Brrrrr-rr-rr-r!

[altivo]

Y'know, no matter how long you live with climate, you never get used to the extremes. At least, I think that. I've lived in the heart of the midwest all my life, but the heat of July and the cold of January still take me by surprise.

Snow this morning, quite heavy at times, but the temperature was just above freezing and most of it melted. Then it stopped snowing and started blowing. We're down to 10°F/-12°C and supposed to get colder. By some predictions, Saturday's high temperature could be 0°F/-17°C. (I know, it's worse in Alaska and upper Canada, but that doesn't mean I have to like this.) The killer is the wind, which may be gusting to 30 mph, sending the wind chill down to -25 or lower. The partially melted snow is going to be nasty ice come morning.

Fortunately, other than the barn stuff, there's little I have to do outside the house this weekend. We have plenty of firewood, and I cleaned out the ashes in the stove this afternoon. Maybe I'll get some little projects done that have been on hold. Or maybe I'll get a book and hide under three quilts until it warms up. Anyone want to join me? ;p

Comments

[corelog.livejournal.com]

I will, I will! :D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'll make you sweat. I get cold and build up the fire and really do use three blankets.

[corelog.livejournal.com]

Who will be making whom sweat, again? I am, after all, the person who tends to overheat people by virtue of merely snuggling with them.

You may find that you don't need one or two of those blankets if you're snuggling with me. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You're hired. The cats and dogs will absorb the extra heat. You should see them all lying around the woodstove baking themselves.

[brokkentwolf.livejournal.com]

Stay indoors and enjoy the weather from within. :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

As much as I can. The animals have to be cared for though, no matter what the weather or how I feel. :D

[schnee.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to. ^^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Bit of a trip to make just for that, though. I'd say if you're coming to visit, wait till late spring when things are so much nicer here. :D

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles* If I ever can afford to visit at all, I'll do that. ^^

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

i wish i could come down there and join you, relaxing next to a nice hot warm stove is so nice in the middle of winter

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hehe. For you, coming down here would be like a trip to Florida for me. I imagine you could teach us a few things about surviving the cold.

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

You're right Tivo, no matter how long you live somewhere you never quite get used to the extremes. I have to say though that the heat here in the summer does not affect me as much as it used to. Perhaps as I get older the warmer climate appeals to me. I dunno, I still love the snow and wish we were ears deep in it.

The wind in the winter is what gets me too. Granted we rarely get as cold as you guys do but when we get down near freezing and there is that north wind coming in off the lake....BRRRRR!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Probably the humidity is higher there so you don't get the serious wind chill though. That's the nasty stuff. It snowed more this afternoon, powdery fluffy stuff. Not as cold yet as they say it will be. Tomorrow night is supposed to be the worst.

[drgnkiyo.livejournal.com]

Heh that sounds like a plan. I might be able to read Eclipse [Part of Stephenie Meyer's vampire series], since I started it last semester, sparingly read it because I didn't want it to end, and then I forgot about it and got swamped with schoolwork. >_>

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*gets the garlic and the crucifix out just in case*

Cute icon. ;D

[drgnkiyo.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah sure...I'll start walking to Illinos now... I should be there before the fall :P

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely before fall. It's only about a thousand miles. I'll bet you'd get here in 90 days or less, just in time for the lilacs. ;p

[gabrielhorse.livejournal.com]

Hmm... lilacs...

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good snuggly time :) I'll read to you, if you like that (I'm told I have a good voice for it), or we could just companionably read books and sip hot cocoa.

Lack of footsie-playing definitely not guaranteed, though.

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I vote for mulled wine instead of cocoa. I'd be happy to let you read to me. The way I feel tonight, that may be about as much as I'm up to by tomorrow when the real cold hits.

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

Mmm... warm, mulled wine sounds nice. Warm spiced mead even better (to me, anyway).

Glomp, snuggle, read => GO!

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Mead would be really nice. I just don't have any on hand. ;D

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's easily remedied - I always have some around. I don't drink much, but it's one of the few things I do drink.

Sweet sips and happy toes under the blankets = contented sighs.

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[saythename.livejournal.com]

The quilts and books sounds perfect.

But I'll use my own. ^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I promise there are no cooties in my quilts. ;p

[saythename.livejournal.com]

You seem a, "clean is next to god" sort but,
I'll pass, you'd tell me to put out the hand
rolled cigarette and stop eating chocolate and
why are you reading those cheap scifi novels! and
then we'd break up and I'd have to move all my
books out of your house, do you know how HEAVY
books are? We'd end up getting funny looks and
snickers at work "they slept together!" even
though there was no sleeping or anything else
to snicker about. I'd end up moving to Maine and
writing travel books and you'd still be their,
peering at little kids in a fursuit.

Hmmphs.

XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL, what an imagination you have.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

So I've been told, alternating with;

WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!?

@.@

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Why aren't there any furs in Arizona...must be the fur that makes them live in areas where it gets cold.

*takes a corner of the quilts* It's evil out there *snoozes while you read*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are furs in Arizona. I know some of them. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Ahh Arizona..that's my kind of state ;) Well that and Michigan oh and any other state where it doesn't snow or ice over. I wouldn't mind living in Chicago but I'm not sure I could handle the snow.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I hate to break it to you, but Michigan has almost as much snow per year as New England states or the Rocky Mountains. In fact, a big chunk of the economy there is from winter ski resorts. It will indeed be ironic if the automobiles once made in Detroit turn out to be major contributors to global climate change that destroys the economy of the rest of the state.

Chicago, by contrast, gets relatively little snow most years because it's on the windward side of the lake. It gets cold this time of year, but for example, last night we got between three and four inches of snow. Sixty miles away, in Chicago, they probably got nothing or only a light dusting.

Arizona is hot and nasty. Unless you are up in the mountains, in which case you do get some snow once in a while.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Isn't there anywhere subtropical? kind of around the -3 to 38 degrees celcius?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh sure. But the areas with that sort of climate are on the coasts. The interior here, as I imagine down under too, gets all the extremes. The sea moderates things considerably.

There are trade-offs, of course. You could pick the Atlantic coast from Maryland down to South Carolina, but that's prime hurricane territory. Or you can choose the Pacific coast from around Seattle down to somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles, but that area is subject to earthquakes and monsoon rainfalls with mudslides. And of course there's Hawaii, which probably suits your climate wishes just about perfectly except that it has volcanoes and occasional hurricane-like storms as well. I'd suggest that you avoid Florida and the Gulf coast, because in my experience they get horrendous humidity in the summer, plus hurricanes, and have some of the most backward local government imaginable.