We found the true meaning of "a Three Dog Night"

The fire in the forge would not start.

 

 It was so cold that ...

...I climbed into the chest freezer to warm up..

It was so cold that my all wheel drive didn't seem to be all wheel driving too well on my way in to work. Still made it in safe. Was glad to not see any accidents on my way it. 

I realized the true meaning of Dane Brammage.

Didn't run into any freelance villain assassins I hope! Take heart hi doesn't seem t be very good at it.

The wood stove is rolling nicely and we're comfy. So long as we don't go outside that is.

Frosty The Lucky.

At the bird feeder, the chickadees have fluffed up their feathers to where they look like pigeons.

So cold that beer from the fridge is a warm beverage. 

… the anvil didn’t ring till spring! Just a dull thud, thud, thud as the ring fell to the ground frozen.

... a rooster was found with seven inches of frozen crow sticking out of it's beak.

  "Nebraska's clime is very nice,

  If you are fond of snow and ice,

  This goes for 9 months of the year,

  The other three you fry and sear."

  "H.E".

Oklahoma can give you all 4 seasons on one day, record highs at midnight and record lows at noon are not unknown. 
take this Thursday, 45 at midnight, 5 at noon. And not even records…

My eyes were watering and that froze to my eyelashes.

  

26 minutes ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

Oklahoma can give you all 4 seasons on one day

  "In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty six different kinds of weather inside of twenty four hours"  Mark Twain.  

I know the kind of cold we in South Louisiana are experiencing now is just a normal winter day for most of you guys, but I don't see how you stand it. I feel like I have to cut the air up into blocks and warm them up just to be able to inhale. 

That’s OK PB, last time I was down your way I had to breath threw a straw it was so humid. Would have been drier if I stepped in the shower. 

It's so cold some trees are exploding.

7 hours ago, BillyBones said:

 

So cold that beer from the fridge is a warm beverage

 

I totally thought that was just my weird observation! 

at -5 in the shop I grabbed a beer outta the shop fridge and it honestly felt warm! Lol

The news just said gusts are topping 75 in Wasilla, more than 85 in Palmer and lots of area roads including the Parks Hwy are closed by drifting snow. Now, instead of lasting till 8pm tonight they think it'll last till 9am tomorrow. Temp's down to 1f and it's supposed to be around -9 -10f for a low. 

A beer out of the fridge still feels cold. Of course I'm only going outside for another piece of firewood or walking one of the dogs. There's about 3" of drifting snow on the porch. 

Trees are going down everywhere but most of the spruce is beetle kill, this may knock a bunch of it down.

Frosty The Lucky.

Hot cocoa;   the hoped for high octane eggnog seems to have fled the stores ahead of us; so hot cocoa and a tot of rum will have to do.  First *real* shower; HOT water and our "regular"  fixings is a wonderful thing.  Luckily we are not getting the polar bomb our kids are seeing in the midwest.   Signs of a beneficent deity indeed!

A friend is supposed to escort me to the shop tomorrow.

4 hours ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

Would have been drier if I stepped in the shower. 

I can't deny that. Most days at the forge my wife makes me change shirts four to five times a day, and I could probably wring a cup of sweat out of each. 

There's not much that scares me, but I think I'll just avoid the opportunity to experience REAL cold.

I was raised in Cave creek, just outside of Phoenix AZ. The Army sent me to Germany in 85 (the winter that Big Ben froze). After a summer in Georgia…

 

I'll take cold over hot and humid any day. It's easy to get warmer, put on more clothes and some of the new insulations are crazy good but you can only take off so much and if the humidity if very high sweat won't evaporate and cool you. Seriously guys which sounds worse, wear a coat and warm the car up for a few minutes or have smelly salt water oozing out of your hide in quantity? 

Frosty The Lucky.

The legal and social issues of taking off enough clothes for hot and humid weather, I say it’s harder to live and work in extreme cold even with appropriate gear and clothing.  
High humidity tends to keep the temp down (90f/90%) vs low humidity (122f/6%). 
cold and hot both tend to make you work slow and smart wile hot tends to make you fallow the shade and breeze cold tends to make you fallow the sun and hide from the wind. 
I really hate wet cold.

It was so cold this morning that  "I can't move my arms"  after getting dressed for it, .

Your deposed to put your arms in the sleeves…

According to the news, It was so cold that ...

It's raining BATS in Texas: Stunned creatures are plunging from underside of bridge as Lone Star State 

Frozen Iguanas Falling From Trees in Florida

Nearly 200 sea turtles have died off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, freezing to death 

In general, when the temperature dips below freezing, limit your dog’s outdoor activity to 10 to 15 minutes.

 

It was a 3 dog night:  The story goes that people who live where it gets REALLY cold sleep with their dogs to stay warm. A cold night calls for one dog, a really cold one two dogs, and a three dog night is one to be remembered.