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Ya, darn this cold, down to 46 F this morn!!
James
down to 46 F this morn!!
Shame on you! ;>)
was 46C (115F) three days ago.let's split the difference - sounds agreeable.CHeers,eddie
Edited 1/17/2009 9:40 pm by eddiefromAustralia
Eddie,
You forgot to include a pic of you in yer shorts, a la Eef. Don't be shy (well, just enough to stay the right side of decorum).
Lataxe, who is digging for a shorts pic of hisself and hoping the snowbound will thereby feel a bit warmer, one way or another.
I feel for your 46F we have had a day of 45.6C which is about 114F and three days in a row of 43C its been warm.
regards from Melbourne AustraliaIn a breakfast of bacon and eggs the hen has a passing interest but the pig is fully commited
Bolts,
Yeah, 46*F would be like summer here. Try 20*F in the woodshop. I'll tell ye one thing - it ain't no sweat! Keeps ya movin to keep warm. Sumpin else is that the powered tools seem to like it!
:-)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
'Twas 15 below at the house last Thursday as we headed for the airport for a trip to Seattle. Then, while we were away, it snowed about 2 or 2-1/2 feet on top of the 12-18" already on the ground. On Sunday when we got back, the cold snap gave up and the warm Southeasterly reasserted itself. Now it's 45 with rain -- you can probably imagine the slush-n-flood we're now enjoying.
Verne
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to cut it up and make something with it . . . what a waste!
don't mean to poo-poo into anybodies oatmeal, but... it's about 2:40 pm here and it topped out at about 80 degrees today. we may suffer the occasional freeway collapsing earthquake or spend the better part of summer inhaling fire smoke, not to mention our houses falling off of the hills we should never have built them on in the first place, but, oh my the weather's fine.
hey, i'm still crackin' beer on my front porch and, yes, i'm wearing shorts.
enjoy,
eef
There is a special place in Hell for those who poke fun at the less advantaged! As I write this in Ottawa (Canada) it is -10 F, and it is expected to go down to -22 by morning. Then the real COLD front moves in on Thursday evening and we're supposed to drop to -32 F overnight.There has been a run on HD by people looking for some way to insulate their pool tables!Regards,Ron
Yes I know. You folks up there work up the cold and send it straight here to Chicago!
I often tell folks here that we need to be thankful for our gawdawful weather in Southeast Alaska. It's so beautiful here that if the the weather was decent, we'd be flat covered up by folks from SoCal and they'd bid the price of life up so much we'd not be able to live here any longer. Verne
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to cut it up and make something with it . . . what a waste!<!----><!----><!---->
Obviously some still haven't heard about the new climate warning: global cooling!
ROFLOLA bad day woodworking is better than a good day working -- yes, I'm retired!
Huh, it's only -22°F this morning. Guess I'll jump in the hottub and have coffee till it warms up.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Oh, is that how you reheat coffee?Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)
- Success is not the key to happines. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer
>SoCal and they'd bid the price of life up so much we'd not be able to live here any longer<Well it isn't cold here right now but my rent is more than twice what it used to be and wages have not followed by a long ways.My record on my bicycle compute is minus 15 degrees F. And I stopped off on the way home to go to an artist pencil drawing class and it got out like nine at night. A fair amount of snow had fallen but then clear starry night sky. Because it was so unusually cold here no body was out. It was a very pretty ride home. A bike on the right kind of snow is absolutely silent and no body around . . . it was beautiful !Any body need any Californians ? I got a few too many here.
roc
Well it isn't cold here right now but my rent is more than twice what it used to be and wages have not followed by a long ways.
Cook County here as in the Chicago area. In late 1960, when I bought my house (Yes I still live here) my property taxes were about $500.00. Now with substantial reductions for us OLD folks they allow it is about 10 grand! AND my natural gas bill back in the late 60's for a year was about $500.00. Now about $300.00 a month every month for twelve months. Budget plan... And the house is still cold!
I think MANY in here faced the same...
AND just now... -22 degrees with -22 wind chill and my boiler goes on about every 5 minutes~
Edited 1/16/2009 7:47 am by WillGeorge
Very cold here in Minnesota (How cold was it?) This morning I heard a knock on the front door. When I opened it up, my thermometer ran into the house.
Noticed the neighbors dog froze himself to the fire hydrant.
Got a remote starter for my truck, so I might survive until spring.
Good luck,
Bill
Eef,
Send pics of you in yer shorts. I hope they are tight lycra of a garish shade and not the dull, flappy scoutmaster variety in sipid khaki, like Ray wears.
Lataxe, always fascinated by Kalifornee and it's strange goings-on.
Lataxe , That was rich , thank you for the belly laugh ,I needed that !
dusty, boxmaker will travel
Lataxe,As per your request--from two days ago--yes, the sun is still shining!Salud!
Eef
Eef,
Do I spy a running man? I have examined your calves quite closely and this is my guess.
I hope the wimminfolk of Knots have not become too excited but it seems highly likely.
