I am back in the saddle again!
Fell in the shower in mid May and struggled to walk, get in a car, etc. sometime in October I finally healed up enough to consider trying to get into my Cessna 172 airplane.
But covid restrictions closed just about every thing, then plane out of annual, then I need a biannual flight review…GRRR.
TODAY, airplane completed annual, and I did a 2 hr flight rules review and a 1 hr check ride, steep turns, stalls, simulated engine out landing…
finally I am legal and able to terrorize all the ground pounders!
We had 14°C on Wednesday afternoon and grass started to shine green.
Today, just after lunch, snow started to fall. It is around 0 degrees outside. Windy predicts that snow should fall till Tuesday without pause and temperature expected for Tuesday is minus 14°C.
I hoped that winter apple prunning could be done this weekend, but thats not the case.
Not as bad here as some of you folks. Picked up 4 in of snow this morning. 11 f (-11c) with predicted lows tonight -10 f (-21c). It helps me learn the f to c comparison when I can feel it.
Y’all need to be more considerate posting those numbers.
Although ours aren’t much better it is a rainy 35 F here right now and getting a little colder. We should be alright we have a few years of firewood out here and plenty of trees around if we need them.
Warming up the snowblower…it got up above 0F, so I thought I would give it a try. Not too bad… although I have a tricky starter clutch on the front engine. Got everything going tho…
I got out on the road and did fine…my wife bought me some wireless earbuds and I was listening to a Jim Rickards Interview, and I think the back engine was spinning a bit faster then normal. The snow was shooting 25ft off the road…I guess that’s fine, normally I throttle down to let it just dump a foot or two off the road. (I don’t get any awards for blowing it out in the bush.)
Anyhow, it seemed to go ok today.
Way to go Bruce. We have a few trucks like that around here. I’ve only seen how one was set up. He was running the big double auger blower off a big diesel in the back like yours is set up. That things was a monster. I’d like to see some pics on how yours is set up.
It was minus 38C here this morning, the cattle were a little frosty.
Only minus 32 at 11pm, but the wind is up, it will be a cool morning. But, beautiful cloudless blue skies, and solar panels love it, working beyond specs.
Nice to finally have some sun, it’s been way too warm this winter, and warm is cloudy.
We have snow TOO! Long time! And there are some guest from your side JO, full of goose here.
And it seems the snow is to stay for a week or so. In the mean while, the kids have stolen the little Kubota, skirope and wakeboard. Snowboard died a long time ago, I really mis that. You put some up Bob
Goose or Swede? Same thing, is it?
Jokes aside, I read geese used to visit southern France or Spain for the winter months, but with warmer winters, settle for Denmark, northern Germany or the Netherlands. Maybe they will have reason to regret their decision this winter
The geese can cope with quite a lot of cold. What pushes them south is when snow or frozen ground interferes with their food supply. They also enjoy some open water, but a river will often stay open even when it gets cold.
