we are not close but we are not distant either , all very amiable and far less issues than ive ever encountered with my wifes family [much larger than mine] 

Family dynamics are an odd thing.  I grew up with two brothers and a sister, got along well with my older brother, tolerated my younger brother who was a druggee and biker, haven't talked to my sister since my grandfather's funeral when she ransacked his house before his body was cool.  So here's the twist:  my mother had an affair with a dapper young man who was quite a casanova from which union I was conceived.  Fast forward to DNA testing and voila!  I found that I have two half brothers and two half sisters, 3 in the U.S. and one in Canada.  We all met for the first time about 3 years ago and we all get along great!  My mother's and father's promiscuousness turned out to be a great blessing, at least for me.  Perhaps the lack of familial baggage from decades of living together and the friction that can happen within a family allows us to get along happily.

Today is a rainy cool day, just 42 deg.  

Have a good trip Mike, drive safe. 

Winter No 1 Mk2 here.

It's currently thick show-fall with about 2" of pitching in the last hour & its supposed to continue heavy for a while.

The prediction is 5~8"! In Maryland that will slam dunk everything in the state.

Warm and the locals speak English or Spanish.

Come with me up to the "la yucayeque Villar De Lelo" up in the Cordillera Central The Dominican Republic. Lovely people, feasting on Barbacoa & no one outside of the area will ever know we are there.

Please remember to wear clothes when sending photos out to friends.

Running out of room to put it.

Mother nature is a cruel bi......

And appearantly a lot more coming over the next few days.

Be safe Hoadie!

No worries flip flops a hat, & a budgie smuggler is De rigeur!

The ladies are waiting on us

I honestly don't think they'd understand!

I already got into trouble due to a misunderstanding there.

These folks barely understand money as such.

Are you safe Mate?

Us old folks do not bounce to well.

Good God man, that brings back terrible memories of living in Edmonton, AB. Two years of that was enough, perpetual winter. 

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Man what I`d do for some 50deg rainy weather.

Ive now got 10 foot high snow banks along my drive way. Had to get the neighbor to come with his big tractor loader to clean things up.

At the point now if we get  any more snow, there just isn`t any where to put it. 

Last time we had a real winter like this was 2015.

And its snowing again. Can barely see across the road.

Hope this ends soon or we`ll be house bound till spring thaw....

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Still snowing here, hasn`t stopped since this morning.

Local contractor just announced they`re pulling their plows.

No end in sight of this crap. Lake Huron is hurling everything she`s got.

Winters like this were exciting when I was younger; not so much any more.

In North Carolina it is projected for my area to get up to five inches,(125mm) of snow or ice.

 Another beauty day in this winter wonder land, like, I wonder if this is ever going to stop.

Been snow hard again for the last 4 hours. Seems to be no end in sight.

I fear I`ll have to build pontoons around my house so it dosn`t drown this spring LOL

 The cedar forest across the road from me just looks like a mountain of snow. Wouldn`t want to venture in there, bump a tree and you`d be buried alive.

We got no January thaw this yr. And so far February has been relentless.

Still snowing hard and another foot or more in the driveway. All surrounding roads have been closed again....  and yet cars are still zooming by??

We now have nearly 5' standing feet of snow in the back yard, Its a riot watching the dogs jump off the deck, poof, they`re gone.

Our Shepard is insane, I`ve never seen a dog love the snow so much.