This weather ain't no joke boys....

32F, 90% humidity and currently snowing sideways....
(windchill 22F....)

As soon as my camera thaws out there will be an awesome vid......

82 here amigo....

80* here right now. Runnin' the a/c...

Taint but March!..

Y'all may have that clear into April, Sam!

Azaleas are blooming here in NF...

70 something yesterday. 62 right now. Cloudy and looks rainy.

40 and sunny here in No Central ID's banana belt..

75 in the marsh, too windy to go evaluate hand loads for the .284 though.

Redbuds and Mountain Laurel (a tree) are blooming here, and all the Arizona Ash (a common landscaping tree in the 1960's) are leafing out. Right on schedule the white-winged doves are back, calling from every shade tree and crapping on our cars.

Oh how I wish it was a dry cold........grin

Put out a few tomato plants a minute ago. Yeah I know, Im early ev n on my standards

Probably be OK where you are. Might have to cover them a few time though. miles

Sounds like you need some of those $50 a pair wool under britches Sam.

Haha! Funny as hell.....a little mean but funny as hell.


Wife looking over wonder what the hell was wrong with me....and the guy on the computer.

Average date of last frost down here was last Thursday.

Pretty soon its gonna be time fer me to do without the A/C again.....

I can't wait to get out of this crap weather and get to Texas Tuesday!

Supposed to be '37 deg. here tonight, have to blanket the boys, but it sure is nice in the middle of the day.

Charlie, are you making fun of my 'frozen' voice?!


Jim, my wife heard the vid and said, 'WTF, is that you'?

I said yes.

She then called me a fuuckin' weirdo!



I call it manic Sundays......

All in good fun!

Yea, like that here about three weeks ago, now trees blooming and already need the grass mown. But, Easter isn't past yet.

Yeah its a crapshoot here. I usually wait til Ides of March. But Ive seen it do funky weather stuff here first week of April. Rare, but possible!

77F, 65% humidity, and partly cloudy. I need to go fishing.

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsi...arning&lat=48.5931&lon=-109.2188

Bought mine today!

Youse guys are shopping for tomato plants.....and I am shopping for a snowmobile.

SE Oregon here. We'll take all the cold and snow one can send this way. Snow pack is running about 60% for us at the moment.

And going back for peppers!!!

That's what those guys need!

Warm 'em right up!

I only get peppers in a bottle!

80 here now. Got the A/C on.

Got 16" of new snow at the farm. Church cancelled. Made split pea soup.

I hope summer falls on a weekend this year!

Bob, I got some Cayenne peppers started in the house. Be a while before they make the garden. The tallest is maybe 3 inches. miles

Miles, i cant eat hot stuff much anymore. But Im gonna put in some mild jalapeños so I can make sauusage & cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped poppers

Damn I do like them! Might even make some jalapeño and cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped sausage link slammers!!

We are getting everything ready to start 1st cutting hay, it was 89 yesterday. Rio7

When I lived in San Antonio I loved the Texas Cold.

It was the Texas Hot that kicked my ass......

It was Texas cold yesterday....

No damn doubt!

Starting in a couple of weeks.

Anything over 80 and I suffer.

When we were there, it hit 100 on the last day of February. I think that was 1998.

Me either Bob. But I do love my bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers! The only thing I’m planting this year are tomatoes & mild jalapeños.

Snowin and blowin here today. Temp in the teens. Starting to clear this afternoon.






4 Mar 2016 it was warm and dry,

As I’ve said many times before, I’d rather bleed than sweat!

About 60 and sunny here today, supposed to be the last pretty day for a while. Weather reports say it's going to rain tonite, then cool off with a chance of snow next weekend. Cows are calving, trees are budding out, wheat and pastures need to fertilized, so the last thing we need is more rain and cold. The ground is still pretty wet, and badly needs to dry out.

Man they are good arent they Neal???

Good one Sam!

Made me LMFAO!!

Yep! I eat em like candy!

Got a fire going in the wood stove, a balmy 38 here today! started cutting fire wood for next winter the other day! we get frost in May here!

Tff Sam!

Thunder and lightning over here in Fargo, and 37 degrees.

Clearing drifts Jim?

A friend used to say ya don’t know what trouble is til ya high center a D8!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ih0QW58PLc

Woke up to 38 degrees but it is Sunny and 63 now.

Your going to get a bunch of Texans up your way wanting to kick you ass for making fun of them......

That’s just mean Sam!

Yes. Trying to push the snow back so we can get down the road.

Snow is too hard and there is too much now to clear with the road patrol.

After this blizzard is done today, I will do the other side of the road. About 2.5 miles.

With a D8 you can really get into trouble!