Lataxe, who believes this thread should become the "me in my shorts" thread, as all this snow-talk is rather gloomy.
lataxe,
not much of a runner. didn't drive a car till i was 23. rode a bicycle, rain or shine, everywhere. growing up in the city of angels one does not see a great deal of the natural world. fortunately the angeles national forest has always been a few miles away. this saved my sanity as a child, and does so to this day. love to hike. i have never seen snowfall and the coldest temperature i've ever experienced was 22 degrees fahrenheit, one christmas in carson city nevada. it felt to me as if the air that i normally breathe was trying to rip my face off. any-who, this has been great fun.
wet end grain, skewed, mid-air attack with a hefty plane in hand has been some of the sweetest advice ever.
eefp.s. although yesterday it was quite warm, today it's downright hot.eef-- reaching for his sunglasses
Sounds like a good day to stay home and drink Spanish Coffee. Recipe- In a coffee cup mix 1 shot 151 rum, 1 shot kahlua, coffee, cream. Be sure to add/mix the ingredients in the given order or the cream will curdle. Enjoy!
Wine,
Saturday is supposed to be the coldest!
Just came in from the garage after cuttin some stair stringers. Took the woodstove 2 hours to get it from 0°F to 20°F. Stringers are done but me feets are cold.
The woodshop is upta 9°F. Sure wish I had some solar glazin on the south side of the roof.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 1/15/2009 12:53 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
What's a retired guy messing around with stringers for? You should be doing the fun stuff! Unless they're for your house . . . too bad about the cold (I'm in N. CA), you should keep that stove going 24/7!Brian
I hear you.. I get cold if it drops below 80 degrees F. Always hated the cold.
Tuesday I spent the whole day shoveling snow off of mine and my neighbors roofs. We both have flat roofs. Why I bought a house with a flat roof I'll never know. BIG MISTAKE!
-40 wind chill I believe last night and about -27 wind chill today.
As much as I hate the cold I can tolerate it quite well IF my hands and feet stay warm. As a child I frostbit my fingers and toes. I fell through the ice on a river and some guy saved my little butt.... Now I really feel the cold in my fingers and toes.
A day like yesterday or today and through the weekend I will probably not be able to work in the shop. My shop is not very big so I can quickly raise the temperature quickly just by cleaning up using my big old shop vacuum. It puts out alot of heat! Well, enough to make it tolerable for me. No finishing though.
The cold we had in Anchorage over New years headed south through Canada and lost a few more degrees for you folks in the lower 48. Now it is mid 40s here, blowing to beat the band, and slashing rain. Definitely not in my contract with winter. I'd much rather take the -25F and sunny than +40 and hard rain on snow like we have today. We can barely stay upright with all of the wet ice around town.
Stay warm (and upright)
-Randall
Whwere do you live In South Texas?
Wine,
Well it got down to about -38°F this AM at around 6. Right now it just nudged above 5°F.
Still tubbin,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Well it got down to about -38°F this AM at around 6. Right now it just nudged above 5°F.
I don't feel so bad now about the -22 that greeted me and the dogs this morning. It got well into single figures after lunch. Coldest temp in the 15 years we've been here. It makes your eyeballs hurt.
Edited 1/16/2009 3:56 pm ET by smslaw
I tell you guys, we gonna have to start putting out more CO². With all this global cooling effect, we gonna freeze to death.
It's a beautiful day here in WNY. Lake effect snow only dropped 4" overnight, the sun is shining (somewhere), global warming has kicked in and driven the temp all the way up to 9°, and spring is only 6mo away. Does it get any better than that?
Oh, almost forgot, the deer are fat and happy from eating all my shrubs. Lucky for them the 2' of snow on the ground allows them to reach the stuff they missed last year. Life is good.
RichThe Professional Termite
It's been mid to high 70s for two weeks here in the SF Bay Area, and maybe 1-2 days of rain all month... contrast to last year when we have 24 days of rain in January.I'm not complaining, been wearing shorts and a t-shirt every day but we do need the rain.
We are looking at about 38C today the lack of January rain is a problem our drought continues .
Regards from Melbourne AustraliaYou can make it fool proof but not idiot proof
Regards from Melbourne Australia
Been there twice in my work.. I just loved the Aussy folks.. Like wakling into a frendly PUB everwhere you go!
Its not a bad place to live I am glad you enjoyed it all the best for the year to come.Ps When I said it wouldbe 38C the other day it made 40c plus
John Bolton
In a breakfast of bacon and eggs the hen has a passing interest but the pig is fully commitedEdited 1/20/2009 8:07 pm ET by Bolts
Edited 1/20/2009 8:08 pm ET by Bolts
B,
Shurely it should be: " .... a hen has a passed interest...." Or is it "....a past interest...."? After all, the egg has not just gone through time since the event that drew the hen's attention but also through the hen.
As to the pig, it is no longer expressing any mindstate such as commitment - unless one believes in a porcine afterlife. Apparently some do, hoping to meet a dead pet-dog or even their swine of a husband, who they murdered to be rid of but now feel guilty about.
However, mindstates in the afterlife are a mystery, as is everything else about it (the afterlife, that is - surely a contradiction in terms anyway) except it's psychological genesis.
