-10 at 3am Potty Break for Dolly. -13 at 7am this morning. A balmy 1 degree in the greenhouse and a cozy 57 degrees in the farmhouse - and rising - I just cranked up the heat! Rumor has it that we're past the worst of it now as far as temps go. Snow by Tuesday, maybe. Hope all of you south of me are holding up against the ice and snow!
We’re having a heat wave here in OK. It’s a scorching 3°F, with a projected high today of 8°F. Becoming more fond of my small wood-burning stove by the minute. Heh. :-)
Last night, the TV weather fear-mongers predicted between 8 and 14 inches of snow in my area. We got maybe 2. Current forecast is 6 to 12 inches of new snow through Sunday. Color me skeptical.
The one thing I forgot to do was to cover the rosemary. Kind of scared to go outside and look at it. Maybe if I cover it this morning, at least some of it will survive. Fingers are crossed.
Our temps are still on the positive side, so I won’t complain. Snow should be arriving in a few hours, sometimes light, and then a band or two of heavy, if their predictions are accurate. I have a few quick outdoor chores to do, so about to bundle up, and head outside to deal with the new water feature in the meditation garden. The water is freezing on top, so less is recirculating. It’s been a neat thing to watch this winter. The birds and small animals seem to like it, too. Another place to play!
Sunny and 75 in Zone 10b.
Just spent 50 minutes outside - 17 degrees, feels like 10. Boy oh boy, it’s going to take a while to warm up. I was getting a tarp tied down on the car, but the wind was blowing enough I had to make a trip to the barn for some bricks. They helped hold the tarp down until I could get some ropes on it & do some tying.
We’ve got snow showing on radar, but nothing hitting the ground yet. The wind should die down to almost nothing tonight. We’ll have snow until tomorrow (looks like about 8” is the forecast) when it goes over to sleet for most of Sunday afternoon with maybe some freezing rain as the storm ends. Brutal temps for the rest of the week - there will be no melting going on.
All the storm prep is done except finishing off filling some bins with water for flushing toilets if the power goes out. This afternoon, I put a pot of Beef Barley soup on - it surely smelled good when I came back into the house!
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Light snow all day, low teen temps, a nice breeze /s, currently 5 or -11 with wind chill.
Left work a little early to do a few thing before it gets dark and colder. Swept paths from the house to truck and to firewood. Gravel driveway and powdery show. Easier and faster to sweep than to shovel. Got the fire rip roaring and rigged a little fan up high near the wood stove aiming down at an angle to the floor sort of towards the kitchen table where we sit when eating or on laptops. Warm up them feet. One of these days I’ll do it proper with a fan on back of stove and vent that shoots out under the front of stove.
Gotta bring wood in to refill the rack in here. That’s lasting 24 hours with these single digit nights and there’s no end in sight of those in the current forecast.
I'm really happy that I don't have a bunch of momma cows that are ready to have babies.
Howard doesn't mind that it's cold outside. He loves to play in the snow but he loves it more that he can come back indoors where there's a bowl full of groceries and a warm soft chair to lounge on.
Follow-up visit with the spine doc last week was anti-climactic. At this point she's not worried about the hemangiomas, which there are actually three of, not just the two that were mentioned in the radiology report. They did a set of t-spine xrays which showed quite a bit of arthritis in there - that's what has her attention at this point. They're going to do a MRI on my cervical spine next week to see if anything shows up on that. Doc is talking about the possibility of nerve ablation treatments and some other stuff that doesn't sound like a lot of fun but for now it's more hurry up and wait and worry.