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Post by steev on Dec 11, 2016 22:17:39 GMT -5
One Winter morning, walking to school in the Valley fog, I realized that it was tiny dots floating/drifting down, disappearing/melting instantly on touching anything; the paper reported the rare phenomenon, calling it by a supposed Indian term "pogonip".
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Post by richardw on Dec 11, 2016 22:59:05 GMT -5
Had a thunder storm today which didnt bring much rain with it though, dam it.
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Post by richardw on Dec 12, 2016 13:29:03 GMT -5
After yesterday's storm we have a very light summer frost here this morning, thankfully not heavy enough to damage.
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Post by synergy on Dec 12, 2016 14:32:40 GMT -5
Our weather , it's good exercise . I still have a ways to go shoveling the driveway ...
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Post by steev on Dec 16, 2016 3:07:21 GMT -5
Lovely; not that I'd want to live there.
Rained decently most of today; think we're staying above normal, so far.
Is the drought over? Well, there's a lot of deficit to make up, and the pumped-out, collapsed aquifers will never recover and rebound, so they'll never hold as much water again and the land won't rise back up.
The valley I drive through, to my valley, will be dammed for a reservoir (really stupid idea) and the water will all go (when there is any) to agribusiness (rice and nuts: export crops) in the Central Valley, not to the growing population so often cited as needing more water, as an excuse for these projects. Given that this will be funded by tax-payer-funded bonds, will it benefit the commons, or private enterprise? How come "private enterprise" is so often funded by public money? I mean, I don't eat that much rice, and I grow my own damned nuts, so why am I taxed so Agribis can profit from foreign markets? What benefit am I getting from my taxes; am I just being ripped off?
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Post by walt on Dec 16, 2016 17:09:20 GMT -5
There has been a light mist much of last night and much of today. Not much water, but it is all sinking in. It got really cold last night, so the streets, well, everything, was icy this morning. But it got above freezing this afternoon, so I could go pay bills and be out of the house. I grew up on a dairy, so I was out in all weather. Actually, the worse the weather was, the longer I had to be outside. Work just took longer when weather was bad. So now I am retired and if I don't like the weather, I can stay in bed, which I did until about 11:00. Life is good.
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Post by reed on Dec 16, 2016 20:50:17 GMT -5
It's been single digit cold here for a couple days but warming up now with some rain / sleet/ freeing rain / snow predicted for tomorrow. I doubt anything but the rain as it already up to 31 F.
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Post by richardw on Dec 16, 2016 23:56:12 GMT -5
What benefit am I getting from my taxes; am I just being ripped off? steev I'm sure the US is no different to NZ where paying tax is purely voluntary, only if you dont hold a tax number, de-register your number and they cant touch ya.
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Post by richardw on Dec 16, 2016 23:59:58 GMT -5
Lovely summers day here today, too dam warm for get winter firewood, but, i need self-justify working hard for my Saturday afternoons beer
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 17, 2016 0:18:06 GMT -5
steev I'm sure the US is no different to NZ where paying tax is purely voluntary, only if you dont hold a tax number, de-register your number and they cant touch ya. Someone the other day said to me that Citizenship should be removed from people that burn the flag. I thought, "If only it were that easy", then I said, "Give me a flag and a match!" On weather related news, it's been a warm-ish winter here. It's been raining or snowing recently, but I haven't shoveled snow yet, cause I figure if I wait a day it will melt off. I'm still harvesting kale from the garden when it's not snow covered. It's part of my "Winter-Hardy-Kale" breeding project. I haven't got around to posting a public swap list yet, but seed is available for those that know to ask.
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Post by reed on Dec 17, 2016 5:24:33 GMT -5
Looks like kale is going to be easily winter hardy here. Haven't been eating much of it as I just have a small patch. Several other young plants in my brassica patch also looking good. Just finished the last of the Brussels sprouts from some mature plants a week or so ago.
I was right, 48 degrees this morning so no sleet or anything. Nine degrees yesterday at this time, now 48. Supposed to be back to low 20s tomorrow morning. I'm gonna let the stove go all the way cold today so I can clean the ashes and start over. Been burning my treasured Ash trees from the front yard, thanks to the EABs, now I know why they call it ash.
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Post by philagardener on Dec 17, 2016 7:03:33 GMT -5
Currently mid-20s (F) and sleeting in Eastern PA. Looks to be a messy start to the morning before we start to warm into the 60s by tomorrow.
We are on the front line of the EAB expansion here. They were such beautiful (and huge) trees . . . .
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Post by richardw on Dec 17, 2016 13:18:13 GMT -5
Windy start to the day here along with high wave cloud off the alps,currently 16Cdeg
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Post by walt on Dec 17, 2016 14:05:12 GMT -5
-5F in central KS last night. Not a record, but it has been a few years since it has been this cold. We have an old (+100 years old) that had no insulatiion until lst summer, and there are new windows too, and new siding. New roof jsut a few years ago. We were finally ready for the cold.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 17, 2016 14:44:01 GMT -5
It's about minus 14 right now, minus 30 with the windchill yesterday. Predicted to hit plus 8 with rain tomorrow. Light snow right now, no wind, kinda nice out.
Our house is old too, about a hundred also. Need a new window down cellar, might be where the mice are coming in. Good insulation and siding though, roof good, needed that with yesterday's storm. Cold, windy, lots of snow. Dead calm today. Maritime weather, grin. Jocelyn
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