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

Holy man, insulation wherever I look! Nice.

Looks like you could heat that place with a candle.

 

42 out right now, opening day of rifle and with the warm weather and the full moon there isn't a thing moving, looking around at all the down and dead trees and all the nasty buckthorn that needs to go...

 

The breeze came up over night here. The mercury has risen to 14 below but the breeze has the wind chill around 40 below.
Aspen in the stove.

 

A cold wind or breeze is the worst. I ice fish this one lake that often has winds to 100km/hr and even if its just around freezing I still have to wear my parka.

 

Oh ya,
A lot of people think The Arctic has Super cold temps all the time. Lots of the time. At least half the time Tok and Northway have colder temps, sometimes a lot colder.
But in the Arctic, it BLOWS ! Sometimes it blows HARD !! So it can be 30 below and blowing 40 mph. And even colder and much more wind. Wind wind wind .
That's why Eskimos invented the snorkel parka.
The hood goes 6 to 8 inch past the face so the wind doesnt get to the face.
If a person can get the wind off then it's just adding insulation to deal with the cold.

 

49 out and just put some spruce in the stove.

 

Attached is an interesting link to the most extreme temperature (record highs and lows) for each of the 50 states, plus record rainfall and snowfall for each state. Some will surprise you.

These were the most extreme temperatures ever in your state, according to data (msn.com)

Texas
- All-time highest temperature: 120° F (Seymour 3NW on Aug.12, 1936)
- All-time lowest temperature: -23° F (Tulia Near on Feb.12, 1899)
- All-time highest 24-hour precipitation: 42 inches (Alvin on July 25–26, 1979)
- All-time highest 24-hour snowfall: 26 inches (Hillsboro on Dec. 20–21, 1929)

 

38F here and no wind, it was a nice day with a few peeks of sun. Steady temps & rain for tomorrow which is a real bummer. About to load some Elm & Maple in the boiler. Cold Trigger Finger , congrats on taking a walk from that job. Life is too short to deal with stuff/people like that, especially when ya don't have to. I hope you can do your own thing & enjoy it now.

 

36 with my new favorite go-to mix of black birch and aspen in the stove. Actually it’s just what’s staged in my racks by the house. I like to keep a mix of top shelf and “lesser” wood right outside the back door. Once the aspen is gone in a week or two then I’ll bring in some spruce, of which I’m hoping to be rid of by spring (I went pretty gung-ho with the conifer hoarding this past year) Then when the birch is all gone, I’ll have plenty of options to choose from. We’ll see what looks good when we get there.

 

We had huge amounts of what locally was called Grey Birch. In central Maine when I was growing up. We cut and sold it as bolt wood. It was turned on big production lathes and turned into plugs with a hole in the center. They were used in the paper industry as the center / bearings , that paper rolls were spun onto. There was a plug mill in Brewer , Maine that we delivered to . Iirc we had to cut the wood some oddball length like 52 inch long . It was longer than the 4' balsam fir and spruce and popple pulp we mostly logged and sold. As I was a kid, my arms weren't quite long enough to put my left hand over the end while pitching it using a Canadian style pulp hook .
Really, I never saw anything grey on it . But rather black patches . And smooth bark. Does your black Birch have pretty smooth bark ?

 

Pretty smooth as a young tree then gets more furrowed as it gets older. The oldest and largest ones I’ve seen have bark that’s like armored plates. Here’s a split from about an 8” diameter tree. Just starting to get furrowed.

You’re from New England originally? The gray birch here is a relatively short lived pioneer tree. Not as good as black, but decent.

 

Winds up to 30 mph with stronger gusts. Temp -14.
Aspen in the stove.

 

Yes, I grew up in Maine. That looks real similar. Yes, they were short lived but still got 50, 60 feet tall and up to 12" stump diameters. At least what we cut and sold.
We would get ice storms and they were very prone to bending all the way over till the top was on the snow/ground.
Talk about loaded up. Those were only good for firewood . The mill wouldn't take them .

 

Interesting. I’m shocked that Colorado has a record low temp that’s lower than all of the Midwest/Great Lakes region. We do get a ton of snow here, but our average low temps are nothing compared to Alaska. I frequently wear a T shirt outside, while I’m shoveling snow.

Looks like Alaska is the only state to top CO for highest 24 hour snowfall too. Alaska is a beast…

 

Temp still -14 . Wind still the same. Some gusts were rockin me when I walked the pups an hour ago. It didn't help that our pups are Maremma Abruzzese Sheepdog.
One 10 m 1 w one 8 m 2 w . And they LOVE TO WRASSLE more than any other dogs I've ever been around.
They are near as I can tell , totally unaffected by the 40 below or colder wind chill. Well, they are, They Love It ! But their 61 year old owner is.
Especially at 11 o clock at night.
Stove is filled with Aspen and a left over round of white spruce.
Tomorrow night I'll wear a full face mask. Then they can play longer.

 

38/73
Just coals from last night

 

Spruce keeping us warm.

 

35 here. Pine and Maple in the Wood Gun.

 

28 and burning some nice looking oak splits.