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Posted by Troll
- January 29, 2014, 11:57:10 AMNot exactly a snow rant, but my next door neighbor, Mark had an issue with his house last night. He and I swap snow removal for the sidewalks that belong to the "city". He rents the bottom half of a house, and has been there for years. The upper half has been vacant for 3 years. Last night, about 5:00, we noticed that water was pouring down the outside of his house, and freezing into a huge lake right by his back door. It must be a frozen pipe in the upper apartment. Mark is a bar babysitter, so we tried to get in touch with him where he does adult daycare (bar tending). We left messages, and he suddenly came home, and was there, working with his landlord until around 11:00 last night. There is a ServiceMaster truck and a plumber here, right now. It wasn't even that cold when it happened...only -4. It's warming up, here. I'm going out for a walk in a little while...it's +2 right now, and the sun is out! maybe I will take a pic or 2 of our new skating rink before someone shows up to go ice fishing in it!
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 29, 2014, 09:40:42 AMDC buddy it is not you old people that I have the issues with it is there live at home pay no rent kids who cann ot even come out to help once in a while with the snow moving.......tractor, you can actually climb up into a tractor, or climb down into it?........cool.....
Posted by DC
- January 29, 2014, 01:16:03 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on January 19, 2014, 16:32:26 PMThey may be really old like me, but they need to get on the stick with the snow removal. I just use my the front loader on my tractor. Makes quick work of things.
ok so I have a snow blower, Toro, 924, nice machine, just paid $300.00 to have it repaired, enough said about that, even though it was not my fault. So I have a shared driveway, retired couple living next door to me, he is really old and she is up there too, they are really old like DC, then on the other side is a single lady who is a PSW who works odd hours with her client base.
I have one neighbor that believes everyone should be willing to lend him whatever tools and machines he wants. We already had this discussion that, as a policy, I do not lend things out. It keeps things simpler when something breaks down, why did it break, who's fault was it, and who pays to fix it. And I certainly would not be lending out my tractor for someone to get themselves in trouble with. If we got some serious snow that the neighbors blowers couldn't handle, I have no problem digging any of them out with my front loader, or sending some wives over to shovel the sidewalks.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 27, 2014, 00:38:38 AM 
think positive and all the cardiac work out that the shovelling of snow gives you......fantastic work out, and you can use all them new words you can not use in the house......
Posted by jmbo
- January 26, 2014, 22:44:12 PM....yes a pill...as soon as I finish blowing the @#@#$% snow!
Posted by 49Reo
- January 26, 2014, 21:03:52 PM....and maybe a pill...... 
Posted by jmbo
- January 26, 2014, 19:14:14 PMSnow? I love the $#@^&* snow! I can't get enough of the @#@$%& snow. I live for the #@$#%& snow! Phew! I think I need a drink!
Posted by 49Reo
- January 26, 2014, 16:00:40 PMQuote from: chief on January 20, 2014, 20:28:49 PMDown here people have LEAF blowers,
My wifes brother uses a leaf blower to clear his driveway and sidewalk of snow. Says it works good unless you get a big dump of snow; couldn't use one here, it would get buried in snow!
Posted by Troll
- January 26, 2014, 15:29:00 PMYou have white waxed cotton underwear, too?
Posted by John Hopkins
- January 26, 2014, 15:17:52 PMWe get a bit of snow but it is always washed away by the rain..
We get a couple of days of sunshine every year as well, but that is washed away by the rain as well..
Did I mention that we get rain..
John.
Posted by chief
- January 20, 2014, 20:28:49 PMI'm a southerner but have lived in the frozen wastelands... 12 FEET of snow, -65 degrees F... Down here people have LEAF blowers, never understood that myself. Fortunately for me everyplace I lived with massive snow, someone else was doing all the snow removal! It got to 52 here today, but will be 17 tomorrow! No snow except a dusting in spots so far this year.
Of course I can also remember some really great riding up north in the summer... none of the oppressive humidity and heat we have down here.
Posted by DriftinGirl
- January 20, 2014, 18:05:25 PMNext time sonny walks by give a shout "I got you something!" and pass him Dad's shovel. 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- January 19, 2014, 22:08:08 PM Don't want to sound like I am whining or anything, but before the son moved back in ,I had no issues clearing their driveway, but to have a person half my age sitting inside playing games or watching TV while his dad and I clear the driveway just bothers me, and of course he is living rent free and he has a decent paying job so I am confused.
I remember as a young lad, my dad getting ready to go out and shovel snow, he would let me know who in the neighbourhood was old and should have help clearing their driveways, like right now, and of course you will not accept and money for doing what is your reward for being young and healthy......ok...got me here too......
Posted by greenbarn
- January 19, 2014, 20:28:21 PMQuote from: 49Reo on January 19, 2014, 20:02:32 PM, I used my fertilizer spreader to write "CUT ME" on his front lawn. Kept him scratching his head until he saw it from a distance....we had a good chuckle over that.
You're quite the prankster, 49. So did you write "THIRSTY... NEED WATER" with your Round Up sprayer in the spring, too??? He'd get a real kick out of that!!
Sorry to hear about your troubles, Ratman Sounds like the "kid" needs to pull his weight.
Posted by 49Reo
- January 19, 2014, 20:02:32 PMI have always tried to help out my neighbors, no matter who they are. Some have been great, some not. Burn me too often, I quit being mr. nice guy. Used to have a shared driveway, and used to do the neighbors for them. Picked up a rock, (in his driveway) and was down for a week waiting for parts. He helped out with the shovel until parts came in, after that he shoveled the driveways if I was gone. Worst thing that ever happened between us (we used to mow each others lawn if the other was away) was when they were on vacation, a few days before they came back, I used my fertilizer spreader to write "CUT ME" on his front lawn. Kept him scratching his head until he saw it from a distance....we had a good chuckle over that.