All About Pocket Knives

Rain the next 6 days and beyond!! At least I aint gotta shovel it........YET!!!! John

We had 7 kids in thew family and a double galvanized sink on a stand. I was lucky to be in the middle top group so the water wasn't too dirty or cold. ___Dave

Not that I am complaining.. BUT.. Looks like we may have to build an ark.. Rain every day into the unforeseeable future!! Still.. Aint gotta shovel!! John

We are having a picture perfect Christmas. The snow is clinging to the birch and popular trees and the pines are beautifully decorated with snow. Everything looks like a Christmas card and we only have about 6 inches of snow on the ground so getting out to see it isn't a problem. It's suppose to be nice over Christmas too (30 degrees and sun). I'm loving it.___Dave

So far, the "warmer than usual" is holding true for us. It will be interesting to see what January and February look like. If this rain we've had so far had been snow, we'd be in some real trouble.

Looks like we're headed for typical Texas Christmas weather. Sunny with highs in upper 60s. But the weather guessers are predicting another "significant rain event" starting Saturday. The almost 10 inches of rain we had at Thanksgiving put us over the previous record for wettest year ever. Merry Christmas!

Ken

Christmas in Alabama, 2015. We are having highs in the low to mid-70's and lows in the mid-60's.

Rainy, foggy.

High predicted for Christmas Day is 77 degrees.

Not unheard of, so I'm not ascribing this to global warming, it's just another cycle coming around again.

The year I got my red Schwinn five speed, it was so warm, I rode it in jeans and a tee shirt.

And, in order to tolerate our traditional fire in the living room fireplace, we had to have most of the windows and doors open.

Charlie Noyes

Rain, rain, rain... Man.. I wish this would STOP!!! Supposed to quit New Years eve!! The woods are gonna be knee deep in muck for our annual New Years Day hike!!! John

Mumbleypeg wrote: Jerry, I've taken many a bath in a tub just like that one when I was a kid. My grandparents on both sides of the family had no indoor bathrooms. Everyone bathed in a galvanized wash tub. My mom explained it to us kids like this. You take the washcloth and start at your head and wash down as far as possible. Then start at your feet and wash up as far as possible. Then you wash "possible".

Ken

..........now, that is FUNNY!!!.....I'm still laughing!!!!...................... .......................

WOW!! It finally quit raining.. Although it did rain most of the day with 0% chance of it!!! Still calling for more tomorrow!! John

Jerry, that mighty pretty, but.... looks a little on the cold side to me, not having lived in that stuff we wouldn't know how to act . But we do know how to act when it rains and let me tell y'all it came a "frog strangler" this evening. We had 2.6" in about 1 1/2 hours with enough lightning to lose power about 2 1/2 hours. We took a ride around the farm and the road into our place is flooded as are a couple of our farm ponds. Should have taken some pictures but didn't even think of it till we were a ways from the house. While we were ridin' around the power came back on . The frogs were all hollerin' as we were ridin' in the woods so I guess the ol' sayin', "it came a frog strangler", ain't exactly true.
Treefarmer

It's pretty quiet up here in the frozen Northland except for the howling of the wolves across the bog lake behind us. They were getting pretty noisy last night. I know how to handle cold and snow (I've seen 55 below and snow about 4 feet deep in my years up here), but you can keep the 100 degree heat, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, poison snakes and spiders, rabies and all the other stuff that that we don't see much of because of the cold and snow. You notice I've been keeping a list and I think I have myself almost convinced it is worth the trade-off. I do consistently vote for El-Neno (or what-ever it's called) because a little more heat probably wouldn't do my stiff old fingers any harm.______Dave up here near Frostbite Falls.

Sounds delightful Dave.

I miss winter weather......I traded it back when I was very young. That's what happens when you're young and dumb......

TripleF wrote: young and dumb......

Aren't those two words synonymous? I know they were when I was "of the age".

Edit: Now it's old and dumb.

Today started out sunny but turned cloudy and completely overcast before noon. Got up to 47 degrees with light breeze from north. Not a bad day to be outdoors but so muddy there's not a lot that can be done. Almost got stuck feeding cows this afternoon - thank goodness for 4-wheel drive. 15 inches of rain since Thanksgiving! Haven't been able to get equipment into the fields since then. Done about all we can in the shop - guess we're gonna have to start cleaning it next week.

Ken

NO rain today!! And they aint calling for any in the next 3-4 days!!! Off to the woods we go tomorrow!! See how the mud goes!! John

8 deg this am.. Supposed to be sunny and 28.. Warm up thru the week to almost 50 then back in the 20s next week.. John

WIND, rain, sleet, and maybe snow showers this pm.. Even had a few moments of sun shine too.. Dropping temps into single digits!! The whole gamut!! John

Weather.com says it's 9º. Local Time & Temp phone call says it's 3º. My atomic clock with remote outside temp module took a crap this summer so I threw it away and didn't replace it and now I'm confused to what the temp actually is.

I can testify to this, it's bloody cold out there. Just finished blowing what little snow we had last night that had drifted into some strategic spots. Is it true a couple of shots of bourbon will warm you up?

52º here today

Dimitri, (am I spelling that correctly or is it Dmitri?) are you at home or gone someplace on vacation?

You spelled it right the first time Jerry

No, at home usually would be frozen in this time of year, this is very unusual I have heard of a January thaw but this is unreal

WE are sitting at 4 below right now which is 16 degrees warmer than when we woke up. The car started for church after a few growls that suggested it didn't think I was serious about going anywhere today. This is the first cold we have had this winter so we can't complain. Hope this doesn't mark a change in the jet stream. Sunshine sure is pretty though. Just doesn't warm you much. ___Dave

It was 77 here on Christmas Day, very unusual.

It's going to be a morning low in the 20's for the next several days.

I do not tolerate cold very well. Never have.

As we get older, Sarah becomes more and more hot natured and I become more and more cold natured.

We have dual thermostats in the SUV and heated seats, but there's going to be trouble in the house sooner or later.

Charlie