All About Pocket Knives

Decided to Nordic (XC) ski to Old Town Alexandria from my place at Landmark yesterday. Left at 9:00, got back at 5:30 so it was a full day. Took some pictures along the way including 1 of my skis in front of the Courthouse where I work. Lots of snow removal action going on. Turned out to be over a 10 mile round trip but I managed to have a nice lunch and do some sightseeing between trips. Off today, the City is closed. We'll see what tomorrow brings- going Alpine skiing at a local resort if we're off again.

You look like you are having WAY too much fun.___Dave

38 degrees with 20 MPH wind, gusts to 35MPH! Wind is fierce. Just got back from feeding critters, shoulda put some rocks in my pockets!

Ken

We are at 5 degrees with 25 MPH winds. I've been poking my nose out the door every once in a while trying to decide if I want to try to work today. It's suppose to drop below zero through-out the week down to minus 15 by Thursday. I sure have been getting wimpy as I've gotten older. I might lose my "Jack Pine Savage" status if I'm not careful. ____Dave

Cold on the way.. Single digits by week-end.. And calling for 2-6in snow by Wed... At least I finally have a snow-blower!!! John

....and so the snow begins!!! And salt trucks too!! Got about 2-3in and snowing pretty good!!! John

Just a dusting of snow here but 10 to 15 below all week. Weather man said the wind chill North of us could hit -40 tonight. Possibly 30's by next week.

16 below this morning with 10 MPH winds so we are under a wind chill advisory. Tonight it's suppose to cool down to in the 20's below.___Dave

8 right now with a high of 11.. Wind chill - 10 below.. And more snow!! Seems we have been getting 1-3in a day!!! John

Wow John. I've been wandering where all our snow went to this year. We have about a foot on the ground which is about enough to keep our septics from freezing but it's been cold. We have -20 actual temp. right now but it's pretty calm so it's not bad. Suppose to be 50 degrees warmer (around 30 degrees for all you "kids" reading that studied new math) early next week.___Dave

Dave.. No mater how ya cut it.. Yinz are getting COLD weather!!!! John

Cold getting colder and praying for more snow on Monday.

In Penrith NSW Australia i am expecting 106F today. Could be ripping the ears off a coldie, this arvo.
Tony.

Managed to get in Day 5 of Nordic skiing around the 'hood this morning. Could have used a couple more inches of cover but supposedly the snow will change over to rain later tonight. Gotta get the goods while you can!

Can i have some of that snow...please.

I have a forecast tomorrow of 41c, which is 106F. Us old codgers will have to find a nice cool rock to nestle under.

I live in Penrith New South Wales, Australia.
Tony.

Spent last night in the path of tornados just north of Pensacola at my sister's home. Had mattresses and interior space picked out. Flashlights,etc at the ready.

The tornado stayed about five miles South of us.

Torrential sideways rain and some hail.

54 degrees and very windy this AM.

Charlie Noyes

Not a very comfortable place to be Charlie. Pleased to hear the eye missed you, and that you are OK.
Tony.

Rainy and cool here for 3rd day in a row. Too muddy to work outside much so been confined to the shop servicing tractors. At least there's Spring Training baseball on the radio. Need to be working on income taxes but .

Ken

Winter is going out fighting here in Western MD. The ground is completely thawed, has been in the 70s most of the last 2 weeks, so I don't expect much total accumulation. Still could get 4-6" through Monday morning. What did that groundhog predict?

I'm rolling across the top side of New Mexico. Got some freezing rain about 26 degrees. A little bit nasty out here. The pronghorns been out jumping around this morning. Trying to stay warm no doubt

Took ol' Willis on an ATV ride to the top of our property to see the snow. That's my non-knife collecting bro on the green Honda. Pretty Spring snow that only accumulated at higher elevation. Willis has been riding ATVs since he was a pup. Haystack Mt. in the last pic, just South West of Cumberland.

Took a few pictures of the results of our Florida weather this afternoon. We've had 9.4" inches since Thursday evening. We planted 14 rows of red field corn and 2 rows of yellow straight neck squash Thursday morning. I feel sure the seed will rot rather than germinate and most of the fertilizer will be leached out of the soil by the time we can get a tractor back in the garden and field.
A few pictures to show what it looks like in LA. The last picture shows the west side or back side of the last rain storm of the day, the 1st blue sky in several days. Spotted a dove on the power line and thought about the Bible account of Noah releasing the dove after the flood.
Treefarmer

Looks like good weather for the crawdads, treefarmer.

1967redrider,
You're right about the crawdads. My wife took this picture of one coming up our road and down at the culvert where the branch crosses the road there were 100's of crawdads, all sizes. The pictures we took there didn't show clearly because of the glare. I'd never seen so many at one time! Sure was a lot of fish bait, lots were big enough to eat.
Treefarmer
edit: We were spared the rain today, it only showered a couple of times with the heavier stuff being up in Alabama and points north!

Beautiful country Redrider. Phil I sure hope you get some dry weather before you guys start thinking about loading those crawdads into an arc and floating away. We had a pet crawdad when we were in SD in the Air Force. We hand fed it and kept it in a fish tank with a few goldfish. All of them would take food out of our hands. He swam away in the Rapid City flood in 1972 (we almost did too). ___Dave