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Cris, please tell your grandma and your daughter how important this passing on cooking skills is. My bride could make world class gravy. She learned it from her fathers sister that was a transplanted to California Okie. But my wife never put a whole lot of effort into teaching her daughters what she had learned, so it's going to die with her. That is a real shame.

 

Mark if the cooking gene was passed down your kids will do fine in the kitchen
while teaching is a good shortcut all the teaching in the world don't make a good cook if the "want to" ain't there

 

Check this out. Worlds tallest snowwoman:
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Sure thing bud, whats your whole facebook name? Happy b day by the way!


Travis, good deal on the pullurass ranger!!

Cris you have a nice looking family!!

Mark good luck with your PT and hyperbaric chamber today!

Other Mark, sounds like your bride WAS quite the lady at one time.

 

You'd be shocked to see how much snow those ATVs can push. They are little tractors after all.

Glad you're having fun Cris. Now that you know the liquor takes the headaches away, make Troy drive!

Your girls look a lot like you in that picture, and thats a great lookin santa. Realistic.

Which is?


Cold here last night. Thermometer on the back porch said -25 when I went to bed. Had the heat at 75 and it struggled to keep the house at 63. Slept with the animals for fear they'd get too cold. The wind stopped this morning so it was much warmer. Yesterday, for our county, they issued a wind chill warning and they were telling people not to go outside unless absolutely necessary.

I haven't messed with the truck for fear my fuel is probably gelled.

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="485"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="2" align="right"> </td> <td align="left"> Clear </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"> -9°F
-23°C </td> </tr> </tbody></table> Click here for hour-by-hour conditions during the last 48 hours </td> <td align="center" valign="top" width="50%"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Humidity:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">77%</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Wind:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">W at 12 MPH</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Barometer:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">30.45 in. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Dewpoint:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">-15°F</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Wind Chill:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">-28°F</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="ttlblack" valign="top">Visibility:</td> <td class="smalldefault" align="right">8SM</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Now you know why I was so proud of my truck when it started at -3 degrees the other day.

 

Thats kinda funny looking at your weather there lisa. It is supposed to warm up to minus 25 here later on today, and I was thinking how nice that would be so I can take the dog for a walk!

Minus 38 or so here right now, and Im not sure what it is with the windchill, but its not as bad today as it was yesterday.

 

Minus 25 C, or F?

Better than these folks complaining about 30 degrees.

Here's the thermometer on the back porch:

 

I dont see how yall do minus anything. I could probably deal with it for a week or two, but I certainly couldnt live in it year after year! Our high today is supposed to be 31* today and I can only imagine what it is right now!

 

This weather is absolutely ridiculous. And its like this everywhere. Not normal.

Look:

 

Here is Canada:

 

Funny thing is, Im sick and Ive been burning up at night and I slept with my window open last night and It sooooooo didnt feel like it was in the teens last night. The really cold stuff seems to never make it over the mountains in western VA and never really affect us in central and eastern VA.

 

morning everyone...

 

I'm sorry you are sick. I hope you get to feeling better before Christmas. I had a canker sore pop up yesterday. Never had one. WTF? It hurts!

It was cold enough last night that I got a little freaked out...that we'd have frozen pipes, or that the animals would get too cold.

I lived in Grand Junction for a short stint. Its a town on the other side of the rockies, in Colorado. Usually much warmer there than in Denver, as the mountains keep the cold temperatures at bay, much like what you described where you live.

So according to the locals, this minus degree crap is unusual. I can only hope it goes back to being in the 20's.

 

Yea, Ive been sick ever since last Sunday! Not like flu type sick, just a little bit of a sore throat and some sinus issues. Just enough to annoy me a lot.

Frozen pipes arent the problem usually...its when they thaw back out! I was a maintenance tech for 3 years while in college, I saw stuff you wouldnt believe and frozen pipes(yes even in VA) happened more than I wanted. The original builders plumbed on the outside walls a lot and didnt insulate at all. Tenants didnt call when it wasnt working, the called when they noticed a swimming pool under the house!

The mountain deal is a curse and a good thing. It breaks up all the thunderstorms we have here but also prevents the snow! Last Mothers day I spent 2 hours in a bathroom in the fetal position and a tornado hit not 2 miles from us. Ill never forget that one...