i may have to unhook the snowblower

[Bert Notorius]

and mow the lawn.

 

[Tryharder62]

I love it!!!
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/I-Love-This-Weather.jpg

 

[Not Normal]

62 degrees on Dec 12. At 10:30PM

 

[Hard_Rom]

Hasn't hurt Christmas tree sales for us. Kinda nice to stay warm or even overly warms selling trees. Don't have to dig out a few hundred trees after every snow fall either. A couple of inches for Christmas Day would be nice. None of us have put our small boats, canoes or kayaks away yet. At this rate we won't get a freeze up until 2nd week in January.

 

[Bert Notorius]

january is going to suck.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is very nice to have a more normal December for this part of the country.



It hit 71 today. If this keeps up, my Zhu Zhou bush may actually survive.

 

[Saint Peter]

The planet is fucked.

 

[Hypoxia]

Currently a little above freezing but the next few nights will be sub-zero (C) with a pile of snow. Good. Nearly-empty reservoirs will gain a little. The burnt-over zones will turn to slush. Turkeys and deer will run across our meadow. Maybe we should set traps.

Meanwhile, the snowblower has replaced the lawnmower (both electric) near the door of the storage container out back. Ours is a sparse meadow, only mowed twice a year, but that is more use than the snowblower saw over the last dry winter.

Forget snowblowers, lawnmowers, branch chippers, all that mechanical crap. It's time to tight the hash pipe.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I was out filling the bird feeder and feeding the Koi, who are usually fast asleep at this time of year, when I noticed, I still have mums blooming!

 

[Hard_Rom]

We thought lack of snow would impact out Christmas tree sales a bit. Sold 1000 trees in 16 days. Normally it takes 21 days. Real nice trees. Even our Charlie Browns left for last days sales beat any grocery store, Rona or Home Depot item.

Probably get the canoe out end of this week and get some trout fishing in. Could be -1'C by end of the week. Positively balmy!

 

[VaticanAssassin]

We thought lack of snow would impact out Christmas tree sales a bit. Sold 1000 trees in 16 days. Normally it takes 21 days. Real nice trees. Even our Charlie Browns left for last days sales beat any grocery store, Rona or Home Depot item.

Probably get the canoe out end of this week and get some trout fishing in. Could be -1'C by end of the week. Positively balmy!

I retired the fake tree and bought a real one for the first time in 6 years.

$300 later I am slightly regretting that decision.

To be fair my lazy ass also paid for delivery and set up.

 

[Hard_Rom]

$300! Better have been 12' plus. We sold some approaching 10' for $50. Special order 12-14 foot $160. Grower has a huge price increase from 8-10, 10-12' and 12-14' range. Under 10' 20$, under 12 30$, over 12 $100.

Heavy duty tree stand $20. Fresh local SW Ontario trees. Wrapped in netting, we get them day or two after harvest on a Wednesday. By Saturday selling fresh trees. Takes a couple of days for tree branches to fall back after being in netting. We usually take them out of netting so folk can see what they are getting. Then just rebag in large plastic bags 8' long.

Was your tree in a tight netting when brought in? Does make it easy to get in a house. We have some returning customers who request them still in netting. A few out of the 1000 trees stay in netting. How tall you tree? Did it grow within 500 miles of you?

I could get a 10' tree with stand for $45. That's a $255 profit. Probably worth driving for 2 hours each way to deliver and set up a tree. Beautiful thick 8' tree (fit standard height homes) trimmed down to 7" for stand, angel/star on top and room for presents. $20 our cost.

 

[Hypoxia]

Buy a tree? Ha. We live on remote mountain acreage covered with conifers. Let's see, would we rather our in-house tree be a sugar pine, a Douglas-fir, or a Western cedar? We have thousands to choose from. And they're already paid for. We're thinking of getting colored laser spotlights to light up some outside trees the easy way. Or maybe we'll just dance naked around a bonfire in the middle of our meadow.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Or maybe we'll just dance naked around a bonfire in the middle of our meadow.

Always the best alternative to most things.