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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.
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2008, 12:00:05 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2008, 12:37:46 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2008, 01:06:27 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2008, 01:13:02 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 01:37:52 PM » |
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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
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2008, 07:55:09 PM » |
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85 degrees w/scattered t-storms today  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2008, 08:08:05 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2008, 09:30:02 PM » |
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Where's that 'global warming' when it's really needed?
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. |
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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2008, 09:37:39 PM » |
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How embarrassing for the dog.
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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2008, 09:39:23 PM » |
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Doesn't the suit suit him ?
Maybe I should have it let out in the inseam a little, you're right.
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« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2008, 09:40:46 PM » |
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Is that to see him or to keep him warm?
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« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2008, 10:02:38 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2008, 10:31:10 PM » |
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Everything needs some warmth
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« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2008, 10:50:41 PM » |
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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.  |
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« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2008, 11:42:49 PM » |
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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
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« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2008, 06:42:31 AM » |
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From cold to snow. We're supposed to get 6 inches or so today. Go figure.
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« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2008, 10:01:02 AM » |
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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 |
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« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2008, 04:00:19 PM » |
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Fire up them radios !
Filaments to the max.
Hey, alot were on the air, where were you? |
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« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2008, 04:15:15 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2008, 05:58:41 PM » |
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Fire up them radios !
Filaments to the max.
Hey, alot were on the air, where were you? 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. |
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« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2008, 06:25:29 PM » |
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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 |
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« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2008, 09:59:54 PM » |
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Today's paper says -5 here in Mansfield, Ohio for a low on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Heck, that's spring weather   Stay warm. -Charles |
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« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2008, 08:35:06 AM » |
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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.
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« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2008, 10:22:43 AM » |
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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? |
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