being a winter bum

[Shovelhandle]

I started work in the building trades so I could stay home all winter and collect UC, smoke a pipe, read Zane Grey novels and putter in the shop like my union carpenter grandpa always did. It didn't work out though. I had very little time off like that the last 20 years of my construction years. Now I work for myself and schedule the winters off. Loving it. I don't care if it's freezing, I'm holed up fine.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I'm always wondering about a place to winter, I have severe arthritis of the spine, a recent spinal injury and other health issues that some fair weather and sunshine could help with.

oregon/washington weather would be mellow enough for me after being brutalized up here in minnesota for the past 25 years. Summer season rentals vacate early & then lots of them get hunters for awhile, I'd like to rent from Dec. 1st thru April or May 1st and so I think if I contacted enough chambers of commerce I'd be steered in the right direction, craigslist too.

of course what gets me through every hard assed cold winter night here in minnesota are my fantasies of where I'll be spending the next winter.......

 

[Bud Green]

oregon/washington weather would be mellow enough for me after being brutalized up here in minnesota for the past 25 years.

S4L,, oregon/washington , east of the Snoqualmie Mountain range is gonna be similar weather to where you live now..
If you went to the west side of the mountain range, I believe you would find the wet, foggy winters would aggrevate your back arthritis to the extreme...

 

[Stoner4Life]

S4L,, oregon/washington , east of the Snoqualmie Mountain range is gonna be similar weather to where you live now..
If you went to the west side of the mountain range, I believe you would find the wet, foggy winters would aggrevate your back arthritis to the extreme...

Bud, from Dec 2nd thru Feb 28th I'll bet we had less than 15 days above 0° and only 3 or 4 days above 32F.

In that same time frame we've had over 40 days where the lows were @ -20F or lower, -40F to -55F if you include windchill.

nobody else has weather like that, nobody. I don't live far from International Falls, the rest of the lower 48 is a walk in the park for me.

Spokane winter weather would be fine for me.

 

[stoned-trout]

foothills rule till summer ..then run to the hills cause it gets to 115 here...lol

 

[Bud Green]

Bud, from Dec 2nd thru Feb 28th I'll bet we had less than 15 days above 0° and only 3 or 4 days above 32F.

In that same time frame we've had over 40 days where the lows were @ -20F or lower, -40F to -55F if you include windchill.

nobody else has weather like that, nobody. I don't live far from International Falls, the rest of the lower 48 is a walk in the park for me.

Spokane winter weather would be fine for me.

WOW, I knew your state was damn cold, but I didn't know it was that cold... Spokane would be too cold for me, but you would probably enjoy it... I guess my point was stay away from the west coast of those states.. I lived at the Puget Sound for 2 years.. 33 degrees and rainy and drizzly and foggy all winter..
That's where I first learned I had arthritis in my wrists and fingers, 20 years ago...
I'll take the snow and 20 degree winter weather where I am now, over that dampness, any day....

 

[OGShaman]

I spent 7 years in California, 10 years in Florida, and then spent much the same in states covered with snow. I've had enough, and I'll be thawing out this coming year.