Question of the Day, Sunday, March 12, 2017

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 14, 2017

Mamanyt1953 said:
I'm a snow baby. I spent my very young years in Anchorage, AK, and would love to be able to afford to go back there. I have no problem with snow whatsoever and do NOT do well in heat. Actually, if I could pick my ideal climate, this would be it: For most of the year, the temperature during the day would hover in the LOW 70s. On the day before Thanksgiving, the temperature would drop, and a gentle, steady snow would begin to fall. There would be 6-8 inches of snow accumulating between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day when the temperatures would climb into the low 70s again. Look, anything you do outside when it is 95 degrees out, you can do just as well when it is 73 degrees out, AND without drowning in your own sweat! I know that climate doesn't exist, but I can dream, right?

your ideal climate sounds really very nice!!!

warm but not overly hot, then a reasonable amount of seasonally appropriate snow, and then right back to comfortably warm again.

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 14, 2017

Primula said:
Yikes, I could not bear 10 degrees. 95 is tough too. My ideal is a low of 65 & a high of 90. Somewhere in the world is a place like that.

very nice temperature range there!!!

and, yes, both 10 degrees F and 95 degrees F are in the category of extreme, in my opinion.

my ideal temperature range would be a high of 78-82 degrees F during the day, and no lower than 40 degrees F at night.

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 17, 2017

MoochNNoodles said:
DH and I visited the Outer Banks (North Carolina) a few years ago in May. It was gorgeous! It made me think; I'd like it if I could move with the seasons like the birds do. I'd go for somewhere like the OBX for spring, summer would be in the Adirondack Mountains into early fall so I could see the color, then I'd head down south somewhere. Probably the Smokies. Then for winter; Key West!

ahhh, the Outer Banks of North Carolina! a lovely place!

that's a great idea -- to move with the seasons, like the birds do!!!

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 17, 2017

Kat0121 said:
NO. SNOW. EVER. Snow is the root of all evil.

I can deal with chilly. I deal with hot. I can NOT deal with snow and all the misery that comes with it. I'm waiting for my Powerball ticket to pay off. The cats and I are moving to a private island in the Bahamas. We will name it the Island of Misfit Kats.

We will provide sanctuary to homeless and feral cats from the Caribbean region.

Anyone who dislikes cats is banned from our corner of paradise

this year, i'm coming around to the same thinking. i'm okay with chilly, and i can deal with hot when necessary, but frigid cold and top it off with ice, snow, and gusty winds......i just can't handle it any more, and this winter has been horrid.

now that's a most wonderful plan!!!

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 17, 2017

Columbine said:
Definitely somewhere warm all year round, ideally dry rather than humid heat for the most part.

I can't handle cold weather at all

I just don't function outside during the colder months here.

very nice!!!

i can understand that! i only go outside during the winter months when i need to, get what i need to do done, then right back inside and by the wood burning stove to warm up.

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 17, 2017

Mani said:
I am just so over the increasing heat and humidity here that anything that provides some relief is fine by me.

really hot and humid is just so very uncomfortable......

micknsnicks2mom · Mar 17, 2017

Norachan said:
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ahhh, those are really beautiful pictures!!!

even i would be tempted by where you live!

i know that i couldn't handle the extreme cold though.

1CatOverTheLine · Mar 18, 2017

Norachan said:
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@Norachan That was me clicking the snow option, silly - and wow, are you Winter photos fabulous ! Now I see why you're so anxious to have an International Cat Trade - your poor Sophie is overheated from being in that Big Fat Catpile and wants to come here to cool off !

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1CatOverTheLine
Mar 18, 2017

Sophie has a Winter coat, yes?

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Kat0121 · Mar 18, 2017

1CatOverTheLine said:
Sophie has a Winter coat, yes?

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If you get a visit with Sophie than I want a visit with Forest and Little Boy! Fair is fair. Me getting two is only fair in my book but that's OK.

Norachan · Mar 19, 2017

@1CatOverTheLine

It got down to - 20C a few times in February, but I think you've got me beat. -30C!?

Yes, Sophie has a winter coat. She's from sturdy feral stock, she'll be fine.

Kat0121 said:
If you get a visit with Sophie than I want a visit with Forest and Little Boy! Fair is fair. Me getting two is only fair in my book but that's OK.

See, I knew my Kitty Exchange Program was a good idea. I'll be down to a normal amount of cats by summer at this rate.

If I can just find someone ~~gullible~~ brave enough to take Toby Terror.......

1CatOverTheLine · Mar 19, 2017

Kat0121 said:
If you get a visit with Sophie than I want a visit with Forest and Little Boy! Fair is fair. Me getting two is only fair in my book but that's OK.

There are lots of days when I'd be happy to send you ten cats with no exchange.

1CatOverTheLine · Mar 19, 2017

Norachan said:
It got down to - 20C a few times in February, but I think you've got me beat. -30C!?

