gravitylover

It's pounding sleet out there. Fkn ugly.

Me too. 

Flakes!

Thanks NZ and Rob. Everyone keeps saying they're impressed with how quickly I'm moving forward but, strangely, I feel like it's been a long slow process. I'm not very patient when it comes to things like recovering and I'm so used to just doing things that the restrictions feel very confining. The diet change has also been frustrating. If I sound less than grateful for the good things I'm not, I just don't express that as well. 

I dunno, now that I'm cleared to get out and do outdoor things again I really want to go for a bike ride so snow isn't what I'm hoping for. I went for a short hike in the woods yesterday and now my brain is screamin' for the type of therapy that only a mt bike ride in the woods can provide. C'mon spring  

51 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Yes, we are open for public play.  We are located just south of Norwich University and just over the mountain from Sugarbush 

http://www.northfieldcountryclub.com/

Looks like a great course and the price is surely right. I guess I need to bring my clubs and schedule 4-5 hours out of a work day some time this year.

6 minutes ago, Hitman said:

Good luck fellas.  I’m out in bc for the week so this storm should crank.

Good timing  

On 2/8/2019 at 8:43 AM, mreaves said:

Nice. I wish I had the motivation to practice more.  Truthfully though, since I became president of my small, non-profit, member owned course, my golf desire has been slowly squeezed out my soul 

Is this course open for public play? I love playing small, out of the way courses and I'm up that way 2 or 3 times a season.

6 hours ago, mreaves said:

Just tuned in to watch Pebble Beach. Graupel storms moved through earlier. Greens covered and the sunny 15 minutes later. They just called them off the course again. 

I never understood why they hold that tournament at this time of year. It can be rotten in the middle of the summer right on the water there but in February?

What's up guys. I've been playing since I was 7 so, 45 years. I still hit a mean drive, unfortunately it doesn't go where I think it's going to go often enough. Every now and then like about 5 years ago on sun baked hardpan I put one out at 335 and it rolled to within 6 feet of the pin. One putt and it's the only eagle I've ever had. Well, the only one that counted. I had one on frozen ground back in high school and the ball just kept rolling like it was on a highway and rolled onto the green ~ 500 yards out. It was February so there was no hole or pin so we just chose a spot and when I putted the ball rolled over it. We also used to keep a ball in an inside pocket so for every shot, we'd pull it out and swap with the cold ball so we weren't always hitting frozen balls  which was nicer on our hands.

14 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

Don’t worry, big winter is just 10 days away 

Again?

Yay more rain! 

On the upside, it's pretty painless to shovel rain out of the driveway. 

I was wondering about that possibility. 

When I lived in Colorado those padding the stats snows were what kept the ski conditions awesome. Under a strong high, which is the majority of the winter, it would snow 2-4" a night 4 or 5 times a week. The streets wouldn't melt off between mid December and late March except for the main highway/main street and even those would stay snowpacked for 6-8 weeks and the surface on the ski areas would be soft all the time. Sure we'd get a couple of big synoptic storms and those would ensure the totals would get over 250" but it was the pocket change snows that would keep it fresh and white.

60* feels pretty good

That's all December was, pennies though not nickels. I had a total of 1" for the month and it snowed 4 or 5 times. At least I can call January 5"  That puts me at 13" for the season so far, not sure where that puts me in relation to last year. Yup I was looking at how much the ice surfaces melted on the lakes and reservoirs today and thinking it will be gone in just a few days. It really does feel like winters back is broken. I didn't have that feeling last year when we struggled through 6 weeks of non winter in the middle of the season though.

I didn't check for the low but it was 11* at 1am when we got home from a show. 

33* this afternoon feels like springtime

Much warmer this morning than yesterday,  it's 7*.

-4 @ 7am, I don't know if it was colder before that. That's still about 10 degrees warmer than the lowest low last year. ~13" of snowfall for the season so far, not feeling another 3' before it's all over so chances of making it to average are slim this year.

-4 here too. Nice sunrise.

That was a fun inch. 

Next.

Wow good little storm rolling through. Lowest visibility in a few years.

1 hour ago, Juliancolton said:

What town is that? Nice farm.

Eek what a crusty icy mess out there.

I'd love to go scrape this stuff off the driveway but the wife won't let me.  Good thing I have a few buckets of sand and salt mixture.

Accidents are fun...  Glad she's alright.

Now it's big flakes but after a few hours of rain, and it's still 34*, over the .3/.4 from this afternoon over frozen ground I have a nice .2-.3" deep layer of slush on everything. This carp is going to freeze up hard.