That actually does have me really laughing. I have never worred about dieing from snow bite…
Guess it is truly a case of what you grow up with. Although I will admit putting a tire on my field mower the other day in the snow and ice at about 20 f with a strong wind wasn’t fun. But I didn’t have any concerns about poisonous snakes climbing out of the mower to bite me.
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The funny thing is I don’t worry about them at all. If I am about to climb through some thick brush or around some place that they might hide if I think about it I might shove a stick or a throw a rock that direction to scare them out, other than that I never really think about it. snow on the other hand Down here we have to check the anti freeze in all the vehicles and make sure all the outside pipes are drained when ever it is supposed to get cold. This morning it was 19 degrees F.
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Up here we never install outside pipes they are all below ground where they can’t freeze and antifreeze is just always filled with low enough freeze point so you don’t think about it. We simply fix a coolant leak anytime of the year and don’t play the just add water trick. But not able to walk through tall grass? Crazy I have tall grass everywhere. The worse thing I might find is a harmless gardener snake or ticks I hate that it has gotten to the point where ticks are here in the summer. But now that the ground is freezing no more ticks to worry about either. Put on another layer when I go out and toss some wood in my stove and I am good with the cold. Much better then the heat. Try as I might I can’t fix being too hot with wood alone. 
Down to 10F this morning here. Tomorrow they are saying we will be back up to 40 that will feel like a tropical heatwave.
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I will Just agree to disagree.
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Hi Francois,
Nice picture, looks like a drive through the Adirondack
mountains of upper NY state where I grew up. Tupper Lake, NY
to be exact.
Looking for my pics to show you.
Pepe
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Hi Francois
I thought you lived in the south of France? Or it’s hot!
Often on the move, that’s why photos from different regions, the point on the map is the area of my home.
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That vehicle reminds me of my Geo Tracker.
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We were working on a bucket truck so on a test drive I took a few pictures of our place. 
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WOW Jakob !!
If you had looked to the north west you may have seen me firing up a wood burner .
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Jacob, we call them all skylifts. Even though I saw you were well above the tree tops, and as a forigner, I had a hard time visualizing a BUCKET TRUCK. For some reason, even with TRUCK in that word, I was thinking someting like a front end loader.
The Queen English dictionary wasn’t very helpful but Youtube answered my question.
(To me, American English has a funny way of simplifying things. A bit more complicated over here. A skylift bucket is a basket, a tractor- or excavator bucket is scoop and only a paint bucket or a bucket of water is a BUCKET 
)
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Wow!!
Thanks for a Lift in my spirit, J.O. That little Aria might be my new favorite song!
“So that you don’t fall, a harness is a good call!” 
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Wow, just heard this, that should get some people’s attention. Makes a guy think about dependency on long supply chains for basic needs…
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What about a junky old car? Does that have its own word too? Seems to me that Swedish needs more slang. 
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That definitely sounds like a failure of our modern just in time society. But it does show you how fast we can get into serious trouble.
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It has many words. Bucket is actually one of them. Brush pile is another. And “skrutt”, which is means what’s left when you’ve eaten an apple - the core.
Oh, and junk pile of course.
While on the subjekt, I think Swedish language in general has more specific words, where English only use one. I can think of only one exception - roof and seiling. “Tak” in Swedish, specified by outer or inner.
Could be I’m not aware of English diversity
Another difference that comes to my mind is we don’t separate words that belong together. For example: Gasifier maintenace is “gengasaggregatsunderhåll”. Maybe you noticed I sometimes write firetube, while I’ve seen some of you write fire tube. “Take a look at the fire tube” would to a Swede mean " Take a look at the fire, Mr Tube" Well almost, but you get the idea.
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German seems to mash words together to make new word too. Atleast that is how the electrical schematics looked. I worked on lasers and a production line which was shipped from Germany with all the documents still written in German. It was about 17 years ago now but I still remember those long nights trying to troubleshoot by guess.
It really does blow my mind how people can learn mutual languages.
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