"Tristan" (casselts) 09/22/2018 at 12:48 • Filed to: None

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I hate fall.

I hate winter.

I hate spring slightly less.

Every season that isn’t summer can go to hell. Happy first day of fall.

My lawn... Get off of it.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 12:54

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Fall is my favorite season

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 12:54

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We gave fall a miss. Good riddance. Winter is the best season anyhow. 

Svend > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 12:57

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Fall sounds awful. Autumns aren’t as bad. 

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 09/22/2018 at 12:58

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You native PNWers are an odd bunch. I sit here dreading the next 13 1/2 months of gray drizzly misery while the natives welcome it with open arms. Yuck.

Tristan > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 09/22/2018 at 13:00

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Grew up in Minnesota watching my favorite cars return to the earth. No thanks.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:01

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Bad take, fall rules. Cranberry season here locally. Mmmmm

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:01

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U yuck

Tristan > Svend 09/22/2018 at 13:03

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I like the term fall. It reminds me that I’m “ fall” ing into the cold, disgusting pit of misery that is winter.

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 09/22/2018 at 13:05

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Ur face.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:06

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is graced with the cold kiss of autumn? You betcha.

Tristan > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 09/22/2018 at 13:06

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Strawberry season > cranberry season. Fite me.

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 09/22/2018 at 13:07

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Autumn kicks me in the face with a pumpkin spice Ugg boot.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:08

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Maybe autumn thinks you had it coming!

Tristan > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 09/22/2018 at 13:12

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Face me and fite like a man, autumn! AhL kIcK uR aSs!

Svend > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:21

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Ye’, we used to call it fall, which is where you guys get it from, you also used to call it Autumn, equally as we did. By the eighteenth century Fall was deemed an Americanism and frowned upon.

The rest is history.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:23

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Quit yer bitchin’ and m ove south.

I just came in from mowing the lawn. It’s kinda hot outside.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:26

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Fite me

I have to defend cranberry's honour

Tristan > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 09/22/2018 at 13:29

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Y Colo-ray-do? I are in Oregon!

Tristan > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/22/2018 at 13:32

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If my wife walked in right now and said “we’re moving back to Florida” I’d do cartwheels the whole way there.

We’re rais ing kiddos, though, and we have lots of family here in Oregon. I grew up barely knowing my cousins/aunts/uncles/grandparents. I want better family bonds for my kids, so I shall suffer through the crappy weather. Doesn’t mean I won’t anonymously gripe about it on the internet, though.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:33

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Oops. Overshot lol

ttyymmnn > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:38

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Fall is my absolute favorite season. You would like TX, though. Fall usually lasts about a week. And then it’s either an ice storm, or 80 degrees in the middle of November. 

Tristan > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 09/22/2018 at 13:39

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I’ll pick you up at the airport and we shall have a battle royale! Or drink beer and eat Mexican food. That sounds like more fun.

Just Jeepin' > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:41

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Had to button up the Jeep yesterday. Always a sad day.

I like snow, but hate the cold. 

Tristan > Just Jeepin' 09/22/2018 at 13:44

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I like snow, too, but I can’t do the salt that always accompanies it!

Clown Shoe Pilot > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 13:59

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so... you wish to be... Florida Man?

Tristan > Clown Shoe Pilot 09/22/2018 at 14:07

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Oh, God, yes. So much yes.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 14:09

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after the summer we just had..... fuck summer... i want year round winter and several meters of snow.... and somebody else to pay my gas bill

and a pony

Tristan > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/22/2018 at 14:10

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But who will pay for the pony’s hay?!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 14:14

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who needs hay when your neighbours have carefully cared for flower beds and lawns?

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 14:20

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oh wait... just membered... year round winter..

well.. i guess if somebody else is picking up me gas bill ill just have to take care of the hay.... i know a guy that knows a guy whos related to a guy that knows a guy that has some for cheap

TheRealBicycleBuck > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 14:20

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I hear you. My family is scattered to the winds - Washington, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana. We moved away from family to get so me distance, but we missed out on having help with the kids and their knowledge of their cousins is limited to a visit or two per year, mostly with the Texas branch. I have cousins in the northwest I’ve met maybe four times in my life. I have other family I haven’t seen in over a decade. I have only so much vacation, so it’s no wonder we aren’t close.

Good for you taking the  hit to be closer to family. You just have to convince all of them to move south. Or you could become a snowbird - buy a house in the south and vacation there every year when the winter is bad.

Grindintosecond > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 16:14

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(said with marbles in the mouth) OMG, like, I can’t believe you aren’t excited about image conscious like-dependent white girls in yoga pants getting PSL everything. It’s the season!

Tristan > Grindintosecond 09/22/2018 at 17:37

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Couldn’t care less... I just like sunshine, flip flops and shorts. The cold, rainy dreariness encroaching into my territory is where I direct my hatred.

Tristan > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/22/2018 at 17:42

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My side of the family isn’t terribly close. There’s no animosity, it’s just that they don’t function like a normal family that you know, talks to each other or wants to do anything together. Seeing them a couple times a year seems to fit their lifestyles. My wife’s family is very close and they spend lots of time involved in each other’s lives. It’s what I want family to be for my kids!

The saddest part of all of this was her parents lived in Tallahassee when I met her. Then one by one her brother and sister and parents all ended up in Oregon. We were all alone in Florida while they begged us to jump on the bandwagon!

Tristan > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/22/2018 at 17:44

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It’s gonna get real expensive since the growing season for alfalfa will no longer exist!

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 17:47

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That’s only cause people are dumb. Yeah mine are like that too a bit, but meh. If you keep going north where there’s real winter, the cars aren’t rusted out because salt doesn’t do anything so no one uses it.

