Does anybody know where Old Man Winter lives?

Maybe you should start punching yourself in the face because global warming is partly your fault.

It’s not nice to mess with Old Man Winter. He’s bi-polar.

Yes. There is a cave in the Bull Run Mountains of Northern Nevada. It is a very deep cave, rarely visited by men, that faces North. The cave is very old, possible a volcanic vent. It is lined with white quartz, galena, and silver. The entrance to this cave is at about 9,500 ’, inaccessible in winter. The old miners, who built a pack mule trail past this cave, told my grandfather about it, conversed with him, and that is how I learned of his home.
You have a message for him? He has no phone, no radio, no communications. You can find his cave on the western ridge leading to Porter Peak. Go in July through Oct. Good luck!

I have had more than enough. Count me in on the mob!

Lets get him bombed with a ton of Vodka then send him on a southern cruise and maybe he will just forget about winter next year.

This winter had more days with below freezing highs and sub-zero lows than most other winters in my memory. I think I would have to go back to 2002–2003 to find a comparable winter.

@Cruiser “What kind of message should we send to him so he does not make the same mistake next winter?”

“That’s a beautiful family you got there. Be a shame if something were to happen to them.”

In hell making sweet, sweet love to his cousin Donna Summer, “I feel love”

Where does he live? On my roof, clearly

Clearlu

@Cruiser When you find out for sure I want to pop him in the nose, we had more than our fair share of the snow and cold this year and I can’t wait for spring to rise again.

Just one more month and it should be over. I’m so glad I wasn’t living more north during this brutal winter. Usually bad winters like this don’t occur more than two years in a row. Hopefully, you get lucky and next year is very mild.

Plan a trip for January next year to the warm weather so you get a break from it. January is when everyone is recouping from Christmas and usually airfare and hotels are reasonable.

I got out for a mountain biking trip today, it reached 70 degrees here in Tennessee. Old Man Winter has been kicked out.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Don’t jinx it. I’ve been in mid March snows in TN.

It’s happened as late as April here.

@Darth_Algar It will take a whole hell of a lot more than Old Man Winter, Al Gore and Michael Moore combined to put even a dent in my offspring.

@JLeslie “Just one more month??!!?” Are you in cahoots with Punxsutawney Phil??

@Cruiser Who is that and what do you mean? Are you saying it will be more than a month? It can be in your neck of the woods. Although, I am sure you have seen me write before that my mother’s rule is winter is over once tax time is over.

Ummmm… @JLeslie…I am quoting you…“Just one more month and it should be over.”... say it ain’t so!!

Oh, you think it will be over sooner? You could easily get some very warm days in the coming month, just don’t be duped int thinking it’s over. Every year people worry about the tulips and the daffodils getting damaged because of a late frost. I’m not sure why people don’t remember winter weather lasts easily through the end of March into early April, but they don’t.

March is almost the worst month, even though January is colder, because by March we can’t take it anymore, we are desperate. LOL. Then people go south for spring break and by then it is already getting warm up north. The school calendar screws people in terms of escaping the worst weather.

My heat is on if it makes you feel any better.

He doesn’t live in any specific place. He just keeps rolling along.

(My apologies. That is Old Man River.)

@JLeslie March is when we are normally released from the bondage of Winter….I am bumming over the realization I lost 6 evergreen bushes to this nasty winter…and by now I should be enjoying my hyacinths instead of the 2 feet of snow I still have in March! I really can’t complain as I have a nice fire going in the fireplace

Wow, the evergreens died? That does suck. There is no doubt this winter has been especially brutal. I feel for you, really I do. I’m sure you will be getting days 50’s for the high soon if you aren’t already. To me that is still winter, but when it has been 5 degrees for weeks, 50’s will feel warm. It’s all relative. I’m not sure about the hyacinths, but I’ll take your word for it.

The upside, @Cruiser, is that they are saying the harsh winter has played havoc with the insect population, and invasive species especially. There will be less chance of losing all your evergreens to insect infestation.

@ibstubro This winter is 2 years too late to whittle down the Emerald Ash borer that devastated 24 trees on my property. I am also hoping this winter does away with the Japanese beetle that so greedily consumes my roses.

@Cruiser: The Japanese beetles seem to overcome any hardship and live on, and on, and on. I can enjoy the roses until July 1, and then, on schedule, the beetles arrive in too many numbers to be picked off by hand, and I won’t ever spray.

When I was a little girl, I remember my grandmother used to drop the beetles into a jar of kerosine she carried around.

This winter and the Emerald Ash borer: bad news

@gailcalled I don’t spray either as I use the rose petals for potpourri and also pick the rose hips for tea. They seem to only like the fragrant roses and leave my others alone.

True. Unfortunately I like only the fragrant roses also. I have some The Fairy which are moderately pretty with their masses of small flowers, and they do bloom all season. But give me the fragrance of Thérèse Bugnet or White Rugosa Double Blanc de Coubert By early July they both look like Japanese Beetle plants.

(Ditto for the rosa Hansa, which the deer completely destroyed last summer when I forgot to fence it it).

I lost all my rosemary bushes this winter. : (

To the cold? Everyone around here (zone 4b) keeps rosemary in big pots and brings them inside to overwinter.

@Cruiser “It will take a whole hell of a lot more than Old Man Winter, Al Gore and Michael Moore combined to put even a dent in my offspring.”

I think you might have misunderstood my comment slightly.

@gailcalled I did not bring them in. I never had to before so I did not even think about it.