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Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

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  1. Sean

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    I returned home last night from Victoria BC with my daughter after picking her up from university. We clocked 2200 km/1360 miles round trip during two days of traveling. Distance learning for University is the way forward for the rest of the year. -9c/16f right now with a full load of larch in the super 27 to take me through to tomorrow. When we were there we saw flowering cherry trees, dandelions, daffodils, grass growing and then returned home to snow and ice lol.
     
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    I hope the Distance Learning works out.
    Some people are better at working at home than others.
     
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    Elm and a bit of Oak went in last night after watching another round of inspirational news. 34F and dropping with strong winds and snow on the way currently. Brr. winter is not over yet.
     
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    4-5” snow yesterday and last night. 11*f and -2 wind chills. Burning elm like always.
     
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    Glad to know she is home safe and sound now! Stay healthy!!!
     
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    Looks like the snows didn't start until a little more than 1 1/2 hours ago.

    19 feels like zero and I am grateful for this! It means that the snow will not be wet heavy and moisture laden! :yes:
     
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    60 now, might get to 65 before it dives to the 20’s tonight


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    We can tell the snow was not far from us. At 5:00 this morning it was 62 degrees and has been falling at the rate of 4 degrees per hour. That wind is really cold. Also lost our power around 9:00 this morning. Generator is still purring along.
     
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    Yeah I hope she can do it successfully as well. No one is out and about so she doesnt have a social life right now. Profs and teachers are available to help students. Shes motivated to get good grades so hopefully that will work. Its -14c/7f here under beautiful blue skies! Some lodgepole pine for the am reload warming the house back up. Enjoy your day everyone!
     
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    Do you lose power often? Im surprised that living in a rural heavily treed area like I do that we dont lose power more often. It probably only goes out a few times a year and only once this year did it go out for as long as 6 hours.
     
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    It is amazing how often we lose power. This happened when our electric company sold off most of their equipment and decided to farm out a lot of the work. Then it really blossomed with power outages as the ash borer took up residence in MI and the trees started falling. Trees fall and power lines come down.
     
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    I had one car drive by and it was dragging/pushing snow the whole while. I figure the clearance on that car was probably 6"-7" range so that's how much snow we have so far.

    I can hear the plow rumbling past now. Probably gonna have to clear out the driveway once again! :D

    Cold steady wind form the north made the walk borderline miserable....but not quite.

    19 feeling like 0 but I've got to say, if you're walking into the wind, it feels a lot colder!
     
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    Was 65* today and I took the afternoon off work to clear some more area back in the woods that was overrun with Honeysuckle and grapevine. Overcast and breezy all day. At 3:00 the temperature started to drop. It's supposed to drop to 25* overnight so I have the stove cranking with a full load of Ash and Cherry that will last till morning.
     
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    Dropping below freezing overnight, and staying under 40 Fahrenheit tomorrow. The boiler is getting another Hoo-rah in before hibernation
     
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    29*F outside, it never made it down to 25*. Just went down and pulled the coals all forward and opened up the primary to burn them down. Still 73* inside, right where the wife likes it.
     
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    28, loaded up ash to get things started.


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    18°. Just did the morning load of 3 year dry white oak. Secondaries are torches right now
     
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    -9 this morning!

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    13 right now, loaded the OWB up on oak last night. Have not checked it yet this morning.
     
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    In the teens this morning. Supposed to get to 36 today. Some sunshine would help.
     
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