Mine are rusted more from gravel road use than road salt. They rust where rock flour settles and traps moisture, or where salt that idiots toss on sidewalks gets tracked in and sits on the floorboards. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 18:10

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I wouldn’t mind moving to Oregon. I like the mountains and cooler weather. I’m not sure what we’re going to do once the kids are out of high school. We’ll definitely be looking for opportunities to move out of Louisiana. It seems an oxymoron to want to keep your kids in school in the state with the worst schools in the nation. There’s a big difference between the public and private schools here. The private schools are among the best in the nation.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 18:12

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well... i can always eat the pony when times get hard

Tristan > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 09/22/2018 at 18:19

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Fair point.

Tristan > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 09/22/2018 at 18:36

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I feel like Minnesota certainly qualifies as “real winter”.

I know a thing or two about gravel roads, too... I’m from the cow-and-corn portion of the state. The answer to “how far away is _____?” is always “oh, about an hour”.

My first XJ, may it rest in piece, served me well for a long time. I tried my best to save it. It looked pretty clean on the outside, but once I started digging in there was a LOT of deep, structural rot. Giving up on that Jeep was a tough decision.

Tristan > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/22/2018 at 18:40

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Cost of living between the Southeast and the PNW is a huge consideration. We’ve been extremely lucky with our real estate buying and selling, but man it was a shock to see home prices here when we left Florida.

I’m not too surprised LA has good pr ivate schools. They tend to thrive in areas where the public schools are failing!

wafflesnfalafel > Tristan 09/22/2018 at 23:36

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I kinda like fall out here - but really only because it’s not that different from summer.  Until it starts raining then everything turn to sh.. until February when we get a week of spring, then back to sh.. until May.

Tristan > wafflesnfalafel 09/23/2018 at 02:00

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Then may is nice for a bit until “ Junuary” comes and the rains start up again. My survival is dependent upon taking trips during the winter. The last 2 I’ve gone to Las Vegas for 3 weeks for work in February. It really breaks it up.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Tristan 09/23/2018 at 13:48

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Well I won’t argue with you about winter, seems to be a sensitive issue for you. My only experience with Minnesota winters is sleeping without needing to zip up my sleeping bag with windows cracked in a vehicle with only steel and glass above the beltline in a Minneapolis Walmart parking lot at the end of January, with really not much snow on the ground south or east of Fargo, not that there was much there either . Didn’t exactly seem cold to me, coming from a place where 0°F in April is normal and the ice doesn’t usually move off the lakes until mid to late May.

But while all four of my J eeps have a certain degree of rust in them, but none of it is structural. Even my XJ which has no floors left in it is clearly rusted out from boots, not up from underneath, and the others have rust in rockers where the weep holes got plugged and around the wheelwells where stuff accumulates on the inside lip. But even on the XJ, there’s zero rust where you can see through the floors into the frame, or more than surface rust on the undercarriage. The ZJ is pretty well mint except for where rust was cut out from the rockers around  the weep holes.

Tristan > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 09/23/2018 at 16:16

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I wouldn’t say sensitive- just making conversation! Sorry if I sounded harsh. 2 Minnesota winter Jeep recollections I have are: the defroster cracked my windshield all along the bottom because it was so cold/the heater was so hot , and one night when it was roughly -55 degrees, my radiator got stopped up with ice/slush preventing the coolant from circulating and causing the Jeep to overheat.

I believe it was somewhere around 1996 or 1997 that I didn’t have a complete week of school from January to March. January, I think, had about 10 school days in total after all the cancellations. However, there are occasional weird patches mixed in where it will suddenly be sunny and 50 degrees in the middle of January... Some years there are feet of snow everywhere and it rarely gets above 15 degrees, other years can be fairly mild. One sure way to get a couple of mild winters in a row: buy a new snowmobile.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Tristan 09/26/2018 at 18:25

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I don’t really want to turn this into an icicle pissing competition, but they film I ce R oad Tr uckers where I grew up (as with most reality shows, it’s a bit of a fraud, but that’s another story.) We usually only lost a couple school days per month to cold, but it took a forecast high of -45°C to do it. After they extended bus routes so my parents weren’t driving us, we lost more school, as they cancelled them at a less extreme temperature, I think around -40, because of the risk of brake fluid gelling. Whether that was with modern fluids or archaic and that’s just a convenient cutoff, I’m not too sure. I run 2:1 mixed antifreeze because I’ve also had slushing problems with 50:50; the gas stations don’t even carry 50/50 premix, even that’s 60:40. As for buying sleds? Even a mild year, cold enough isn’t a concern, but in drought years when by mid-December it’s -30°C and there’s still no snow... It’s pretty rough on everything. Yeah we’ll get the odd warming spell, but they don’t usually go above freezing. I think the biggest one I remember went to highs of about 5°C for four or five days, still freezing at night so not enough to really melt much snow, just warm enough to make a mess. That particular one went from -40 to +5 pretty well over night, then shot back down to the mid -30's about as quickly.

As far as defroster cracks go, I don’t know if there’s a single vehicle older than about 2000 that doesn’t have one, and if there is, either the heater doesn’t work so well (like my Lada) or else the glass is brand new (like my XJ). Every other vehicle I own has the classic crack running along the bottom of the windshield from differential expansion. I think in the late 90'a manufacturers sorta figured out that was a thing and designed around it somehow, cause most newer vehicles take a rock chip to start the crack. One summer my dad put a new windshield in one of our cars , and that winter it cracked again straight across the bottom. That was the last one he changed.

As to the “about an hour...” I know people with commutes to work twice that – one way. You don’t get much more middle of nowhere than central Manitoba.