And here last week and the coming week, 50s at night and 80s during the day. It all sounds wonderful until June arrives. The bad part is the almost zero humidity, around 5%. That is DRY.
Three Valves wrote:Maybe Mrs Bloke should get some sheep to help keep the grass under control.
They’ll look good with the chickens!!
An example of entrepreneurship: A local company is "leasing" sheep to ground-mounted solar arrays for just that reason. They eat all the grass/weeds growing under the angled array or they don't eat at all. All they require is for water to be given.
Early November, and compared to where I grew up, it's already colder than it ever gets in the middle of winter.
I don't mind the cold... But the nearly 6 months of legit winter temps gets old after a while. Going to see if snowshoes and a fireplace hold the answer to a long winter this year...
Well currently taking a break from shoveling the 10+ inches of heavy wet white stuff. Got one car freed from the grasp of the white winter hell, cleared the block of frozen Ice in my driveway along the plowed road. I don't mind the fluffy light stuff but this heavy wet crap has got to go!! First snowfall of the year isn't supposed to be like this, should break us in gradually.
Retired Army Reserve 98th Div. Band: Euphonium, Trombone, Tuba, Bass Guitar
Miraphone 186 CC
Conn 36K Sousaphone
Euphonium: Yamaha YEP-321 (modified with Euro-shank receiver with Lehman M mouthpiece)
Trombones:Yamaha 612 Bass, Conn 88H
15° F this morning in the People's Republic of New York.
nworbekim wrote:I understand... i stopped shoveling snow a few years ago when a neighbor died of heart failure after having shoveled his out and had gone into the house, sat down for a few minutes and fell out of his chair... gone.
i broke down and bought a snow blower from my favorite cub cadet dealer and as i expected, and told him, it hasn't snowed hardly enough the last two winters to use it.... before, i was shoveling out our drive several times a winter.... i don't know how long the drive is, i was told it was a couple of tenths of a mile, but i don't think so... maybe 1. but it is, uphill slightly... fun
i always imagined the road crews delighting in piling snow at the end of my freshly shoveled drive... i don't guess they really did, but it surely was aggravating... there'd be a couple of feet of snow to shovel out...
heavier and wetter because of the salt having melted some of it...
Yes, sounds very familiar. After 20 years of procrastination, I finally got the adaptors needed to bolt a plow (sitting in my garage for those same 20 years, while I would shovel my 160 ft. long driveway) to my Gravely tractor.
I ain't getting any younger, either (and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as I can).
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