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

They are Muleys. They’re just young, so they are small like White Tail.

 

The coldest I ever experience here in PA was -25 or so back in the mid 1990's. Employed by DCNR-Forestry and went to get in the truck to go to work (almost), the vinyl seats cracked and split when I got in, and of course the truck did not start.

 

OK, I did not think that was whitetail country, although I was surprised when traveling out west where I was seeing whitetails.

 

Lots of White Tail in eastern CO. Never seen one up here though. I wish we had them up here. Good eatin!

 

The coldest I remember was -34ish and I think it was in 1993. My neighbor down the road worked for the same company at a location about a mile from where I worked. The plan was whoever got a vehicle to start would take both of us. Neighbor's car wouldn't start. My truck wouldn't start. My deceased grandmother's 1976 Vega was in my garage. It started. The creaking noises it made going down the road were eerie, but it got the job done.

 

We have a nice whitetail herd at our place. I usually take 1 or 2 per year. And yes, great eating. Pure protein.

I leave the turkeys alone, not my favorite and theyre in decline.

 

It was also -6° here this morning when I got up, I guess it got down to -7°. Here is what we are currently at and what the house temp is.
I'm burning almost 8 year old red and white oak (split/stacked March '17). I just tested a re-split last week and it tested between 12-15% between three different moisture meters.

 

2PM and the temp outside is -2, and that could be the daytime high temp.

 

-10 for the moment. Wind has let up enough for shoveling/plowing.

 

cold here heating on all day

 

-20c/-4f here this morning with larch in the stove. Its warmed up a bit since then. Ive got some meatloaf Im going to put on the smoker shortly. Its a bit cool out today so I took the pup out for a 2 hour hike yesterday. It was -11c/12f while we were out.