More snow-ow-ow

[altivo]

An inch of new stuff since sunset and still falling. 'S pretty but I can't stay awake any longer and Gary's not back from his performance and I hope he's careful driving 'cuz it's slippery.

And tomorrow back down to single digits. Ok, that's enough winter.

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[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to snow here tomorrow. Deep joy.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Snow is nice if you don't have to go anywhere in particular. We have quite a lot of it on the ground now, and I don't mind. What I do mind is the bitter cold that follows. Headed down to around -17C tonight...

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

We're getting some snow, now. Very pretty again, moreso because I've wrangled an extra day off (Saturday) and the 'cleaning company' is due this weekend at work and thereby reducing my maintenance efforts appreciably!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We have the long icicles (I want to spell that icecicles but the spelling checker disagrees) now. Long, and very sharp, up to about two feet. The entire edge of the house roof is decorated, and they sparkle in the light just as if they were electrified. It was up to about 32F this morning, and started dropping around 3pm. I went out to help Gary with chores at 4:30 and it was 14.9° then. We came in at 5:30 and it was 13.3°. They say it will get down near zero and I believe it.

Fortunately, we have electricity this time and plenty of wood. Stove is already going, and I have orange chicken in the crock pot to be ready about 7. Gary's mom is here for New Year's Eve, then his brother will pick her up to go to his house after lunch tomorrow.

[jon-a-wolf.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Snow and single digit temps!

How I long for such things. The snow I have plenty of but I'm getting a bit tired of the constant -20C or lower that I've had to deal with for the past month.

Keep warm, and enjoy the snow while you can. Winter can't last forever (except perhaps where I live.).

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. Even where you are it won't last forever. In fact, judging by the ice breaking up in the Arctic Ocean, it's lasting less and less than it used to.

The temperature drop this afternoon was abrupt. We were near freezing this morning and that held until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Then the bottom fell right out, dropping as much as 5° an hour. (Of course, I'm speaking Fahrenheit here. If the forecast is correct, we'll be in your range by morning, somewhere around -17C or 0F.)

I'm OK with it as long as I have somewhere to get warm. The woodstove is going and we have plenty of wood. The sheep have lots of wool on them and don't seem to be bothered, and the horses are all fuzzed out right now but I do worry about them a bit. We put them indoors at night, so they aren't in the wind. Their body heat keeps the barn as much as 20°F higher than the outside temperature, even though there is no insulation in the walls. (They do have two layers of wood with a half inch gap between.)

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a great place to practice drifting :D