Dying on the vine.

[Eire Whiskey]

I feel sorry for people living in cold, snowy areas. I am in the Southern US, and it's not cold here by comparison to other places, but it has been fairly miserable for the last couple of months.
I feel like I am dying on the vine here, mainly because I am unable to ride my bike (bicycle). I've ridden maybe twice in January.
It has been raining here every couple of days.
I do not like wearing my long riding bibs, I feel restricted in them. I could ride my bike on the mag trainer, but it is boring as heck, even with something on the tube, or I guess on the tube should be changed to something more modern like "on the LED, OLED, LCD, or Plasma".
I can't even go in the yard, it's a swampy mudhole.
I think my nine Shepherds are bored as well. They chewed up the wiring and some hoses under my Jeep. I spent nine hours this past Monday under the Jeep lying in mud repairing wiring and hoses. I still have to crawl back under to repair the front and rear air locker wiring and hoses. I put up an electric fence up around the Jeep, it is working. I borrowed the fence charger from my chicken pen. The Shepherds have not figured out the wire around the pen is not energized yet. I have a new charger arriving tomorrow so the chickens will be safe from being eaten again.
I tell ya crawling under the Jeep in the cold and muddy ground had me feeling my age, and wishing my youngest son lived closer so I could let him fix the beast. LOL
Oh Well, enough whining from me, how has other Northern hemisphere occupants been doing?

[Fiddleford]

Its been a warm winter, roads had water on em today which is not good, the ice that forms in these conditions is very slippery and can cause accidents. I usually experience -20 to -40 weather around this time but its -2 currently.

I prefer it to be cold out. No ice fishing this year...

[Eire Whiskey]

Its been a warm winter, roads had water on em today which is not good, the ice that forms in these conditions is very slippery and can cause accidents. I usually experience -20 to -40 weather around this time but its -2 currently.

I prefer it to be cold out. No ice fishing this year...

If it were -2 here these people would be dying.

[VLAGAVULVIN]

So far so good,
running my brooks-ghosts,
riding my bike...
wuts da prublem, all in all?

[Eire Whiskey]

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So far so good,
running my brooks-ghosts,
riding my bike...
wuts da prublem, all in all?

Road bikes don't do well in snow.

[Corsaire]

Sure they do. The cleaning afterwards is a pain though.

[jog666]

Mother nature has been a menopausal psychotic bitch for a couple years now. Summers are 100* with 90% humidity for a month at a time then 2 weeks of perfect weather & back. Its kind of worse at night in a shop that has piss poor air flow & having to weld. Winter is more like a wet fall. Decent then rain then cold then repeat. Never getting truly cold for any length of time. Most of the time it rains on my days off which kill all motivation to get stuff done. I would be very happy for the rain to only show up on my work days so I can either get paid for it or be asleep.

[VLAGAVULVIN]

Road bikes don't do well in snow.

My own one is not so road-oriented. But you're right: snow and spacesuit need my energy as big as double. Never travelled in winter to a distance exceeding 40km.

Mother nature has been a menopausal psychotic bitch for a couple years now.

The last summer was +5+10C here (normally — +20+30C). And all winter long it's -5 to +5. Normally, we had -22C to -35C in wintertime. But this time we have got -22 a couple of times... as a kicking ass frost!

[Eire Whiskey]

Sure they do. The cleaning afterwards is a pain though.

I'd get hurt in the snow and ice on my road bike.


Oh, Centigrade, not so bad, I thought we were talking g farenheit. Still cold.

[Corsaire]

I kinda miss the snow. Winters here used to be cold and wet. It hasn't really frozen here this year. Temps are around 10c, and up till today no real rain. So there's a lot of cyclists out, something you didn't normally see.
Is there an indoor track near you? I love track riding. And it's great to remain in shape during the foul weather months.

[cayars]

Oh, Centigrade, not so bad, I thought we were talking g farenheit. Still cold.

Yea I know. It's 41F or 5C out right now and I'm working in a T-Shirt as it feels WARM out.

[Eire Whiskey]

I kinda miss the snow. Winters here used to be cold and wet. It hasn't really frozen here this year. Temps are around 10c, and up till today no real rain. So there's a lot of cyclists out, something you didn't normally see.
Is there an indoor track near you? I love track riding. And it's great to remain in shape during the foul weather months.

