[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by DangeloInspections

Yup...I do not want to get off topic, but there are good and bad things about everyplace, including here. I miss the fall, the apples, the GREAT pizza places you cannot find anywhere here, Beef on Wicks, Garbage plates, etc, etc.

Getting back to snow, I do not miss kicking hundreds of pounds of ice and snow off my car, the crazy ways people park in parking lots when no lines are found, bundling up like an eskimo, sitting down before you open that RG&E monthly bill, chopping ice off the roof, walking under massive icicles praying one does not fall and impale me, Having someone who does not know how to drive in snow rear end me, even when I know how to drive in the snow, watching out for "Bridge freezes when wet" signs, etc, etc.

Frank

I LOVED the summers. We used to water ski on Lake Canandaigua after work as the daylight lasted so long. I enjoyed fishing on the St. Laurence River up in the Thousand Islands, crisp air and the color of the leaves in autumn.

What I observed and could not comprehend when I first arrived in June was seeing people up there during summer cramming in back to back activities (and summer seemed very short as it actually snowed lightly in early June one year) as they of course knew a long winter was coming. I laid back and didn't understand why until my first winter. Growing up and through college I had mostly lived in Albuquerque, NM and spent time in LA and San Diego. I moved up to Rochester after spending six years in the D.C. area which I enjoyed; it had some winter but not enough to trouble me back then. Boy did I find out about living through a long cold snowy winter!