Loving the Snow and Ice! Yes!

max · Jan 11, 2011

It's brisk stuff, hits your face, but the cold wind is great to breath, and there's nothing like skating on a nice thick sheet of black ice. Winter's a perk for me, a benefit of my residence.

The_Question · Jan 11, 2011

Forget Fed & Nad played tennis on water, playing tennis on black ice, now that's something else...

Carolina Racquet · Jan 11, 2011

Unfortunately, it's the only surface where I can slide well!

Other than that... I'm getting the itch and here in NC we won't be playing for some time

Feña14 · Jan 11, 2011

I love it too, the first breath on a freezing day is great.

Just a shame it's starting to warm up quite a lot here.

LuckyR · Jan 11, 2011

max said:
It's brisk stuff, hits your face, but the cold wind is great to breath, and there's nothing like skating on a nice thick sheet of black ice. Winter's a perk for me, a benefit of my residence.

Do you own an auto body shop?

heycal · Jan 11, 2011

Anyone who thinks they prefer winter to summer is either not thinking it through, or has a screw loose.

r2473 · Jan 11, 2011

^^ Or lives in ski country.

SuperFly · Jan 11, 2011

I'm a fan of snow baseball, but not a fan of shoveling.

nalvarado · Jan 12, 2011

I'm a fan of 3 consecutive days off school.

mikeler · Jan 12, 2011

I'm a fan of playing tennis outdoors year round.

max · Jan 12, 2011

I like a lot of tennis, but outdoor skating rocks. I cross-country ski, too. So it's nice having the change of pace.

The_Question · Jan 12, 2011

mikeler said:
I'm a fan of playing tennis outdoors year round.

Nice one, but you live in FL...

mr_eko · Jan 12, 2011

I wish I lived in Florida. The snow is nice at first but then it over extends it stay.

PeterPanda · Jan 12, 2011

i have 30inches. Hard to walk

mikeler · Jan 12, 2011

The_Question said:
Nice one, but you live in FL...

This is the reason I put up with 4 or 5 months of sweltering heat and humidity.

max · Jan 12, 2011

mikeler said:
This is the reason I put up with 4 or 5 months of sweltering heat and humidity.

It's the old Dave Barry humor columns I remember about FLA: huge insects down there.

mikeler · Jan 12, 2011

max said:
It's the old Dave Barry humor columns I remember about FLA: huge insects down there.

We have all sorts of critters here. That's why I live in the city where less of them live!

max · Jan 12, 2011

run into any wild hogs/ boars?

tennisnoob3 · Jan 12, 2011

max said:
run into any wild hogs/ boars?

??? i've only heard about panthers

rommil · Jan 12, 2011

max said:
It's brisk stuff, hits your face, but the cold wind is great to breath, and there's nothing like skating on a nice thick sheet of black ice. Winter's a perk for me, a benefit of my residence.

After clearing my driveway of over 2 feet of snow while it was still snowing and trying to get to work I can't share your enthusiasm right now. Although driving to work listening to Sigur Ros and seeing all the white powder everywhere, it was pretty.

The_Question · Jan 12, 2011

mikeler said:
This is the reason I put up with 4 or 5 months of sweltering heat and humidity.

Small price to pay for year round of tennis fun!!

mikeler · Jan 13, 2011

max said:
run into any wild hogs/ boars?

Can't say that I have. A few friends of mine have claimed they saw a black panther jump an 8' fence. Had the pleasure of being bitten by a variety of ants, honey bees, bumble bees, black wasps and scorpions.

heycal · Jan 13, 2011

mr_eko said:
The snow is nice at first but then it over extends it stay.