No indoor tracks around here. It's kinda dangerous cycling around here with the thugs and rednecks.
I plan to ride in the morning, it will be warmish and dry, just a little windy. It should be nice as long as I miss the aforementioned. LOL

[VLAGAVULVIN]

Good luck with your weather / and no thugs, no rednecks on your way

[Eire Whiskey]

Good luck with your weather / and no thugs, no rednecks on your way

LOL, They will be there this morning. I guess I should put my socks an d shoes on and get out the door, before I decide putting up a better electric fence around my Jeep sounds more fun, fun for me, not fun for my nine Jeep eating Shepherds.

[Eire Whiskey]

Ride was good, and the better fence is up. I've got a wire at 6 and 16 inches. This will keep my Shepherds away from the Jeep.

[cob]

Ride was good, and the better fence is up. I've got a wire at 6 and 16 inches. This will keep my Shepherds away from the Jeep.

looks like you are good to go that is until they learn to jump over 16" of wire

[Eire Whiskey]

Ride was good, and the better fence is up. I've got a wire at 6 and 16 inches. This will keep my Shepherds away from the Jeep.

looks like you are good to go that is until they learn to jump over 16" of wire

These dogs can go over a four foot fence with ease. It's the shock which keeps them at bay. They won't go near it.
The chicken pen has been de-energized for a week now and the closest they will get is about 3 feet.

[cayars]

I feel sorry for people living in cold, snowy areas.

That's OK, I bet many people feel sorry for you guys living in the heat during the summer.

At least the guys up north can put on additional layers of clothes in the winter to help adjust the temp. You guys are kinda screwed in that department as you can only take off so much.

Of course around where I live it's humid and we usually get screwed in both the winter and summer!

[pope]

The weather here is honestly as good as you can wish for but I still spend a lot of it in a windowless office, so until it's light when I am driving home winter is still a bit rough for me at times. And the summers here are brutal but it's a different kind of uncomfortable.

[Eire Whiskey]

I feel sorry for people living in cold, snowy areas.

That's OK, I bet many people feel sorry for you guys living in the heat during the summer.

At least the guys up north can put on additional layers of clothes in the winter to help adjust the temp. You guys are kinda screwed in that department as you can only take off so much.

Of course around where I live it's humid and we usually get screwed in both the winter and summer!

Heat doesn't bother me, but there are plenty of people around here who will not ride when it's hot.

[Eire Whiskey]

The weather here is honestly as good as you can wish for but I still spend a lot of it in a windowless office, so until it's light when I am driving home winter is still a bit rough for me at times. And the summers here are brutal but it's a different kind of uncomfortable.

My last job in the military was windowless, and I detested it. After being on the flight e for years and then spend the last part in a hole was not good.

[pope]

I try to get to the gym or get outside in the mornings, and I consider my time 'in the sun' on my drive to work to count as daylight exposure, but I don't get a lot of it this time of year.

[shadylane]

I try to wake up every day before the sun sets so I can get some daylight time.
No, I don't work night shift. I've been retired for awhile and like to sleep in

[Eire Whiskey]

I try to get to the gym or get outside in the mornings, and I consider my time 'in the sun' on my drive to work to count as daylight exposure, but I don't get a lot of it this time of year.

Take some vitamin d, it'll give you what your not getting from the lack of sun.

[VLAGAVULVIN]

Take some vitamin d, it'll give you what your not getting from the lack of sun.

plus all those suntan lamps, by half-dozes at time

and maybe smth. like DHEA, orally

etc.

[Eire Whiskey]

Take some vitamin d, it'll give you what your not getting from the lack of sun.

plus all those suntan lamps, by half-dozes at time

and maybe smth. like DHEA, orally

etc.

I substitute Spring Rolls for DHEA. Homemade Spring Rolls cure a lot of things.

[cayars]

I substitute Spring Rolls for DHEA. Homemade Spring Rolls cure a lot of things.

Yea, like hunger.

[Eire Whiskey]

I substitute Spring Rolls for DHEA. Homemade Spring Rolls cure a lot of things.

Yea, like hunger.

Yep, I was thinking about Spring Rolls at the time, and I am a bit hungry. LOL

[VLAGAVULVIN]

For all those only-a-bit-hungries, LOL

omnomnom

[Eire Whiskey]

For all those only-a-bit-hungries, LOL


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Yep, I've got a big bag of nutritional yeast. I used it yesterday making potato soup. I eat plant based, so it's a staple.