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

She was wondering how “thriving” it is there now. She says there was two stores back then. Mail order Montgomery Wards and a family run department store/gas station. And churches. The fort had pretty much everything needed.

 

30 and windy. Temp is supposed to fall all day and get down to 15 tonight.

House it toasty warm everywhere. Boiler is bored and wants some real cold.

 

10 and 74 inside. Burning black locust, going to be cool the next couple of days.

 

36 here. Oil burning.

But. The part came in for the valve! Yea! Looks like it’s the right one. I hope. I’ll get that installed tomorrow.

 

Supposed to get down to about 13 F tonight here in NE Ohio. Load of black locust in the BK Princess.

 

-3 with the windchill got some red oak going. Im not moving from in front of the stove.

 

Getting into the teens and single digits. My potpourri of firewood mix, shook out to bee a lot of poplar for overnight.

no worries, informed my wife that the day has come! Bitter cold before sunrise wood loading, and enjoying the quiet. Return to house for a freshly brewed cup to warm back up.

laughing like a mad scientist, as I crank up my “up yours electric company “ temperature

 

Heading to -5* here with 20-24mph winds overnight. Tomorrow’s high iOS supposed to be about 6* with NW winds gusting to 24mph. Osage going in tonight & in the morning.

 

18F & the wind is switching to a NW direction overnight. That'll bump our snow totals here, we've got maybe 4" so far & supposed to snow through Friday morning, 6-12" for my area. Some blowing & drifting, many car crashes due to people not paying attention/slowing down. Both the boiler & the shop stove burning Oak. 74F in here, tad warm for me, but the dogs & cat are lounging happily.

 

9 out right now, windchill blowing strong at below 0, loaded the OWB up with red oak.

 

Man ! you guys getting dumped on over there , I hardly got anything here

 

21/70*f. Red oak in the stove. High tomorrow off 24*f. It’ll be more red oak. Maybe some white.


Mike in Okla

 

Yep, good ol lake effect snow. Nice fluffy stuff, it'll make for good log skidding for sure. We finally get some actual winter. Been waiting for this for a few years!

 

Yeah i was just thinking your gonna get some of that cold weather around here for awhile that you wanted.
i know you are used to getting that big lake effect snow. over there

 

We are sitting at -28c/-18f. Ive loaded the stove with larch for the overnight burn. We had a storm blow through and dump more than 2 feet of snow on top of our already deep snow pack a few days ago. The cornices of snow hanging off the roofs look neat. Weve had some neat wind snow formations recently.

 

We

We have an IGA grocery store . But the roof collapsed 2 Sundays ago. But they moved over to half of the liquor store , so we still have a grocery store. 3 gas stations in town. 1 sporting goods and outdoor clothing store. 2 hardware stores . A clinic and a doctor's office. 2 dentists. 2 banks. Lots of churches.
Nice little town. Fairbanks is only a hundred miles away.
We have a pretty big gold mine not too far out of town. Pretty good outdoor motorized recreation store , Honda, Polaris and Bombardier and Stihl dealer

 

We are at -18°F ambient also !!!
Cool
But the wind is blowing 15 or more mph.
So , it's still chilly
Just loaded the stove with some nice 3" rounds of dry birch. And some rounds of dry aspen. And wiggled some little rounds of birch up above the smoke stop. It's as full as I can fill it.
Got a new alternator and battery in my F350 today. I'm a Very Happy Man !
My wife officially got laid off from her job today. As did all the employees. It's due to the roof collapse 2 Sundays ago.
So my wife is back home.
A friend has been here for the last 61 years.
Trapper. Forest fire fighter, farmer , logger and cabin builder. He also has an awesome old carriage sawmill that he runs every year. He used to have a 100 mile trap line that he ran with a dog team and sled. So I guess he was also a musher. I'm pretty sure he is the single most experienced Interior Alaskan that I know. He told me a couple days ago that this winter was the single worst winter he has ever seen.
It is sure the worst I've ever seen in the Interior. But I haven't been here all that long.

 

27. Bubblin goo still burning.

Hopefully get switched back over to firewood today.