Re: Definitely NNG- Not much sympathy from this crowd...

...but then I really wasn't expecting, or even looking for, much. Just wanted to share some thoughts of MUCH better weather.

George, I lived in the Chicagoland area for the first 19 years of my life. I always knew I wanted to live out in CO, and have ever since '71. Believe me, I know what it's like in your part of the world. On the other hand, have you SEEN Loveland lately? If you've not been there in the last couple of years, you absolutely would not recognize it, and there-in lies my biggest gripe with this kind of weather.

Dan, I used to like to ski and also often wished winter would never end. Then I moved out of the mountains to the overly crowded "Front Range corridor", and skiing (or boarding if you must :-) started to involve driving in bad weather & heavy traffic with a bunch of other people who don't know how to deal with either. Suddenly what were easy trips to ski for a day became expen$ive extended weekends to make the traffic hassles worthwhile. Those weekends seemed to happen less and less often until one day I realized that I hadn't been on the slopes in several years.

And (not so suddenly) I discovered I didn't much care for winter anymore. This time of year has become something to get past so I can get to endless summer days and the outdoor stuff I like to do. Mostly as far away from crowds as I can get.

But now what was originally very marginally RR related has become very NNG. I do have an excuse. I spent all of yesterday in my freezing cold garage, repairing the snowblower I broke blowing out the neighbors driveway from the Christmas storm the day before. All so I could go back out and do it again (without the breakage, please) today.

'Bout a foot of new on the ground now, and still coming down.

GRRR!

Scott