a big snowstorm will be dropping a foot of snow in the north eastern section of amerca today and so pray for the gaudiya repercushionist prudmercans (babu, dayalu, kali, violetta, meta, mas?) who live there. on sunday a powerful north eastern storm may develop bringing up to two feet of snow. am not sure if kali or bhakti will need any prayers for that day.

Yes, in just the last 3 hours we have got more than 6 inches, and it is still blinding blizzard, also only 11* f. out.

I just got home from work. We got hit heavy here, a real blizzard. It started about 11AM, heavy snow more than 2 inches an hour. We got at least 12 inches so far and it’s still snowing. I couldn’t get up certain hills, had to curtail delivery to maybe 25 houses. The vehicles Uncle Sam supplies are as valuable as pieces of turd, except of course they’re made out of aluminum and won’t rust. They have rear wheel drive, which means only one wheel has power, no weight in the back, they won’t allow chains or studded snow tires, yet they tell us to be safe, safety is #1 they say. What a bunch of f*ckin idiots run this outfit! The good news is my 16 year old strapping young buck of a son did all the snow blowin..

Hang on in there.

No prayers needed, for when the snow falls deeply and all the roads get closed before the electricity goes out....I could not think of a more opportune time for doing some catchup and letting the warmth of passion make the household glow!

Dare I say some of our fellow members further up north tonight are not fretting but perhaps sweating the evening away?

I know, I know, some are nicely chanting and catching up on the pastimes in 4th Canto...ahem...cough...ahem!

its easier for me to measure a foot, for 6" i have to guesstimate

you whimpy ass brahmanas always have something to complain about. we ksatriyas take what we're given and "can do". that's our attitude, "can do". it really bugs me that we are supposed to take instruction from you guys. quite personally, i just ignore it. can see your son is real good at taken your instruction. someday he'll learn.

gracias, very sweet, love the dino

indeed, the warmth of two hearts entwined is the stuff of stars

4th? I thought the best stuff was in the 3rd? You know, Kardama and Devahuti's marital bliss...

QUOTE (babu @ Dec 14 2007, 06:33 PM)

QUOTE (dayalu @ Dec 13 2007, 07:05 PM)

I couldn’t get up certain hills, had to curtail delivery to maybe 25 houses. The vehicles Uncle Sam supplies are as valuable as pieces of turd, except of course they’re made out of aluminum and won’t rust. They have rear wheel drive, which means only one wheel has power, no weight in the back, they won’t allow chains or studded snow tires, yet they tell us to be safe, safety is #1 they say. What a bunch of f*ckin idiots run this outfit! The good news is my 16 year old strapping young buck of a son did all the snow blowin..

you whimpy ass brahmanas always have something to complain about. we ksatriyas take what we're given and "can do". that's our attitude, "can do". it really bugs me that we are supposed to take instruction from you guys. quite personally, i just ignore it. can see your son is real good at taken your instruction. someday he'll learn.

Indeed. One has to question himself, "Am I a Mexi-can or a Mexi-cannot?".

or am i a merry can or am i a sad can? i would think the merry can would be the one that gets recycled.

The people that say ‘can do’ aren’t usually the one’s who ‘do’ anything. I do, we do. I tried to go up the steep hills, but there was easily 10 inches of snow on the unplowed surface, it was snowing all day. I spun around in a circle even attempting to go up. It was also dark, I don’t think it reasonable to think I was going to get out and walk all that mail and packages up the hill and through the deep snow on foot.
I am not an unconditional slave, I have my limits. Anyway, these were all mounted, box on post, deliveries. I don’t have to kill myself, get in a accident, or get stuck trying to get that last peice of mail delivered. I tried. I failed. They’ll get their friggin mail the next day when it’s plowed and sanded. I go out of my way to deliver for you, beyond what is expected of me, I usually can make those hills with effort, but sometimes, very rarely, I cannot. By the way, my son likes snowblowing, he never complains about it, why discourage a good thing?

A pic from today, day after the storm, my hibernating (cause it’s rear wheel drive) pick-up truck, and my littlest daughter, ahh....fresh snow.

cute, but did you have to teach her to give the middle finger so young?

ditto, cute pic, looks like she's giving the peace sign

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

i always assumed that post office jeeps were 4-wheel

lots of accidents in my area of people on the interstate and local roads, good decision to cut out of work and meditate on the universal foam of the lord

"discretion is the better part of valor" sir john falstaff

give me a cup of sak jack

i love yah bro, just like to give brahmanas and brahmanesses a hard time

I never understood that expression, "snow blowing". So I decided to look for it on the net. Oh my - you actually blow the snow away? Never thought about it - we usually just push it away when using machines, and shove it away when we use workforce. It requires much less energy...

