi. Got that muddy water in my blood maybe, and yet still appreciate the stars and northern lights from a setting way out in the country, away from city lights. For me, the neat thing is all of us being able to get together here and share it all, and appreciate each other's perspectives. And merely because we're fans of an "Element". Lame? Go ahead and say it. It won't bother me in the slightest.

Winter f**kin' sucks. All two weeks of it!

what hownow said...sounds real good from up here..

(thats it in a nutshell)

best of luck
D.

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Quit fighting it and move to Houston!

My azaleas are blooming already...

Bill

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Quit fighting it and move to Houston!

My azaleas are blooming already...

Bill[/quote:7338eb5ecd]

yeah but according to American Idol - no one can sing in Houston!

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Quit fighting it and move to Houston!

My azaleas are blooming already...

Bill[/quote:94d9a63181]

yeah but according to American Idol - no one can sing in Houston! :shock:

Let it snow let it snow let it snow.. LOVE the winter..I would have it befoer anything else.. the bitterness if it all mmmm I love snow

I'm doing winter in Michigan on crutches which gives one a new perspective on winter making life harder. This time of year people around here move as fast as they can from vehicle to building - in 5 degree weather, crutches are slow going! But the bright side is, it's ever so convenienct to open that suicide door and slip those cruches in behind the front seats of the E. It made me wonder if this car could be easily adapted for handicapped drivers due to it's open interior.

in my southward facing picture window, i have two pots of azeleas and two large potted hibiscus blooming already. even tho its 20 and below outside.

gotta love it!

best
d.

8) Give me snow snow and more snow!!!! :shock: I totally love it. Especially snowboarding or skiing!!!

Growing up in Germany, I really miss the amount of snow we used to get. I've also spent time in Arizona. The winter my best friend (Glen Burnie, MD) was freezing her tush off ('97) I was layin' out in the sun on the resovior off Yuma Proving Grounds.. 8)

I could have it either way, really.. snow or no snow.. but what I hate, really, is the rain!!!! :evil:

E ON!!

Kerri