Willy It Is Winter

[CJ SCION]

This is winter in our neck of the woods.

Haven't seen the road surface since November, which is a good thing. Saw a snowbow this morning while addressing snow chores at the mailbox. Sun had just come over the horizon and it was misting snow at zero degrees F. About 20° of color on each side of the sun.

Do you respect your rural mail carrier? Most do around here but then there are a few arshats that are just too lazy to care about anything.

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[GinaC]

We have a similar situation here in Northeastern Vermont. I moved up here in 2019 and saw the same thing. But since then, we've had little snow and it got up to 50 for a few winter days in 2023.

Now this is what I moved here for!

I'm within city limits, and I redid my front deck and steps the first year I was here. My mail carrier asked me to move the mailbox to the side of the driveway, which I have plowed every time the snow gets more than 3" deep. It was originally on the step railing. Now I don't have to clear my steps of snow, and he doesn't have to climb stairs.

 

[LazyJL]

Many years ago, when my father was still alive, he had problems with the kids playing batter up with his mailbox, driving by in a pickup with someone in the bed armed with a baseball bat.
I built him a new mailbox out of 1/8" and 1/4" plate steel welded to a heavy pipe.
It was only a week later after installing the new mailbox that he called, saying he found a broken baseball bat by his mailbox. That had to hurt whoever the culprit was.

 

[autotragic]

Many years ago, when my father was still alive, he had problems with the kids playing batter up with his mailbox, driving by in a pickup with someone in the bed armed with a baseball bat.
I built him a new mailbox out of 1/8" and 1/4" plate steel welded to a heavy pipe.
It was only a week later after installing the new mailbox that he called, saying he found a broken baseball bat by his mailbox. That had to hurt whoever the culprit was.

Out in our area back in the 90s when people were doing that a lot of victims decided to start using stone/brick/big fabricated metal mail boxes and the problem pretty much took care of itself after a while. That's also why those big ugly plastic boxes got so popular too, they are cheaper than the other solutions but super ugly.

 

[Fatbob Frank]

What tires are you running?

 

[Fatbob Frank]

This is our place...
Been pretty mild snow-wise but very cold temps...

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