As far as weather goes, we had a decent winter so far. Temps -5ish at night, 0-+5c daytime. Kind of right for our But, no snow. Bad for water levels, good for preety much everything else. Such a winter l can only dream of. Bugs dye, plants and animals hibernate, and a lot can be done outside.
On deer, l agree with Jan. Ours look just the same, but smaller. A deer here will weight maybee 70-90 pounds tops. Bucks not much biger.
Hey, JO, it just occured to me… All this warm weather you are having must limit your time with your mistress… I guess l shuld ask your wife if thats a good or a bad thing 
Haha, true. Mistress gets only half the attention she’s used to
Good morning JO and Kristijan .
Are yall aware what ( mistress) means here in the USA
Mr. Wayne; I think or hope that they are referring to that big stuffed chair, that JO has in his basement next to his wood stove. TomC
Thanks a bunch Mr. Tom .
I should have read the post better and let it soak in . 
Haha! Thanks much for your concern guys. Tom is close to the truth.
Decades ago when kids were small they used to follow me downstairs to feed the boiler. Dressed in pajamas and boots and with wide open eyes and ears they listened to the roar. I showed them the boiler’s big mouth and told them how much it liked wood. Over time the boiler received a name - Bella - and suddenly IT became a SHE. Whenever wife asked the kids were I went, they said: - He’s downstairs with Bella, his mistress. Ever since, wife had a fair amount of competition
What is cold?
My fair weather friends say it’s 30-40F.
This morning I waited for it to warm up to 0F from -20F to go to the outhouse.
I woke up to over 50 degrees F and topped out at about 70 in the afternoon today. Most of the week ahead is predicted to be 40s at night and 60s during the day. It turned out to be a perfect day to drive on charcoal. Normal for us this time of year would be around freezing at night and about 50 during the day. an arctic blast might get us into the low teens at night and mid-30s in the day. Single digits at night are not unknown to the region–north central North Carolina USA.
Power line fell in road , ice storm .
rather then fix it properly and reattach to pole , again , comed worker tied line to tree .
Now they don’t need a pole.
The reality is it probably takes a bigger crew to actually close the road and reattach the line. I suspect this is the bandaid to keep the road open and that in a day or two the road crew will fix it right. I have seen these stunts before when we have massive outages in ice storms. They are nasty storms.
Bill, l laughed hard on that one l am on the exact same situation, weighing between the risk of geting the bottom frozen to the outhouse seat or risking a pair of pants till temps warm up
Kids nowadays don’t know what out houses are but if you ask older people about tnem, they will tell you that they are little houses about 100 feet behind the house which in the winter is 100 feet too far but in the summer it is 100 feet too close 
And when under 10 yo they gave you a vision of HELL!
We lived for two years when I was 7&8 in a community that that was the main facility. I saw some that were good designs that would not stink and others that were terribly designed and stank year round. Don you are right in the winter the far away ones were terrible but much better in the summer.
Hi All,
I am having more and more problems now getting back online.
This heating season has become the winter-of-burning-paper.
It began with stove burning up ~300 pounds of a 12 year old corner full desk computer station… Found it was actually made of super compressed paper simulated wood grain panels. Ha! I’d wonder way back why it had been so fragile difficult to assemble back then. The die-cast zink turn-locks pin fasteners splitting many of the the side"boards" sockets.
Broke it up with a wood splitting maul into roughly 6"x20" pieces. Burnt OK crisscrossing these 3 peices at a time.
Then the old books burning. Paperbacks just fine. Hardbacks if small - kinnda ok. Large 8"x10.5" and larger books and manuals, a real pita. The burnt-charred pages lifting, insulating, blocking gases exchanging. Stir, re-light burn; stir, re-light burn; stir, re-light burn.
Then . . . the Wifie decided to have me burn destroy literally two stacks, 3 feet high of 30 years of her folks old taxes, property transactions, medical and payments papers. AND 7 years of her own saved back clients medical records. ( deceased clients). These are all mostly inches thick of 8 1/2"x11" bundle stacks.
Talk about fluff-ash stove air jets clogging!! Horrible.
I’ve given up strictly papers burn disposing.
Trial and error has proven well to me a firewood to papers ratio of 10 to 1 works with the least problems.
Ha! Ha! So I should be done papers burning by the end of April.
Then there has been the 200 pounds so far of pure wood bark to burn for heat. Be another maybe 300 pounds of that ashy tricky fuel accumulate to use up for heating.
Then . . . the pitchwood split out stuff. Sooty as hell unless over-aired; overheating; risk-burnt.
Just all proved once again that actual tree and brush woods are the easy solid fuels.
E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g else is hard for various reasons.
Regards
woodstover Steve unruh
I feel your pain. I cringe when I get a mailbox full of junk mail to burn. But with a good bed of red hot coals you are correct you can cram through a fair amount of paper before the wood stove is full of half burn garbage. Never a fun job but I have done the same thing here cleaning up decades of other peoples must keep stuff.
Well, it’s definitely winter 2020. In 4 months it could reach plus 35, but today it’s going the opposite direction.
Hey Garry
Lot of mud but no ice .
That’s definitely a difference in weather. A positive of these cold temperatures is that the back of any SUV can do for extra freezer space… 
And the ground is well frozen, no risk of getting stuck anywhere, or logs getting dirty.
