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

It looks like this cold will be getting deep into the south again.

 

Any on the ground now rotti?

 

"Welcum to da swamp"

 

That weather page is calling for 5 inches here by tomorrow woods?????? Didnt see that coming!!!

 

You better get Mrs. Loon to carry those logs on both shoulders!

I heard some sizzling going on in the background, the wife is making some Beef Stew for tonight.

 

First sander of 2014 just drove by.
Heading into town here in a bit to pick her up a new cheap poulan chainsaw.

 

Yeah Loon, the ground is white. Twp. salt truck just went up the road. 41 is snow covered also.

 

Yeah, and I have my class "B" DL road test tomorrow morning.............

 

They are saying mainly a few snow showers this morning, cloudy this afternoon. Temp is suppose to go to 37ish though. So rain is a possibility with all this cloud action. I just finished stacking one load under the porch from yesterday. Wife and kids didn't get to the second load yesterday. Now, breakfast!

 

Glad it wasnt lastweek rotti as i was lugging/towing my hunting gear up and down it.
Have fun tomorrow eh.

 

Should be a hoot......................

 

Is your camp up around the Griffith area?

 

I find your temperatures and ours interesting. The past week at least we have been colder than last year at the same time. But not too long ago we were pretty mild. Some weather predictors say colder than "normal" temps this winter. Some say more snow but not as cold as last winter. I'm hoping for several days below -30 to try and kill off some unwanted bugs that we don't need in this area!

 

14 degrees,partly sunny,windchill of 1 below zero & 2 inches powdery snow overnight.


71 to 76 in the house though.Nothing beats the warmth of wood heat.

 

Darn! I checked the weather forecast yesterday evening ...called for 2 cm. of snow and other than that just flurries through Wednesday...so I elected to leave the car out at the normal parking area, which is where the snowplow turns around, rather than backing it in to near the house. Sure hope we don't get more than four or five inches in the next few days...the ground is really wet and not frozen yet, so it would be far better if we don't need to get plowed for a while.
Was snowing hard enough for an hour or so this AM so I had to sweep the steps both before and after walking the dog. Snowballs on his feet and lower legs, so first swish in the bath for him this winter. I find it by far the easiest way to get the winter snowballs off his fur. He really resists putting his legs in a container of a warm water, but accepts the tub readily. His breed is really easy to carry...rather like carrying a baby on the shoulder, so it's easy to get him to the tub....towels accumulate during the day....

I'm really feeling for all those green frogs we had in the yard until two weeks ago. I hope they are well tucked away for the winter.

Met a barred owl at my gate the other day. It was on the ground next to my road, and swooped in front of me in a big arc, then landed on a branch just slightly to my east; we watched each other for a while...too bad I didn't have my camera with me......then I left it to enjoy it's pursuit of vermin.

Looking at the temps in the deep south, and feeling for the folks....their houses aren't built for this weather and many have no source of heat, especially in FLA. And, roads get disasterously dangerous.

Looking at the temps in the Midwest and west, and the snow in the upper midwest, and cannot complain about our weather or temps, although we are a bit colder than normal. Still burning mainly uglies and branches and twigs, with a few larger splits thrown in the last few days. Still have many large piles of branches dry/drying, waiting to be broken/cut and burned. I generally process about three to four bins at a time and refill when empty....will keep doing so until then snow stops the practice, then resume in the spring for that shoulder season. Saves a lot of splits, and heats the house well and quickly.

 

[QUOTE="sherwood, post: 192797, member: 389".
Was snowing hard enough for an hour or so this AM so I had to sweep the steps both before and after walking the dog. Snowballs on his feet and lower legs, so first swish in the bath for him this winter. [/QUOTE]

What kind of pooch do you have Sherwood?

 

A Wheaten Terrier called Artan (Little Bear). He is very much a terrier, and loves the winter, the snowier the better. Muzzle to the ground tracking, or nose in the air sniffing and pointing, he obviously gets a nice crisp scent in this weather. Spotted a deer about an hour ago, so of course he had to go herd it. While I waited for him I heard the loons calling from the lake and the geese honking overhead as they V'd south. Crows cawing, Coyotes starting to howl, and some disturbed little white butterfly flying about in significant numbers. I don't recall seeing butterflies with snow on the ground before, with the exception of mourning cloak in the late winter/early spring. We unfortunately won't have the haunting call of the loon with us much longer with these temps. A few years in a row recently the lake didn't freeze over until late January, so we were blessed with the loons through Christmas.

 

I came in from splitting after getting out of the woods, the wife had the basement 79 and the living room upstairs at 73, she loves that dead elm.
..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 PM EST
MONDAY...
...LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT
THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 7 PM
EST MONDAY. A LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS
LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING.

* LOCATIONS...SOUTHEAST SAINT LAWRENCE AND SOUTHERN FRANKLIN
COUNTIES IN NEW YORK

* HAZARD TYPES...LIGHT SNOW WITH A VERY BRIEF PERIOD OF SLEET AND
FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLE ON MONDAY. LAKE EFFECT SNOWS DEVELOPING
LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 5 INCHES OF
SNOW...PERHAPS A TRACE OF ICE FOR MONDAY. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FOR
LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT WILL GENERALLY BE 3 TO 6
INCHES...HOWEVER SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 TO 12 INCHES ARE
POSSIBLE IN PERSISTENT LAKE EFFECT SNOW BANDS THAT WILL LIKELY
OCCUR IN EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS...ESPECIALLY AROUND ROUTE 3.

* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW DEVELOPING AROUND MIDNIGHT TONIGHT/MONDAY
GRADUALLY ENDING DURING MONDAY AFTERNOON. LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL
DEVELOP MONDAY NIGHT AND LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT
BEFORE SHIFTING SOUTH.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS ROADWAYS DUE TO BEING SNOW COVERED THROUGH
THE ENTIRE PERIOD.

 

My wife just showed me a picture of a dog (a wheaten terrier) similar to yours and I said "portuguese water dog" and she 'close'.
If you get a moment, plz post a pic of your wheaten