Well, put. It is like a relative or acquaintance who can be delightful for a short time, but soon becomes tedious and boorish.

sphinx780 · Jan 13, 2011

What is this "outdoor" tennis you speak of? Is this some sort of riddle. We're not getting dumped on here like out East but all week we've had a consistent 1-3" per day. Just wish it'd warm up enough to melt before May.

mikeler · Jan 13, 2011

sphinx780 said:
What is this "outdoor" tennis you speak of? Is this some sort of riddle. We're not getting dumped on here like out East but all week we've had a consistent 1-3" per day. Just wish it'd warm up enough to melt before May.

Been pretty cold here for us. It got down to freezing this morning.

Steady Eddy · Jan 13, 2011

What I didn't like about Northern Winters was driving on icy roads. You never know when your car will go out of control. If we had some other system of transportation, like trains, where you're not on icy roads, then I wouldn't mind a real Winter that much.

But since we use cars to get everywhere, I won't live anywhere that gets snow.:|

OldButGame · Jan 13, 2011

sphinx780 said:
What is this "outdoor" tennis you speak of? Is this some sort of riddle. We're not getting dumped on here like out East but all week we've had a consistent 1-3" per day. Just wish it'd warm up enough to melt before May.

Sphinx,...We wont see outdoor tennis till April i bet,...last year was a good year and it was April 1st we were out,..that'll get pushed back with all this snow, You could be right with May......

heycal · Jan 13, 2011

Steady Eddy said:
What I didn't like about Northern Winters was driving on icy roads. You never know when your car will go out of control. If we had some other system of transportation, like trains, where you're not on icy roads, then I wouldn't mind a real Winter that much.

But since we use cars to get everywhere, I won't live anywhere that gets snow.:|

There's a little city called New York that's tailor made for you, Eddy.

max · Jan 14, 2011

I'm looking forward to some pond hockey this weekend.

heycal · Jan 14, 2011

max said:
I'm looking forward to some pond hockey this weekend.

You live in the Chicago suburbs, or am I mistaken? Do they have much pond hockey in those parts?

mtommer · Jan 14, 2011

tennisnoob3 said:
??? i've only heard about panthers

I ran into two of these when I was riding home from work in the morning when I lived near Orlando.

mikeler · Jan 14, 2011

mtommer said:
I ran into two of these when I was riding home from work in the morning when I lived near Orlando.

Our high school mascot was a panther. One year this guy brought a black panther to our homecoming football game. It was on the other side of a short fence in the corner of the field near the end zone. I reached down through the fence to pet it on the back and the big cat turned around, hissed and tried to bite me through the fence. Not a nice kitty! The owner got mad at me but all he had to do was move the cat a foot further away from the fence and nobody could have touched his precious panther.

heycal · Jan 14, 2011

mikeler said:
Our high school mascot was a panther. One year this guy brought a black panther to our homecoming football game. It was on the other side of a short fence in the corner of the field near the end zone. I reached down through the fence to pet it on the back and the big cat turned around, hissed and tried to bite me through the fence. Not a nice kitty! The owner got mad at me but all he had to do was move the cat a foot further away from the fence and nobody could have touched his precious panther.

Is it just me, or would anyone else here not attempt to pet a panther?

mikeler · Jan 14, 2011

heycal said:
Is it just me, or would anyone else here not attempt to pet a panther?

I was 12 years old.

tennisnoob3 · Jan 14, 2011

heycal said:
Is it just me, or would anyone else here not attempt to pet a panther?

lol is it even legal to own a panther? you always hear about people owning weird pets in florida....like alligators in their bathtub.

heycal · Jan 14, 2011

tennisnoob3 said:
lol is it even legal to own a panther?.

Last I checked, it was perfectly legal to own a panther in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Vermont.

tennisnoob3 said:
you always hear about people owning weird pets in florida....like alligators in their bathtub.

Are alligators in bathtubs "pets" that are "owned", or did they come up from the drain uninvited?

mikeler · Jan 15, 2011

Nuisance gators have to be removed from swimming pools in the spring during mating season. Not a job I would want.

Markov · Jan 15, 2011

I like winter. But it has definitely gone too far this time.

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