Always keep your cutting edge close to the ground.

The feeling you get when the tractor suddenly drops a foot is indescribable!

Do you have a sound system in the cab?......

It was low single digits on the westside this am. Supposed to snow a couple inches, had to run up and get milk and bread

It warmed up to 30 this afternoon, working outside without a coat. Felt really warm with the sun out. If it warms up quick, it’s going to be a mess.

We've got a foot of fresh snow on the ground here in upstate NY. Got hit with a nasty Nor-Easter Friday. Snowin and blowin so hard you couldn't see 30 ft. sometimes. 45 MPH wind gusts.

Seems like your average Ohio spring day.

just woke up from a nap and had to get after the old lady for not getting the tomatoes and peppers planted.

Company just left...


Just a second.

I was at some kind of function a while back and they had some Jalapeno jelly along with the meal. I did not expect to like it, but I did. Not very hot but had a good taste. miles

i keep candied jalapenos to eat on my eggs hot but sweet.

Now first of all thank you all for remaining civil and sharing pics.


I will admit to weather trolling.....


But believe this would qualify as a Texas size porterhouse...

Just hit the pan.

Same crap heat here too... wife told me a few times this weekend I'm getting grumpy. Hell yes. 80 plus, over 90 next weekend on a pig hunt around Laredo. Yuck. We have at least 8 more months to look forward to sweating when you walk out the door till you walk back in. 8 more months of Jeff the grouch.

LMAO!!

Sam,sure wished we could get some kind of moisture here.

It was 86 and we had 40-50+mph winds.

Your spit was dry before it hit the ground.

We will be planting when I get back from the hog hunt. We will finish off the cauliflower and broccoli tomorrow via a pot of soup.

I wish we got winter.

It’s mostly the [bleep] part of fall for about 9 months.

Oh for [bleep] sake , Rick turn off the god damn net nanny.

*schitty part of f fall.

You saw a snowflake? Dude, brace yourself schit's about to get real!
That's what we had here today too bit of snow on and off right at the freezing mark.
And I had a plain old blade steak, must be doing something wrong. haha

Only got to 74F here today.

Went for a walk with the dog just before sundown. I can smell the Bluegills starting to bed, the plum trees are in full bloom, and the Sweet Gum trees are budding out.

Sam, 32F & high humidity sucks. I'd rather have 20F and 25% humidity any day. Thanks for the belly laughs!

Ed

How many of those big gills have you been smelling, Ed?

PS. Sam, quit acting like a dayomed yankee.

Trust me, Sam - you don't want the dry.
We'd kill for 1/4" of moisture down here!

Sunny day and upper 20s. Warm enough to make a yearling moose sleepy.
Look closely - there is a cow napping right above the young one in the shadows.

Cow. Hell I swear I see palms back there. LOL.

But, it aint never in Texas.

44* and sunny here. Had a bad wind storm on Friday, 35 - 50 MPH with gusts to 70. Lost power Friday evening and got it back yesterday. It's supposed to snow Wednesday morning when I'm trying to fly to TX, and there's something in the works for Sunday when I fly home. It's supposed to be between 70 & 80 this weekend in TX. Sounds like great pig shooting weather.

Blizzard yesterday.

Today we are snowed in.....completely.

Ordered a snowmobile.

'Bout time!

What did ya get?

A 2016 Arctic Cat BearCat 7000xt.


It was a demo model and a carryover so I got a good deal on it....I hope!

I bet you did!

Be careful on that thing, and don't try and see if it'll run as fast as the speedometer says it will..

This was an hour ago, looking south.

Turned around and went north.......nope. D8 time.


Road is closed all the way to town.

Hired man went south to the cows...following a State snowplow.

Snow plow man quit and turned around. Not going to make it to the cows out south today.

Damn!

Its got a huge, ridiculous engine!

1049 cc three holer.

A lot bigger than I wanted.....but I suppose I will make it work.

Sam,

that's the weather report for two-three days ago here.

Today, 49 F right now after a low of 11. And sunny as can be. It's killing me that I can't get tomatoes and peppers in the ground yet.

It's OK though, as I've been waiting for a warm day to put new locks and lever type handles on the entry doors. Won't lose much heat today.

Geno

PS, I need to make one of those videos for my relatives in SoCal. Always getting complaints from them when it gets below 50. Brother sent a picture of him at work on the Pettybone. Hoodie and a Carhart type jacket. I believe it was right around 49 degrees. They don't understand shoveling snow in the flannel PJ's so the wife can get to the garage.

Now again gentlemen(and Geno...)to be clear, I was just joking around(obviously) about the 'freezing' cold and high humidity combo. It was actually quite pleasant feeling outside yesterday.

