Good -5 (C) Morning

[gcreekrch]

 

[Silver]

-2 here. I guess it's time to start thinking about draining things that need draining.

 

[greybeard]

Red sky in mornings sailor take warning....... Beautiful sunrise and photo tho.

 

[farmerjan]

BRRRRRRRR

NOT ready for it here... Bless you guys for keeping it up there .... by my chart that is about 22 F degrees .
Yes, pretty sunrise. You can see the frost.

 

[branxchar&charx]

Q: how long is it cold up north?

A: it finally warms up about the 4th of July. Then winter sets in.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

It's coming. Been up and down here. 28 a few mornings ago but 75 during the day.

 

[jltrent]

That should get rid of the flies.

 

[gcreekrch]

Snowing sideways at present.

 

[SDgrampa]

Q. What do you do in the summer?
A. If it falls on a Sunday, we have a picnic!

 

[Little Joe]

I'll take the Arkansas heat and humidity over that any day. Beautiful view though.

 

[Silver]

After watching the news today and seeing what the weather can do down south my mind is more firmly made up than ever that I live in the right place. I can just put a coat on to deal with our bad weather.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I've always said I can put on a coat and plow the snow away.

Not so easy to deal with tornados and hurricanes.

 

[Warren Allison]

I always have said, these Canadian cattlemen, and our northern states cattle men, are a hell of a lot tougher cowboys than I am. I would never survive a winter up there. I would love to see it one time before I cash it in. Maybe I can one July or August!

 

[SmokinM]

I will take 22 over 92 any day. I am glad so many people think warm weather is great. I hope to sell one of them a nice farm someday before long.

 

[cowman82]

sounds... pleasant.. i'll take the 70's and sunny all week though.

 

[R lazy 7]

I am ready for a good frost but no frost (or rain) in the forecast.

 

[CowboyRam]

I've always said I can put on a coat and plow the snow away.

Not so easy to deal with tornados and hurricanes.

I can always shovel off my roof, but I can't stop that wind and rain.

 

[angus9259]

frost bit hands blow but chiggers also blow. rattle snakes blow but frozen water lines blow. summer slump blows. mud blows. black vultures blow. shoveling your roof blows. black flies blow.

pick your poison or become nomadic

 

[Little Joe]

frost bit hands blow but chiggers also blow. rattle snakes blow but frozen water lines blow. summer slump blows. mud blows. black vultures blow. shoveling your roof blows. black flies blow.

pick your poison or become nomadic

We're a lot like cattle, we adapt to our environment. I've lived in Arkansas all my life, I can stand long periods of hot humid weather better than I can cold wet weather. As for bugs, I believe we adapt as well. I grew up in the East Arkansas Delta where mosquitoes are like vulchers, as a kid I never really noticed them unless one was buzzing in my ear when I was trying to sleep. When I first move to the hill country of Arkansas 25 years ago I would get eat up by chiggers and ticks, now I rarely get either one on me. My relatives that dwell in the city out in Oklahoma come to my place and get eat up with ticks and chiggers and all while going same places I do and I won't have a one. I do occassionally get chiggers or an occassional tick but it is rare. I now despise mosquitoes though. I find others that have lived here their whole life whose experience is different than mine, can't take heat and humidity or the bugs, I believe it has to do with the amount of time I spend outdoors compared to them. Another thing is we don't keep our house too cold in the summer, around 75 which is very comfortable after being outside. I keep my office at work about the same also because I'm outside more than in my office.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

frost bit hands blow but chiggers also blow. rattle snakes blow but frozen water lines blow. summer slump blows. mud blows. black vultures blow. shoveling your roof blows. black flies blow.

pick your poison or become nomadic

I can wear gloves and prevent frostbite (lived on the tundra my whole life working outdoors and have never had frostbite).

Properly installed waterlines don't freeze.

A proper roof doesn't need shoveling.

All those things are easily planned for.

Rattlesnakes, tornados, hurricanes, chiggers, etc are nearly impossible to plan for, only react to after the fact.