daugen
Epic Contributor
16 degrees and still dropping to 14, then up to 24 today in clear cold weather.
Once the sun comes up will see if the car doors open, I ran both the car and truck twice yesterday afternoon to get about a quarter inch of ice and crust off everything. Particularly around the door frames and windows.
Our total accumulation was all of half an inch of snow and ice. Some pine tree damage to clean up today, limb across the driveway and one took out part of my plastic fence way out front. Simply knocked the rail out, no damage. What is a real problem is a large pine tree with limbs overhanging the main road, they were really drooping down and making me wonder if I was creating a hazard. Kinda hoping the whole thing will break off, the road crew will dump it on the side, and then I can clean it up. Had a pro tree trimmer supposed to come and do it and never showed up. Very unreliable around here and no one calls to let you know what is going on.
After i clean up the broken limbs I think I'll make a big hot fire in the fireplace and call it a day.
first thing I'm doing when I go out is check on the rv, see if the electric heat is still on in there and wonder how cold it is. I have the Norcold fridge on with food in it and I can't imagine that fridge will work properly in single digit temps. So I have two small heaters on low next to it. Of course all its cooling coils are exposed to outside air. No problem with cooling today...
Decided to leave for Florida on Tuesday, not Monday. First night in Charleston Monday night still below freezing. Tuesday night Mother Nature turns the heat back on and even here it hits the sixties and even one day a 70 the end of this week, so definitely a warming trend after this visit to the deep freeze. Happily I spent two hours pruning my orchard day before yesterday, all the trees looked good, and this time I remembered to take the center out of the pear trees, think wine glass, versus an apple tree which has a solid center trunk. I learned that after the fact last year by reading the Master Gardener manual. Tons of buds, will be my first harvest this year if a late freeze, like last year, can be avoided.
Toppop, and others..., I feel for you. tighten up that scarf, maybe a balaclava, and take it slow. Good exercise is good. Bad exercise can ruin your day.
Once the sun comes up will see if the car doors open, I ran both the car and truck twice yesterday afternoon to get about a quarter inch of ice and crust off everything. Particularly around the door frames and windows.
Our total accumulation was all of half an inch of snow and ice. Some pine tree damage to clean up today, limb across the driveway and one took out part of my plastic fence way out front. Simply knocked the rail out, no damage. What is a real problem is a large pine tree with limbs overhanging the main road, they were really drooping down and making me wonder if I was creating a hazard. Kinda hoping the whole thing will break off, the road crew will dump it on the side, and then I can clean it up. Had a pro tree trimmer supposed to come and do it and never showed up. Very unreliable around here and no one calls to let you know what is going on.
After i clean up the broken limbs I think I'll make a big hot fire in the fireplace and call it a day.
first thing I'm doing when I go out is check on the rv, see if the electric heat is still on in there and wonder how cold it is. I have the Norcold fridge on with food in it and I can't imagine that fridge will work properly in single digit temps. So I have two small heaters on low next to it. Of course all its cooling coils are exposed to outside air. No problem with cooling today...
Decided to leave for Florida on Tuesday, not Monday. First night in Charleston Monday night still below freezing. Tuesday night Mother Nature turns the heat back on and even here it hits the sixties and even one day a 70 the end of this week, so definitely a warming trend after this visit to the deep freeze. Happily I spent two hours pruning my orchard day before yesterday, all the trees looked good, and this time I remembered to take the center out of the pear trees, think wine glass, versus an apple tree which has a solid center trunk. I learned that after the fact last year by reading the Master Gardener manual. Tons of buds, will be my first harvest this year if a late freeze, like last year, can be avoided.
Toppop, and others..., I feel for you. tighten up that scarf, maybe a balaclava, and take it slow. Good exercise is good. Bad exercise can ruin your day.
