Dreaduary

[nevrdun]

Here comes Dreaduary!
The most dreadful and the longest month of the year is here, never mind the calendar count. I will die in Dreaduary! Well, not this one I hope because I've got something good to get done, a canoe in the shop half restored.
There's only one other good thing about this coming 4 weeks, it means I'm only 3 months and 300 miles from our island cottage up north, and the five woodies in the boathouse with the associated paddles, oars, push poles and antique outboards waiting to get wet. Oh Lord! I mustn't get myself going!
This is the time of year I hunker down with the box of 'Classic boat' videos hosted by Mary O'Dowd, and my 150 back issues of WoodenBoat and Small Boat Journal.
I save the good stuff for the bad times. This is the bad time.
Of course, WoodenBoat Forum and the Archives will help too.

Nevrdun

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

I hate it too, but this month I get to varnish and polish stuff, so that's pretty gratifying.

[Donn]

I love February...it's the month that baseball starts again. :D

[Dutch Rub]

Tell em to quit whining and act like men Donn!

[Scott Rosen]

February is the best month of the winter. Not only do pitchers and catchers report, but I can no longer put off the pre-spring boat chores, like varnishing the removable pieces, etc.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Never understood the American fascination with BB. Just like watching the Kentucky bluegrass growing championship. :D :D

Now, Football, and Boxing THAT's different :cool:

[ 01-31-2003, 09:21 PM: Message edited by: Peter Malcolm Jardine ]

[Donn]

Since you have no quality teams up there, I can understand your position...the stick is too short, the puck is too round, and the players have too many teeth...eh?

[Ross Faneuf]

Ellsworth Maine has an excellent Gilbert & Sullivan society which puts on a production every Frebruary ('Patience' this year). In just about any other month of the year, the prospect of being wedged into a theatre with a bunch of other suffering Maineiacs and expected to enjoy this spectacle would probably inspire fear, loathing, or both+.

But in February, it's actually fun. Such is the month.

[Ron Williamson]

I like February,as it is the month that we begin to see the sun more than once every two weeks. :rolleyes:
R

[Ross Faneuf]

Dreduary it is. Instead of a nice afternoon out with friends at G&S, we have an ice storm, 20kt winds, and now snow on it all. One of our shade birches split in half, and who knows what tomorrow daylight will show.

[Hughman]

Check out the WB calender of events for Feb. and Mar.

[Wild Dingo]

I love February... well it gettin warmer Febs always a nice warm month down here... February is one of the best times of year :cool: Now June July on the other hand... uugghh! not good :rolleyes:

Oh and me Aaron and Josh get to celebrate yet another year of life in February!... :cool:

[ 02-02-2003, 10:45 PM: Message edited by: Wild Dingo ]

[John B]

I feel the same about August. It'd be nice to be able to follow the summer around, wouldn't it.

[Wild Dingo]

ooohhh yeah sure would eh!! :cool:

[John Shin]

Allow me to disagree. When I came up here in PA from Alabama 20+ years ago I was determined not to sit and look at the walls all winter. Friends took me cross-country skiing and I have been out there every winter since. Our thaw is still six weeks away (or so says Punxsutawney Phil). Until then I'll play in the snow.

Took an 80-year-old friend out today. She didn't go far, but had a great time.

[Mike Field]

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SONG OF THE WEATHER

JANUARY brings the snow,
Makes your feet and fingers glow.

FEBRUARY’s ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet.

Welcome MARCH with wintry wind—
Would thou wert not so unkind!

APRIL brings the sweet spring showers,
On and on for hours and hours.

Farmers fear unkindly MAY—
Frost by night and hail by day.

JUNE just rains and never stops—
Thirty days and spoils the crops.

In JULY the sun is hot.
Is it shining? No, it’s not.

AUGUST, cold and dank and wet,
Brings more rain than any yet.

Bleak SEPTEMBER’s mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood.

Then OCTOBER adds a gale,
Wind and slush and rain and hail.

Dark NOVEMBER brings the fog—
Should not do it to a dog.

Freezing wet DECEMBER, then
Bloody JANUARY again!

JANUARY brings the snow...
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Flanders & Swann. (Who else?)
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[Ron Williamson]

I knew some NZ ski bums who followed winter to Alberta every year, with a two month Hawaii beach holiday to break it up.
What a life.
R

[John Shin]

Ron, I hope those ski bums spend their Hawaii time in wooden boats!

[Ed Harrow]

"Here comes Dreaduary"

A most apt term for this month, and it has NOTHING to do with the weather. I love that.

[skuthorp]

Dreaduary! I like the idea, Our hottest stickiest month, fires still burning, visibility 2K because of smoke, no rain in sight till March, and I turn 60! Grump! Grump!

[JimConlin]

It's been a bit cold in the shop, so...
http://www.conlin-boats.com/im000162-2.jpg

True to my promise, I was in and out in 48 hrs.