-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Those will be our temperatures and we'll be enjoying the outdoors while you run for cover from the Hurricane that's coming to kick your Karma Ass
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
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Actually, I was thinking how beautiful it is with the trees all covered in snow, and ice. We have the driveway plowed and I use a snow blower for the rest. It's not a bad thing, takes less time than cutting the grass in the Summer And it's a great excuse to light a fire in the fireplace. It's like camping without the bugs.
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
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I'll take cold temps and dry powdery snow over freezing rain and ice any day -- except for the driftin and white outs.
Ice will bring down power lines and that's a hassle. But since I married the farmer's daughter, we've always got plenty of food in the house in case we've got to batten down the hatches.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Ice is pretty much what we got. I closed the shop Wednesday and Thursday because the parking lot was one big ice rink. It was nearly an 1" thick.
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hey bob.......couple of pictures for ya....when its 70 degrees here and when its 40 degrees here.... [IMG][/IMG]
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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we ended up with a foot of snow here in the foothills,....the sun is shining and its going away fast,.....at least we got a coupla days off here,and the kids and dogs got to play,..,
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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So...O.P., you always keep those knick-knacks on top of the stove when it's blazing like that? Is that yellow one a candle, or a glass of OJ? Maybe you're just practicing your Photoshop skills? . I'm kiddin' man. . It's been so cold here that I've had to change techniques and tools. My shop is an OLD chicken shed, made of boards which have dried and left big gaps between them. It turns the wind into a breeze. Heat would be a waste of time. Didn't matter so much in previous winters. They tell me we got down to -8 F one of the nights I had to letter a sign. Latex is out of the question. Alkyd still works, works better than expected. Metal draws heat away from your body really bad at those temps, so everything gets replaced by wood. A drum stick with a eraser on the end is my new malstick. Turpentine has been working without any glitches, but, holding a paper cup of -8 degree paint makes those fingers get tingly, probable step 1 of frostbite. So I took an additional cup, with a little piece of torn rag in the bottom, then put the paint cup in it. Acts like an insulator. Every 15 or 20 minutes I work with a Russian kettle weight, to keep warm. Paint dries within 12 hours, I was impressed. I have to sleep by the wood stove, our only heat in the house; and load it full every 45 or 50 minutes. That amount usually goes for 2 or 3 hours. I also go through the house and run every faucet. In spite of that and a big drip, we still had pipes freeze twice. . By the way, when it gets UP TO 40, that's when we let the stove go out. Clean the ashes, enjoy the warm weather.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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Joe, you can keep that beach ..... it looks like you'd have to walk for miles to find any shade.
It's hard to accomplish much when it's cold & snowy, but I accomplish absolutely nothing when the temp gets over 85*F. I'll work from 1am until it gets too hot & then go sit in the basement & kill a few beer. If I do have top work in the heat, I take my T-shirt & soak it in ice water & put it on wet ....... that works for close to an hour.
I'm not as tough as James though ...... our heat stays on until at least the high 50s.
-------------------- Rodger MacMunn T.R. MacMunn & Sons C.P.207, Sharbot Lake, ON 613-279-1230 trmac@frontenac.net Posts: 472 | From: Sharbot Lake, Ontario | Registered: Nov 2003
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james.....the stove is not like a regular stove. it is a fire box, inside of another steel box. there is a 3 sp temp controlled fan on the bottom, pulls in cool air from the floor and pushes it between the inside box and outside box....and the heated air comes out vents on the sides(behind the doors)!!! this stove was made in n.carolina by BAT CAVE STOVE CO. sold to CAROLINA STOVE. mine can also be a fireplace insert, take off the legs!!!! you can see the fan and the vents in this pic...the top never get hot enough to melt the candle)))) [IMG][/IMG]
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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I just have to say, O.P. that Beach looks DANG GOOD about right now! I am so over winter and driving on nasty roads. LOL Up here in Michigan, this is the way our winters use to be - we have had a few easy years...so we were due....but snow on the ground since Thanksgiving - now it can leave. Would love to be sitting on that beach in the hot sun!