I just get a kick out of ribbing the Texas guys, just like teasing my drinking buddies...


"yeah but it's a dry cold" humors me to no end....


That said today actually did suck.....grin

I was thinking to myself that I bet Jim is having fun today and looks like I was right!


Getting pretty fancy there Conrad with a new snow machine..... Of course you know that it will now never snow again!


Speaking of snowmobiles, after I spent 20 minutes digging out the stuck pickup I said screw this and used the ol' 4450 to get around down to the tanks.

I figure I would take one for the team and officially end winter this year.


It was under 10,000.......that snow mobile. Small price to pay to ensure that winter goes away.


I will be setting up a go fund me in a little while.......

I googled it up earlier and it looks badass!


It should do fine on our snow.



Funny you mention go fund me, I was just thinking about setting up an account for a set of tracks for the side by side.

Nice. Extra points for the non linear thinking and truckload of extra power should be able to open er up and melt the snow in your wake
Don't think you can go too wrong with Arctic Cat they've been one of the stand up brands for ever.

My cousin has a custom sled with compound turbos.

The turbo has a turbo....


I don't know anything about that chit but he claims 350-500hp depending on the settings.


He has 6-7 snowmobiles, absolute nut.

That is nuckin futs. More power than my pick up.

There used to be an annual snowmobile race down the Thompson river not too far from here. Sept they did it in the summer! The key- lots of speed lots of power, they'd wind the sleds up on a grassy field and hit the water as fast as they dared and see if they could make it several miles down stream. Lots of sunk sleds as you might imagine but quite a few made it! A blend of delicate balance and hp. You're cousins sled would be a condendah

We hit 83 today. Shorts weather. My wife and I hit a pretty good movie, Red Sparrow, then had a late lunch in town. I had a very good bowl of chili and a Greek salad. A great day.

I have two, but AC is rapidly losing market share due to poor upper management running dealers out of business. Dealers cannot afford to keep in stock everything the big boys say they have to to remain a dealer- or so my dealer told me. He quit 2 years ago, but still services them with parts and labor. He said AC has lost about 50% of their dealers in the last few years.

You are better off with a Yamaha (my Bravo is a '93, and going strong - well, as strong as a Bravo ever gets, anyway.... . ), a Polaris, or a Skidoo.

You really made me think Sam. We 're seldom near freezing to death. It's always hypothermia. I suppose we 're pretty lucky in that aspect. I've never experienced sub-zero temperature, but I'm damn glad when we it drops below that freezing point here for a few days (which is rare) to get the damn water out of the air. I know it's a tough place up there...same here. If it wasn't, we'd have hippies.

This morning in Kotzebue- at least the wind was down again. The snow machine on the right is a hair-on-fire AC 1100 Turbo. My wife is a fast woman...... . The one on the left is my old go-to Bravo. Danged near bulletproof. Whereas I bought the AC in August, and I almost have it working almost right.... . It is a 2012, and only had 560 miles and 40 hours on it. I discovered why it was such a "bargain". . I now know a whole lot more about it than I ever really wanted to.

My wife and I agree that we do not miss our five winters living in Calgary. I kind of feel the same for my three winters in Kazakhstan or my three summers in Dubai and Doha...

i enjoy my south texas winters, even though we had 7 inches of snow in December.

Isn't that the machine you were saying she arm-wrestled you out of?

Those are nice looking sleds. Good thing you're a big dude! Those triples are no fun to get stuck.

At.all.

Don't blow a nut! lol

Pat, hands down the coldest I've ever been in my life was a couple summers ago.

On a horse, 0% chance of rain, several miles from the pickup when it decides to pour rain for a couple hours. Thinking it was 50-60F and none of us were prepared, I had on a t-shirt.... Shaking ass cold, fingers turning blue, teeth chattering...

We laugh about it now but that fricken cold!



Things I learned today.

3 feet of hard ,drifted snow is the maximum for my tractor when it's pulling a loaded bale processor. Damn near got it stuck and that was rather uncomfortable feeling...

Honda generators don't like ground blizzards. Went to start it this morning and it was locked up. Took it home and the entire generator was an ice chunk. It had pulled in snow while it running and then froze solid overnight. Half hour with a heat gun and she was back in business. I really need to make a little enclosure for that thing. It's been getting tortured all winter but manages to hang on!


One more night of below zero and then it looks like we might be out of the woods just in time for calving!



Jim, while dad and I were clearing the road today I was thinking this really ain't chit(1/4 mile blew in...). Glad we weren't out in the hills having big fun!




Rooster, I have a feeling Jim won't be high marking on fresh powder with that beast!