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Yow !

It is supposed to be down around 9 degrees Sunday night into Monday, that's rawtha nippy for around here.

Last night tested the fireplace, now cat-certified.

Fire up them radios !
Filaments to the max.

13F in N Central Arkansas this morning...  Both wood stoves cranking loaded up and cranking out the heat.  All the dogs cooned out in a circle around the stoves.

Plan on workin' up my HAARP notes down in this here basement.  Constant 73 deg.

-good lookin cat.

Uh, ....You got kerosene in those fireplace lanterns?

Believe it or not my Wenzel (since 1887) pressure lantern is sitting right beside my FP, but it's in the pine box and sort of dissassembled.  Makes a good fireplace dec.

9º F here this morning.

Didn't operate much last night.  Too much QRN.  Map showed a solid line of T-storms off the east coast from GA to VA.

3 degrees here at 9 A.M. and the truck won't start.
Had to hijack the wife's van to get to church.

5 degrees as I'm writing this.

It's about 85 degrees and we are pumping heat into the stone mass. I'm heading to the shack to cool off or to take a nap. Even the cat can't stand the heat in here. Gone solar...22 years ago

85 degrees w/scattered t-storms today ;D

8 below this morning.  I had to drive 130 miles north of here to help a friend who's car was stranded.  It was 20 BELOW at her and her fiancee's cottage yesterday morning.   I'm watching the Packers vs Giants game.  It's 2 below at Lambeau Field.  Temp here: a toasty 1 degrees.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

The dog was asking the same thing this afternoon. Our high temperature for the day was 34° at around 2 this morning. By dog run time it was 22° and falling. Wind @ 12kts.

Rick on those barn lanterns, in the summertime we put citronella oil in there and use them on the back deck to ward off the skeeters.

Wintertime we use that synthetic kerosene or else the paraffin oil to keep the wicks and globes cleaner. Almost all of them can be filled up and used at any particular time, including The Old Man, an 1893 Dietz that we got at a fleamarket in Syracuse a few years ago, a few miles from the factory where it was made.

How embarrassing for the dog.

Doesn't the suit suit him ?
Maybe I should have it let out in the inseam a little, you're right.

Is that to see him or to keep him warm?

To see him.

If he's moving fast and especially in a chase,we figure he looks like a deer.

You should see the bicycle LED blinkey I lashed to his collar for those early sunset runs back in December. Looks like a police cruiser very low to the ground and moving very fast across the meadow or thru the woods.

Everything needs some warmth

wuz outside maybe 2 hours today, got through it, got my outside wall holes insulated patched and spackled but there's a lot of cold air coming through the 1" pvc pipes themselves. gotta stop that up. I guess just use fiberglass and push it in.

Safe to say I think grounding work is done for the season. Good I say, it was starting to be a distractive obsession rather than something to make the station better. I got fascinated by the subject and pissed away too much effort on that single thing. Now it's too damn cold to care.  :o

Went out looking fer a new qth.  4 acres on a hillside; nice and breezey 12F at 6PM

now,
Balmy 14 F here with a cool breeze of 10 mph......  I love NY

 klc

From cold to snow. We're supposed to get 6 inches or so today.  Go figure.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

Come up to "The County" (Aroostook County, Maine). I have a 30' long driveway but don't own a snowblower or a truck with a plow, so I get a lot of exercise shoveling!

We've already had at least 80" of the average 100" annual snowfall, with 50" of that even before the "official" start of winter on 21 Dec, and temps down to -17F well before Christmas.

This week there was 9" on Friday, then it was +30F on Sat. with the sun shining and I was driving around with the radio going and windows down several inches... felt like spring!

Another light dusting of 2" of powder Saturday night, down to -5F Sunday morning, and now this morning it was a bit nippy, -22F (-30C). Anyone beat that for an overnight low?

At $3.20 a gallon for heating oil I can hardly wait for Feb.  ::)

-Charles
WB3JOK/1

Hey, alot were on the air, where were you?

That's a summer breeze.  I had a place up in Elizabeth, NY about 25 years ago mainly for hitting ski slopes.  I remember getting upto -38 degrees and the starter in the car would not turn the engine over.  Of course that's not now.  I woke up today in CT at 9 degrees and Feb hasn't rolled by yet. Some real cold days are still ahead of us I suspect.

I was out with the dawg, you saw !