-------------------- Patricia A. Raap Raap Signs 2615 Arthur Coopersville, MI 49404 616-677-0158 pat@raapsigns.com Posts: 574 | From: Coopersville, MI 49404 | Registered: Nov 2003
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OP...I really like the stove...the one we have is a toy...a tiny tiny fire box that will only take a 14" stick...it came with the 1,000 sq ft cabin we bought...when we get another I'd like to get one like you have...I suppose that lower front panel is the ash tray.
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rusty, that lower box....is a boxed in fan....and i have to give credit to a couple a guys(curt and couple others i was never told who) who chipped in to pay the shipping from sodus ny. MIKE BOONE found the stove, i paid $200 for it.....spent $600.00 for the chimney and installed it myself.
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Your weather and ours are about the same, next week. YYAAAAYYYYYY!Y!!!!! And another YYAAAAYYY!!!!
I'm so damn sick of the cold, and we've had some ice too. Almost reminds me of back up in Ohio. Well, no, not really. We had some REAL cold there, and they're gettin' it now!
I guess as I get older (not really) and with the BP issues I've had, I just can't handle real cold anymore. Below about 40, my hands and feet get numb; sometimes even in the house. Sucks! My shop is pretty bare-bones, with no heat or A/C, and many days this winter, I just couldn't handle it.
We've got a gas fireplace in the house, and on several occasions, I've spent a good many minutes, wanting to be IN the fire. James, you're a better man than I.
I can remember my mom talking about being in grade school (1920's or so) in a 1 room school house, with their chairs around a pot-bellied stove in the middle of the room. She said some days, the body of the stove glowed, from the heat.
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This pot belly stove, about 30 inches high, burned coal and heated a top floor loft, in New York's SOHO district, that was 1450 sq ft, 12 foot ceilings, bare brick walls with no plaster, and lots of windows. Warm enough in the winter to sit around in shirtsleeves. One load of coal at night would keep the place warm until morning. Then another load kept it warm all day. The chimney ran up about 8 ft and then across and out the window about 12 ft away. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23771315@N02/12548354633/ Dont know why the pic failed to post. You'll have to click on the URL.
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Actually, we like to keep ours going up into the 50s too, but at about 40 people start fergittin' to add more wood. O.P. with how good you look in that picture, and your description of the stove, maybe you can pick up commissions for selling them. I don't consider myself that tough, it's just that most of my life consists of figuring a way out of problems using my hands and mind. I keep wondering, what do sign painters in Alaska or Russia do?
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
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I don't know what all the fuss is about, after all it is just winter isn't it? I'm not gonna let it bother me, I think I'll just go throw a couple of steaks on the grill, dust off the picnic table and enjoy the weather. By the way here's a shot of my deck from my kitchen window today....
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-------------------- Gary Boros SIGNWORKS STUDIOS LLC Monroe, Connecticut, USA Posts: 264 | From: Monroe, Connecticut, USA | Registered: Dec 2007
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typically the folks up in the northern climates tolerate cold more than hot and folks down in the southern climates tolerate hot more than cold- which is a good thing, because it's usually the weather you are stuck with.
I'm from the southern weather persuasion- I don't care how hot and humid it gets, I can always find a place that has ice cold air conditioning to stay comfortable. On the other hand, I can't say the same for cold weather- it takes me a long time to ever warm up once the temps drop. And I can't even imagine the levels of snow, ice and super below 0 temps that others don't even blink at- that is just crazy and not for me.
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1735 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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Here in the middle, as a kid I could tolerate either one really well. Now that I am older I don't tolerate either one very well, but I still prefer the heat.
