If it will make y'all feel better, our "heat wave" has passed and freezing
rain possible tonight.
On Jan 13, 2017 11:53 AM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sounds like a great day, Dean. To the south of you, Oklahoma, Kansas and
> Missouri are facing the possibility of freezing rain, the worst scourge of
> Winter. Count your blessings!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 1/13/2017 10:22 AM, Dean Hansen wrote:
>
>> Rick B. posted:
>> "60 degrees and quite breezy." Dead calm here this morning. Temperature
>> is at minus 6 degrees F. The fresh 4" of snow is lovely. Yes, "Life is
>> good!" Interestingly, our barometer reads a healthy 30.92, which is the
>> highest I've ever seen it. Thanks, Canada, for the breath of fresh air.
>> I have a little apple orchard on a hilltop on our five acres, and I
>> have a pair of steel fence posts driven into the ground. The tops of the
>> two fence posts are aligned so that on December 21 I can look over the top
>> of the "standard" post, align its top with the second one, and the tops of
>> these two fence posts mark where the sun sets on that date. The sun's
>> setting point has already moved several sun diameters to the north, so
>> spring is obviously coming.
>> We never have to shake scorpions or tarantulas out of our cross
>> county
>> ski boots before putting them on.
>> Dean
>>
>
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