It is just tooo cold

bottle of water I'd brought for him started freezing after just a few minutes

 
This reminded me of the time DH and I were tailgating for a football game in December and my beer actually froze when I set it down for 5 minutes.  Yikes!

I felt badly about it yesterday too.  Things have been so hectic the last month or so with Mom's situation and only having one day at home on weekends and they haven't been getting their weekly romps. Last weekend was cold and we went and by the way back after the second round I wasn't sure I'd make it back.  But, this bitter weather coupled with blizzard conditions......the snow in the fields is way too deep to walk through so we have to go into the woods to get any type of walk at all since the trees are thick and the snow not so deep......I just didn't feel like it was safe for any of us to be that far from help if it was needed.  Not even with a cell phone.
 
Oh well, I can't do it over, so they'll just have to forgive me.

WOW is all I have to say, I really do not think I could live somewhere that is that cold...and I thought Lake Tahoe was about the coldest it could get...guess I am wrong
 
Now I realize how ridiculous I must sound when I complain about Sacramento being 50 degrees[sm=rofl.gif]

You're not alone. [sm=biggrin.gif][sm=biggrin.gif] I think 50 is cold, too. No wonder the rest of the country thinks Californians are nuts.
 
Joyce

WOW!! It's very hard for me to grasp just how cold it is where some of you live. We don't even get snow on the ground in winter.I have always dreamt of a white Christmas, But after reading this thread, I'm not so sure!!!
 
Could some of you please post some snow pics so I can get some idea of what it's really like?

I tried, but really couldn't get enough contrast to see anything but white.  DS is trying for me now.  I don't mind the snow that is on the ground so much, but I get tired of zero visability days when I drive all day every day, and all that crap that doesn't get plowed off the roads.

OK, think that the first two are across the glorified driveway that has a street name.....

I'll try again with the second pic.  These are taking from my front deck and yes, there actually is a little road out there somewhere!

This one is across the road/driveway and towards the main road.  And yes, those are Christmas decorations still on my deck.....it's too blasted cold to try to take them down!

Last one....this is the lovely view of the back of the old school house that hasn't been used as a school for probably 50 years.  You can't really tell how how the banks are along the road because MY plow guy does really well around the mailbox...which if you look REALLY hard, you can almost see!  I sure hope this is enough snow pics...I'm getting cold just looking at the darned things.

Those pics are so stunning. I wish I lived some where like that.It is absolutely beautiful and the old school is just gorgeous. I wish we had buildings like that here.
I am so envious of some of the homes you see on American tv shows

Those are beautiful pictures. It looks like you have lots of land...how lucky!

LOL!  I felt bad posting them since they aren't real sharp and clear.  It hasn't stopped snowing here for days on end and the sky is sooooo gloomy.
 
There is a certain charm to the old school house, but it breaks my heart to see it so weather beaten and neglected.
 
You are MORE than welcome to come visit....and take the snow back with you![]

We actually have a bit less than an acre, but are surrounded by about 500 acres of forest and fields.  Works for me.  That much less for me to mow!

The temperature actually dropped to -40 C here last night without the wind-chill; with it, it apparently felt more like -52. But, really, it's not all that bad if you're prepared for it. I have this huge parka that would probably keep me warm even if I lived in the arctic. I've also been living here all my life, so I guess my body has adapted to the extreme conditions that are common in this province in both the summer and winter (+40 in the summer and -40 and colder in the winter). The same must be true of my dog Whiskey, because even though he's a German Wirehaired Pointer X with a very thin coat, who acts like he's fire walking when I let him out to do his business in the backyard, with booties and a poorly insulated coat on, after our thirty minute run around the neighborhood earlier that night when the temperature was only -30 with a wind-chill of -36 or so, he was sweating just as much as I was. So I guess one's idea of cold weather is relative. Although, I have to say, -52 feels pretty damn cold.
 
Oh, I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada if anyone was wondering. The temperature rose to -24 here today; it was actually very pleasant!