But I am just chopping semantics now.
Lataxe, a word-butcher.
Edited 1/21/2009 6:22 am ET by Lataxe
the afterlife, that is - surely a contradiction in terms anyway.. ??
My old Stanley/Bailey #4 and #7? were resurrected by me! Old junk that now is well used in the 'after life'.
Lataxe you old word-bodger,
"Afterlife" is only a contradiction in terms, if you read it backwards- i.e. a "life-after" (this one). (Could it be you are dyslexic? Which reminds me of the dyslexic atheist, who did not believe there was a dog.) Nevertheless, it is a mystery, and a wonderment, is it not, what happens to the existential spark "after-life"; looking at the mortal clay that remains after life has departed, one can only wonder-- and your, or my, or the other fella's speculation is in the end, only as full of insight or meaning, as the Right Rev Blather's, is it not? I mean, (speaking of meaning) after life comes something, if only nothing, am I right, or am I right? Put another way, after life for me, those who are still alive will at least have an afterlife, as far as I am concerned, (if I could be concerned). Assuming that they, (yourself included, should I die while writing this missive, and you live long enough to read it) are not all figments of my imagination. In which case, all of reality (as I know it) was created by me with the advent of my consciousness, and that means... ah forget about it, this stream of consciousness stuff only makes sense if one is conscious to begin....
Ray, on the 'puter, endlessly dreaming
ps, the way I heard it, when it came to breakfast, the hen was involved, and the pig was committed.
Do you remember the old Peanuts cartoon?Charlie Brown says, "I hate it when my boogers freeze."Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
A you guys!!!!
Here in Sask we just went through 6 weeks of -30 c and winds last week was -37 , and i finally got a thermostat put in the old chev. New water pump etc. But today a balmy +4 c but the roads are ice. We saw a Robin last week at the feeder so I hope mother nature has sent a sign of spring coming soon!
Talked to local GC and he said the frost was down 6 feet. Toronto had a big blackout 1000,000 with out power. Huge watermain breaks in Montreal.
Were did they put the global warming thing.Or is this hell freezing over because Obama got in or the Leafs winning a game?Last Wednesday I was down stairs working on computer about 4 PM, heard a thud upstairs thought it might be neighbor coming in and since door freezing shut you have to give it a little help. Then about 30 seconds later heard thump thought door closed. about 30 seconds later I heard a squeal and some thrashing. thought my neighbor scared up a mouse and it got caught in the trap . My daughter 17 year old attitude on legs stopped and said sounds like a big mouse! the thrashing stopped. So about 1/2 hour later I went upstairs to dispose of said dead rodent. I opened the door and the trap was untouched. as I looked around I saw the tracks of a coyote and rabbit on the snow banks leading to the shop door where the snow is about three feet deep, seems coyote chased rabbit and trapped it against the shop door, were they had it out. small speck of blood and dragmarks with coyote prints headed other way. Coyote 1 rabbit 0.
Where is the video cam when you need it?The deep snow is also driving the deer out on to the roads and more near misses and hits.Plus side no mosquitoes and crawly things
I can't stop laughing at your "tales of woe" about :a) the weather,
b) your seventeen year-old daughter or
c) the rabbit.Of course I could be cheered by early news of a robin unlessd) that will lead to a sad tale too.You Canucks are great!Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
your seventeen year-old daughter
I had three of them daughters, all different 'and all the same stages they went through. Hell, I married a 18 year old girl. I knew her and her parents all my life. I was 20 then. She always said she liked older men? Best decision I ever made and then some! She was the girl I saw in kindergarten next to me that slept with her dress over her head to keep the light out? I do remember that alot! She said she never did that! I knew different.. And I had an advantage, her parents liked me!
A you guys. Hey, you from Canada?
17 year old attitude on legs Oh man that's a keeper - never heard it before.
Still laughing,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Plus side no mosquitoes and crawly things.. Said it all!
And I found a frozed witches utter on my front yard!
Edited 1/18/2009 3:14 pm by WillGeorge
Will,
Whatever you do, don't ask that witch's utter a question; in fact, put a goblin-gag on it straight away. Otherwise, if you let it declaim, you may find you have donkey's ears, a pig's tail or worse!
There is many a frog out there croaking his regret at having not been less curious about, and more firm with, a witch's utter found squatting malevolently on his doorstep, when he was still a human.
Lataxe, student of fairy lore and black-doings.
Funny thing is that the gas and electric companies keep coming out to change their meters.
Strange you should mention that. I have had three new meters in 5 years.
All they said was mercury in them? BS! They should have 40+ years of data to see my historical gas usage.
>BSNah . . . they just love being near you. From what you said about your bill you must be one of their most cherished customers. 80° etc.
80° etc. NA! 69 degree but 71 when I babysit. Usually 4 days a week!
-33° here last night! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
As I was driving to work yesterday morning it was +4c, the radio was reporting that a town about an hour away was at -17c (they have a horrible habbit of including wind chill, but Calgary was dead calm). I think I'd get up and move...
Even now it's +8c (high of +13c today), and the town is at +1c... The mountains have a great effect on our weather.
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