It is so wonderful to live in Michigan in the winter!

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71produster

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Dear Diary:

Aug. 12 - Moved into our new home in Michigan . It is so beautiful here. The
hills and river valleys are so picturesque. I have a beautiful old oak tree
in my front yard. Can hardly wait to see the change in the seasons. This is
truly God's Country.

Oct. 14 -
Michigan is such a gorgeous place to live, one of the real special places on
Earth. The leaves are turning a multitude of different colors. I love all
of the shades of reds, oranges and yellows, they are so bright. I want to
walk through all of the beautiful hills and spot some white tail deer. They
are so graceful, certainly they must be the most peaceful creatures on
Earth. This must be paradise.

Nov. 11 - Deer season opens this week. I can't imagine why anyone would
want to shoot these elegant animals. They are the very symbol of peace and
tranquility here in Michigan . I hope it snows soon. I love it here!

Dec. 2 - It snowed last night. I woke to the usual wonderful sight:
everything covered in a beautiful blanket of white. The oak tree is
magnificent. It looks like a postcard. We went out and swept the snow from
the steps and driveway. The air is so crisp, clean and refreshing. We had a
snowball fight. I won, and the snowplow came down the street. He must have
gotten too close to the driveway because we had to go out and shovel the
end of the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Nature in harmony. I
love it here!

Dec. 12 - More snow last night. I love it! The plow did his cute little
trick again. What a rascal. A winter wonderland. I love it here!

Dec. 19 - More snow - couldn't get out of the driveway to get to work in
time. I'm exhausted from all of the shoveling. And that snowplow!

Dec. 21 - More of that white **** coming down. I've got blisters on my
hands and a kink in my back. I think that the snowplow driver waits around
the corner until I'm done shoveling the driveway. Asshole.

Dec. 25 - White Christmas? More freakin' snow. If I ever get my hands on
the sonofabitch who drives that snowplow, I swear I'll castrate him. And
why don't they use more salt on these roads to melt this crap??

Dec. 28 - It hasn't stopped snowing since Christmas. I have been inside
since then, except of course when that SOB "Snowplow Harry" comes by. Can't
go anywhere, cars are buried up to the windows. Weather man says to expect
another 10 inches. Do you have any idea how many shovelfuls 10 inches is??

Jan. 1 - Happy New Year? The way it's coming down it won't melt until the
4th of July! The snowplow got stuck down the road and the ********
actually had the balls to come and ask to borrow a shovel! I told him I'd
broke n 6 already this season.

Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house. We went to the store to get some
food and a goddamn deer ran out in front of my car and I hit the bastard.
It did $3,000 in damage to the car. Those beasts ought to be killed. The
hunters should have a longer season if you ask me.

Jan. 27 - Warmed up a little and rained today. The rain turned the snow
into ice and the weight of it broke the main limb of the oak tree in the
front yard and it went through the roof. I should have cut that old piece
of **** into fireplace wood when I had the chance.

May 23 - Took my car to the local garage. Would you believe the whole
underside of the car is rusted away from all of that damn salt they dump on
the road? Car looks like a bashed up, heap of rusted cow ****.

May 10 - Sold the car, the house, and moved to Florida . I can't imagine
why anyone in their freakin' mind would ever want to live in the God
forsaken State of Michigan
 
Nice
Looking forward to your reporting on all those things you love about Florida. Aligators, humidity, hurricanes, LMAO
 
Hey Stan it's 80* here today. Got shorts and a tee shirt on. 8)

I won't be so happy when it's 120+ in the summer time... that's what AC is for!
 
1987; Move from Maryland to North Florida:

Think; no more cold winters, no more being snowed in (we lived at the end of a 1 1/4 mile private road- that snowplow hit us last).

Move down in August, the A/C is broke in the house. It's about 100 degrees, and we have never experienced humidity like this. You can't go in the house, just sit on the back steps. Jeez, never saw misquitoes this big. OUCH!

Get A/C fixed, all right, livable. But you can't go outside. You can't walk the 30 feet to your car at 6 AM without breaking into a sweat.

November; ah, what nice weather. Wait a minute, what kind of pollen is this that sends us to the doctor?. Back inside the house.

December, xmas, and outside in short sleeve, this is better.

January; it's going down to 17 degrees, outside plumbing is bursting. WTF? We could suffer through this in Maryland.

March; what the hell kind of pollen is this? Back to the doc. And this wind is knocking down tree limbs.

