Fluffy’s Curmudgeon Corner

Posted my first shave with Hub City this morning, and I'm very impressed.  Thanks for the heads-up Stubble Daddy.  That was a full jar.  I'm glad I got the samples, and I'll work on them later this week.

Last two shaves. 

Some good looking setups Ken!

Well gentlemen tonight’s shave had to be early as in 1430 in the afternoon. Because mother nature decided to play around a little bit and put some white stuff in the forecast. So yours truly is going to be bouncing around in a dump truck for the next 18 hours plus.  Don’t feel bad for ‘ol Fluffy. It’s all time and a half. Got my eye on a brush or two. That would be nice additions to the shave den. Not much of a going concern at present. 
DR34 is in good shape. Have a good Tuesday am. 
I’ll be channeling my inner vampire. No sleep tonight. 
Fluffy.

Well gentlemen tonight’s shave had to be early as in 1430 in the afternoon. Because mother nature decided to play around a little bit and put some white stuff in the forecast. So yours truly is going to be bouncing around in a dump truck for the next 18 hours plus.  Don’t feel bad for ‘ol Fluffy. It’s all time and a half. Got my eye on a brush or two. That would be nice additions to the shave den. Not much of a going concern at present. 
DR34 is in good shape. Have a good Tuesday am. 
I’ll be channeling my inner vampire. No sleep tonight. 
Fluffy.

Great shave ! Have fun and bury some cars.............................they always buried mine in PA

Sorry Dave in KY I couldn't bury anything. Mother nature didn't give me anything to plow/pile. Believe it or not. To properly bury a vehicle requires a fair amount of skill and attention to detail. But without a sufficient amount of material no amount of skill can bury a vehicle.

Sorry Dave in KY I couldn't bury anything. Mother nature didn't give me anything to plow/pile. Believe it or not. To properly bury a vehicle requires a fair amount of skill and attention to detail. But without a sufficient amount of material no amount of skill can bury a vehicle.

What I find here in central Maine is that points may be awarded for either knocking out a mailbox, tipping it, or in our case, burying it!
These are from Feb '17

While that is a fine job of camouflaging your mailbox Eric. To blend in with the surrounding abundant natural winter beauty you have up there in Maine. 
The sheer volume of snow available for doing it. Makes it so even a rookie plow driver can do so. But I dare say your yearly snow amounts means that Highway drivers don't stay rookies for long. 
Down here most storms are less than 6 inches. That's where the skill is needed to gather up enough snow to cover up a mailbox or block in a vehicle. 
 Sometimes everything lines up storm wise and then we get over a foot. But then they ruin it and get all gung ho like they really did something and get T-shirts made up.  It sometimes is real embarrassing.  Last night perfect example. They pushed the panic button for a storm that was forecast to be 1-3 inches.
Wound up staying right around freezing. And dusted the grass and never really made roads slippery. They still because of satellite tracking force me to salt my whole route to "turn the lines green".  Thus burning up 25-30 gallons of diesel, bounce around for 2 1/2 hours and wasting 10 tons of salt.  In the past, pre tracking. I would have rode around and checked my route and if needed started salting. Beginning with the hills and bad roads on my route.  They've spent millions on technology. And in the process now have people that have never done my job. Monitor everything from a computer and insist that all the lines be turned green. And the result is frustration on my and the other guys part. That have been there long enough to know better. And waste. Don't even get me started on the biggest farce they have bought into the operation, "Brine". The State Highways down here got it. So naturally my county had to get it. Its a complete waste of time.  But they won't hear any of it. And are doubling and tripling down on sprayers that mount on trucks and spray just brine. And also tanks that piggy back on dumps to spray brine onto the salt as it comes off the spinner. To "Pre wet" the salt.  None of it makes a significant difference in reality. 
Oh well rant over. Sorry you guys had see my cry baby nature bleed over into my thread.    That's your little window into my little local version government waste. 
But we got nothing on California. They had 11 Billion stolen out of their unemployment system. Foreign hackers and domestic fraud and abuse.  I couldn't waste that much salt in 100 lifetimes. 
Fluffy