How's The Weather By You?

I'm happy your getting some nice cold weather Steve! Just as long as you, the wife and pup stay toasty warm inside. :cool: Do you use a fireplace or wood stove to help heat the house in winter? I imagine that's a necessity there.
 

Our first rainy day of the year for Las Vegas, mid 50's and just light intermittent showers. I may keep my sweater on all day with no sunshine to warm us up. I cannot wait for spring, to lay out in the lounger basking in the sun and getting a nice tan.
 
We're right at freezing but the air is dry and the sun is out, so it's a great day.

I have had to be somewhere Mon, Tue, and Wed and I am not happy about that - it's waaaay over my self-imposed allotment to be off this hill - lol lol That means I'm behind on stuff. One being that pallet of shavings I went after on Monday. It is my hope to get the truck unloaded so Mr. TWHRider doesn't have to, as he's still grumpy with a sinus headache - lol lol lol

A pallet means (45) 8lb bags of shavings have to come off the truck and be re-stacked in the barn. Plus there's (2) 50 lb bags of garden lime that I use on the stall floors after stripping them, that I somehow have to lug out off the front floor. The memory is fading but once upon a time I could throw a 100 pounds of corn over my shoulder and walk it to the feed room and I only weighed 125 back then. I'm doing good to throw 40 lbs of dog food over my shoulder these days.

What this all means in terms of weather is that I will be sweating by the time I get all this done and still not get frostbit:bee:
 
Seabreeze..
NO... We don't have a fireplace in our home.. For the most part, fireplaces don't really keep you warm.. All they do is let the heat go up the chimney.. They do give off some heat but mostly smell and atmosphere..
Now a wood stove really does work.. It heats up the house with just a log or two..
Unfortunately, we don't have either, HOWEVER we do have an electric fireplace.. I know, it isn't the same but we have an all electric house.. Actually we have a house with NO chimney at all.. Our downstairs is heated by electric forced hot air with electric baseboard back-up as well as an electric fireplace in the living room.. The upstairs (bedrooms) is heated by electric baseboard..
Please remember we live in an "A" Frame house which is a bit different than the conventional house..
Another thing is in our village, gas isn't available however some houses have propane furnaces as well as propane fireplaces and also propane kitchen stoves.. Now, that means having a HUGE installation of gas done..
The other thing is because we don't have a wood burning fireplace or gas, our insurance premiums are drastically reduced.. We don't need a CO2 detector as we don't burn anything.............
We are on an equal billing plan with our hydro company of way under $200 a month for our TOTAL energy.. No wood, No gas, No propane or any other expenses....
Are we warm ??? Better believe it !!!!!!

PS .... We also have the luxury of having an electric blanket on our bed.. We also have air conditioning downstairs (window unit) for those humid summer days.. We don't have air conditioning in the bedrooms as it isn't needed.. Evenings are cool and ceiling fans is all that is needed..........
 
I don't like wood-burning fireplaces either. Not only does all the heat escape up the chimney but that chimney needs to be kept clean, elst the house could catch on fire. When I lived on the OH/PA border and was married to my son's father, we had a big double-blower wood burner next to the fuel oil furnace in the basement.

We also had "his n her" chain saws and would cut our own wood every Fall. We generally went to the sawmills and loaded up with whatever slab wood they laid off to the side for folks like us. In the beginning all that wood was free but eventually somebody figured out they could make $20/truck load off all us folks that were trying to save a few dollars in heating bills:sorrow:

My son's father tried to take my chainsaw when we split and I ask him how he'd like me to neuter him with it? That was 30 years ago, I still have that faithful little Homelite and it's still in service cutting tree limbs when they fall across the fence:eek:nthego:

Propane is the common source of heat where I currently live. Our fireplace is propane so we use it all the time during the cold months.

I have never been a fan of total electric because:

1. I can't get warm enough - lol
2. Even if I could, price per killowatt has always been in the outer stratosphere, no matter where I've lived.

We have a generator big enough to run the furnace, refrigerator and TV's if we ever do lose power. The stove is gas and, again, the fireplace is gas.

Ah, the electric blanket --- got one of those as well:cool:

As far as A/C -- it would be sheer foolishness to live in southern Middle Tennessee without central air. Especially since we both have high blood pressure and Mr. TWHRider had a big fat-lifeflight-him-heart attack a year ago. We need to know the house to be cool. During mid-late summer it is not uncommon for the heat/humidity to be so great that I could burn my hands on the tractor steering wheel before noon, if it sat in the sun too long. I wear a cooling vest to do outside and barn chores in the summer months and I often have to cut things short anyway.
 
TWHRider said:
A pallet means (45) 8lb bags of shavings have to come off the truck and be re-stacked in the barn. Plus there's (2) 50 lb bags of garden lime that I use on the stall floors after stripping them, that I somehow have to lug out off the front floor. The memory is fading but once upon a time I could throw a 100 pounds of corn over my shoulder and walk it to the feed room and I only weighed 125 back then. I'm doing good to throw 40 lbs of dog food over my shoulder these days.
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For a few years I worked a job where we took cases of soda pop off the pallets they were on, and picked certain ones to stack high on another pallet and wrap for shipment to the stores. Time was monitored, so we had to keep moving. Great workout, sweated like a pig though, and lots of bending and reaching up to stack them above my shoulder height was challenging at times.

