-26F or -31C here tonight, how cold is it by you?

[Three Berries]

Last two months look like they broke our mini drought of about a year due to La Nina. And they are saying the El Nino is coming back for wet times for me usually.

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[moose eater]

-30 f. on the front porch earlier this AM.

Warmed up now at the airport to about -3 f.

I figure Mother Nature is telling me to get indoor work done today. Too chilly to fuck around with wiring on the CDI on the oldest snowmobile still.

Slept in until noon off and on, though with the classic broken (as in WAY broken) sleep pattern.

Time to light some proverbial after-burners, and launch into something at least remotely resembling productivity.

 

[armedoldhippy]

We had thundersnow last night with big flashes of lightening in the middle of the blizzard. Fun stuff.

had it here once about 35 years back. a hospital tower close by got hit about 7 or 8 times while we were watching. brilliant red, blue, green flashes...

 

[armedoldhippy]

with the classic broken (as in WAY broken) sleep pattern.

broken as in, erratic times going to bed, inability to stay asleep, ??? sometimes (like tonight for example) i'll likely be up till 3 or 4 am . this is not affected by when i got up. i can deliberately not go to sleep, trying to get to bed at a normal time the next night. gotta work, right? been up 36/38 hours, sleep should be simple, right? no...

 

[moose eater]

broken as in, erratic times going to bed, inability to stay asleep, ??? sometimes (like tonight for example) i'll likely be up till 3 or 4 am . this is not affected by when i got up. i can deliberately not go to sleep, trying to get to bed at a normal time the next night. gotta work, right? been up 36/38 hours, sleep should be simple, right? no...

Technically speaking (and spell-check will tell you it's a non-word, but it's in the older diagnostic manuals), 'sleep dyssomnia'.

Frequent wakings (more so than before the botched surgery nearly 2 years ago).

When I have dreams they can be doozies and waking with lots of 'stuff' going on.

These days,. more difficulty getting to sleep, which, in its present expression, is a newer phenomenon.

Low energy throughout the day. etc. At least somewhat related to the sleep issues.

Age? Disease? Aging disease? Lots of possible targets to blame.

The dyssomnia has been with me for many years, though.

Used to just power through the resulting tiredness, but that's proving more of a challenge lately..

On the bright side, and on track with the topic of the thread, it's warmed up gradually here, and today we were even a bit above 0 f.

In a day or 2 we may be in the mid-+20s, and I can get the wiring done that I've hesitated to mess with for fear of fracturing old, brittle insulation on 27-year-old wires. Though +35 would be a whol.e lot nicer for that.

 

[moose eater]

+8 f. on the front porch earlier this AM.

Should be in the mid-to upper teens today or tomorrow, and possibly in the mid-+20s in a day or so after that. Wiring weather!! A reprieve!!

I'll take it!!

Now to launch myself into the outdoors, finish the snow ramp to get the freight sleds out of the winter dungeon they were encased in, clean off the tarp and ice from the 4-place behemoth of a trailer to make sure the journals for the track-attached tie-downs are ice-free with the heat-gun (painstaking, tedious, pain in the ass job), and figure out how I'm going to tie down 2 or 3 snowmobiles, a huge barge-style freight sled, a stack of Otter tub sleds, and my older son's freight kennel for his female pup, all while properly balancing the load over the two axles..

We've never taken a dog out there with us, though pups are acepted in camp without much question, as long as they're trained and somewhat civil. Though I worry a tad about the critters out there that'd view a 49-lb. pup as a fine, tender appetizer; wolves, lynx, coyote, fox even. Or even the odds of harassing a moose and getting her head kicked in.

My son's been put on notice that this will detract from his attention to fishing, as he's expected to keep track of her at -every- moment (wolves can be quite savvy at suckering a pup off into the pack waiting in the woods, often another female wolf, under the guise of 'playing', and the pup ultimately being ripped apart for lunch). And she can't stay in the cabin when we're gone on the lakes, for concerns of the place catching fire if the woodstove and/or stove stack were to fail, etc., if she were to be trapped inside..

But the thought of having a warm, fuzzy, reciprocally affectionate alarm with us is cool. I like, even prefer, the company of good pups.

Who knows? She may even have a grand time leaping at the eagles as they swoop in for our fish entrails on the ice.

 

[moose eater]

+35 to +38 f. on the thermometer on the front porch yesterday with incredible bright sunshine; about 2 ft. of settled/compacted snow slid off the roof of the barn yesterday, making for more work to clear the drive-through of the barn today.

Today's high is slated to be about +30, but overcast with slight freezing rain in the forecast. Likely to be harsh on my older son's driving deliveries for a living. Glad I fronted him the new set of Blizzaks in the late Fall, months ago, but still.. wet ice doesn't work even with good tires much of the time.

S'posed to drive a trailer about 40 miles each way this evening. Not looking forward to it. Nope. Not at all.

Murphy. With the good comes tha bad and the ugly.

