Brrr!

[altivo]

Below zero F now, not going back above for at least 36 hours. Roads are bad. For some reason, the plows aren't clearing off the snow. They keep driving around, but whenever I see one he has his blade up. Like they think they can just pack it down by driving over it again and again. Most of the roads I travel between home and the library are completely covered with packed down snow. Very slick, obviously.

Made good progress in the workshop class, despite a late start due to the weather and roads. I'm about halfway through weaving the sample block I chose, which is a piece 14 inches square. I plan to repeat it three or four times in different colors to make a long table runner or dresser scarf of it. Interesting to see the different learning approaches of the seven people in the group. The instructor is amazingly patient with those who are having trouble with the concepts.

Haven't had enough sleep the last couple of nights due to rushing to finish getting my loom prepared. Now that's done, but will probably be up a couple of times during the night to restoke the woodstove. And so to bed.

Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I use coal to keep mine burning slowly. A good layer lasts four hours if I am lucky.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Coal in quantities less than a freight-train load is no longer easily available here. Even if it were, my typical box woodstove would require a special coal burning insert in order to make use of it. Probably against EPA regulations to just burn coal that way any more.

[keeganfox.livejournal.com]

Yikes, I'm glad I'm over here... That's too cold for me.

*shivers!*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's cold all right. Didn't seem too bad this morning, but by this evening I felt incipient frostbite inside a closed barn after just a minute or so of exposure for my bare hands. Still air temperature is now about -12F/-15C and dropping. They're telling us to expect -20F by dawn, with wind chill to -40F. It's temporary, though. By Saturday the daytime high temperature is supposed to rise above +20F again.

[keeganfox.livejournal.com]

So what's the deal with global warming again?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily any connection. A few days of extreme heat or cold are not indicators one way or another because global warming is a slow overall trend that involves averages and massive changes. For some reason people find that hard to understand. But the polar ice caps are still melting at an unprecedented rate, so three or four days of extreme cold in some places don't mean much.

Currently -18F/-28C here, just before dawn. But tomorrow we're supposed to be back to near normal temperatures for this time of year, at +20F.

[alexsious.livejournal.com]

I want snow!!! its down to 6F but no precipitation. even after the nearly 20 inches of rain in the past month, we get freezing temps, but nothing to freeze. : (

[saythename.livejournal.com]

*hands you the snowbrush and points at his
snow encrusted car*

Go at it.

^.~

[altivo.livejournal.com]

He beat me to it. I'm sure you'd be welcome to haul away as much as you want, at your own expense. We seem to have a superabundance just now.