i luv to blow snow, its snowing Options

[Homer]

Where ever a Pure Devotee™ goes the weather is perfect.

[Prisni]

Yikes Prisni, -30 sounds awful. It was -15 here and it felt outrageous enough. How is the water in your pipes?

Not yesterday night, but this night it is starting to get critical.

By now it is a routine job to unfreeze it. Just down the cellar and put a small electric blow-heater in front of it.

[Prisni]

i just cant imagine being so cold...I have only seen snow twice in my life when I actually went up a mountain. Keep warm and i hope you have good heating or a BIG fire.

You have so much good karma, good fortune, or whateveryounameit, being born in a place where it never get so cold!

[metamorphosis]

I see our praying worked! Now you are very happy Babu! Mabu sent me this Photo of you while you were performing your favorite pastime. That is quite a powerful Snow Blower you have there! Something looks familiar.

[metamorphosis]

meaning: we got our first real snow last night and today.

[Ayyapan]

this snow wasn't very fluffy... it was cold but the snow was granulated

The same language have more than 100 different words for snow.

No they don't (the Laplanders don't). But the Eskimos do have many words for snow - but I am not sure if they have over a hundred...

Where I now live many words, names of places etc, are Laplandic. About half of the neighbouring towns and villages, mainly those to the west, have Laplander's names. And there are quite some Laplander's living around here too, at least in the winter - having rein deers. They, still today, move with the season - bringing the rein deers with them. But nowadays they live in modern houses (one around here, for the winter, and one westward, up the mountains, for the summer) - and they don't walk with their rein deers, but drive them in huge trucks!

[Ayyapan]

Yikes Prisni, -30 sounds awful. It was -15 here and it felt outrageous enough. How is the water in your pipes?

It is different up here, really. The air is drier (at least were I now live) - so the cold is not that bad, after all. It doesn't feel that cold! Not very demanding on the body...

I was in Stockholm, though, once when it was -25, and it was truly horrible! One could hardly breath; painful it was!

Already this winter, we have had below -20 Celsius. For over a month now we have had snow, steadily. Before that (in september-october already, it came and went a few times). Now for a month or so we have had about half a metre of snow,
and the temperature is between -15 and -25 Celsius. And it is not bad at all!

It is quite comfy, really!

Also in the summer the air is different - drier and "lighter". I felt it immediatly when coming here - like the sky is higher! And they say it is because there is less oxygen in the air - and that people, coming from the south, sometimes have a difficulty to adjust to this. That they get kind of sickly and weak, to start with. I didn't - not at all, but I felt it lighter. Lighter and kind of clearer too.

[Prisni]

this snow wasn't very fluffy... it was cold but the snow was granulated

The same language have more than 100 different words for snow.

No they don't (the Laplanders don't). But the Eskimos do have many words for snow - but I am not sure if they have over a hundred...

When I wrote that, I had just read it somewhere. It might have been a newspaper article about the "same" people? But as always, you never know what is true and what is not.

[Prisni]

Already this winter, we have had below -20 Celsius. For over a month now we have had snow, steadily. Before that (in september-october already, it came and went a few times). Now for a month or so we have had about half a metre of snow,
and the temperature is between -15 and -25 Celsius. And it is not bad at all! 

I have had -18 degrees Celsius, I think it was the other night during full moon. Yesterday was the coldest day so far, with between -10 to -15 the whole day. Brrr.
Inside my house it is nice and warm though.
No half meter of snow, but just a few centimetres. And I think it is just enough.
It has been like that for about a month now.

I wanted to move south, and not north. But after all, it is very peaceful here, so maybe it is a better place? I sing Krishna's name and dance in ecstasy, and my cats sit and watch. Life could not be better! And there is just nothing else to do here, so I do it a lot.

[Ayyapan]

The full moon is amazing here! Incredibly BIG! And SO illuminating!
When there was a full moon and the sky was so clear (this lasted for over a week) it was almost as bright in the night as in the day.

Now the moon is deminishing and the sky is more clouded - and it is dark, really dark, before three o'clock in the afternoons.

The sun is hardly ever seen, although there are some daylight - between 8 and 15. It never rises above the trees or mountains. Just holds, very low - for a few hours. Then it is utterly gone. And the long, long night in the forest is deep black...

I want more snow! At least a metre or two!
For playing... me and the dogs.
And it is insulating too.
Protecting the water pipes, underground.
Protecting the basement of the house.
And giving extra warmth and coziness around the small doggy houses.

Now we have gotten our sledge - and the dogs run and pull me around.
It is great fun! But not always that easy. Two dogs - no problem. But four - then we have difficulty keeping all the strings at place.

North is good!
Very good.

If I ever move again - I am quite sure I will move even further North!
Always, further North...

I also have it warm and cozy inside - about 25 Celsius.
That is about 50 degrees difference, between inside and out!

My dogs stay outside, and still I did not see a sign of that they suffer from the cold!
But the eat like mad!
Their ordinary doggy food (in an amount previously unknown!) - enriched with ample of vegetable oil.
And rice, dahl and vegetables, dairy products too...
Anything basically. (Even Daniel, who is usually rather picky, now eats with a very healthy apetite!)
And when they don't eat - or work, the chew bones - sucking out the marrow.

They all appear very healthy. Indeed healthier than I ever saw them!

[metamorphosis]

I am down in the valley where it is warmer than home today/night, but i was told at home today at around 2000' above the sea, it snowed about 2" before melting.

Dovetailing: the snow in the Spiritual World is warm.

[0Aran0]

The full moon is amazing here! Incredibly BIG! And SO illuminating!
When there was a full moon and the sky was so clear (this lasted for over a week) it was almost as bright in the night as in the day...

It's wonderful to hear these reports from the Sacred North, Ayyapan, keep them coming...

[metamorphosis]

Just blew 14" of snow away.

[babu]

i blew 8", very wet

[metamorphosis]

i blew 8", very wet

ours was very dry, nice for blowin' i had it in high gear and it went through nicely. ours is always dry, our altitude makes it so.