@Norachan That was our all-time low; we never had a day below zero this Winter. Here, however, it's the snow that makes or breaks you. The south shore of Lake Ontario is part of a narrow band - roughly three quarters of a mile wide along the lake shore - that stands directly in the path of the Great Lakes lake effect storms. The previous Winter started in mid-November, with an 84 inch snowfall (one community actually got 88 inches). I spent most of the time trying to keep a path clear to the fox feeding station out back with a walk-behind snowblower, and I think that ****ed Snowshoe was standing up on the kitchen windowsill for four days straight, trying to catch snowflakes. She is crazy, you know.

Norachan said:
Yes, Sophie has a winter coat. She's from sturdy feral stock, she'll be fine.

See, I knew my Kitty Exchange Program was a good idea. I'll be down to a normal amount of cats by summer at this rate.

If I can just find someone ~~gullible~~ brave enough to take Toby Terror.......

I'll bet that Toby's a sweetheart. Maybe we can arrange a Toby-for-Bob swap too. Bob's just delightful - he Loves all kitties and all people, and would add enormously to the warmth generated by your Big Fat Catpile, and he doesn't eat much either. Give him a can of food six times a day, and he's happy as a clam - a Giant Clam, that is. He'll probably lose some weight on the trip, since only Parcel Post would be cheap enough to get him to Japan; by then he might be down to 30 pounds. Let me see if I can find a box big enough, and poke some air holes in it....

Your forest picture, by the way, is just brilliant - it makes me wish I were there.

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foxxycat · Mar 19, 2017

I am loving the winter. I am always hot. So I prefer it COOL. And snow is just pretty but I don't like shoveling as much as I used to but I will if I have to.

I find the cats sleep with me in the winter more than the summer. Even with AC going. So I am for fall/spring type weather and a tad bit of snow.

The thing I love about snow is it's a perfectly good excuse to stay indoors and read a book or watch one of my many interests on tv (A bad habit) and then if someone comes over they can help me make a meal to fix. But for now I think the weather the way it is in NH is just perfect. Last year we had a bit of a drought going on. I hope this year we get more rain. My gardens did horribly due to no water.

I don't like that blinding cold but if I am dressed for it I don't mind it. I like my face mask and good thick mittens and long jacket and snow pants..and I will walk all over the place outside as long as no bad winds. Lately working so much I haven't had the pleasure of seeking out the woods to take pictures...hopefully later this week I can...I live in a nifty spot that has acres of woods behind our park and some trails..that's always been my wish for the past 12 years I have lived here..to explore the woods..I could spend all day in the woods...I told you guys I am strange...and my Angel Floey LOVED the woods..she used to walk with me and poke around..now Honeybee joins me but she doesn't like the loud brook behind my home...she howls at me to bring her back to the house...somewhere on Facebook I got those pictures...she doesn't mind the snow either. Her fur is thick and long this year and she has gone out in the snow for a few minutes every day. Jon snow blows an area for her to poke around...she's the weirdest cat....oh I need some time off to enjoy our seasons!

Oh and you can keep your hot humid Florida weather=I can't BREATHE! I dislike it. Floey used to pant when it got like this..which is why we started getting the cats shaved for warmer weather..I think if I was in a lake or Ocean all the time I could tolerate it but I still prefer it like Mamamy. 70 n that's IT! I need AC when it's 80. And a nice cold drink!

1CatOverTheLine · Mar 19, 2017

Originally Posted by foxxycat

But for now I think the weather the way it is in NH is just perfect. Last year we had a bit of a drought going on. I hope this year we get more rain. My gardens did horribly due to no water.

I spent much of the same dry Summer keeping the newer specimen trees watered, but ran a rain tower at night for the winter squash, and it paid off - I still have a few long-keepers (Sweet Dumplings, Buttercup and Green Kabocha) in the cold cellar. Worst year ever for Lima Beans and asparagus, though.

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foxxycat · Mar 19, 2017

We didn't have ANY rain!! so no rain barrels to help! I have buckets in various areas-one is in front of the roof runoff and I use that on my petunias...my tomatoes did ok but the town jacked the price of water so high that this year I need to set up a sump pump in the brook that's 15 feet down meaning depth..it's about 50 feet or more away..it's a good distance from the lawn and hook up hosing to bring the water up to my property. So I guess I need some kind of barrel to put it in..and I have been forever wanting to build wood stairs from the collection area below the property area to my yard...I normally climb up the rock wall but lately I haven't been able to do it as well and when carrying a 5 gallon jug of water-makes it tricky! I will figure something out...maybe a zip line to send the empty barrels down to the brook/mini river and then walk them up the side road where it's a slight incline...hm..

1CatOverTheLine · Mar 19, 2017

foxxycat said:
The next year, the stone masons capped everything in limestone, and erected the handrails, and now it's just like walking anywhere else on the property. You'll rejoice every day if you put a stairway in - and the local wildlife will too !

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Question of the Day, Sunday, March 12, 2017

Given a choice, would you prefer to live......

Where it's always warm, and never snows.

In an area that has four distinct seasons (and does get snow).

Where it gets very cold and usually has lots of snow in the winter months, and the summer months are

Some where in the middle -- for example, it does get quite chilly at times, but won't ever snow...an

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