If you could live somewhere with snow...

[LMS]

...would you?

[Marisa]

I live with Snow everyday! :partners

[LMS]

LOL!!!

[Marisa]

I thought I might get someone to giggle....

[Lynette]

Oh Marisa, that was a knee slapper! <g>

Snow is pretty to look at and fun to play in for about 15min and then I am done for about the next 5 years. I don't mind being cold, I just don't like being cold, wet, have to shovel stuff while being both, and the resulting mud pit when it all thaws.

[becky]

Marisa, you are so funny :)

I just noticed that Jackie made this post almost a year ago. That is what i get for clicking on something that is being crawled by yahoo.

I lived in the snow for a short time and i dont really know if i would do it again. It is just as wet as rain but alot colder sometimes.

[Marisa]

OMG, I didn't even notice the date when I posted either!! It just popped up on my "new post" list so I responded.

[Marisa]

What does that mean "crawled by Yahoo"??

[becky]

Search engines "crawl" websites ask they update their "data banks". With Google, the more you are crawled by them the better luck you have getting a page rank which in turns means people are most likely to find you when they do a search on the internet.

Well if you notice when you log onto SCM there will be a list of members onlne and then a number of guests. I like to click on "see who's online" just to see what is being crawled by the search engines becuase i get to read alot of posts i missed while i wasnt that active in the group a few months ago. I guess i have to much time on my hands but i find it entertaining. Anyway, that is how i found this post and when i clicked on it, i had the option to vote in the poll and there were no posts so i didnt give it a second thought to reply.

Only now i know Jackie started this thread almost a year ago.

[Kellie_MO5]

hahaha! I hadn't even noticed! Too funny!!!

Yep... If we had to move, it would have to be somewhere with snow (and land)... LOVE it...

[meeg124]

Marisa - too funny!

To me, snow is something you go and visit once a year, not something you should be forced to live with. I don't mind the cold but I do not like everything else that goes along with snow.

That said, I want to plan a trip to take Caden to the snow in the next month or so. Anyone have a snow park they like to visit and take their kids to?

[colleen&Kail]

i go to the snow usually 2 times a year, i will bring kail this year for his first trip! i love to ski and i didnt get to last year because i was preggo!!

[daisydoc]

I like going to "visiting" the snow for a while. When I was a kid my moms family went to Tahoe for two weeks after Christmas. I would love to be able to do that with my kids but $$$ isn't there for it. But I would like to have a place to "visit" snow for as long as I wanted but I wouldn't want to live there permanently.

[Mom of 2]

I lived in snow growing up and I like to sled in it and make snowman and go for sleigh rides, but that is about it. I don't like driving in it, shoveling it, dealing with the black ice and being cold. I would be fine if we took the kids there to see it a few times a year and play in it and all of that. Ken doesn;t like being cold either, so I don't think we will be seeing too much snow. Probably just once or twice a year maybe in a few years when the kids are a little older.

Kate
Mom to Patty and Tyler

[KaisaG]

You guys are so silly? What do you mean you don't like the cold?? What do you think it is outside every morning when there's ice all over your windshield? That said- sucks to drive in "yes"... sucks to shovel "yes"... but as long as it's not some place that has a 6 month long winter- like my hometown in Alaska... I could handle the snow :)

[Lynette]

The last time we went to the snow we went to Tahoe and took my mom along for a built in babysitter and paid for her room, she didn't pay a dime. She didn't seem to get what her purpose was so each morning she would flop on our bed and say, "So what are we doing today?!"

We ended up getting stuck in the pile of snow the plows leave in the middle of the road on the main drag because I was convinced Brian's Mustang could drive through 2 feet of snow :bag Everyone laughed and pointed at us as we sat in the middle of the road trying to get free.

Then when we got to the snow park Salina started crying because she was cold and wet after about 15min and on the normally 4 hour drive home took about 6 because a big rig jack knifed in the middle of the road and blocked both directions so we sat in Brian's little Mustang for 2 hours in the snow with my mother (who we were about to kill at that point) and we all had to pee.

That was our last foray into snow :D

[becky]

oh my goodness lynette that is every reason for someone not to like the snow.

[LMS]

I really enjoy snow, but after 4 years in iceland and then 8 years in Pennsylvania (on Lake Erie), I've had enough of living in it for a while.
I don't miss sliding into ditches, chains on tires, using battery powered blow driers to unstick your locks, have a full set of clothes and a bag of kitty litter in the trunk "just in case", breaking atleast 10 debit cards a year trying to crack the ice off my window b/c i can't get in the car to get to the icescraper, being unsucessful at freeing my lock from the ice and eventually unzipping my back window (geo tracker) to climb into the drivers seat, having my heater on full blast for 35 minutes each morning just to be able to see out the front window, having to wear snoboots and pack sneakers when going places, the crappy brown snow you get after the roads have been plowed too many times, getting stuck on dirt roads when they haven't been plowed enough, and being stuck on the interstate b/c the snow is coming down horizontally so everyone drives at a 2.4mph crawl.
I do miss snow angels though :)

[Lynette]

I really enjoy snow, but after 4 years in iceland and then 8 years in Pennsylvania (on Lake Erie), I've had enough of living in it for a while.
I don't miss sliding into ditches, chains on tires, using battery powered blow driers to unstick your locks, have a full set of clothes and a bag of kitty litter in the trunk "just in case", breaking atleast 10 debit cards a year trying to crack the ice off my window b/c i can't get in the car to get to the icescraper, being unsucessful at freeing my lock from the ice and eventually unzipping my back window (geo tracker) to climb into the drivers seat, having my heater on full blast for 35 minutes each morning just to be able to see out the front window, having to wear snoboots and pack sneakers when going places, the crappy brown snow you get after the roads have been plowed too many times, getting stuck on dirt roads when they haven't been plowed enough, and being stuck on the interstate b/c the snow is coming down horizontally so everyone drives at a 2.4mph crawl.
I do miss snow angels though :)

LMAO! And that is why I live where I do because the cons waaaaaay outweigh the pros! Sure does put my whining about the frost on the car windows this morning into perspective though! But woo hoo for butt warmers!

[KaisaG]

Hey Jackie you forgot road grime and salt...
I used to hate it when I'd have that salt line on my shoes just from walking from my car to a building........ And the best cure for road grime (that I know of) is Pine Sol... and who the heck wants to be standing outside with cleaner on a rag when it's colder than a well digger's a$$ outside?

[LMS]

oooh, the salt line but mine was always on my jeans b/c i wore flares. LOL
Then the bottom 4 inches of your jeans were stiff all day :lol

[barb]

I voted "no", but I probably should have voted "other".

We lived in the Seattle area for 3 years. It snowed a couple of times up there. It's beautiful, but I refuse to learn to drive in it. The boys loved it and had fun snowboarding down our driveway. :)