That's way I titled my last post. Oh man, get yerself a cardboard refrigerator box or something to lay on the gravel (been there with the gravel situation).
I use one on my nice black top driveway. It's warm,dry,soft, easy to slide around on, absorbs spills,etc... Once you try it, you'll always keep a piece around. When I was younger a 1/4" layer is all I needed. Now I like at least 5/8" to 3/4" ;) I had a real nice piece from the local mercedes dealer. It was a big box, some part came in with a big star on it. :D

so true. I even use it IN the garage as it's cleaner and warmer. A runner of carpet works well too, sometimes easier to store. About the only time I don't use the cardboard is when a driveway is covered in ice. Then I use a sheet of clear plastic(not a tarp). It's the world's slimmest creeper and you can pull yourself in and out with 1 finger

Wait till you have a mortgage and overbearing property taxes like me.....I'm 43 and have to chose between cotributing to a 401K and paying others to do anything around here.....

That choice keeps me very busy.

what ever you do make sure your backside is adequately covered.layered clothing is best.chilled kidneys aint no fun

I have the 180° opposite problem here in TX... 90% humidity in the summer, upper 90° temps. You nearly die from the heat, if you're not drinking fluids (not beers mind you) constantly that's bad news.

One extreme to the other. :D

The coldest darkest days are coming, and winter fatigue don't help
 

#%%*(... I dont know why I just lose my motivation when December rolls in...weekend afternoons are spent taking long naps, it even seems exhausting even thinking about car projects and every Winter, I swear its my last year...yet by March I am up running around pulling engines and thinking up great ideas...the chilly frozen garage seems more like a Foreign Country then my home within my home...I swear, i wish I lived in Southern California, what does it atke to get there?

It's December and Warm in Texas
 

Well I have a problem. I have no garage at all. Living in an apartment complex, due to divorce, is all that I have. It's warm here in Texas, except for all this rain. I wish they had something like "Rent-A-Stall" or "Rent-A-Garage" so that I could tinker or do whatever. I feel bad for you guys in the North, with no garages, or no place to work on your car except in the cold.

That's why we're such a bunch of ornery cusses sometimes. But that's okay, spring is only about 100 days away. I can make it.

I just pick my days and learn to live with a lot more crap! :D All of a sudden I ask myself "do I want to lay on the frozen grown when it is 30 degrees out to repair ___, or can it wait" Usually it can wait. :D

Been having to do all my work outside for the last 2 years. Boy I miss my old 3 1/2 car garage.

On the upside, I had the footings poured for my attached garage addition last week.

And college payments and paying employees and all the other stuff that success (right!) and middle age buys. Oh and don't forget the stress that comes with finally making enough to actually invest in something like the stock market just in time to watch it crash and lose 85% of your original investment.

Stay in school, don't grown up and keep working on your cars in the winter. I envy you Hattie. When I was your age I could not wait to get out of school. Now I would give anything to be back.

For some reason Winter...
 

is a real energy and motivation killer. Either the fact that my spouse keeps the thermostat at 65 or the darkness and wind make me hibernate like the laziest of Bears.. I could change an engine in a wink in June, but changing my oil in January becomes a monumental task somewhere in the order of building the trans Alaskan Railway...it would take six of me to do it..but I guess thats why I am so energetic when the Sun and warmth returns...(yawn, time for another nap...)

"Too bad all of us don't live on the same street! That would be one heck of a neighborhood!!"

We do............its just a REALLY BIG Street! :D

Amarillo, Texas in the Winter
 

Hey try living in Amarillo, Texas in the dead of Winter, you've got the "open plains" there. Big huge cold fronts blowing off the Rocky's and your Starter goes out, No Garage, 3ft of snow and 40mile an hours winds. You've got no choice but to dig under the truck and change it out. Your hands stick to the metal, cause it's hard to change out with gloves on. You run back and forth between the house and oven to warm your hands and you run back forth till the job is done. Wish I had a Garage, heck even a carport at that time would have been great. I'd love to have one now that i'm in Austin, but I don't think about it too much. :smash:

Carrameow (and others...)

Winter blues, explained.

http://www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/27.cfm

I can't wait for longer daylight hours...

Best Regards,

Jim