Baby it's coooold outside.

[mickeyd]

:"D:"D:"D RALPH!!!!!

Sounds so funny--not wearing undies--in the winter, even though it's way warmer down there. I go without them too in the summer.

Are you old enough to remember when it was absolutely forbidden to go without undies, in case you were in an accident and the authorities would find you indecent. The only thing worse was if your undies were nasty.

Kinda like the wet spot, meself!

 

[rp2813]

Oh yeah, who didn't get that whole clean underwear regimen drilled into them? Once in a while my partner and I will joke about that. Since we are both naturists when the weather allows, even a loose pair of boxers can be too confining in my partner's opinion!

Generally I will wear boxers under a pair of 501's unless I'm headed someplace where the jeans are going to be coming right back off again but for the most part, once the weather warms up the jeans give way to shorts--or less.

 

[mickeyd]

Gotta admit the comedy and irony here

The whole northern slab of the country is truly frigid for the next few days, until we warm back up to the THIRTIES. Light clothing is just a dream. Do you remember the Seinfeld episode about George Costanza'z shrinkage?

After a nice winter hike or shoveling stint up here, we have a bit of shrinkage, but ah!--the warming after. ;'D

You're too funny, Ralph.

 

[polkanut]

Today the temp. @ 3:07pm is -5f with a wind chill of -10f. Just thought you might like to know. lol

 

[petek]

So Toggles, how many Hong Kong dollah to make you hollah

6 deg F here today and windy.
All my 8-9 ft cedars around the backyard perimeter are flattened to the ground from the heavy snow and we just noticed that a huge evergreen in front of the neighbors, approx 30 ft, is bent right over and the tip touching the ground.

 

[hydralique]

On my patio right now . . .

the thermometer says 76 degrees. I went over the hill to Santa Monica in the morning, it was certainly cooler but warmed up by noon or so.

 

[sudsmaster]

As Ralph might testify, the weather in the Bay Area has turned almost spring-like the past few days. Daytime temps in the 60's, night time lows in the 40's, not too bad for this time of year. I had to hurry to get a coating of lime-sulfur spray on the peach tree, as it looks just about ready to break bud. The almond tree in back (big squirrel feeder) is already starting to flower. Magnolia tree out front has been flowering since before Christmas.

Once upon a time I made the mistake of wearing cords with no underwear on a motorcycle ride on a mild day. Corduroy isn't much of a wind break, and the sensation of being all "out there" was very disconcerting to say the least.

 

[oldhouseman]

In Bloom

It was 71 on Saturday and 69 today in Sparta. I have tulips and other bulbs starting to come up around the grounds. My partner laid out the diagram with our yardman for a rose garden today. I will be happy to see that go into place. No planting roses yet as long as we are in drought. I am yet a bit leary of starting my herb garden for the same reason. We need rain very much here. I'm afraid the pecan grove will not make it in the coming year unless we get rain soon.

A great bevy of Cardinals were in the backyard this morning with a host of Robins. It seems Spring is on the horizon here in Georgia.

I don't understand how you guys in the north deal with those below freezing temperatures for so long.

But then again you may wonder how we deal with 100 degree plus temps and high humidity.

Stay warm up there my AW pals in the great frozen north.

 

[danemodsandy]

Greg:

Aren't you getting rain down there? Up here in the Atlanta metro area, the rainfall has been respectable so far this year.

I hope you get real wet, real soon.

 

[phillygrl]

Cold and Snowy

Here in my part of NE Ohio. We were under a snow squall most of the day. Came straight down US 322 from Cleveland into Pennsylvania. Probably 8 to 12 inches, hard to tell with all of the wind blowing stuff around. It's 2F at 10 PM.

 

[toggleswitch]

Pic taken this morning. (just now)