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

I don't know . It's just our reality.
Once a guy gets inside , with a mirror it's easy to deal with.
Just passing along what I've been through in the hopes someone else will be fire warned.

 

We don’t and not looking to get it anytime soon. If I didn’t burn wood I’d be burning propane. Actually have a tank in the yard and it’s stubbed up in a couple places. Wife wants a gas stove so I may put in a propane wall heater for backup for my stove. The electric company that services our area will rob you. Not me! I haven’t paid them a dime for heat

 

SisIL is using propane, because it would cost an arm AND a leg to run the line from the road.
I'm sure there must be a bunch of places up here that don't even have the line on the road yet. We were lucky that some previous owner here had the line run to the house.
Still trying to decide if wood or nat. gas is less expensive. I'm inclined to think it's still firewood. Aside from wood, nat. gas is the cheapest.

 

Temps hovering just above freezing at the moment. This is extremely warm and rare for this time of year, and a shock to the system after the weather we've had so far. Hotter than hades in the shack with poplar going.

 

WxBell sent this in an email; pretty good, quick read; for where that cold blast came from:
https://www.weatherbell.com/88-6f-in-Siberia

And, since we have so many Great Lakes residents here, there's this:
Great Lakes ice most since 1993/94 for mid-winter

Above freezing here. Burning oak anyway. Maybe a touch of beech.

 

Nice summer temp, was ice fog yesterday and made some hoar frost.

 

Those are cool, your pics?

 

Yessir just took them this is on everything and was taken on the front porch. Sorry for the detour, just wanted to share something special.

 

What causes the ice to grow like leaves ?

 

That’s a great question, I have no answer. It’s called hoar frost, it forms like snow flakes and just freezes that way.

 

Only time I have ever seen anything like that is on glass. Never free standing. That is here of course in SC.

 

Ya, freezes just like on glass. Really cool.

 

Jack Frost at work.

Haven't seen hoar frost in awhile...nice pics!

 

We see it every so often, it’s special.

 

No reason to be sorry .
Those are cool pics , thanks for posting them

 

It has been pretty warm here. Very unusual for the middle of January. So I put up my new weather station. No guessing now on the wind speed and direction.

 

"They" have already issued a weather advisory for snowfall ....next week! C'mon! 4 days away? Sheesh!