Our weather for today - I won’t be going anywhere:
“A frigid start to the weekend with temperatures in the single digits to low teens. Strong wind gusts for the entire day, 30-50 mph with 50-60+ mph for the ridges. Wind chills -5 to -15 degrees, mountains -20 to -30 degrees. A few flurries at times or stray snow squall early. Dangerously cold with highs only in the single digits for the mountains low to mid teens for the valley. Wind chills staying below zero for the entire day.
Still windy in the evening, but weaker gusts 25-40 mph. Temperatures slowly falling to near 10. Mountains in the single digits. Brutally cold overnight with wind tapering off. Lows in the single digits. Wind chills still around to below zero. Mountains -5 to -15 degrees.”
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The wind is currently ‘howling’. When it’s this bad, I can’t stand to be upstairs where I can really hear it. This ‘should’ be the last of the frigid weather with a warm-up this coming week into the 40’s during the day. We still have snowcrete - won’t see the grass until March at this rate.
Thursday, I made split pea soup, cornbread, picked 2 rotisserie chickens & put the carcasses in the slow cooker for bone broth. The bone broth was ready yesterday - about 5 quarts. Since buying it ready-made is $5+ per quart, I’m happy to have saved some money. The chickens are just under $4 each and the meat is quite moist & tasty. The next kitchen project, something I’ve always wanted to do & have never gotten into, is making sourdough bread.
“The next kitchen project, something I’ve always wanted to do & have never gotten into, is making sourdough bread.”
My new brad machine did a great job on making the dough - but a terrible job on baking the bread. And now I REMEMBER why I always used my old one just for making and rising the dough, then baked it myself in the oven.
Good luck on the Sourdough. I’ve not mastered that by a long shot!
Brrrr cold 🥶.
I was right yesterday. They *said* we would get to 33 yesterday. My thermometer never got past 31. Today’s high will be 24 with only a light breeze. Tomorrow’s high is supposed to be 27, but MONDAY is slated for 39!!! I can hardly wait!!!
Good luck with your sourdough adventure! Keep us updated! My lil sis has been doing this for half a year now. Sounds like she’s gotten herself into a good groove with it.