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... let the door hit its ass on the way out.
How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?
Still recovering from a stupid bike accident in October so I spent it still riding on my indoor trainer. Of course with a wind chill in the low single digits °F, I would not be riding outside now anyway.
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How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?
I spent it out hiking in the desert with my wife, son and friend.
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How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?
Snowed in.
Recovering from yesterday’s 625 mile roadtrip from Columbia, MO.
A welcome, do nothing day. It seems like we’ve been caught in “go go go!” mode since before Thanksgiving.
Maybe I’ll take down the outside Christmas lights tomorrow…
Then again, maybe not…
No. of Recommendations: 6
"How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?"
Some serious Winter weather moving thru Michigan today and tonight.
Weather service calls it a "bomb cyclone",lol. Also read on one of the weather apps
that the drop in pressure in this weather pattern is equivalent to a cat1 hurricane.
I don't know if any of that is true, but I do know there is some serious wind chill
outside, I felt it when I removed the snow from my driveway. I'm used to the cold, but this windchill was something different. Hard to tell with all of the drifting, but I think we had 8 fresh inches of lake effect at 6pm. End of driveway had 2 foot drifts across it. And it wasn't from plow trucks going by, as they have not started yet due to the high winds and continued heavy snow fall. I'm sure they are plowing in laying down sand on the main roads, so travel is possible, just not smart, unless it's an emergency.
The weather is bad enough that even the cross country ski area that I frequent is
closed down, and people are advised to stay home.
I'm in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan, and while we are truly getting
hit, it is nothing like how the Lake Superior communities in the Upper Peninsula
are getting hit. So no complaints here, hoping that the wind calms down and there
is skiing available tomorrow. But I won't be surprised if it takes until Wednesday
for things to open up. Today I stayed home, worked on some woodworking projects
in my garage. Won't be surprised if it is more of that tomorrow. But have power, heat, and food, so it is truly all good.
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How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?
Painted a room that’s been an unfinished dumping ground for the last decade.
I slowly emptied it over the last few weeks, and finished that project a couple days ago. Now that it’s empty, I could paint it. Next step is flooring. I’ll start on that tomorrow.
—Peter
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Worked on prepping my patio for painting, and am going through book exercises prepping for VITA. I injured my knee and can start exercise walking tomorrow.
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How did you spend the last Monday of 2025?
Doing battle with a gopher(s) that is decimating the aloe plants I've been planting in the border strip between my yard and the neighbors driveway.
The 4' wide 40' long strip is steep. It's heavy, clay and expansive soil..now rain saturated. There are several 4" drainage pipes at various depths in the strip coming down from the street uphill of us.
I don't know if the gophers eat the bases of the aloes for sustenance or to clear tunnel routes.
I won't use poison because we enjoy the wildlife.
I've used wire traps successfully in the past (in a level lawn), but these hill dwelling gophers keep backfilling the wire-trapped holes. I'd probably get SWAT-ed if I set out carrots and waited at sunrise with a cup of coffee, my tablet, and a pellet rifle. ---crazy man in his front yard with a gun!!!
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Sano-
The image of you sitting in a lawn chair with tablet, cup of coffee, and pellet gun…. will forever give me a chuckle when I think about it, even if it never happens for fear of getting SWAT-ed.
In any event, unless you have a telescopic sight and a bit o’ luck, those pellets wouldn’t do much more that scare them away for a few hours. Them gophers have tough hides.
Little buggers…
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I've used wire traps successfully in the past (in a level lawn), but these hill dwelling gophers keep backfilling the wire-trapped holes. I'd probably get SWAT-ed if I set out carrots and waited at sunrise with a cup of coffee, my tablet, and a pellet rifle. ---crazy man in his front yard with a gun!!!
I've seen a young assistant greenskeeper named Carl employ plastic explosives shaped like a female gopher to battle them on a golf course. A method to ponder.
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I've seen a young assistant greenskeeper named Carl employ plastic explosives shaped like a female gopher to battle them on a golf course. A method to ponder.
“Caddy Shack on Steroids”
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In any event, unless you have a telescopic sight and a bit o’ luck, those pellets wouldn’t do much more that scare them away for a few hours. Them gophers have tough hides.
Ohhh contraire. My last house had a large back lawn with gazania borders. One dead-calm still morning, before sunrise, I noticed a gazania twitch! It was a gopher, fresh hole, dining on the gazanias.
I bought a cheap scope for my pump action pellet rifle and got it dialed in so I could hit a dime sized circle at 30'. A head/neck shot kills a gopher immediately. They don't even twitch.
The current battleground is in plain view of the street. Bleeding heart people with cellphones walking their dogs might not appreciate the necessity to get roots in the soil before the deluge.
Update: My backyard artichokes got hit! This is war!
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I've seen a young assistant greenskeeper named Carl employ plastic explosives
Yeah yeah yeah... I've endured the caddyshack jokes for a while now and pondered M80/cherrybomb options.
That strip of land is also the easement for the water and SoCalGas pipes to the neighbor's house and our house. They might not be amused.
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Some serious Winter weather moving thru Michigan today and tonight.
I got out of the lake effect belt 30 years ago.
Weather service calls it a "bomb cyclone",
Typical media "severe weather" hysteria.
There were wandering snow squalls in motown. So? Jumped in my front drive station wagon, with second hand snowtires I got for cheap on eBay, and went about my day: stop at the post office, then lunch at Tim Horton's.
Steve
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"Typical media "severe weather" hysteria.
There were wandering snow squalls in motown. So? Jumped in my front drive station wagon, with second hand snowtires I got for cheap on eBay, and went about my day"
I know that is one of your favorite rants, and I definitely see that, although I
don't watch much news. But the weatherman got this one right, this was a very severe and dangerous storm across much of Michigan. Up here, everybody has seen bad winter
weather and knows how to take precautions, but a lot of people have to go to work
and deal with the road conditions, they can't just lay low like us retirees. And people travel to this region for touristy stuff, from all over. So the weatherman was
100% correct to call this out for its severity. It stopped me from driving up
to the UP for some recreation, the driving was horrendous in the northern lower,
going over the Mac Bridge, and in the entire UP. It was really bad in the Yoop.
A friend just drove up today from downstate for some downhill skiing, and he said I75
and the other connector roads were terrible. And that's a day after the worst of it,
when MDOT had been working on the main roads all day.
This one wasn't hype.
