I was pouring gasoline through the big old copper filter funnel yesterday and caught a bunch of weird fluffy white stuff - snow! So one good thing about winter is that it's really easy to separate out the water from your gasoline stockpile.
I don't like winter and all of the rain for months on end, but it provides me uninterrupted garage time to refresh the cars and prepare for summer. I consider it the "off season", time to prep and get better.
What is wrong with winter? I can handle the cold but not summer heat. When I bought my shop one of the first things that I did was have AC installed.
Be thankful you get to work on yours in the winter. I don't even get to look at my car for a bout 3 months, let alone get to work on it other than a few odds and ends that I can do in the house.
All through Oct. & November we were blessed with unusually warm and dry weather enabling me to get my shop finished. This was taken the day after Christmas, moving from the winter storage to its new home. Edit; I drove the car this day and had quite a few stares
Hello, We have lived in So Cal for all of our lives. We have visited most of the places we like in all of the Westcoast areas from the Canadian border to Baja, Mexico. We still like what So Cal has to offer. The local mountain ski season allows us to surf in the morning and if the snow is still around, an hour of so later, we are on the mountain top runs in the snow. But, the many time we went to Mammoth Mountain, June Mountain in the Sierras and farther up North in the Lake Tahoe area during a snowstorm, it was not the nicest conditions for being outdoors. Powder is nice, but not when one sinks below the eye level line… we had to push on when it was time to move North for more skiing in the vacation time we had. Sure, it snowed in Mammoth and harder in Lake Tahoe, but not to the point of the most recent Pacific North storm system to hit the Westcoast. Closure of Highway 395 from So Cal to the Northern region near Lake Tahoe has/had implications of the severity of the winter storm to hit all of the Westcoast. It certainly is not convertible or open roadster weather. Ha! Jnaki Recently, I saw a familiar ski lift photo of Mammoth Mountain. The snow was piled up to the chair, once dangling from the tall position above the ground. Now, the chair was barely touching the higher snow level. That is some system remnants left behind. The friends that still live in Mammoth must have had huge caves coming out of their front door and all around their houses. Like, living in an igloo with carved out trails, just to get out to the street…what street? Then the next day, another photo of a skier next to the actual ski lift going up to the top of the mountain. He could have skied right up to the chair and turned around to sit in it. Back then, it was a long way down as we bundled up for the long ride uphill. So, winter and Mother Nature does a number on all of us, when it is necessary to get us to pay attention to weather and how we are all affected by its whims. Note: Actually, we really do not hate Winter. After the storms, the sky is always blue and the matching contrasting ocean always gives a mental reprieve when visiting the shoreline. There is also the fact that our water usage is down due to having Mother Nature sprinkle or drench our yard almost weekly for months. YRMV
I thought only Quebecers used “Tempos”? Lol! We’ve had unusually mild weather here lately (under severe rain warning since yesterday), and the snow is essentially all gone, but the rain is supposed yoh turn to snow later today.
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