Ha. So far we are going into winter as expected; wet-wet. But too warm, as too much above 50F/10C even most nights.
So now my in box truck, too wet of wood is molding; even with me forcing air flow exchanges:
And the Halloween carved pumpkins went bad in less than a week. They should have lasted 10-14 days.
Come-on, true cold weather. Put a cold stop to all of these growths.
Steve Unruh
What are yāall doing? Thereās nothing to read 
Iāve been clearing some birch today - young growth. As cold and foggy as on a Scottish meadow and by 3.30 I ran out of daylight. I didnāt think of taking pics. Went outside just now to at least take a couple high quality photos of the piles - butā¦
Seems to be kind of an international lull in internet traffic of various kinds JO. Any of the news I believe to be BS and manipulation and that includes the Web as well as MSM. I mostly watch youtubes on the TV. We have had a snow and that pretty much stops any outside projects for a while because I have spent the last month getting ready for winter, clearing leaves and getting firewood. A quarter mile of my personal road is through trees that pour down leaves that can be 6 inches deep and I have to get them off because they will just clog up the snowblower. Got pretty much done with both chores before it snowed and the snow and wind did bring the rest of the leaves out of the trees so Iāll make one more leaf blowing run and be set for winter. We are supposed to be returning to bare ground later this week so thatās a break. I never have taken the time to get the gasifier tested on the saw mill so if we donāt get buried in white for a couple of weeks Iāll work on that. I donāt mind the kinds of cold we get, usually high teens or low twenties F but feet of snow pretty much chokes off all outside projects.
It is neat. I donāt know how many watts that bulb is but there is potential it will get too hot and start melting the plastic. I would keep an eye on it.
Depressing. How do you cope with that? We have an extra hour before it gets dark, and I need it
Thanks guys. Nice to read some random reports.
Yeah, itās a challange. November is the most depressing month. The only hope now is snow to come brightening things up (Tom wonāt agree 
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So far weāve only had a few nights below freezing and mostly rain or wet fog covering us. Woods are soft and/or muddy. Any clearing material Iām dragging out by hand/foot. If nothing else it keeps my belly from getting too swollen and the chainsaws from clogging.
true.
November is tough.
a suitable song ))
My Dad amused us kids once by boiling water in a paper cup over the gas range. The cup would burn above the water level, but was cooled by the water below that level and was fine. I would assume the same effect with the plastic waterer as long as it doesnāt run dry.
Shocker. We were able to see some the aurora borealis from upstairs at our house.
It did take cell phone camera enhasement to really bring out the colors.
Then the November high clouds drifted in.
Rain back again, by tonight.
Rain for the next days foreseeable.
Yep. That is November here too J.O. Wet, and squishy grounds soft.
Ha! Ha! Always amusing to me those who U.S. move out here far-west coastal then give it up and move back to mid-continental colder, clearer, dryer. While us born here web-footers will curse the occasional low sun blue sky days for blinding us while driving.
Yesterday. A schools off national holiday; I was the driver for the just turned 16 (non-driver) exchange student and three of her volleyball team mates . . . to a bowling party; then a frozen yogurt shop. I chair napped mostly. Surprising them.
Sun blinded driving everyone home a percent of the time. And once phones catching-up; they unsurprisingly, car napped.
Papaās do, what Papaās haveāta Do, yes.
Steve Unruh
Just some random DOWing
What time in the morning does the sun rise up, where you are?
Hi Al, nice to hear from you. Itās been a while. Is your Mazda truck woodburner still running?
As of today, if I google the nearest town, the sun rise is 7:50 am and it sets at 3:33 pm. Apparently we lost 11h20min of daylight since summer solstice so far.
The numbers for winter solstice will be 9:06 to 2:47. So we will lose another couple of hours before we can start looking forward to spring. It is what it is.
If it werenāt for the road signs, it looks just like New England in the States. 
Yeah, @BillSchiller mentioned once it looked a lot like Minnesota as well. Funny actually, since both areas share latitudes with Spain and Italy, which we consider tropical countries - with palm trees and stuff
Are you sure that was Sweden? I saw a couple of buildings that were not red. 
Woke up this morning and our snow had melted. I worked a few hours with the leaf blower getting the leaves that the snow and winds brought down cleared off the areas I need to snow blow all winter. We are predicted to be snow free for at least a week. If I knew how, Iād cast a spell and keep us brown all winter and wouldnāt even feel bad or guilty about the snowmobile dealers and ski resorts.
Ranger still running, it has a whooping 46k miles on it. itās a 1998. donāt drive much any more
I can see why the Vikings raped and pillaged. That lack of sunlight would make me grumpy too.
For us itās 8:19 am and 5:06 pm on the solstice and thatās depressing enough for me.
45 degrees of latitude . I think Bruce J is a about 150 to 200 miles further north of us and Don M is about the same distance south. I wonder how much difference that makes.
7:32 am and 5{23 pm here in Holland Michigan.
