Woke up this morning, stumbled into the main room, and saw that the outside temperature read 34o. Technically above freezing. At six ayem. I had to go see this for myself: Must have really clouded up overnight.
Nope.
It’s mid-January, traditionally the coldest part of the winter. And the reading clearly wasn’t accurate, I mean the mudboards were frozen to the ground and I definitely should have worn lined gloves during the morning walkie, but it still wasn’t nearly as overnight cold as it’s been for the previous week. Don’t know what I did to deserve that, but I’ll take it.
Huh. And it was 15 below here, almost a record.
It’s been snowing for the past day. I’ve been out twice with the snowblower to keep ahead of it. Last night, the temperature rose enough so it rained for a while, so I also have to deal with a layer of ice when I go out in a few minutes. You wanna trade? 🙂
Gosh, I would not want to deal with iced snow! Joel, glad you are cozy. Ah, it went to -36ËšF here last night, got up to about -15ËšF today, but great sun, and tonight it is only going down to about -27ËšF. I have both wood stoves going. Sure, I could turn on the electric heat, crank up the thermostats, but where is the fun in that? I am having fun shoveling snow, hauling in from my stacked 4 cords of firewood. So I spend some time upstairs, and some time downstairs, and the house is lovely, and I am having a good time managing the fires while I work on organizing this bibliography for this paper. I take breaks to shovel out the drifts and enjoy the lovely crisp air and sunshine. I wear lined gloves inside my welder’s gloves that I use to stoke fires. I also have great mittens. And Baffin boots for walking in snow or just this level of cold. I was trained in Alaska. You all stay warm out there.
🙂 ilo, if you can still enjoy shoveling snow by mid-January in snow country you are living life right.
It’s only 57 degrees at 3 PM in east central Florida!