I miss Calvin …
djm
I cannot read them. My wife got me the complete C&H for christmas and I’m not reading any until then.
BTW Is Seattle a little late on the old snow this year?
Nah. The mountains have been getting snow for a while (some ski resorts opened earlier this year than they have in the past decade), but it’s fairly rare down here closer to sea-level. I like it. 
I like it, but we just received over 8" since this morning. We are hovering just below freezing, so it is wet and heavy. The drifts are up over the hubs of my truck, and my front steps are invisible. Its hard to keep smiling in the face of disaster. If it stops snowing now (no sign of that) I have about 3 hours shoveling in front of me after work.
djm
The only solution is to smile behind its back.
I hate snow. I just woke up to our first blizzard of the year this mourning. Tromping around in 14 inches of snow feeding 18 draft horses is not my idea of fun. On top of that it means I have to hook up the snow packer so I can go out an compact a trail for the horse drawn sled because people are already calling about sliegh rides. And on top of that I have to get a team ready to take to a town 30 miles north of here to haul people around town tonight for there winter festival. And a team for a wedding that is also tonight. 
And by the way I don`t shovel the damn stuff.
Take care
Tom
I love the big horses. Everybody does, I think. What’s a packer - like a big sledge? I would like to be able to say “I don’t shovel” too, but then I start to get hungry …
djm
I love Calvin’s snow people. Every child should be that creative, even if twisted.
DJM; a packer is this big huge wide wheel like thing I hook behind a tractor or a team of horses and pull through the fields to compact the snow and make a trail for my horse drawn sleigh. Makes it easier on the horses when they are pulling a sled full of people.
Take care
Tom
That’s why I like living here. Snow and ice are rare in the lowlands, but it’s just a short drive to the mountains for lots of snowy fun. And no shoveling. 
Yep. And I always suspected that Calvin’s parents got the child they deserved.
That’s 'cause ya ain’t got horses!
BBeer, thx.
Calvin was a big influence on me. I know Waterson had a lot of problems with the syndicates (distributors, not the mob) but I thought he was going to carry on on-line. Instead he seems to have just withdrawn completely.
djm
I miss Calvin, too.
You’ll be pleased to hear that it’s absolutely frigid here. No snow yet, but I’m sure we would be having it if there were any in the area.
I’ve been positively chilled the past few nights. It was 19 C in here this morning, 10 C in the car going to work, and I’m thinking I may need to put on another pair of socks and pants to putter around in this evening.
And tomorrow, I’m going out shopping for something fleecy. Brrrr!
Calvin is one of the greatest. In fact I am giving one of the books to my grandson for Christmas.
I lived in Seattle in 1970 and again in 1974, Port Orchard and then Redmund. One year each time. It snowed one time in 1974 but it only lasted about 4 hours. It was the wettest snow I have ever seen with flakes about 2 inches across. It caused a lot of damage by bringing down power lines and tree limbs. The rest of the time it was 55 and raining. It was only about 30 minutes to Snoqualmie pass. Now there was some snow.
Ron