ThomasPowers Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 This week Wednesday had a high of 32 degF and today it's 68 degF; tomorrow will be colder---only 65 degF. I was hoping to burn up the wood pile and clean up the area before we got a new load; but the way it's going we will still have wood by the time we shut down the woodstove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 I hear that. We started the winter with 2 round bales of hay. I figured that might not last and we'd have to get another one. We've used it to feed and bedding in the nest boxes, rabbit nest boxes, etc. And we still haven't finished the 1st one yet.... Green grass is still growing. Also, brooding chicks and the temps are ranging so widely, I'm having to watch them very closely and adjusting the heat constantly. 28 last night and up to around 60 today. This is one of the weirdest winters I can remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Still winter at 7500 feet above sea level here in Laramie. High of 27 today. High of 40 predicted for tomorrow and that is the warmest day in the 2 week extended forecast. We've had some snow on the ground since early December. Ahh, the joys of a high altitude continental climate. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Here in the Ozark Plateau there is a saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes it will change". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Same here in Texas. You can have all the seasons in one day. It's happening a lot lately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 It's was in the fifties a couple days ago and started snowing yesterday. Who knows might be seventy tommorow. The weather seemed until the other day it felt like it was the 128th of October. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 14 hours ago, CrazyGoatLady said: You can have all the seasons in one day. Really, you get both winter and construction season in one day? Wow! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 There's always construction going on around here haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Must not get winter than. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Not this year we haven't. The most impeding thing has been rain and mud. Lots of it. Should have seen us trying to move chicken tractors with mud up to our ankles. That has been fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Hard to beat dragging things through mud. Good times! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 Really it is good times. I wouldn't trade my life for anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I was't offering to trade though Tommie is kind of cute. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 He says Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 69 degF Saturday, Mid 60's Sunday, Snow tonight. Gave time for the wood stove to cool down and be cleaned. My Spouse is starting a big crockpot of chile con carne to hold us over the cold spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 This is normal for Oklahoma, muck boots, shorts, parka and sombrero being required daily attire. No umbrellas (tho everyone sells them and presumable peaple buy them) unless your Mary Popins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 60 yesterday and humid. Condensation on everything. 39, stout north wind and drizzly today. But my little chicks are doing great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 The wacky weather has pretty much kept me from doing anything on the new forge addition. Every time I get a chance to work on it, it's raining so no dirt work or so windy & cold, I can't hold on to the tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage11 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 This has been a warm rainy winter here as well, which is better than snow and below zero temps. Im loving it this winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Heavy rains last night, snow today, (High 33 degF) 60 degF on next Sunday. Of course we are in the valley; from my front porch you can look up and see the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Dome at 10K feet altitude. They don't get as much rain but sure pile up the snow! Now the kicker is we are supposed to get wind gusts of 45 to 60 mph today. I got up and fed the wood stove during the night and left my wife a good bed of coals with a fresh log on it. How I wish I could stay home and drink hot tea and read while watching the snow eddy around the windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 If it wasn't a leap year this year we would have had the only February on record without any rain, but last night on the 29th at 9pm it started raining. Not much, but enough to cut back the dust. Now if we get record breaking months for the rest of the rain season we might make it to an average rainfall year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc1 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Weather has but one constant ... it's variability. February has always been the month with bigger changes. We had fires after 6 month of drought and the lack of backburning (save the slugs) ... and then rain to catch up for the next 6 month. It is what it is. Sometimes I think that the mention of how variable weather is "this days" as compared to "the good old days" where everything was pretty and constant, is simply due to bad memory. We tend to remember what we consider good and forget what does not please us. Then we have the malicious alteration of data for ulterior motives and the picture is then complete. The end of the world is at the door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabumi Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I thought the world ended in 2012? This weather must be part of the twitching that happens after death. I'm going off of the old family records. My family has been on this property for almost as long as a non indigenous person could be. We have the family diaries from the beginning to reference off of too. 1851 is the earliest diary we have, 1850 is the earliest known occupation of non-native peoples. The Spanish may have passed through earlier, but no known records exist. The diaries weren't personal diaries, most of the entries say something along the lines of "Feb 12, 1920. Overcast, butchered 2 pigs" or "May 13, 1911. Frost, killed all tomatoes. Remember don't plant until memorial day"(this still holds true today). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Our Daffodils are just now setting buds, in a little while we will have the Frozen Daffodil Festival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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