WOW
(Topic ID: 234133)
Wichita, KS
Quoted from cottonm4:Are all you northern boys doing OK with your heating bills and other wintertime challenges ? Or are you going to start selling some pins to pay the bills
Your good friend south of the border
Ha!
Heating is cheaper than cooling. It’s easier on the wallet than you south and east where gets humid and hot as balls. The cold has finally broke and it’s very decent out lately, fuckin finally !! 
3 weeks later
Quoted from MrBally:Can you get the address of where it was as I have not been able to find it.
MrBally The name at the time I believe was Fargo Wire, it is now called Sheyenne Dakota, Inc. address is 200 7th Ave NW, West Fargo, ND 58078. Glad I could help fill in a missing piece in your pinball history.
Quoted from northerndude:Ha!
Heating is cheaper than cooling. It’s easier on the wallet than you south and east where gets humid and hot as balls. The cold has finally broke and it’s very decent out lately, fuckin finally !!
Doesn't that depend on how you are doing it? I've heard heating oil is expensive as hell.
Quoted from pinballkim:MrBally The name at the time I believe was Fargo Wire, it is now called Sheyenne Dakota, Inc. address is 200 7th Ave NW, West Fargo, ND 58078. Glad I could help fill in a missing piece in your pinball history.
Thank you very much.....
Quoted from mcluvin:Doesn't that depend on how you are doing it? I've heard heating oil is expensive as hell.
Yes, I have natural gas. heating oil is not cheap. A home a couple homes back of mine had oil, its good heat, just costly, yes.
Can't beat a good wood furnace, free heat if you're a go-getter!! HA!
Quoted from northerndude:Yes, I have natural gas. heating oil is not cheap. A home a couple homes back of mine had oil, its good heat, just costly, yes.
Can't beat a good wood furnace, free heat if you're a go-getter!! HA!
Nothing beats a wood furnace!!
Quoted from northerndude:Yes, I have natural gas. heating oil is not cheap. A home a couple homes back of mine had oil, its good heat, just costly, yes.
Can't beat a good wood furnace, free heat if you're a go-getter!! HA!
My parents have a wood furnace and it heats the whole main floor. They have baseboard heaters upstairs. Wood furnace heat has a feeling to it that you just can’t get with any other type. Every year I still go out to help my dad cut firewood for the winter.
When we build our next home I'm doing a boiler and in floor heating, with heat loss/recovery fans above doors. Super efficient.
On a side note. How'd everyone do on their heating bills during that crazy long cold stretch? Our gas bill for February was $101 and March was $90. Rest of winter was around $70.
1970s 1000 sq2 bungalow.
Okotoks, AB
Quoted from Spencer:My house is brand new, 9 months old. So it "should" have all the best money saving materials used. I was a little surprised at my bill, thought it would be less.
Does Stern built houses in Canada?
Quoted from MrBally:Does Stern built houses in Canada?
No, thank god. What I meant was, the government yearly puts in new updates to building code to save energy. They even updated my house half way through the build which really pissed me off because it made my staircase tighter.
Quoted from Spencer:My house is brand new, 9 months old. So it "should" have all the best money saving materials used. I was a little surprised at my bill, thought it would be less.
I've heard of folks getting some pretty crazy power bills because their "smart" thermostat was using aux heat way too much.
2 weeks later
My two boys had a baseball game last night here. Both on 15U team here, and down 6-0 after 1 but rallied and won 9-8, so cool, BUT not why i'm posting.
It frickin' snowed last night and woke up to another fuckin' winter wonderland. Covered in white. So...........sad...
We had snow recently too. On Sunday morning the ground was completely covered, but it melted by late afternoon. And then yesterday as I was walking home on my lunchbreak, it was snowing. Bah! Silly prairie weather....
8 months later
Quoted from Spinape:Welcome to Canada... it’s so cold my dog can’t stand out there long[quoted image]
My dog refused to go outside the other day, as I was trying to force her to come out my cat bolted out the door, turned around as fast as he could and ran back inside.
That’s cold.
Quoted from Djshakes:Dude, I'm relaxing, listening to music, no one bugging me, gorgeous outside. It's bliss. And if I feel ambitious I take four steps over to these. [quoted image]
Paradise!!
Quoted from northerndude:I should try the boiling water and throw it and video it tonight, its quite the thing to see.
If you piss on the ground does it turn to ice and shatter?
Quoted from swampfire:If you piss on the ground does it turn to ice and shatter?
LOL, nope, just a yellow pile if ice, licking is purely optional.
2 weeks later
Yesterday morn I ask google the forecast
“its currently -4, today will have some snow showers, with a high of -4 and a low of -31”
Wha, whaaaaaaaaat????
-4 in feb is awesome temp for us,. But to drop to -31 during the day was whacked.
1 month later
Quoted from northerndude:How about this shit ?!??![quoted image]
You can keep it! lol.
Sadly we're supposed to start getting some our way as early as tonight, and then into the next two days as well. I jinxed us all by setting up my kids trampoline and pulling out the barbecue this past weekend.
Quoted from northerndude:How about this shit ?!??![quoted image]
Right? I raise you with 2 more inches on top of this pic from the other day and -23°C this morning. Wish I could say April fools day
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Quoted from cottonm4:No offense intended, but when I look at these pictures, and then I look out my window and see my grass needs mowing, the first thing that comes to my mind is: You poor bastards.
Every winter i ask my wife why the fuk are we living in Saskatchewan? The house is just about finished and we were planning on selling and moving but with the Carona going on I don't see it this year.
Quoted from rwmech5:I hear you Dirk, if it's not the snow and cold, it's 60+ mph wind ,can't wait for our 2 days of nice weather then back to the freezer.
You poor bastards 
6 months later
Rained all night, 3+ mm of ice ON EVERYTHING, windshield, roads, friggin everything FFS
I bet the over/under for broken hips in town must be 3.5
Holy moly man, you really do only get about two days a year of decent weather. You folks up North are hardcore. I get all bummed out when it gets below 50 degrees anymore, but I am getting older. After seeing your pics I realize that I have got nothing to bitch about. Take care this winter and I hope you all get through it safely.
Quoted from northerndude:Sask snowmageddon2020 is legit. Holy fuck
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Have you changed the oil in your snowblower?
Quoted from northerndude:Sask snowmageddon2020 is legit. Holy fuck
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We got your freezing rain yesterday and today, and its starting to snow here now. I really hope we don't get as much as you guys have....
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Typical Western babies...mommy can I suckle?
Better zip it, or we'll stop mailing all our money east.
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Have you changed the oil in your snowblower?
I tuned the fucker up two weeks ago and tossed a new belt on, thank goodness
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