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gravitylover

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  1. I slept through whatever happened last night. Garden was wet again and the potatoes and garlic are doing well. Hopefully early next week is the last below freezing and I can get more food plants out. Re: the front lawn; if it's green as they drive by @20 mph I'm good with it. I mow often enough, haven't fertilized or watered it in 30 years but I do "harvest" the seeds from the unmowed backyard and spread them, but that's the extent of the maintenance. 

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  2. 4 hours ago, Hitman said:

    I got down to 27f.  I've paid the oil company enough already and would really like to shut the heat off until November.

    26 here.

    I already added 10 gallons of diesel to avoid the higher cost of a 100 or 150 gallon minimum for heating oil. I might actually go do that again today. I'm only using 5-6 gallons a week now.

  3. 2 hours ago, SACRUS said:


    1998 had  5 inches of snow i NYC  (previous winter total was 0.5 inches and would have made 97/98 the least snowy season until this storm)

    *shudder* That was the year after I opened a ski/snowboard shop. Both of my first two years sucked for snow.

  4. 3 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

    Outside of a couple cold days it's over

    Remember, I'm ~45 miles in and at 700 feet so nights are cold. I think I undershot and therefore underbudgeted for the cold 3 months and with the pop in oil (and diesel) prices it's a bad time to be stuck buying enough for 6 cold weeks when I probably only need 30-50 more gallons.

  5. Anyone still hoping for cold can contribute to my home heating oil fund ;) At heart I'm a wacky winter weather freak but my wallet has been abused lately and it needs a break.

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  6. 1 hour ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

    I could live with 70 and sunny for 8 months if you give me cold and snowy for four months. Unfortunately, there's nowhere in the world where that place exists.

    Sort of... Big Bear area above LA, Andorra and the Atlas Mtns in Morocco are pretty close.

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