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Post by dexterfarm on Dec 1, 2016 9:37:30 GMT -6
Looks like winter will hit us here next week. Temps are suppose to start falling on Tuesday and not rebound. The forecast after that does not indicate any above freezing temps after Tuesday. Unfortunately it is suppose to rain leading into the freezing weather. I would rather the temps dropped before the precip started instead of having frozen rutted mud. Lots of prep to do this weekend. Need to haul hay and get the chicken/duck coop windows boarded up and about a million other small things need to get done.
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Post by genebo on Dec 2, 2016 13:00:20 GMT -6
It seems like every year we stay warm up into January, then winter tries to catch up.
I hold no love for cold weather. It would please me if it never got under 72 degrees.
I have the utmost respect for those of you who can deal with ice and snow, but I wouldn't want to join you.
Good luck! Have a happy winter wonderland!
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Post by dexterfarm on Dec 7, 2016 11:53:36 GMT -6
None of us want to go out in the cold but keep in mind all the benefits of winter. The changing seasons is what gives us much of the precipitation that leads to forage growth. Nothing worse than a warm winter and the possible drought that lies ahead after that. Also it kills a lot of the bad bugs that the southerners have to deal with.
It did not get as bad as they said it would. we got the precip early rain and then a lot of snow on Sunday. Melting just about as fast as it came down left a real mess. Mostly melted by the end of the day but still a mess left behind. Looks like we are teens and twentys until next week we hit single digits.
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Post by genebo on Dec 7, 2016 17:00:57 GMT -6
I have never lived north of the Mason/Dixon line. I've traveled north. Usually during the summer, when it was nice. Once I traveled to Columbus, OH during a severe winter and a fuel shortage. I think it was 1972, but I'm not sure. The Battelle Memorial Institute, where I was working, had a meager pile of coal. The huge lot for coal storage was nearly empty. Energy was being rationed averywhere. The Holiday Inn where I was staying had no heat in the rooms, but we were invited to sleep on a cot in the lobby, which was heated.
Streets were not being plowed. Ice was 3 feet thick on the streets, but the merchants had shoveled the sidewalks and cut steps into the side of the street for pedestrians to cross the street. I spent less than a week there, but it seemed like longer. I shivered 4000 calories a day.
Then I read about people who tunneled the sidewalks in their northernmost cities and I feel that there is no place like home! Warm, toasty-in-the-summer-time home.
I am in awe of those of you who brave the wintry weather every year, and not only endure it, YOU LIKE IT!
There has to be something wrong with me.
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