Heat wave on the way!
2/19/06 6:56 am.
-2º F, Clear, WNW wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
Much warmer this morning than yesterday. The wind chills are also way down. The sun is about to come out and it looks to be a nice day today. The weatherman is talking of the temperature to get up to 20º F! Will believe it when I see it. Actually I hope it doesn’t get that warm until I have the snow shoveled.
I did get the van on the road about 2:30 pm. yesterday afternoon. After breaking through the snow the snowplow piled up, I started the van and let it run for a while (a long while) before moving it. The temperature was a warm -2º F at the time. Don’t like to move cold machinery in that cool of weather. While the van was warming, I removed the snow drift behind it. The van started with some difficulty, expect I would be grumpy waking up in similar conditions. The tires finally felt like they were round again about half way to town. I picked up the mail and some gasoline, taking a long time to let everything on the van warm up and the battery recharge again.
When I walked into the station to pay the bill, the shop smelled a lot like ether. Remember that smell well at this time of year. Lots of cars apparently were towed in, thawed out, and squirted with ether to get them to start. Brought back a lot of memories of times past. Sometimes I wondered if cars weren’t designed to run on ether rather than gasoline when the temperature dropped below zero. Times and technology has changed that considerably over the years. Thank goodness. No more, or at least less, shivering in a snowbank trying to get a balky engine to come to life, only to find I needed to hook it to the wrecker and pull it in anyway.
Today we are off to church for the late service. Probably will stop at a restaurant for lunch, before heading home and finding the snow shovel again. There is a long part of the driveway yet to shovel. I left the van parked at the road, rather than the 50-60 feet further in that I have shoveled. There are two dead trees next to the driveway, and I decided that I didn’t want the van wrinkled if the wind decided to know them down. They will drop later when I beat on them with a sharp instrument.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
-2º F, Clear, WNW wind 3 mph.
Good morning,
Much warmer this morning than yesterday. The wind chills are also way down. The sun is about to come out and it looks to be a nice day today. The weatherman is talking of the temperature to get up to 20º F! Will believe it when I see it. Actually I hope it doesn’t get that warm until I have the snow shoveled.
I did get the van on the road about 2:30 pm. yesterday afternoon. After breaking through the snow the snowplow piled up, I started the van and let it run for a while (a long while) before moving it. The temperature was a warm -2º F at the time. Don’t like to move cold machinery in that cool of weather. While the van was warming, I removed the snow drift behind it. The van started with some difficulty, expect I would be grumpy waking up in similar conditions. The tires finally felt like they were round again about half way to town. I picked up the mail and some gasoline, taking a long time to let everything on the van warm up and the battery recharge again.
When I walked into the station to pay the bill, the shop smelled a lot like ether. Remember that smell well at this time of year. Lots of cars apparently were towed in, thawed out, and squirted with ether to get them to start. Brought back a lot of memories of times past. Sometimes I wondered if cars weren’t designed to run on ether rather than gasoline when the temperature dropped below zero. Times and technology has changed that considerably over the years. Thank goodness. No more, or at least less, shivering in a snowbank trying to get a balky engine to come to life, only to find I needed to hook it to the wrecker and pull it in anyway.
Today we are off to church for the late service. Probably will stop at a restaurant for lunch, before heading home and finding the snow shovel again. There is a long part of the driveway yet to shovel. I left the van parked at the road, rather than the 50-60 feet further in that I have shoveled. There are two dead trees next to the driveway, and I decided that I didn’t want the van wrinkled if the wind decided to know them down. They will drop later when I beat on them with a sharp instrument.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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