By: Daryl Stout to Brian Scott on Sun Dec 21 2025 23:28:55

Now, you better get your Easter shopping done soon. <G>

Wal*Mart is alrealy putting Valentines Day stuff out!

I noticed that Kroger also already has Valentine's stuff out. Good grief!

Mike


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Re: Re: Howdy!
By: Mike Powell to BRIAN SCOTT on Mon Dec 29 2025 09:29:42

I noticed that Kroger also already has Valentine's stuff out. Good grief!

It didnt help us get into the Christmas spirit much considering it
was almosts 80 degrees outside. This morning, however, its 19.

Mother Nature must be getting direction from retailers!

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I noticed that Kroger also already has Valentine's stuff out. Good grief

It didnt help us get into the Christmas spirit much considering it
was almosts 80 degrees outside. This morning, however, its 19.

Mother Nature must be getting direction from retailers!

Weather is on a yo-yo here also. It was close to 70F on Sunday, dropped to about 20 about mid-day yesterday (with wind chills in the single digits), and might make it back to 32 today. :D

Mike


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Mike,

Now, you better get your Easter shopping done soon. <G>

Wal*Mart is alrealy putting Valentines Day stuff out!

I noticed that Kroger also already has Valentine's stuff out.
Good grief!

Wal-Mart will have summertime beach stuff out any day now.

Daryl

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I noticed that Kroger also already has Valentine's stuff out.
Good grief!

Wal-Mart will have summertime beach stuff out any day now.

Sad but true!

Mike

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Re: Re: Howdy!
By: Mike Powell to BRIAN SCOTT on Tue Dec 30 2025 10:13:44

Weather is on a yo-yo here also. It was close to 70F on Sunday, dropped to about 20 about mid-day yesterday (with wind chills in the single digits), and might make it
back to 32 today. :D

Im ready for snow...

(Dont hate me)

...A fast has no real nutritional value.

Weather is on a yo-yo here also. It was close to 70F on Sunday, dropped to about 20 about mid-day yesterday (with wind chills in the single digits), and might make it back to 32 today. :D

Im ready for snow...

(Dont hate me)

I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I don't have to
get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like are the ones that come in
and bring a bunch of < 20F days behind them, and the ones that seem to
stick around all winter.

We usually seem to get about one of the former every year, but the latter
only happens once every so many years.

Mike
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Re: Re: Howdy!
By: MIKE POWELL to BRIAN SCOTT on Sun Jan 04 2026 09:24:00

I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I don't have to get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like are the
ones that come in and bring a bunch of < 20F days behind them, and the ones that seem to stick around all winter.

We had a late snow last winter...snow+ice+more ice+more snow = no power and a scorching case of cabin fever...

It was pretty though...

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BRIAN SCOTT wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

Weather is on a yo-yo here also. It was close to 70F on Sunday, dropped

to about 20 about mid-day yesterday (with wind chills in the
single digits), and might make it MP> back to 32 today. :D
Im ready for snow...
(Dont hate me)

I like the snow too. Just always thought it would be nice if it only
snowed on green surfaces. Trees, grass, shrubs but not sidewalks,
driveways, streets....

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I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I don't have t get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like are the ones that come and bring a bunch of < 20F days behind them, and the ones that seem to stick around all winter.

We had a late snow last winter...snow+ice+more ice+more snow = no power and a scorching case of cabin fever...

It was pretty though...

I like watching it fall. I was trying to remember how old I was when I
first actually saw it snow. Seems like snow was something I woke up to -- that happened at night while I was asleep -- but at some point there was a time I saw it happen during the day. The earliest time I remember, I was
in high school and I know that couldn't have been the first.

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Re: Howdy!
By: Barry Martin to Brian Scott on Sun Jan 04 2026 09:15:00

I like the snow too.

Hate it with a passion. It's cpld, it's wet and it keeos me off my bike.

Just always thought it would be nice if it only snowed on green surfaces. > Trees, grass, shrubs but not sidewalks, driveways, streets.

It does that on occasion, as well as the...er, polar opposite.
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Re: Re: Howdy!
By: MIKE POWELL to BRIAN SCOTT on Mon Jan 05 2026 08:48:00

I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I don't have t
get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like are the ones that come
and bring a bunch of < 20F days behind them, and the ones that seem to

Absolutely! Ajd definitely would enjoy winter weatherif it pnly applied itself to soft surfqcea!

