Posted on 02/12/2014 7:08:35 AM PST by madison10
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. 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. 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 crap 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. Idiot.
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 idiot actually came and asked to borrow a shovel! I told him I'd broken 6 already this season.
Jan. 4 - Finally got out of the house. We went to the store to get some food and a damn 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.
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 crap into fireplace wood when I had the chance.
May 3 - 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?
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!
Spent Sunday on Saginaw Bay. Put 20.4 miles on the sled, Ice fishing. Thickest Ice I found was 27 inches. The most I have ever seen out there. (but I have only been ice fishing the bay for the past 10 years. Great calm Day, blue bird sky and spend most of it outside of the shanty. Limited out on Walleye also ;)
“Here in Texas we get only an inch and the whole place shuts down”.
—
That’s because some of our new residents come from the “land down under”. And I don’t mean Australia.
One of my best Michigan winter memories was driving onto a frozen Lake Fenton outside of Flint in a ‘56 Chevy and making rooster tails.
ummmmmm, ice fishing.
or as it is known by locals, professional drinking.
I haven’t tried it but my cousin catches catfish through the ice. No better fish for eating than cold water catfish.
Thanks, you’re making me hungry. All I can think of is Bar-B-Que, Chili, Sausage, Stew, Pizza toppings, etc.
BTW, them suckers are huge...
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!
Sorry, this has been one scary winter, but that's outrageous. A state where the highest point you will ever be is on any given bridge you cross, one that is disgusting sticky hot almost all the time, one that has zero natural vegetation that is pretty, one that has a population that half of them shouldn't be driving anymore.....you can have it......and so can they.......
:-)
They’re complain’ again about your balmy weather!
Yes, they do plow. But there is a certain lack of timeliness. the last blizzard I parked My car at a gas station 1/4 mile away on the main road so I could make it to work. I did that for 4 days before the plow came through.
CC
People who hit these here with their cars would beg to differ. Anyone who has had a garden, anyone who has bushes and landscaping finds them to be the prettiest bunch of oversized rats that need exterminating ever......
Tomorrow its suppose to hit 30, yep, down right balmy.lol
Today in west MI the forecast has a low of 16 and high of 23. At 7am it was -5, and it’s gotten up to 11 so far.
Snook,
Caught between the Fort Pierce and Sebastian inlet offshore.
Then they’ve been in good ocean water to clean out mud for at least 20 miles and man o man.
Catfish? Come on man.
Did you ever encounter his short story about the writer caving in to the persistent lightning rod salesman, just so he could keep writing? Laugh-out-loud hilarious. "Sure, put a couple on the cow!"
It probably illegal now, but when my husband and I purchased our farm, the mail box was on top of a steel post drilled in. Then set in 2 feet of concrete. I think it was that country kids love to use baseball bats to knock down mail boxes.
We haven’t seen 30* in quite a while .....I was in Home Despot yesterday and a little fruit fly was following me around....must have come from one of the tropical house plants they are beginning to bring in. I viewed it as a good sign of spring to come!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.