in between shoveling - yep - but I am frozen! I should go into the oven! LOL
CanMan wrote:I'm having to suffer with former 80°F weather that is now a cold 76°F.
CanMan, you're a blasted trouble-maker!
I was raised w/ rough winters here in the mid-west. Snowfalls two feet and more at a time. Temps often reaching minus 20 degrees or colder. These days though- and I know everyone says this- but it just doesn't seem it ever gets as cold or the snow as deep. Or for not nearly as long, anyway. Despite what Al Gore says- it really seems the winters of my childhood were much more harsh. I remember delivering newspapers when I was ten and it was 25 below, and the snow was up to my waist- literally. Never these days. Weird!
In Alaska I saw it all. Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian chain was called "The Birthplace of the Wind" and as you might guess- it was ALWAYS windy- even on nice, balmy, beautiful summer days when the sky was blue and the birds chirping.
Way up north near Point Barrow on the Beaufort Sea the temp was often minus 70 degrees (ambient) w/ wind-chills a hundred below zero. Thing is- I never felt those temps at all. Our plane landed and we disembarked in a heated hanger. We loaded into heated vans and were drove to camp and let out in heated vehicle pool garages. Luckily, as a kitchen-worker my job never required me to go outdoors- we even dumped our garbage cans in inside dumpsters for incineration!
Southeast Alaska- near Juneau where I managed a silver-mine camp on Admiralty Island? The winter weather was MILD. This region is actually rain-forest and it rains year 'round. Average winter temp is 35-40, might drop a day or two at a time and cause some snow- but next day it would always warm back up, rain, and melt all the snow.
In Alaska I saw it all. Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian chain was called "The Birthplace of the Wind" and as you might guess- it was ALWAYS windy- even on nice, balmy, beautiful summer days when the sky was blue and the birds chirping.
Way up north near Point Barrow on the Beaufort Sea the temp was often minus 70 degrees (ambient) w/ wind-chills a hundred below zero. Thing is- I never felt those temps at all. Our plane landed and we disembarked in a heated hanger. We loaded into heated vans and were drove to camp and let out in heated vehicle pool garages. Luckily, as a kitchen-worker my job never required me to go outdoors- we even dumped our garbage cans in inside dumpsters for incineration!
Southeast Alaska- near Juneau where I managed a silver-mine camp on Admiralty Island? The winter weather was MILD. This region is actually rain-forest and it rains year 'round. Average winter temp is 35-40, might drop a day or two at a time and cause some snow- but next day it would always warm back up, rain, and melt all the snow.
Today it has stayed around 17 degrees all day. Just started snowing. We are supposed to get around 5-6 inches total. I went to Walmart just before 5am this morning and got my brothers groceries and some for us. Wanted to beat the snow and no one seemed to be able to say even close to when it was going to start falling.
Picked up a little 3 1/2 pound boneless leg of lamb this morning. Jon and I decided to splurge lol. Im gonna marinade it in olive oil, fresh rosemary, garlic and a little lemon juice.
Picked up a little 3 1/2 pound boneless leg of lamb this morning. Jon and I decided to splurge lol. Im gonna marinade it in olive oil, fresh rosemary, garlic and a little lemon juice.
