We reached about +24 f. today, and the potential for freezing rain that was forecast never developed into reality.
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-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?
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forecasters keep threatening "ice event" for Tennessee Valley and Cumberland Plateau. i'll believe it when it actually happens. i've been at Catoosa WMA before when it DID happen, but that was twenty years ago. strands of barbed wire looked like nylon rope, roads were skating rinks. park and walk...
If you're really missing it, I can pack some ice in with some dry ice and send it to you..
I now know that nostril hairs freeze at a wind chill of -15C.
The glaciation of a full beard and mustache at -30 to -60 f. sometimes results in painful movement of ice that's fully attached to facial hair.
Haven't had to contend with that since the COVID pandemic, as (for the first time in my entire post-pubescent life) any travel to places around others outside of the home results in shaving all but a trimmed mustache, for proper mask fitting.
+13 f. on the porch this AM.
Shortly out to snowblow the driveway, though micro-flakes of snow are still coming down.
Older son's coming over to socialize his male dog with our newest German Shepherd female matriarch, so his male can be left here when he and I head to the remote lakes in the near future. So I need to shave too, to accommodate a proper mask fitment for hs visit.
Covid really isn't a big issue, nobody wears masks here except a few very vulnerable people. Masks don't work anyway from the studies I have seen. Build a good immune system, drink plenty of water, keep the stress low.
13F here too this morning!
Hope the snow covers up the slick spots!
Glad you are socializing the dogs early, best way to do it.
13F here too this morning!
Hope the snow covers up the slick spots!
Glad you are socializing the dogs early, best way to do it.
a nice thought, but dry ice with ice? sounds like a lot of trouble to go to just because i like snow. i'd rather come see it for myself, pet your dogs and see if a moose is really as big as they look on TV...still got a month or two with potential here. maybe, just maybe...If you're really missing it, I can pack some ice in with some dry ice and send it to you..
The moose are often that big. We see them numerous times each year in the yard. Don't have to go far. Been a cow, and another cow and calf pair around here lately.a nice thought, but dry ice with ice? sounds like a lot of trouble to go to just because i like snow. i'd rather come see it for myself, pet your dogs and see if a moose is really as big as they look on TV...still got a month or two with potential here. maybe, just maybe...
I used to love their presence, but came to loathe them, after having to escort kids to the bus in the AM, and from the bus in the PM, with a 4" .500 S&W Mag sidearm or a 12-gauge Remington 870 shotgun years ago, when a particular cow and her calves would (seasonally) camp out here for a few years in a row, and sometimes assert ownership rights.
After being charged a couple times, or having a belligerent cow kicking at my (then-chained on a run & now-deceased) giant malamute back in the day, resulting in 2 piercings to her hump with 12-gauge Breneke Rotweil, hardened, rifled slugs, and me reporting myself to the Troopers after the fact, way too stoned to be dealing with Johnny Law, they became less welcome here. They just didn't get that memo, I guess.
Any more, the moose look best in small white freezer paper wrappers in the freezers, in my opinion.
They're often more docile in that presentation, too.
The dry ice is OK, as long as the shipper lives up to their scheduled delivery promises. Though my daughter just researched Fed Ex's shipping me a relatively modest box of craw fish tails, boudain, and andouille sausage from Louisiana in a freeze pack, and the buggers wanted about $200. So she's bringing up the care package close to the end of March, when she'll be here to help deliver her friend's baby via C-section by request (she's an RN).
I'll likely be out in the Wrangell-St. Elias Range at that time, on my older son's and my remote ice-fishing expedition, but my wife's promised not to eat all of the treats before our return.
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Harvesting a moose would probably give you enough meat to get you through the winter. Sounds like a bit of a situation having territorial moose on your property. You guys are brave. I think moose are taller than some horses from what I remember.
21F now getting colder tonight down to 8F. Clouds came around in late afternoon. Looking forward to more sun. Still light pretty late now, about 6:15 PM when it used to be 5:30 PM.
21F now getting colder tonight down to 8F. Clouds came around in late afternoon. Looking forward to more sun. Still light pretty late now, about 6:15 PM when it used to be 5:30 PM.
ill-tempered old bats, serves them right! "reduced to possession" eh?Any more, the moose look best in small white freezer paper wrappers in the freezers, in my opinion.
i guess having griz trying to eat your kids makes them cranky..
They get protective of their young, just like we do. Had that conversation with one of the cows that charged me, but I don't think she understood me very well. We were both pretty amped up at that time..ill-tempered old bats, serves them right! "reduced to possession" eh?
I told her, "Look, we're both out here for the same reasons; making sure our kids don't get fucked up." She didn't seem to care much. One-sided interaction, like with too many people.
'Swamp donkeys.' "Aboreal rumenants.' Pains in the ass by any other name; especially when you smack into one at 60 mph.
Currently +9 or so on the front porch. Driveway and vehicles are all cleared and re-parked, but for the 4-place trailer's ass-end where it's glaciated to the bank again, and the 2 Subarus in the woods that'll need hand-shoveled tomorrow.
"Tomorrow, tomorrow... " (Little Orphan Annie)
Since Canada converted to metric when I was an adult, I have become quite dyslexic about temperature. For hot temps, I think in Fahrenheit. I am bi-temperature in the comfort zone and I go all out Celsius with anything cold. So it was -14c outside this morning. Ever since the gods rattled my cage with the threat of limited mobility, my primary venture outside every day is a dog walk. He doesn’t mind the adventure and to me, it is a mentally necessary ritual. So I obsessively study a close up map view on Windy to determine the ideal route to minimize the god damn wind. My route is usually 1 to 5 kms of subdivision streets including a local park with an attached elementary school. Of course, the school is a automatic no-go zone on weekdays since an old guy with a dog is obviously a fucking pervert. It is amazing how these innocent subdivision streets turn into howling wind tunnels as the annual ice age descends every year.
Yeah, I have been dipping into my hash supplies this morning . . .
Yeah, I have been dipping into my hash supplies this morning . . .
prob should not have said that, lol. forecast here was rain in the morning but clearing as the day goes by. now, it's more rain and temps dropping sharply, leading to at least one local school system already going "ah, fuggit. no school tomorrow." it STILL hasn't actually happened....
yet.
