On February 19th the sun is shining so you take your S2000 out of the garage for the first time in February.

On February 20th when you take your S2000 to work all of your colleagues tell you to head home by 3:00 so your S can be in the garage before the snow starts.

You drive to and from work with the top down. When you stop at a light, you can see your breath.

You look at your fuel gauge and it shows 2 bars so you stop to get gas only to realize that the last time you put gas into the S was December 4th, 2004, 76 days ago.


How do you know it's winter?

 

Do you put Stabil in your gas when you let it sit for long periods to help prevent "varnish" from building up and clogging your fuel injectors?

 

Matt

I put Stabile in my lawn mower and my garden tractor (and whatever gas remains in the cans). I have found that it makes a great deal of difference for those items and the weed wacker and chain saw, all of which sit untouched over the six winter months.

I've never put it into any car. My S is the only car I've ever owned that actually goes that long between fillups. I didn't think that two months between fillups was a long enough period to warrant Stabile and in general I'm reluctant to put any foreign fluid into my S's fuel system. Remember, even though I haven't filled the tank in 76 days, I have used the S for a few miles every other week.

Do you think it would be worth using Stabile in the S?

 

It's winter when the snot freezes in your nose as you breathe in. (Actually, that's how to tell it's below zero.)

 

When the local ladies switch from a thong to full-back bikini.

When the wife wears jeans rather than short-shorts and her thong bikini during top-down drives along the beach.

 

Great thread Rob! O.k. here we go:

1. I come home one night to find bamboo stakes set up along the perimeter of my driveway (prop. maint. co. sets them up for snowplowing)
2. I get my registration renewal from my snowmobile club
3. I go to the local store in town and the parking lot is full of Escalades, Denali's, Hummers, Mercedes G wagons and Cayennes
4. I go in the store and everyone is speaking in a New Yawk accent
5. I see more N.Y., Ct. and N.J. license plates than Vt. plates
6. I hear the snowguns late at night
7. I find that a lot of people are calling me dude (snowboarders)

 

When my pool is too cool to get into and it wouldn't matter anyway because the 30-foot pecan tree has just unloaded every single leaf into the bottom of it...

....but now it's sparkling clean and I'm just waiting for a bunch of these 80* days in a row to start warming it up again and I have the windows open in my house and a mockingbird has been singing beautiful songs from my rooftop for the past week and the bees are in the bushes collecting pollen....I don't care how I know when it's winter....I just know that SPRING HAS ARRIVED!!!!!

 

I know it's Winter when I can't go anywhere as the traffics too bad with all the Snowbirds down here.
I know it's Winter when Publix Supermarket only carried little tiny packages of everything and it all cost more.
I know it's Winter when cars stop in the middle of the street and back up to where they should have turned.

I know it's Winter when the local newspaper grows by 15 new sections dedicated to real estate.

I know it's Winter when fuel cost an extra 10 cents or more a gallon.

I know it's Winter because on some mornings I turn the heat on with the top down.

At least my top stays down

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I know it's winter when...

We use the fireplace, a lot.

Our weeping willow in the front yard consists mainly of long weeping twigs.

I have to jog in a turtle neck and windbreaker and sometimes an ear covering headband.

We can go ride our motorcycles in the desert and there is no dust.

We can use the jacuzzi every night, (except for this year's rain ).

My rose bushes are naked.

We can't get into our trailer at Kennedy Meadows because there is too much snow.

I actually let my S go weeks without a wash due to the continuing rain.

 

I know it's winter when I'm wearing about 15 pounds more of clothing than I want to be.....


.....but not today - I'm in SHORTS and a T-SHIRT!!!!