 

[moose eater]

Snowing like a bastard now; giant warm flakes. "Less than a half-inch accumulation" said NOAA.. My ass.

Freezing rain will be the proverbial cherry on the sundae now..

ARGH!!!

MURPHY!!!!!!!

And we just meticulously and methodically removed the tarp and ice from the 4-place snowmobile trailer yesterday. Completely cleaned, and journals free of ice and snow!!! One step forward, 3 steps backward!!

Doesn't the Cosmos know how fragile I'm feeling about progress these days??!!! I may need a therapist!!!!!

Even the weather person appears to be a sociopath into BDSM!!!

 

[moose eater]

Weatherperson at NOAA called for less than a half-inch of snow yesterday... Today, snow still coming down, and over 5" on the ground at the moment, with obviously (based on the fact that it's still snowing) more to come.

Not sure if I want their job or not. On one hand, folks get upset at the inaccuracy sometimes/often generated by the 3 computer programs they run to predict this stuff. On the other hand, you can be so wrong as to not even be in the ballpark, and still get paid.

Hmm...

Drove about 35 miles each way, through a pretty intense snow storm, to deliver the oldest snowmobile to near North Pole, Alaska last night, with the parts I had on-hand, including a brand new stator for the thing that was otherwise obsolete, but for which the local dealer for that make happened to have a crusty correct part number sitting on the shelf,. brand new, never picked up by whom ever had ordered it, sitting there for who-know-how-long.

Murphy must've been on vacation that day. (*And I got the thing for a couple hundred bucks under list price, likely due to it collecting dust on their inventory shelf in the parts dept. and being obsolete).

Supposed to be cooling down a bit, but the airport NOAA station, NWS, is reporting +25 f. a bit ago.

Breeze had started to pick up a bit later last evening, which, when that happens with wet snow in the trees, is often when we might lose power, due to trees being heavy with the wet snow, and coming down on lines. Didn't happen.. Yet. Good to see.

"One less thing." (Forrest Gump said that).

Going to have to start over from square 1 with readying the 4-place trailer for the trip now, as it's under the same 5+ inches of white shit that was reported ealier in this post. Doing jobs 2 or 3 times when I'm limited on energy tends to take the wind out of my sails. And now I need to blow the snow from the driveway AGAIN. A HUGE driveway with large turn-arounds and parking areas; about 4 vehicles to move, and three trailers to maneuver around.

I need a crew of sherpas. Where'd my kids go?

 

[igrowone]

34f and snow, wet snow, about 16 inches
but that's what happens when the dreaded name 'noreaster' is uttered
EDIT: looks like we got 24 inches, packed and wet inches

 

[armedoldhippy]

it got up into 70s the other day, and is snowing today. not much, but...

 

[moose eater]

-24 f. on the front porch early this morning.

Nature's trying to put forth one final hoo-rah in response to the Sun's rays, that even on a cold day can feel warm on the face.

Into our schedule of 'Spring Swing', as I refer to it; cold at night, with a 25-40 degree warming in the day time due to the greater amount of Sun, when the Sun's present.. which it is today.

Stayed up late prepping for the trip; never or rarely pays off the next day.. Ground gained by pushing the envelope results more often in greater ground lost the next AM/noon trying to recuperate from the excesses.

Slow-to-learn adolescent habits dying hard while trying to make up for the lethargy of age, I guess.

Sunny day, with a projected high in mid-single digits (around +6 or so).. We'll see.

 

[moose eater]

-17 f. on the front porch mercury and glass this AM.

Post office lost a massive time-sensitive check I'd sent in a large cardboard priority mail flat rate envelope (about the 6th time in the last 1.5 years they've committed similar offenses), and the guy sending me the collar bolts for my gas-powered ice augers took it upon himself to make up his own address for me, rather than the one I'd sent in the electronic communications..

I'm really starting to dislike Murphy...

I may go back to bed and start over again...

 

[Tudo]

Current weather
8:22 PM

78‎°F
Clear

Feels like
‎79°

 

[moose eater]

-4 f. on the porch this AM at about 7:00.

Currently around +20 f.

 

[Three Berries]

Been rainy here but that's OK. The ground is still a bit froze, about 3 ft down. I was hammering in tee post last week and you could tell from the resistance and sudden break through.

But it looks like the drought we had is broke for now south of Chicago.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Time to light some proverbial after-burners,

is that what they call it now?

 

[pipeline]

Glad I planted garden seed! 45 F right now but later in the week into next week the weather breaks! Time to plant!

Use caution though, we'll probably have a frost in a couple weeks.

 

[EsterEssence]

It’s 32f and snowing, getting more much needed moisture in so cali…

 

[Hillbilly69]

Full blown blizzard here, snow coming down sideways, -4 C windchill -11 C. Winter just doesn't want to f#&k off, this time last year there barely any snow left. Still 2' of snow in most places in woods, lake is still frozen solid enough to drive a truck on it. C'mon spring!!