Homestead forum diaspora

Ouch!!!...a good reminder of why I moved west...48 deg., sunny, soft chinook wind today, jet stream must be riding high

stay warm folks and be carefull

New avatar suits me well.

Tobit at January 3, 2014 at 12:18 PM

New avatar suits me well.

My son has used that for an avatar for ten years now!:lol:

I need more coffee.......   We are up to 4 hours of daylight now.  Whoot, Whoot!! 

Got our first seed cataloge last night. Before you know it we will be elbow deep in shit and baby plants.  I can't wait.

I have two seed catalogs now and I am plotting and planning for the new house. So excited to get down the mountain a bit but I am meeting some resistance from family on purging crap so we don't have so much to move. Emotional attachments to stuff can weigh a lot.

37 degrees right now and going up!

Sac, I browse seed catalogs all the time and I'm nowhere close to moving to my land.  I approve.

Seed catalogs are a distant dream to me at this point.

Kez, how long are you in town? Thats such an awesome pic of you guys.... since I started working nights on this silly 12 hr swing, I've lost track of so many of you  Did you guys hang out with Frenchy? guess that was a stupid question ....  please share

Im working days (shudders) for 2 days this week..... favor to the bossman AND the bonus??? I get an extra day off and farged-up sleep.

Expecting a massive snow storm this weekend.......

Oh, Honey - we are back home now. Got out just in time too! Nope - hung with Matt (Slaeg) and his wife.

Worked on the off-grid power system today. I disconnected the display panels and cut-off switches. Still, batteries are very low. Both backup power generators have died an icy death and I am not planning on working on them when it is -17F or so. Nor will I bring them in the house to work on after my friend died in an explosion from trapped vapors. What I need is SUNSHINE say about 82F with a margharita. Wind would be welcome too, along with a sailboat. Ah well, at least I have new batteres in the wait just to catch electrons. I do have enough power to run the computer (for a few more hours) and reading lights into the wee hours. There are 4 yaks in the house with me tonight (in the spare room) and they are keeping the inside temps tolerable along with the hard working woodstoves. We'll get through this cold spell ok. And then I 'm going to kill Ol' Man Winter. I might even throttle the ground hog depending on the disposition of his shadow. And I'm not a violent man since I left my teens so many decades ago. Seeds? What are seeds?

Yakman,

seeds

those are those things you toss on the ground outside your door to see which ones survive each year.

Wind chill is 20 below zero,  driving around in snow that won't melt on the roads all day.     Where's the little emoticon with the party hat? 

Have had my seed catalogs since December, sent in 2 orders a week ago.  Just couldn't wait any longer... dare to dream!

The pipe from the well to the house froze for a couple of hours today, but I managed to get it thawed.  That south wind is just wicked out there today.

Decided the reason I can't upload a profile pic is I am on iPad. Tried to get on here from my laptop that I never use and the address would not come up.  Oh well. You don't need to see my old face anyway.

Not so great here today either - winds are making the east/west roads a challenge. We'll be "warm" tomorrow - a high of 28 and a little over an inch of snow before we get hit by the "express". Predicated -21/-22 Sun/Mon night with wind chills of -35 to -45. Woodpile is just outside the garage (and some wood stacked in the garage in preparation for Sun/Mon) and thankfully the feeders aren't too far from the woodpile. I'm glad my plan is to be selfishly employed after the winter weather.

Roughly 200 million kilometres away, NASA’s one-ton, nuclear powered robotic rover Curiosity has been exploring Mars’ Gale Crater. Measurements from its REMS instrument (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) have been arriving back here on Earth since shortly after the rover landed in August of 2012. The data only goes up to December 20/21 right now, but over the past month, REMS has been reporting daily high temperatures ranging from -25 to -31 degrees Celsius (-13 to -24 degrees Fahrenheit), and according to the data, -31 degrees Celsius is the coldest daily high the rover has seen since it landed.

We're friggin' colder than Mars...

so this is what it is like when hell freezes over huh? ......... hahahaha we are getting down to -2 here now someone tell me just how that is dag gum it this is the south ......THE SOUTH!!!........ya hear me people stop this leaving the AC on and the door open !!!!!!!!!!!! where is my hot rock !!!!!!!!!