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Icicle Mansion, Part Deux

January 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

We have gotten even more snow and ice and stuff. Yuk. As a Floridian (heehee), I am repelled. However, I am also morbidly fascinated by the large icicles hanging off my house. I did at one point attempt to knock them down, but the evil little buggers just fell into a window. I was happy that the window did not break, but I do have a good size hole in the screen now. That ended (most of) my icicle-knocking-down fun. My pride and joy is the icicle which is only about 8 inches from touching the ground — FROM MY ROOF! That’s gotta win a medal or something! :)

And so, for your viewing pleasure, I bring you:
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And, yes, those are my Christmas lights. I was wondering if they might put out enough heat to start melting the icicles in the front of the house, since it looks like there is ice piling up on the roof a bit, and that can’t be good.
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And here is my front door…about 1/4 to 1/3 obscured by the Ice Picks of Doom — obviously, this is not the entrance that I use daily.
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Yeah, yeah, my porch light is still orange — from Halloween 2007. I love how there is a little corridor between the house and the Wall of Ice. And aren’t the Christmas lights all pretty and sparkly? :)
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And finally, my pride and joy, the Big Huge Icicle. I like how these ones in back are a little concave, probably from the wind while they were being formed. :)
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Tags: Photography

4 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Stacy // Feb 2, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    um…wow!!! Seriously, you might want to have that checked out…that’s not good!

  • 2 Stacy // Feb 2, 2009 at 1:02 pm

    In all seriousness…was this taken within a day or 2 of one of the last big snows we got? Cause you have zero snow on your roof…the roof at Michael’s and my house hasn’t gotten that cleared yet this winter…you should have someone come check the insulation in your roof because you’re losing a boat load of heat…hence the melting snow and killer icicles. That happens on houses with and without gutters, so I’m thinking that’s not the reason…

  • 3 Jaibee // Feb 2, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    There’s snow up there. Or at least there was before the Great Thaw (yesterday). I lost all my icicles yesterday. :(

    Last year, my mom went up in there and said that it should be fine.

    In addition:
    1. Who would I get to go up there?
    2. How much would this cost? (Since I am poor….)

  • 4 Stacy // Feb 5, 2009 at 5:27 am

    Well…I have a certain significant other who is laid off (and has been for the last 10 weeks) that would probably do it for a 6 pack or a case of beer… lol I think we still have snow on our roof…a lot of snow…but I’ll have to check when I leave for work. I’ll talk to him and see if he would mind if you want.

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