What happened to negative temperatures yesterday.
50 degrees and sunny today. Having a hard time controlling the heat with doors wide open. Staying warm is one thing but roasting is another on December 23rd
Hope my ice don't melt locally by Saturday.

I heat with my Grandma's pot bellied cast iron stove, I can control heat a lot with how or what I feed it, but other technique is use of a couple of fans to direct airflow into the center of the house or away from it as needed. But neither are perfect so some days are sweat clothes and some days are t-shirts, lol.....
 
But I wouldn't trade Dexter (model Dexter no.6, Indiana foundry, circa 1915) for anything! 

I'm a very mellow laid back person. I love every single one but having 25 people in my house gets kinda crazy.
Time to retreat to the man cave and sip moonshine.
Merry Christmas to all and all a good night.

Exactly how I like it . 80 inside and 30 outside with hardwater to walk on
No snow nor none in sight for at least a good awhile.

I understand the adks now have a good 2-4" white stuff.
As far as snow goes from a sled dragger, perfect.
Things finally took a turn for better last night. Its gonna be short but sweet.
People have been putting themselves and others in danger on precarious conditions.
Hopefully it will not give a false sense of security but enough to keep people safe.

I'm heading to the SR, honestly. Just waiting for those 4 foot snow drifts, lol

No rain please Jack

Ps. My cat knows where the sweet spot is
He's lucky to still have fur

With 60 this weekend they upped the river. With the temps humidity and rain the tug will empty fast. There is 3 to4 inches on the ground and no ice around here

I was thinking about visiting P-town next week.  All I have to do is think about fishing and it rains, or snows or the river blows out.  Maybe I should consider a trip to Australia!

Was out letting the Pointers run for their morning constitutional on Saturday morning when I heard Canada geese overhead. This isn’t very unusual because they travel close by; use the neighbor’s pond; and there is a federal wetland within a mile. Some are locals, others migraters.

What was odd on Saturday was as the dozen or so (that seems to be about the maximum that flock together around here) climbed to the top of the ridge to the north, they ran right smack into a huge flock of other geese — probably over 100 in number that just popped over the ridge at the same altitude.

The huge flock seemed to really confused by this and started to break into small balls of birds (not unlike bait balls of baitfish), until the V of Canada geese turned another direction, then they reformed, but in a mass and not a V.

It was difficult to tell at the distance and altitude (and with all the honking the Canada were doing), but I think they might have been snow geese (I’m no waterfowl guy, but know enough to be dangerous). If they were indeed snows, that is way early, as they don’t typically pass through my area until mid March.

Maybe an early spring is on its way. I guess only the rodent knows for sure and he isn’t saying anything for about a week.

Locally there are huge) 1000's of snow geese hanging around here.This is not unusual but it is early?

Talking about all these geese reminds me of the song.... "The spring is in the air, I see lovers everywhere........"

Heyyyyy wooood younz like, for me to sing the song in tenor?

TenOR ...... twelve miles down the road?🙉