23 January 2017
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R. Linda:
Well, here I be waiting for 7 to 8 more inches of snow on top of what is already out there. I understand (since I have opted out of telly watching) that the New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl and everyone up here be happy about that at least. Meanwhile, the day has dawned drizzly and gloomy and seems to have been this way since the coronation. I hope we don't have this continue in the atmosphere as most of us already have a dark cloud over our heads. Anyhootie, I remember the last sunny day up here (vaguely) and in me quest to keep your and my mind off the obvious elephant in the nation, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures (since I know you love pictures of snow).
Let me preface these first two shots with how they came about and what they are. On Saturday I had to work, so off I went on another dumb assignment this time snowmobile races on a frozen lake. Yup, I love to be outdoors in frigid weather, standing on ice, the wind blowing over the open lake, yeah it doesn't get much better than that -- not! I bundled up in me insulated parka, had me a knit hat and me parka hood over that. Warm gloves, boots to the knees and a pair of ice skates just in case I had to keep up with sledges as they zoomed across the ice with me handy dandy action camera, aka me iPhone. Can you picture it? For sure you can!
I did not know that some of these gents on the lake (and I use that term loosely) fire up their snowmobiles or sledges (sleds to you), as they call 'em up here, with nitrous oxide. Holy cannoli R. Linda, these things fly across the icy lake and I knew no way would I be able to film them while skating a distance away in the same direction. No, unless as some helpful bud offered, with the aid of a small tank attached to each skate and fuelled with hybrid rocket fuel was I going to be able to keep up.
I know I should have let them do it and they would have. You'd have had a laugh if not downright hysterics over me being propelled over solid ice at a rate of speed that me brain can't conceive, zooming away into the woods unable to stop. Yup, so I declined that offer. These New Hampshire boys are all out for fun. Yes they are, I have never met so many crazies in me life! I thought Northern Ireland was bad, but no, no, they could learn a thing or two from the swamp yankee kingdom of New England.
I did me best but the sledges were blurs in the distance and not worth the effort of me trying to film. I decided instead to just watch and report and not waste life and limb on moving along the ice (which cracks like crazy R. Linda, sounds like thunder underground. This scared the bejesus out of me, but I was told it was the ice merely thickening, uh huh). I was offered the shelter between races of a bob house where inside they were setting it up. I found a sofa, an easy chair, bunk beds, a small kitchenette, and best of all a wood stove. I have pictures of it before it was fully set up! I was too cold once it was set up to take it all done up because quite literally, me brain was frozen by that time along with me fingers, burr! Wanna see? Look below:
847
R. Linda:
Well, here I be waiting for 7 to 8 more inches of snow on top of what is already out there. I understand (since I have opted out of telly watching) that the New England Patriots are going to the Super Bowl and everyone up here be happy about that at least. Meanwhile, the day has dawned drizzly and gloomy and seems to have been this way since the coronation. I hope we don't have this continue in the atmosphere as most of us already have a dark cloud over our heads. Anyhootie, I remember the last sunny day up here (vaguely) and in me quest to keep your and my mind off the obvious elephant in the nation, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures (since I know you love pictures of snow).
Let me preface these first two shots with how they came about and what they are. On Saturday I had to work, so off I went on another dumb assignment this time snowmobile races on a frozen lake. Yup, I love to be outdoors in frigid weather, standing on ice, the wind blowing over the open lake, yeah it doesn't get much better than that -- not! I bundled up in me insulated parka, had me a knit hat and me parka hood over that. Warm gloves, boots to the knees and a pair of ice skates just in case I had to keep up with sledges as they zoomed across the ice with me handy dandy action camera, aka me iPhone. Can you picture it? For sure you can!
I did not know that some of these gents on the lake (and I use that term loosely) fire up their snowmobiles or sledges (sleds to you), as they call 'em up here, with nitrous oxide. Holy cannoli R. Linda, these things fly across the icy lake and I knew no way would I be able to film them while skating a distance away in the same direction. No, unless as some helpful bud offered, with the aid of a small tank attached to each skate and fuelled with hybrid rocket fuel was I going to be able to keep up.
I know I should have let them do it and they would have. You'd have had a laugh if not downright hysterics over me being propelled over solid ice at a rate of speed that me brain can't conceive, zooming away into the woods unable to stop. Yup, so I declined that offer. These New Hampshire boys are all out for fun. Yes they are, I have never met so many crazies in me life! I thought Northern Ireland was bad, but no, no, they could learn a thing or two from the swamp yankee kingdom of New England.
I did me best but the sledges were blurs in the distance and not worth the effort of me trying to film. I decided instead to just watch and report and not waste life and limb on moving along the ice (which cracks like crazy R. Linda, sounds like thunder underground. This scared the bejesus out of me, but I was told it was the ice merely thickening, uh huh). I was offered the shelter between races of a bob house where inside they were setting it up. I found a sofa, an easy chair, bunk beds, a small kitchenette, and best of all a wood stove. I have pictures of it before it was fully set up! I was too cold once it was set up to take it all done up because quite literally, me brain was frozen by that time along with me fingers, burr! Wanna see? Look below:
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| One end |
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| The other end |
Now you've seen the inside of a bob house, a rather large one at that. The bob houses tend to be clustered in places together where they form a compound of friends and family. Some stay overnight in them (that's why bunk beds) and other bob houses are scattered about dotting the lake in blobs of colour. Made me wonder what you do if the ice cracks and your bob house with you in it, are on the crack. I was told the houses 'bob' that's why the name. I can't imagine.
What stuns me, is the amount of vehicles driven out on the lake. There are campers, trucks, large trucks and then there are airplanes. Yes, R. Linda, while I was standing there waiting for one of the many races to begin, a plane landed and an SUV went out to meet the occupants and bring them to one of the bob houses for drinks and race watching. I tell ya!
Here ya go, pics of the plane landing and taking off:
What stuns me, is the amount of vehicles driven out on the lake. There are campers, trucks, large trucks and then there are airplanes. Yes, R. Linda, while I was standing there waiting for one of the many races to begin, a plane landed and an SUV went out to meet the occupants and bring them to one of the bob houses for drinks and race watching. I tell ya!
Here ya go, pics of the plane landing and taking off:
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| Landing |
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| Takeoff |
Yes indeedie me, it was a frigid day for yours truly doing what he likes best, standing out on the frozen tundra with frozen fingers trying to handle a camera and be a good Joe at the same time. Yeah works for me -- not!
Gabe
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Gabe
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4 comments:
LOL I can picture you jetting across the lake and into the wilderness LMAO
What's even worse is I can too.
ROFLMAO yeah I just LOVE pictures of snow and ice! The thought of you on rocket skates sends me to a cartoony place. Arms and lanky legs flailing with not much forward movement. Reminds me of skiing in Boston
that would be a sight you on jet propelled skates whizzing across a lake roflmao
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