Since it's only the second of January, 2014 doesn't look any different to me yet than 2013 did. Yesterday being a holiday, we spent most of the day at home but with a good chunk of it on a short trip to Scott and Cheri's place about 30 miles from our house. Scott is Stacy's older brother and they have some property near the Montana line.
They were having a little New Year gathering with their two visiting daughters, and with their local neighbors in attendance with us at their house.
Scott was very proud and showing off his recent purchase of a 1993 Corvette. He has always loved Corvettes and is very happy to have another. He still has his 'race car' Corvette that he used back when they all lived in Kansas but he'd wanted one to drive around, not race, and found this car on line over in Washington near Seattle. It was loaded, in very good shape and with only about 40,000 garage stored miles on it. It has the convertible soft top as well as the hard top with it.
Only thing about owning one up here in North Idaho is that he won't be driving it much for the next few months during the winter! Our motorcycles and my Pontiac Solstice know all about sitting out winter! They're all hooked up to their trickle chargers looking like I-V's to their covered shapes in the parking area for awhile. Even though it hasn't been too much winter here as in other areas of the Country, that doesn't mean there isn't any ice on the roads, let alone that even with no new snow the old stuff is still all around our house with all the trees and shady areas, and short days, plus no sun! So just getting to the street itself would be hazardous to my health.
As I have mentioned, winter so far has been pretty weak in our area. We have had cold temperatures but almost no snow for being in early January.
The big thing about this time of year in our area is it's mostly overcast, cold and overcast. Where we live is kind of in a valley between several mountain ranges, which contributes to cloudy here where it can be sunny and other areas nearby. So we normally will see very little sun for the next few more months until April.
Happy New Year to all that read this!
They were having a little New Year gathering with their two visiting daughters, and with their local neighbors in attendance with us at their house.
Scott was very proud and showing off his recent purchase of a 1993 Corvette. He has always loved Corvettes and is very happy to have another. He still has his 'race car' Corvette that he used back when they all lived in Kansas but he'd wanted one to drive around, not race, and found this car on line over in Washington near Seattle. It was loaded, in very good shape and with only about 40,000 garage stored miles on it. It has the convertible soft top as well as the hard top with it.
Only thing about owning one up here in North Idaho is that he won't be driving it much for the next few months during the winter! Our motorcycles and my Pontiac Solstice know all about sitting out winter! They're all hooked up to their trickle chargers looking like I-V's to their covered shapes in the parking area for awhile. Even though it hasn't been too much winter here as in other areas of the Country, that doesn't mean there isn't any ice on the roads, let alone that even with no new snow the old stuff is still all around our house with all the trees and shady areas, and short days, plus no sun! So just getting to the street itself would be hazardous to my health.
As I have mentioned, winter so far has been pretty weak in our area. We have had cold temperatures but almost no snow for being in early January.
The big thing about this time of year in our area is it's mostly overcast, cold and overcast. Where we live is kind of in a valley between several mountain ranges, which contributes to cloudy here where it can be sunny and other areas nearby. So we normally will see very little sun for the next few more months until April.
Happy New Year to all that read this!
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