Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Has started snowing here, about 1/2". Wind and cold is going to be the issue. Everyone stay warm!!

 

[riptides]

The wind, the wind... lucky I got the grilling done for dinner right before the sun went down. It snowing here like crazy and the wind is crazy fast.

Got a lot of logs moved under cover today, only about thirty pieces left.

Hope everyone has a safe night.

Ribeye and salmon were yummy.

 

[dave1949]

6F. The wind hasn't come here yet. Started snowing about noon. Very fine, slow accumulating snow. 1"-2" so far. Howling winds tomorrow.

NWS revised our snow est. to 12-18", down from 18-24". Everyone else is saying 6-8" for us which looks more believable. The storm is tracking farther to the east and offshore than predicted yesterday. Downeast and the southern coast are getting the worst of it. HA HA. That has happened a lot in the past few years.

The slaughterhouse was backed up on smoking, so the pig pickup is delayed until Wednesday. I was looking forward to some bacon for lunch.

Stay warm, hope the winds don't take your power out.

 

[Buppies]

26 and falling snowing heavily ground white, b ball on tv wife's asleep on couch. life is good

 

[murphy1244]

-4 and its blowing like crazy,better go hide under the covers.

 

[txdon]

Of course you can use my AC cab and I must say Don, that's really kind of you to be travelling all the way from Texas just to mow my fields this summer.

Are you anywhere close to Port Isaac? I may need to visit Doc Martin.

 

[sseelhoff]

Are you anywhere close to Port Isaac? I may need to visit Doc Martin.

I figured I was the only Doc Martin fan in these parts.

 

[300UGUY]

Oooh lunch was great, went to a bistro here, called Mangoes. A chicken wrap, with lobster bisque soup. Really seriously good. I feel bad for my wife, so I bought her a trinket. It is cold and snowy back in Michigan, it's about 60 here in Florida.

 

[rswyan]

Disaster averted ...

3F @ 00:00 and headed for a low of -11F ... can hear the wind howling outside.

Just woke up from an 8 hour nap ...

I ended up getting about 2 or 3 hours sleep Friday night, with most of it tending the fire in the furnace, trying to get it fired up (with wet, unseasoned aspen :confused2 ... managed to do that and keep the house above 60F ...

Saturday morning we were essentially out of any firewood here at the house, and only a couple of rounds up at the shop.

Early Friday afternoon I had pooched the chain on the saw by trying to cut through one of those aspen logs that had big chunks of ice on it. Apparently there were some rocks or gravel in it as well, because it really did a number on the saw chain.

Around 17:00 the wife called and said she was about to head out and I needed to come down to the house to tend the fire which wasn't burning all that well and bring more wood ...

I went out to cut some logs but nada ... she no cut. So I sharpened another chain which was about ready to be tossed anyways and went back out. First pull the saw starts to fire, second pull the cord on the starter breaks ...

Managed to get that fixed, which was a complete PITA, cut some rounds and chucked them in the back of the van (tractor is still out of commission) and headed down to the house.

Saturday morning rolled around and @ 08:00 we were essentially out of wood ... with about a 3 or 4 hour window before the cold front rolled through and conditions became really brutal.

I had went up to the shed around 07:00 and got a fire going and got the good saw chain sharpened up but ended up having to cut down the rakers as well, since I had to take so much off to clean it up.

The 'Cake rolled out of the sack around 08:30 and I informed her that we needed to get crack-a-lackin' and commence emergency wood gathering operations. Since she had not yet had her coffee she was not pleased.

I went out and cut down three ash trees at the edge of the woods along the driveway (so they could be loaded into the van and moved to the house relatively easily)

I was in the shop fueling and and oiling up the saw when my young helper showed up with a guy he works for and a pickup bed load of wood - mostly oak - from a tree trimming job. Had them dump it down at the house. Then The 'Cake and I gathered up the ash and loaded it in the van (aka mobile firewood storage unit)

After that I had a spot of breakfast and then cut up the wood that had been dropped out while my sweetie stacked it in the garage. The front blew in right as were finishing up ... like Murph said, it was white-out conditions ... with the snow coming down hard and the wind a-howlin' ...

I was overdue on a little welding project for a TBN friend ... so before I hit the rack I went back up to the shop and glued that together ... and then gave him a call and told he could swing by and pick it up.

By the time I got back down to the house the woman had a roaring fire going and the temp was up to 65F.

At that point I hit the rack and was dead to the world.

Y'all stay warm ... and safe.

 

[rswyan]

you doing ok RS?

Yeah Drew ... we're good

Sounds like the zombies are attacking....

LOL ... zombies would have been the icing on the cake ...

oh, ok, just checked the radar. All that lake snow coming down on your head
at the moment.

Yup ... under present circumstances snow complicates things just a little ...

Sounds like you made the haul on the trees ... that little orchard will be lookin' good come this fall :thumbsup: