Clear skies and plenty of sun will help us warm up today, but I expect another single digit morning tomorrow. After, that, rapid warming, and it's about time. Enough of this deep freeze. But it wasn't even remotely as bad as 2020 and 2021 since there was no precipitation with this cold front, not here, anyway. That made things a bit easier to handle. My preparations seem to have been at least adequate. I got one little surprise, though. I've ordered some material to correct that. A minor repair and the result will be an improvement. So irritating.
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Saturday, January 13, 2024
A Few Details
I have only a few more things to be done, as preparation for the Arctic front due to arrive some time today. Nobody seems to know exactly when to expect it, or precisely how bad it will be. It's a mystery! Right now it is quite nice, with light winds, plenty of sunshine, and it is warming nicely.
Winter is certainly no fun! I've never been able to understand the people who go to ski resorts, who go where the snow is. They are not my kinds of people.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Preparing For The Cold
It's still supposed to be really cold for a couple of days. As far as I can tell, I've got everything prepared. Saturday will be the last day of semi-reasonable temperatures. But it won't be as bad as 2021. But who knows? The whole thing is crazy. Existence is not merely absurd, it is flat crazy. It goes beyond "a tale told by an idiot". It's a screaming lunatic with a loaded gun.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Saturday
Saturday should be a nice enough day but then sometime in the late afternoon or overnight a strong cold front, first of two, might lower our temperatures a lot. But there's no precipitation of any kind associated with this event, at least not here, and Monday we have warming. A couple of very cold mornings, however. IF the forecast turns out to be accurate.
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Very Cold This Weekend!
Very cold but also dry and everything subject to change, day-to-day and even hour to hour-- such is meteorology. By this time I should be familiar with this dismal winter song and dance routine. But I still find it annoying. I can deal more easily with extreme cold if winds are light and we have at least some sunshine, and no snow or ice whatsoever. I'm also annoyed by scumbags who want to buy my house. Real estate vultures, in other words. They should rot in hell.
Some of these photos were taken within a few blocks of my house, and others were taken not much farther away, within a mile or two. God forbid there should be any development in this area. I like things the way they are.