Just got in tonight again, he's got to have that run or he's insufferable.

Maybe catch you on tomorrow afternoon.
I gotta catch The Derb too if he's in there.

Today's paper says -5 here in Mansfield, Ohio for a low on Wednesday and Thursday this week. My car was groaning this morning on fire up at a balmy +5... Last year when it got this cold the seals blew in my power steering rack....

Hey, that reminds me of a joke....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radqC4aTz0w

Heck, that's spring weather :)

(http://i27.tinypic.com/1zf33tl.jpg)

Stay warm.
-Charles

It's coming east.

I'm on my way out to do a logging run on a gas well.

It's -26F.

My 2006 Ranger nearly didn't start.

73

Marty

Yep, the wxperts said temps would be moderating to warmer levels, followed by another cold snap. 29 degrees today, cold again by Thursday. Gee, a whole day of 'moderation'. Winter, huh! Imagine that. Global warming, my ass.  ;)

Somewhere I have a shot of the outdoor thermometer taken in 2002 or 2003, -33F.

Paul you do realize that having a fireplace with an open flue sucks much of the heat out of your house, right?  Do those gas-fueled imitation logs require an exhaust, or do they vent into the living space?

My brother says that a fireplace is a "net heat loss", because its combustion air is drawn from the heated space. He told me I need a "Heatilator" and outside air to get a net gain.

I, on the other hand, only want to be warm while the power is off. What do you guys think?

73, Bill

Yes, but I choose to ignore it since a.) I don't do SS and b.) your current license grade doesn't permit you to get on HF to demonstrate your above assertion, making it a moot point in this thread.

So...en garde! would've been the better opener, with touché added here.   :P

Well it's all the way up to -13 F and sunny.

Saw this on the Pinedale, WY. web site.

"40 Below in Bondurant Temperatures plummeted to frigid temperatures in Sublette County overnight. The Bondurant webcam showed -40 degrees Tuesday morning. Photo by Bondurant webcam. "

Ready for the cold?  NOOOOOOOO

But I feel like I live in the topics here in northern VA, where it was 40F this morning.

Not sure if other fireplaces in your homes have this but my fireplace has side vents that open up to the outside on either side of the chimney from inside the fireplace to draw outside air into the fireplace.  I find them to be a PITA because they create such turbulence in the fireplace and cause sparks to fly around. Even with baffles on either side of the vents to dampen the in rush of cold air they create a rather unnatural looking fire.  The good thing is if I want to burn a fire out quickly I just open them wide.  Even with these vents they still draw air from inside the house. I hear the boiler cycle on and off more often when using the fireplace even with these vents though they may reduce the cycling.

Like I said, we went from cold to snow (we got 8").  I wonder if you easterners are going to get our snow.  BTW, Bob, how's Little Piggy doing in the cold?  Well, gotta run.  Work's done.  The Viker II is still down, but the PW Scout 680, and the VF-1 VFO are humming along nicely - gonna see if they're enough to check into the Collins net tonight.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

Hi Ellen,
We had a snow squal run through here today. Hopefully that's all that you throw at us.  I don't want it.  The squal didn't amount to much.  I see clear sky to the west and once the front moves through I expect the temp to drop drastically.

L. P. is doing OK.  She's holding her own and she's still stubborn as a stump.  I heat the garage yet she stands right in front of it with warm air blowin' in her face when I open the door and yet she won't come in.  I keep her bowls heated so she's around, otherwise they'd freeze and she'd take off.  She meets me from time to time in the driveway when I get home from work.  Though her visits are sporadic I'm glad I see her visit at her own volition.  I'm not sure where she beds down but she must be doing something right and she looks good unlike last spring where I thought she went through hell.  She's rotund, agile and her fur is thick.  I just wonder at times about her feet in the snow and ice.

Cool.  Just give her time Bob.  Tonight & tomorrow, we're supposed to be below zero again.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

We never open the flue, and we take the battery out of the smoke detector.

Saves heat and power at the same time !

Always crack the window nearest to the wood fireplace so you don't burn as much preheated air.

-5 here last nite, that was the worst of it.

Where does the smoke go?

Oh.

I wondered about that.

I stand corrected.  Tonight's net is the Multi-Elmac.  Hopefully condx. are good enough for me to hear it.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

Saves on cigarettes.

Did he really inhale?

Just look at his eyes.