Actually Chana Prabhuji, the "proper" term i found, is "Snow Throwing". And believe it or not, it takes much less energy to "Throw" it rather than shoving or pushing it away. Because you are lifting and throwing much smaller amounts, and throwing it much farther away, you never "handle it" more than once. Where when you push it, you are pushing the same snow and then more and more and more etc.

My Snow Thrower is just 8 horse powers, where if you want to push with a truck, you would need at least 100 horses.

If you look into it, places where it really snows, and avalanches go accross the road, the only way to remove it, is to throw.

Click to view attachment Meaning: Snow Throwers are the only way to remove snow in Chinook Pass.

Dayalu, I wish you were our mailman; unless an Avaduta, our man appears to have little self-realisation, and a poor - one could even say - blasé attitude towards his duties.

Plus, I think we'd actually find much to talk about - and, who knows, may well be surprised that there's even stuff we agree on!

to be fair to dayalu, the mail to be delivered was just stupid karmi sense gratification prajalpa that is binding them to the cycle of repeated junk mail

you northern north americans should all leave your cars running 24/7 to warm the globe a bit faster

cheaper to feed cows corn and the incomplete digestion creates methane gas, aka "killer cows"

You all have snow? Amazing!
I thought you all was living happily in Florida, California or maybe even Hawai, and only had seen snow on christmas cards featuring a mythological Santa Claus, one a sled pulled by also mythological raindeer.


Just kidding!

Half of Sweden is snow-free. I think about everything below the 60:the degree. Looking at a map of America, that means everything below Alaska. Looking further on the map, it appears that the whole USA is below the 50:th degree, with is way south in central europe.

I try to avoid taking away the snow on my driveway, and instead drive on top of the snow. It also works, if it is not just soo much snow.

The postwoman comes every day, even when it is snowing. And considering that she has to drive on some small unplowed roads too, her car is probably 4WD.

Yes, isn't it amazing? That's because we have the warm Golfström going along Norway's northern coast and warming up Scandinavia. If the prudmercans continue emitting all their carbon dioxide and methane, the Golfström may become weakened or change its course, and Scandinavia's climate will soon become like Greenland's.

The Swedes might have to emigrate to America yet again. Maybe we will be welcome in Minessota, since I have heard it called "the Swedish state"?

Or maybe the north-pole and Greenland melts, like some scientists say, and then having a climate like Greenland maybe is not so much different from now?

Anyway, I don't think the permanent ice will reach my house in my lifetime, so I feel safe.
And people do live on Greenland and Scandinavians have moved to there before. Greenland is claimed by the Danes, which is peculiar, since they don't have as much snow in Denmark. Maybe they wanted some too and did not want to wait for global warming chilling their country?

I like it cool.

And Greenland is cool.

I like Greenland!

Maybe I would be welcome there...
(I do almost speak Danish.)
And permanent ice sounds great!

Whereas most of the Swedes could go to... California, perhaps?

Got another half foot or more of snow overnight. Now it’s raining ice pellets and sleet. Even though no snow was cleared and nothing plowed, we had to get to a store when it opened, to buy this hard to get Wii gaming system that my son Dhani covets for Christmas. My Scout in 4 wheel drive made it through and she got the very last one. They sold out in 10 minutes! I never remember doing such an insane act as going out in that for a Christmas present, but my wife was absolutely elated she could get it, and Dhani will be too.
Really bad driving conditions all around here. Good day to stay in.

Me and Tapati are the only members happily living in Florida and Aruba respectively that I know of, as we are relatively pure devotees. According to prabhupad the others are living in the icy climes due to sinfulness and uncontrolled lusty desires.

I must be in lowest of the low modes and consciousnesses. Rather cold, windy, almost constantly dark, and there is not even snow!

Uncontrolled lusty desires... I really like that expression! Sounds terribly nice.

yes, like s&m, bdsm (?), genital piercing, golden showers, the massachusetts gas mask, and flavored body tasting confections

At least it keeps you warm on long dark winter evenings....

There is a bona fide-version of the golden shower that has been used during wintertime here in Finland. You simply pee in your own pants. It warms you up for awhile.

Funny how this totally differ from my vision of uncontrolled lusty desires. Apart from that, I have to admit that half of it I do not even know what it is! But it is not at all in that direction my thoughts wander... My thoughts wander otherwise...