Picarta.ai gave three options, yours is right. Nice town it is, especially with Christmas.
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Suddenly it happened. We havenât seen the sun in about a month. This pic is from the porch at noon. The sun climbed about a cubit above the horizon.
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Wow! I canât imagine living so close to the artic circle such that the sun barely makes it above the horizon. Jan-Ola, youâre a hardier person than I. I complain about the lack of sun in winter where I am. 
Well at least you can look forward to the sun beginning its upward travel in the sky in a few days. I will be lamenting its opposite direction here.
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Is that metric? ? ? ?
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No Don, not metric at all. Just my take on trying to adapt to medieval units 
Apparently a cubit is another name for an ell - the distance from your elbow to your fingertips. I didnât know which one you used the most
True. Thereâs an old saying here that by NewYear the sun climbs a chicken step and by the 12th day a hare leap.
(Even though we call it the 13th day, since Christmas Eve is the big day up here).
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Cubit, chicken step, hare leapâInteresting, your measuring system.
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Yep. Wind storms and lost Grid-power twice last night. The first we were all asleep. (Except the wife woken by two no-power devices chirping she had to get up and silence. Good Wife.)
The second was mine to deal with just getting up to make the coffee. Grrr. As soon as I set up the propane stove and get out the percolator pot . . . back on with the power.
Here is a longer graphic showing the across the pacific atmospheric river fire hose:
Yes. As he says . . . now come the ground saturated mud slides. One over mountains highway pass now mud slide blocked for months they expect.
Ha! Ha! If the Cascadia Fault, Big One hit right now, weâd all slump flat. Please, please energy re-adjust, settle yourself in the summer-time.
Five 5-10 minute sun breaks today. J.O. I was always up to my elbows in chores and just could not catch a sun-beams picture.
Frustrating-in-Washington-State
Steve Unruh
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Today we reached 35â°F with some rain. I cleaned up some small piles of snow around the homestead and parked the skid steer in the garage. I usually donât park it in the garage but itâs supposed to get down to -10â° F tonight and weâre supposed to get 3" of snow before it gets below 0â°. A crazy winter for sure this year.
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Went from 42 and drizzly here when I went to bed to 18f with 2 inches of snow that is blowing horizontal from 30 plus MPH winds. Iâm with Bill. Crazy for sure.
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16.40. JO s pictures are depressing. Dark just after noon. And 8 C, 46 F. No rain, this was a good year.
My wife took a picture around 16.50. The last light under the clouds.
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Finally a system I can understand without having to do conversionsđ€
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Here you go J.O., and JoepK.
I finally caught a 5 minute sun break on camera:
See the house north side shadow line in my squishy soft, now greened up, front yard?
Then in just the time of walking to the wood wheel barrow I had been splitting and loading; the cloud banks closed up and I was getting drizzle rained on again:
I am finally using up all of the White Fir light-weight wood, put up too wet, that was growing fungi.
Iâll only be able to stretch out the better Douglas Fir left for at best; 90 days of 4 hours twice a day house heating fires. Next year I must do better.
What to do rains driven inside day after day?
Read books and watch interesting videos.
Siting considerations #1. Then wood heating management. Just what this forum is all about.
Practical applied Wood Energy for the individual and family.
Marcus @Norman89 this Wild America site has a dedicated video on mountain men cold winter management that covers wild food eating to get the needed 4,000-5,000 calories a day. Seeking out fats, fats, and more fats to avoid âRabbit Feverâ slow starvation. Beaver tails, fall bears, and fall buffalo.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Iâm really hoping to dive into bear hunting next year I want that culinary delight of bear fat for sausage making everyone I know that bear hunts rarely utilizes it and I think itâs a shame. This is my first year saving fat from our hogs and it was a lengthy discussion at the butcher shop to discover you have to specially request to have your fat saved from your animals, itâs considered a by product and the butcher shop keeps it for in house sausage making. Just this morning I was thinking over all the hard work and man hours that went into this simple plate of food. Quail eggs and elk breakfast sausage, this was probably 100+ hours in the making for a single plate of high protein goodness between building cages water systems feed systems animal care for the eggs, literally hundreds of miles and hundreds of hours covering ground on foot and by vehicle before the shot ever happened and then the labor of drag out hang skin break down to primals and then process all the meat. One. Self. Sustained. Meal.
What a investment!
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Itâs the solstice and I still havenât gotten my wood supply into the woodshed. Usually I accomplish this by the beginning of Nov. At least it is split and stacked under plastic.
Whatâs holding me up is the building of a new bridge over a stream. With the powered wheelbarrow, I needed a wider and stronger bridge. I have welded up the trusses, now I just have to put on the decking.
The wife is staining the decking before installation so it is fully protected, Meanwhile, while waiting for the decking to dry, I am building a retaining wall in front of the house.
As they say, make hay while the sun shines.
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You mean stack stones while you can? Nice work. The bridge too! Lightweight but a lot of work. No paint?
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Thanks! No, the iron work has several coats of brown paint. I did consider a wood bridge, but I was concerned about the wetness of the area. Treated wood here is pretty poor. I donât think it is pressure treated and I swear the treatment barely makes it below the surface. Iâve had treated deck joists rot out. 
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New you to you too! 
When was Santa forced to abandon his reindeer and sleigh in sweden?
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