HIPPYVALLEY

I like that period around April 4th or so for a last hurrah.

Slide that 100 mi or so SW and give NYC a change of scenery.

If it’s above 35F or so they are out.

Lame. I totally understand though, insurance liability. I guarantee some people are still going to ski it though.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timescall.com/2020/03/24/officials-unsure-of-coronavirus-sheltering-effects-on-boulder-county-wildlife/amp/

It’s the “Cadillac of furnaces”.

Interior folks hitting their season averages.

Yeah, Lyme is bad but Babeseosis kill yo’ ass.

A few years ago when my dad turned 80 he got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized. He tested positive for Lyme but it was not responding to treatment and was showing symptoms like high fever and chills that we’re not necessarily consistent with Lyme diagnosis. He had a great Doctor who did a huge blood screening and they found he had Babeseosis which is essentially like the American version of malaria. They had never seen it in New England before but he told him he had not left Massachusetts in several months. They ended up flying a specialist up from the CDC in Atlanta and determined he most likely got it from a tick bite on Cape Cod. He said the doctor that came up was freaking out about how bad it was if that disease had spread so quickly up the Eastern seaboard since they have not really ever seen it north of South Carolina. Anyway dad was in the hospital almost 10 days and took him almost a month to fully recover but he’s going strong at 85!

A few years ago it was discovered that ticks produce an anti-freeze like proteins in their blood when it gets cold which prevents ice crystals from forming in their blood. I can’t remember the exact temperature but it protects them somewhere down into the upper 20s. if daytime temperatures get into the mid 30s you should assume that ticks t could be active, even in the winter.

55.75” I’m pretty confident that I won’t be this far ahead of you again for a long time. Strange winter. 7.5” last night.

Skin and ski?

Crappy winter begets crappy spring?

Brutal winter inside I-495. I would have lost my mind, you held together pretty well!

2 weeks ago it didn’t look like there was going to be any more sledding this year.

42F clouds moved in an hour or so ago and are greatly reducing the melt.

Yeah, everyone around you was 7 - 8"

Love it!

Buderus boiler? That’s what we have.

That was actually modeled by a few of the mesos but I always just assume they are misplacing the CRV.

It’s not often I am ahead of you. We barely sleeted here though.

I finished with 7.5” Good call on general amounts.

Any change is good these days.

Yeah, oddly we only went to sleet for a few minutes in N Franklin Co. I generally just expect it. lol

Just wish ski areas were open. I told the boy we are up and out early for sledding tomorrow before the melt begins.