Nowadays, I move around a forty pound bag of dog food now and then, but never had the idea to sling it over my shoulder. You're a stronger woman than I TWH. :lemo:
 
SeaBreeze said:
For a few years I worked a job where we took cases of soda pop off the pallets they were on, and picked certain ones to stack high on another pallet and wrap for shipment to the stores. Time was monitored, so we had to keep moving. Great workout, sweated like a pig though, and lots of bending and reaching up to stack them above my shoulder height was challenging at times.

Nowadays, I move around a forty pound bag of dog food now and then, but never had the idea to sling it over my shoulder. You're a stronger woman than I TWH. :lemo:
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That all sounds a LOT more painful than stacking shavings bags. I tip my hat to you - that sounds way too grueling and damaging to punch a time clock for:(

I'll bet you could fling the dog food bag if it were in the trunk of the car or the tail gate of the truck; I can't do it from the ground anymore because my back won't hold me up - lol lol lol

I stand the bag up on the lip of the trunk, then drop my shoulder to the bag<----there are advantages to only being 5'2" lollollol
 
TWHRider said:
That all sounds a LOT more painful than stacking shavings bags. I tip my hat to you - that sounds way too grueling and damaging to punch a time clock for:(

I'll bet you could fling the dog food bag if it were in the trunk of the car or the tail gate of the truck; I can't do it from the ground anymore because my back won't hold me up - lol lol lol

I stand the bag up on the lip of the trunk, then drop my shoulder to the bag<----there are advantages to only being 5'2" lollollol
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Nice thing was that it was a male-dominated job, and I had a lot of jerks waiting for me to fail...well, I was younger then, and although my lower back felt it by days end, I did my thing and was equal, and even better than some of the men there. They would try to play games, and sneakily slip me the more difficult orders, etc., but I had my street smarts too, and that wasn't gonna be happenin', LOL. :playful:

I'll have to try that dog food lift on my shoulder, I'm 5'4", not too much of a disadvantage. :)
 
I had to try a couple times but finally got the link to open.

The freezing fog is burning off and the sun is coming out. Supposed to be a high of 51 degrees today, hit close to 70 by Tuesday and back down in the 40's Thursday and Friday:bi_polo: "yes, I guess not" sums up January's weather to-date:chargrined:
 
....... ITS ALL OVER !!!!!!!
Evidently that awesome cold spell we just had for the past few weeks is all over and we are back to slightly above normal temperatures..

Now, if we can only ask "Mother Nature" for some SNOW !!!!
We need snow and we need it very badly and very soon.. Unfortunately there isn't any in the forecast, but we shall see..

They are calling for above freezing temperatures for mid week..
We went from a -35c with a windchill of -52c to a +4c in only one week.......
Go figure !!!!
 
The north of our country has had tornadoes ,windstorms , houses under water etc while here in the south we're begging for some rain, wish they would build some stormwater pipes around the country instead of fancy football ovals and trams to nowhere :mad:
 
With Tuesday's extreme warm-up and the massive cold front coming in behind it, the weather folks are saying the possibility of isolated tornadoes is real.

"OzarkGal" and most likely "rkunsaw" will see the storm system first, then I will see a portion or maybe even all of it. By the time these storms from the west reach Middle Tennessee, they have either dwindled considerably or grown to very threatening proportions.

After all that passes thru, we literally go from shorts and tank tops back to snowmobile suits in 48 hours. Bi-polar weather seems to be the norm lately:bi_polo:
 
Tornado watch until 1:00 am...Was supposed to storm all day, but so far only a few small cloudbursts. They are predicting up to 4 inches of rain...what we definitely don't need right now since the last 4" incher a couple of weeks ago, on top of the snow melt. It is muggy, ugly warm today, one that feels like you're wearing a warm wet blanket..hate days like this. We have been working on raking up a forest full of leaves around the house and I did that for awhile this morning before they are all soggy again.

Oops..here comes the rain and lightning right now, it's a frog strangler. Wish us luck!

This is the crazyiest weather..we were in a severe drought all summer and now we're floating, with unseasonably warm temps...
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Good luck Ozark, and stay safe! It is weird for flooding to follow severe drought, strange weather all over! :eek:
 
You know, this is really weird..
We had about 2 weeks of really cold weather that was needed very badly..
We had some snow on Sunday and Monday.. About 15 cms and it was really welcomed..
Then came a mild spell with rain and melted almost everything again..

Go figure ???

Now they are calling for more snow tonight and tomorrow.. Why ?? It will only melt with the warm spell coming for the week-end..

WE NEED SNOW AND LOTS OF IT VERY BADLY !!!!!!!
 
We had a lot of rain, I don't know how much yet but I think the drought may be over. Our lake already had a trickle of water going over the spillway for the first time in a year and a half. I imagine the water is roaring over the dam now.It's too dark to see now but I can hear it.
 
Vegas weather does not give us much variety, just beautiful sunshine 90 % of the time, I know "it's a dirty Job" but somebody gotta live here ! We get excited when we DO have rain. So, yeah, low 60's sunny and beautiful today!
 
Steve...I'll do a snow dance for you today and cross my fingers and toes...
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pchinvegas...I'm envying your nice weather right now. One thing I like about Arkansas is the four seasons..but the summers can be brutal with the humidity.

Well, the storm that was supposed to roar like a lion
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yesterday rolled by like a pussycat. We slept with the bedroom windows open on the screened in porch side last night as it was warm and humid. Thankful, it wasn't bad as the creek is about at max capacity right now. High today of 51 and we're already at 50 right now,low of 26 tonight. What crazy swings.
 

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