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I like the snow too.

Hate it with a passion. It's cpld, it's wet and it keeos me off
my bike.

Plus stiffens your fingers and makes it hard to type! <gg>

Just always thought it would be nice if it only snowed on green surfaces. Trees, grass, shrubs but not sidewalks, driveways, streets.

It does that on occasion, as well as the...er, polar opposite.

Sometimes it has barely snowed and if the ground is cold enough the snow
will accoumulate on the driveway, cars, etc., but falls right through
the shrubs and grass.



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MIKE POWELL wrote to BRIAN SCOTT <=-

I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I don't have

get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like are the ones that

come > MP> and bring a bunch of < 20F days behind them, and the
ones that seem to> MP> stick around all winter.

We had a late snow last winter...snow+ice+more ice+more snow = no power and

scorching case of cabin fever...

It was pretty though...

I like watching it fall. I was trying to remember how old I was
when I first actually saw it snow. Seems like snow was something
I woke up to -- that happened at night while I was asleep -- but
at some point there was a time I saw it happen during the day.
The earliest time I remember, I was in high school and I know
that couldn't have been the first.

Not specifically snow but just in general I don't recall anything
directly (indirect would be pictures, family chats, etc.) before about
age six. Some pretty significant stuff happened during that period, not
just from a child's point of view but also an adult's. Oh well.

As for snow: I do like to watch it, Gently floating down, forceful gale
gusts and between. Admitted sometimes a PITB: I gotta shovel?!


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Re: Howdy!
By: Barry Martin to Mortar M. on Tue Jan 06 2026 08:46:00

Hate it with a passion. It's cpld, it's wet and it keeos me off
my bike.

Plus stiffens your fingers and makes it hard to type! <gg>

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Not specifically snow but just in general I don't recall anything
directly (indirect would be pictures, family chats, etc.) before about
age six. Some pretty significant stuff happened during that period, not
just from a child's point of view but also an adult's. Oh well.

There are bits and pieces that I can remember directly, but very very few, from before age 5. What I remember after that is limited, but not as much
as before. There are a lot of memories that I have that I can only assign
to an age range. The ones that I can point to an age for are the ones
that happened or around school, which is why I can say what age I was.

I wonder ifchool has anything to do with your age 6 cutoff?

Mike
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Mike,

I usually enjoy the first snow of the year, especially if I
don't have to get out and drive in it. The snows I don't like
are the ones that come in and bring a bunch of < 20F days
behind them, and the ones that seem to stick around all winter.

I like one good snow per winter, then I'm happy. Unfortunately, we
seem to get more ice or tornadoes. This year marks 27 years since
Arkansas' deadliest tornado event...56 tornadoes in 6 hours. The
National Weather Service was issuing a new tornado warning, on an
average of every 6 minutes!!

The rain curtain surrounding an F-4 tornado that was only a mile
away, was just down my street!! That tornado destroyed a grocery
store just south of downtown Little Rock, and the same supercell
dropped an F-2 tornado on a high school gym 45 miles north of Little
Rock.

A basketball game was in progress, but they were monitoring the
amateur radio operators via Arkansas Skywarn. They stopped the game
at halftime, and evacuated the premises. 30 minutes later, the F-2
tornado made a direct hit on the property, flattening the gym, and
doing heavy damage to the school.

Daryl

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Barry,

I like the snow too. Just always thought it would be nice if
it only snowed on green surfaces. Trees, grass, shrubs but not
sidewalks, driveways, streets....

And, that it fell Friday evening, and was gone by Monday morning.

Daryl

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Mike,

I like watching it fall. I was trying to remember how old I
was when I first actually saw it snow. Seems like snow was
something I woke up to -- that happened at night while I was
asleep -- but at some point there was a time I saw it happen
during the day. The earliest time I remember, I was in high
school and I know that couldn't have been the first.

I was in Miami on Jan. 19, 1977, when snow fell there for the first
time in recorded history. They observed it at Miami International
Airport, and had 3 inches just north of Miami in the community of
Carol City.

But that year, much of Florida's citrus crop was destroyed, and
the prices of various juices and other products went through the
roof!!

The tourists were furious..."I came down here to get away from
all of this!!".

Daryl

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