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Re: Spring is here! 

By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (1)
Sun, 10 Mar 19 8:15 PM | 66 view(s)
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Decomposed > I must've looked like a snowman when I got up because I really was caked with white stuff from ankles to hair.


You mean you still haven't bought some of them
'Crampons' for your shoes so's you don't slip?

I remember walking on treacherous ground while I was in Alaska.
One short failure to walk carefully had me flat on my back.

Zim.




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Spring is here!
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Sun, 10 Mar 19 7:09 PM 		Msg. 27529 of 62138

As I stated a day or two ago, New England has turned the corner on winter. Every day is now above freezing at some point which means that the snow still smothering the earth will be melting. That doesn't mean we won't be getting more snow; we are getting some of the heaviest snow of the year right now, in fact.

When I came back inside yesterday, I commented to my wife that it was very icy and actually more slippery than it had been all year. I had a couple of close calls, but no falls.

 Today was a little different. Experience has taught me that it's generally safe to walk on snow. It's only where the snow has been cleared that you will fall. Well, for every rule there is an exception. I went to the mailbox this morning and took a header, almost literally. On days like this, it only takes a quarter of a second to go from vertical to horizontal! The problem is that I had become complacent, thinking that walking on 5" of newly fallen snow is safe and not paying much attention. LOL. Apparently my belief is only true once new snow has had a chance to freeze to what's beneath it. The weather today is too warm for that. I must've looked like a snowman when I got up because I really was caked with white stuff from ankles to hair. My right knee got the worst of it, but it's all right.

 Serves me right for not being careful. In treacherous conditions, the potential for going down is ALWAYS there. Lesson learned? I hope so, but that's also what I said the LAST time I fell.

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