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11-04-2017, 04:40 PM
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long winter
It is going to be a long winter as the hair on the jack rabbits in Calgary is
just starting to change color. We will suffer until the middle of April next year.
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11-04-2017, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by artie
It is going to be a long winter as the hair on the jack rabbits in Calgary is
just starting to change color. We will suffer until the middle of April next year.
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You're just full of good predictions!
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11-04-2017, 04:54 PM
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You couldn't have just lied to us and said we'll be finished with it by mid March? Ignorance is bliss, after all.
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11-04-2017, 05:00 PM
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Cheer up it only lasts for 6 months
Shh, shh. Just curl up under the covers. It'll all be over by April. We hope.
After a warmer-than-normal winter last year, Canada is due for an old-fashioned deep freeze in 2017, according to the Canadian Farmer's Almanac.
Most of the country will see a cold or very cold winter, the publication says, with the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, the north and the Maritimes expected to shiver until spring.
British Columbia, however, will be "stormy and mild." Of course.
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11-04-2017, 05:21 PM
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Thank-You !
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Originally Posted by bat119
Shh, shh. Just curl up under the covers. It'll all be over by April. We hope.
After a warmer-than-normal winter last year, Canada is due for an old-fashioned deep freeze in 2017, according to the Canadian Farmer's Almanac.
Most of the country will see a cold or very cold winter, the publication says, with the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, the north and the Maritimes expected to shiver until spring.
British Columbia, however, will be "stormy and mild." Of course.
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I'll take 'Stormy & Mild' 
Selkirk
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11-04-2017, 07:48 PM
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Whats the difference between very cold, freezing cold, and ice cold? How would each compare to biting cold or cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey?
Cold and flaky is very fitting for Quebec.
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11-04-2017, 07:56 PM
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I like winter just as much as summer. Dress warm and have fun 
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11-04-2017, 07:58 PM
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we really do need a cold winter . I believe the pine beetle could use some frost . ha
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11-05-2017, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by artie
It is going to be a long winter as the hair on the jack rabbits in Calgary is
just starting to change color. We will suffer until the middle of April next year.
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Never suffer a long winter...always break it up in the Carribean fishing.... 
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11-05-2017, 08:06 AM
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Bring it on. I love winter. I'm hoping we get a couple weeks of -40 maybe that will wipe out the tent caterpillars and ill have leaves on my acreage for the first time in years.
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11-05-2017, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by TylerThomson
Bring it on. I love winter. I'm hoping we get a couple weeks of -40 maybe that will wipe out the tent caterpillars and ill have leaves on my acreage for the first time in years.
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Yup...two years, this year not that bad...we need a cold soak for three weeks minimum to eliminate these buggers!
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11-05-2017, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by bat119
Shh, shh. Just curl up under the covers. It'll all be over by April. We hope.
After a warmer-than-normal winter last year, Canada is due for an old-fashioned deep freeze in 2017, according to the Canadian Farmer's Almanac.
Most of the country will see a cold or very cold winter, the publication says, with the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, the north and the Maritimes expected to shiver until spring.
British Columbia, however, will be "stormy and mild." Of course.
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Must be some interesting weather systems that will see the different predictions end right at the provincial boundary.
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11-05-2017, 09:27 AM
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Actually this winter will be warmer than last winter. I know because my wood pile is smaller.
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11-05-2017, 09:48 AM
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I knew I should have bought that auger extension lol! 
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11-05-2017, 10:04 AM
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I was talking with one of the elders on the rez north of Lloyd, he said this fall the beavers have thicker fur and are building their lodges higher than usual indicating a long cold winter. The wasp nests are higher in the trees this year means deep snow. He also said the old man of winter is here and won't go home until the end of April.
There you go stock up the woodpiles and put the extension on the ice auger.
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11-05-2017, 03:40 PM
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Which is the coldest.....Very Cold, Freezing Cold, or Ice Cold? 
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11-05-2017, 03:43 PM
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Which is the coldest.....Very Cold, Freezing Cold, or Ice Cold?
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It's all cold .. lol . either way you cant' golf or take your boat out fishing
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11-05-2017, 04:45 PM
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I was talking with one of the elders on the rez north of Lloyd, he said this fall the beavers have thicker fur
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Finding the opposite to be true with the city beavers.
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11-05-2017, 04:47 PM
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Bring it on. Wood stove is a rollin, wood pile is huge, watchin it snow them big old flakes with a nice big jar of potato water in my chair by the stove.
Just came in from helpin my daughter sightin in her new .243.
Nice little tack driver in a savage model..
I was really getting the winter blues already, but a good day outside today with the wifey and daughter sure pulled me out of it. Cuttin and stackin wood, some target shootin, a good day .
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11-05-2017, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by hayseed
Bring it on. Wood stove is a rollin, wood pile is huge, watchin it snow them big old flakes with a nice big jar of potato water in my chair by the stove.
Just came in from helpin my daughter sightin in her new .243.
Nice little tack driver in a savage model..
I was really getting the winter blues already, but a good day outside today with the wifey and daughter sure pulled me out of it. Cuttin and stackin wood, some target shootin, a good day .
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now there's a great day . good stuff
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11-05-2017, 05:37 PM
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now there's a great day . good stuff
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Sure was.
Good perspective always wins.
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11-05-2017, 05:46 PM
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Yup...two years, this year not that bad...we need a cold soak for three weeks minimum to eliminate these buggers!
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Im down by hoselaw and we got absolutely hammered by them again this year. Not a leaf to be seen. I'm surprised they didn't eat the pine needles haha
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11-05-2017, 06:34 PM
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Just don't want it cold enough to need an auger extension.
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11-05-2017, 08:37 PM
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The colder it gets the better, as long as it gets good and cold right over to new york.
We need a good heavy winter to start burning off some natural gas and fuel oil. A big killer for oil has been the warm winters piling up distillates on the east coast. Nat gas, well that stuff is everywhere pouring out of everyones ears these days.
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11-06-2017, 12:05 PM
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I thought wasp hives died out each year
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11-06-2017, 05:39 PM
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But it's a dry cold.
The annual cabin fever threads will be your best indicator as to how rough this winter will be.
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11-07-2017, 09:29 AM
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But, but we are responsible for Climate change.... and every year it seems "winter is going to be a long, cold one"
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11-07-2017, 02:21 PM
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It`s the earliest I`ve seen this much snow here ,15 inches, and about -10-12 everyday. I plow snow for a winter job, put in 14 hours on Friday. On the good side my freezer is full and I have 6 cords of fir and larch all split and stacked. And I put a blade on my rhino, it works great!
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