RE NYW Kitchen Project

Take the dog for a walk, maybe down by the river. It'll be another few days before we can go ice fishing, we need 4" to 6" ice. I don't like driving on anything under 6" thick. And even then, you have to go slow and think about the bow wave...

Unfortunately, up till a few days ago, it was too warm to flood a good outdoor rink, so I imagine it will be another week or so before we can strap on the skates and enjoy skating under the lights in the river valley.

This is unseasonably cold, but to put it in perspective, my 14 year old son did his paper route this morning (6 am) without checking the temp and was surprised that the thermometer read what it did, as he didn't feel the cold on his half-hour walk.

He walks about a mile to and from high school, and when he got home from school this afternoon complained that he was was "too sweaty" with the clothes he was wearing.

It's cold. That's all. So what?

RE: Subject

Cold enough that coupled with a wet storm coming in from the Pacific have closed I-5 from Los Angeles across the mountain to Bakersfield in the central valley.

This section of I-5 across the mountains with a max elevation of about

Welcome to California in the wintertime.

Lew

So Cal in winter. We have about 1.5 feet of snow. The worst part is the 3 foot berm that the &$#)^ amateur snow plow guy left on my driveway. Grumble. Good exercise. (^&#%*$!

The forecast for the Buffalo area for tomorrow, depending on what forecaster one believes, is calling for winds up to 70 MPH, heavy lake effect snow causing near blizzard conditions and temperatures dropping into the lower teens. That should make the wind chill somewhere around

-55 F.

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:40:55 -0600, the infamous Morris Dovey scrawled the following:

And we'll send SODS and pine bark beetles. I have frozen pipes this morning and no water. I'm hoping they didn't burst first. It's up to

-- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Larry Jaques wrote: ...

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Wishin' for ya'...but you're in heat wave it seems; we just managed to get above 10F at 1PM (but at least bright sun and the wind went down so windchill is now >0F).

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Thanks for the tip guys. I should pass through here more often, you pick up some handy info! I'll give them a try next time I'm finishing a bunch of doors