-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
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WELL...... i sure can speak on this from both extremes. i grew up in western pa 1945-1965. didnt know anything other then snow taller then me(1951 got something like 3-4 feet). drove in this stuff all those years and survived. i joined the air foce 1965......asked for EGLIN AFB FL.........they sent me to LORING MAINE...for 4 years!!!!!!! i learned to snow ski, snowmobile, survive in -75 below weather.took me 8 years of that realize i hated it!!!! 1973 i came back to PA. was living there in the blizzard 1977-78. my mom died in 78, and january 1981......I LEFT FOR SARASOTA FL. LOVED IT!!! the beach, the girls in bikinis(i was single)parties and the warmth. was really hard to have christmas without snow. but i got over it.)))))stayed there till 1998, with all the growth and concrete and asphalt was not possible to live without a/c.moved to pensacola in 98, we have some cold, we had ice and snow this year FOR 1 DAY)))))we get leaves turn colors, and we have july and august...heat. love it.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Op...I lived in Pensacola in my early 20's and it was hotter than hell down there...I remember alot of times at red lights these young guys in white shirts and ties holding up Bibles would yell out a hell fire and damnation sermon to the stopped cars...their little sermonites were timed with the light...I was also attacked by these lunatics while going into restaurants that served alcohol and while getting into my car at a mall parking lot...I had heard they were from a local college and actually got school credit for such harassment...I told one of the guys who attacked me in the parking lot that I didn't believe what he was saying so he stood up on the bumper of my car and began yelling out a prayer for the whole parking lot to hear...he prayed that I would have a wreck on my way home as a way to prove to me that what he said was true...his scare tactics didn't work on me or maybe his prayer just didn't get through...whatever I made it home safely...I don't guess this has anything to do with snow it's just something I remember about Pensacola.
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As I look out the window, I can see the top 3' of a no parking sign.
I've usually had enough of winter shortly after Christmas. But, it is what it is.
And the best part of winter is Spring!
Some of the birds are returning now, on sunny milder days, a 'sign ' of spring - and we're past the half way mark now.
I use the winter months to experiment with new products or work on sign samples for the showroom, that I won't have time for as soon as it starts to warm up. Helps pass the time and feel productive.
Sanding Signfoam in a wool sweater isn't much fun though!
-------------------- Shirley Carron Black Sheep Designs 184 John St. N. Arnprior,On.,Canada shirleyc@magma.ca 613-623-7053 Posts: 503 | From: Arnprior, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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rusty, those are students from PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE...........they teach that god created the world and the dinosaurs and cave man never existed. was one of the things that really aggravated me 1st time i was subjected to their screaming bible verses. and yes they do get some kinda achievement reward for doing this. the city/county allows it......i guess its part of the freedom of speech thing......but it is really stupid. as for the heat........YEA.... it gets hot here in july, aug sept.....but not as hot as SARASOTA))))) we had snow here....i drove the wife to work.....as she has never driven on roads covered with snow n ice. seen temps deep to 18 here this winter.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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that's the stove me and Boone got for him. It was mine before it was his. That is,,, I voted for it before I voted against it.
Anyway, its a really nice stove,, we shipped it from new york to p'cola so joe would have some heat in the winter.
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Just so you know that image was taken last winter high up in the Southern Alps of the South Island.Here is an image taken this morning of my grandson on Papamoa Beach where I now live. In retirement and loving it.
-------------------- Norman Biss aka KiwiNorm Living and working in one of the best countries on earth... Papamoa Beach, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand norman.biss@gmail.com Posts: 141 | From: Papamoa Beach, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand | Registered: Nov 1998
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Donna knows I share "Grampa Dan's" opinion of snow.
I have 2 choices, I could be in London Ontario Canada OR I could be where I am.....It's not a tough choice for me!!!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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Donna...I remember seeing this photo taken from your backyard before...I'm enthralled with rhythm of the limb patterns of the tree...with your permission I would like to incorporate that tree into one of my landscapes...I've never done a snow scene before so it would be a challenge...if it turns out OK I'll post it...I can invision the tree on the left bank of a small stream as it meanders along through a snowy meadow on the edge of some woods
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