April; it rained everyday, all day. Yard is mush. Roof got a leak or two, destroying some interior things- buckets, can't fix it in the rain. Everything is blooming-wait, another freeze kills it all.

May, what a nice month, the temperature stopped freezing at night, ann ice days.

June; hey the damn heat is back.

July; Oh,this is hot.

August; this is so miserable.

Sept; Hurricanes? No power for a week? All that food ruined, hot here. Tree limb stuck in roof, leaking all over the place. everybody sold out of generators. Poop.

And the critters: roaches 2" long, that spray an odor that won't wash off, 7' long rattlesnakes, 5' long cottonmouths, gators so huge. I gave away all my camping gear after the 7th time out. My wife left the back door open one evening- I came running with the screaming; possum in the kitchen. So I grab a shovel, wife says"you aren't gonna hurt him, are you?" I said, I can't use a gun without blood and hole in the floor, my welder gloves, he can bite through. So I hammered him senseless, then threw him over the fence, for the neighbor to deal with.

Aah, warm, sunny Florida.
 
In the eye of the be holder is comfort.
We have the same places here in Arkansas that can give you the same felling.

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In the midst of winter I admire anybody who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line but especially when the weather is like what we`ve had lately. It was like 35 below last night in N.D., and that`s without the wind chill...........screw that! I can`t imagine how animals can survive in weather like that.
 
I got the summer version a few years back (Written by an UK ex-pat):

August 31st
Just got transferred with work into our new home in sunny
Queensland!! Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful
sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset
from a deck chair on the veranda. It was beautiful. I've finally found
my home. I love it here.

September 13th

Really heating up. Got to 35C today. Not a problem. Live in an
air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to
see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

September 30th
Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms
and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me.
Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th
The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get used
to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though. But
getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.

October 15th
Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.
Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson
though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th
I missed Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this
morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Kitty had died and
swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $3,000
Leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like
Wiskettes and cat sh*t. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in
this heat.

October 25th
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant ****in blow dryer!! And it's hot
as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman
charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.

October 30th
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $300,000
house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

November 4th
It's 38 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today. It
cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but the bloody humidity
makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman! I hate this
stupid place!!

November 8th
If another wise a** cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to
throttle him. ****in heat! By the time I get to work the car's
radiator was boiling over, my clothes are soakin wet, and I
smell like baked cat!!

November 9th
Tried to run some messages after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the
black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my a** was on
fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs
and my a**. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried a**, and
baked cat.

November 10th
The weather report might as well be a ***in recording. Hot and sunny.
Hot and sunny. Hot and ****in sunny. It's been too hot to do anything
for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next
week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn ****in place? Water rationing
will be next, so my $2,000 worth of palms just might dry up and blow
into the ****in pool. Even the palms can't live in this heat.

November 14th
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 44 today. Now the
air-conditioner's gone in my car. The repairman came to fix it and
said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $2,500 mortgage
payment to bail my a** out of jail for assaulting the stupid ****er.

December 1st
WHAT?????
Dec 1st is the first day of summer????
You are ****in kiddin!!

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The snowplow was my nemesis when I lived in Queens. Nothing like shoveling a mere 3 inches of light fluffy snow only to wake up to a foot of wet, dirty, heavy, slush and ice the plow piled up in front of my driveway. I hated missing my train for work because I had to dig out.
 
I have always lived in SC and I'm not going to move anywhere else. We get a few hurricane after math storms but not the full blow. We have deer and they will run out in front of you without a problem. I think they play "Try to closest to the car without getting hit!" We don't ever get any snow but every so often we get 1-2" and it makes everyone panic. I've missed two days of work because of snow or ice storms out of 11 years with my current employer. I like it here. That 31 below without the wind chill factor is got to be really rough.
 
We've got a special name for all the Yankee's that have moved in around here. "Half Backs" they moved from up North, went to Florida and then came half way back to East Tennessee or Western North Carolina. I've got new neighbors from Florida, Chicago, and Michigan. They recently sold a picturesque 125 acre farm next to us in 5 acre tracts. Tore down the house and barn and cut a road right through where they were.
Now I know how the Indians felt when my ancestors moved here in 1700's...
 
55 f and sunny yesterday and the high today will hit 60 F.
I love it here in northeast Arkansas, I have lived here for 34 years now
and if you don't like the weather here just give it time it will change.:toothy10:
 
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