Time to slow
2/16/06 7:55 am.
25º F, Snow, ENE wind 13 mph.
Good morning,
Winter has finally come. Yesterday was the proverbial calm before the storm. It actually was a nice day, but not a breathe of wind, seemingly, all day long. It was also absolutely silent, only an occasional vehicle going by on the road. Less than normal. I could even hear the wild turkeys off in the woods across the road. Cool! Today is a bit different. The wind is up and the snow is coming down. This storm was supposed to hit here yesterday afternoon sometime around 4:00 pm. It did start to snow until about 10:00 pm instead. The weatherman kept pushing it’s arrival and ending later all day long. At present they are predicting 6-10" of snow before midnight tonight. Originally they said it would end about noon today. We have about 3" on the ground now. I did park the van at the end of the driveway last night - just incase. Looks like that was a good move.
The temperature is supposed to drop all day and really get down starting tonight. They are talking of lows in the -10º F range for a couple of nights. Low highs too. The wind is going to be the real culprit. High winds for the next couple of days. Glad I got the trash burned yesterday. All of the schools are closed and some of the colleges too. Expect they also may be tomorrow too.
I did make a run to town yesterday afternoon to pick up the mail and some bacon (essentials of life? One of the food groups, right next to chocolate). While at the store, I also noticed pollock is on sale for 99¢/# in case lots, as it normally is during lent. I didn’t bring any home as the freezer is a bit full at the moment. We will get some for some good eating though.
I think we will stay close to home today. Margriet started a pot of chicken soup yesterday. Sounds like a good time to have the soup pot on and simmering. Hope to have the results of her efforts for lunch today and the next few days. Suppose I will need to suffer through all of the good aroma for most of the day first though. Then the results. Life is good!
I did manage to peel a few more poles yesterday. Since my wrists were giving me some problems the day before, I wore my wrist supports - for a while. The metal inserts in them, do not allow me to hold either the drawknife or ax well enough, so I lost a lot of control of the cuts I was making. Took them off after a short time. I didn’t finish the last pole I wanted to though. It is filled with "pin knots" about 1-2" apart. They really got to my hands. While I can cut them off with the drawknife, but it requires a sharp movement and a real jolt when it goes through the knot. Of course, you really cannot see them as the bark of the tree grows over and around them. Just when you think you know where one is, it turns out not to be there and the extra pull slides out of control. The reverse is also true when one is there any you don’t know it’s there. Lots of banging and jarring on the wrists and hands.
After one of the past little snowstorms we had recently, I noticed that the plows had not gone out, at least on the secondary roads. It was really very pretty, with the road also white. It reminded me of years gone by, especially when living in northern Wisconsin, when that was a fact of life. We didn’t have the equipment to remove all of the snow from the roads all of the time. It was a fact of life that most roads were snow covered and slippery. We drove accordingly and really enjoyed a slower pace of life and the beauty of our surroundings more. Snowstorms are not a bad thing, as long as folks live with them, rather than trying to fight them.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
25º F, Snow, ENE wind 13 mph.
Good morning,
Winter has finally come. Yesterday was the proverbial calm before the storm. It actually was a nice day, but not a breathe of wind, seemingly, all day long. It was also absolutely silent, only an occasional vehicle going by on the road. Less than normal. I could even hear the wild turkeys off in the woods across the road. Cool! Today is a bit different. The wind is up and the snow is coming down. This storm was supposed to hit here yesterday afternoon sometime around 4:00 pm. It did start to snow until about 10:00 pm instead. The weatherman kept pushing it’s arrival and ending later all day long. At present they are predicting 6-10" of snow before midnight tonight. Originally they said it would end about noon today. We have about 3" on the ground now. I did park the van at the end of the driveway last night - just incase. Looks like that was a good move.
The temperature is supposed to drop all day and really get down starting tonight. They are talking of lows in the -10º F range for a couple of nights. Low highs too. The wind is going to be the real culprit. High winds for the next couple of days. Glad I got the trash burned yesterday. All of the schools are closed and some of the colleges too. Expect they also may be tomorrow too.
I did make a run to town yesterday afternoon to pick up the mail and some bacon (essentials of life? One of the food groups, right next to chocolate). While at the store, I also noticed pollock is on sale for 99¢/# in case lots, as it normally is during lent. I didn’t bring any home as the freezer is a bit full at the moment. We will get some for some good eating though.
I think we will stay close to home today. Margriet started a pot of chicken soup yesterday. Sounds like a good time to have the soup pot on and simmering. Hope to have the results of her efforts for lunch today and the next few days. Suppose I will need to suffer through all of the good aroma for most of the day first though. Then the results. Life is good!
I did manage to peel a few more poles yesterday. Since my wrists were giving me some problems the day before, I wore my wrist supports - for a while. The metal inserts in them, do not allow me to hold either the drawknife or ax well enough, so I lost a lot of control of the cuts I was making. Took them off after a short time. I didn’t finish the last pole I wanted to though. It is filled with "pin knots" about 1-2" apart. They really got to my hands. While I can cut them off with the drawknife, but it requires a sharp movement and a real jolt when it goes through the knot. Of course, you really cannot see them as the bark of the tree grows over and around them. Just when you think you know where one is, it turns out not to be there and the extra pull slides out of control. The reverse is also true when one is there any you don’t know it’s there. Lots of banging and jarring on the wrists and hands.
After one of the past little snowstorms we had recently, I noticed that the plows had not gone out, at least on the secondary roads. It was really very pretty, with the road also white. It reminded me of years gone by, especially when living in northern Wisconsin, when that was a fact of life. We didn’t have the equipment to remove all of the snow from the roads all of the time. It was a fact of life that most roads were snow covered and slippery. We drove accordingly and really enjoyed a slower pace of life and the beauty of our surroundings more. Snowstorms are not a bad thing, as long as folks live with them, rather than trying to fight them.
Time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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