'Bout to get reeeaaaaal cold, who's ready?

Here's my front door during the last snow fall a couple weeks ago. The other is tonight's overnight. NS load of mostly black locust, couple pieces of oak, and one piece of silver maple. (If you read my prior post I did pull a couple tubs full of locust out from the pile when I got home from work at 8:00pm) 16* outside, -2 with wind chill, wind gusts 40+, 600* stove top, mid 70s in the living room, 72 in the hall, 68 in my bedroom. I have to admit, I kinda love when it's cold like this.

Very thankful for wood heat. We'll see how things go tomorrow when it gets even colder!

Morning all-14 degrees here and about 8 inches on the ground-no work for me or wifey so it'll be a nice day of playing in the snow. A little pallet wood for a quick warmup fire:

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PJ selfies! Noooooooooo..........!

3 degrees this morning, expected to go lower. We are warm though.

We got to something like -3F last night, right now its 3 above - but didnt get the snow I was expecting, maybe 8 inches or so.

I had the stove cranking and the fireplace in the den roaring and the gas still hd to come on a couple times overnight to maintain 70. Got a full load of locust and oak in now, back up to toasty warm in here.

Time to go start the snowblower!

Just for the record, I got up about 4:30 this am, and the outside temp was -16°.
I went back to bed.
-14° at 8, so I stayed up with a heat wave like that.

Two stoves did the trick for me overnight. 71 F inside, 14 below outside at 6 a.m. Isle Royale back on solo duty.

We're going to have a brief warm-up and then plunging to minus 20 on Sunday night.

Gentlemen, start your engines!

I'm not a nascar fan but it really is good advice. since I'm semi unemployed all winter and my gf's car gets 40 mpg, my truck has sat since Tuesday with a phone charger and gps plugged in. Needless to say, gf is at work and truck is dead. Now it's gonna cost me some beer to get a friend to stop by for a jump.

So save your beer, unplug your chargers, and start your vehicles every so often in this cold weather.

Woke up this morning at 6:30 to 9 degrees outside and a toasty 82 inside with a load last night at 11:30 of 7 pieces of mixed ash, locust and oak

How cold is it here . . . well it's balmy down here now . . . but up in The County . . . coffee can vaporize.

http://bangordailynews.com/2014/01/...-continue-to-freeze-state-as-snow-winds-down/

Just spent 15 minutes outside loading tools in the truck to take to the fiancé s house for a remodel. (Take down a bearing wall to open up room with the stove to the rest of the house). 5 below zero, windy, holy cow that's cold! Even the fearless dog was waiting at the front door holding up a foot at a time waiting to be let back in.
In doors, stove keeping up nicely with temps in the upper 70s. Makes me dread leaving for a couple days and letting the propane take over.

It's -8 right now w/o a windchill. I don't remember it ever being that cold...

We saved a cat tonight . . . saw it hanging around our house last night . . . seemed to be eating sunflower seeds near the bird feeder.

It was hanging around again today and meowing . . . set a trap . . . brought him inside . . . he is now snuggled up in a blanket in a cat bed after having wolfed down a can of cat food and half a bowl of hard cat food. We're not sure if he has any frostbite yet.

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We saved a cat tonight . . . saw it hanging around our house last night . . . seemed to be eating sunflower seeds near the bird feeder.

It was hanging around again today and meowing . . . set a trap . . . brought him inside . . . he is now snuggled up in a blanket in a cat bed after having wolfed down a can of cat food and half a bowl of hard cat food. We're not sure if he has any frostbite yet.

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Poor guy-good job!

We stopped to try to help some people get their car out of a ditch but they said AAA was on the way. Would have come home to get the big truck if they didn't, -6 is too darn cold to be in a ditch!!

Here's the cat . . . tempted to keep him . . . but that would make #7 and would officially put me solidly into Crazy Cat Guy territory.

9F outside and falling, 77F inside and rising.
My propane furnace thermostat is at the opposite end of the house to my insert, and it's kicking in occasionally to keep that room at 70, I don't mind, it helps even out the heat throughout the house. It's nice to get weather where I can let that stove burn the way its supposed to, normally I'm trying to keep it from overheating the kitchen.

A daytime high of 14F today, I don't ever remember a day that cold here before, but to make things worse, I spilled carb cleaner on my bare hands while cleaning my snow blower.... that was #####-ing cold!

TE

TradEddie said:

9F outside and falling, 77F inside and rising.
My propane furnace thermostat is at the opposite end of the house to my insert, and it's kicking in occasionally to keep that room at 70, I don't mind, it helps even out the heat throughout the house. It's nice to get weather where I can let that stove burn the way its supposed to, normally I'm trying to keep it from overheating the kitchen.

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My thermostat is in the same room as the stove. I have a large old house so i really need to relocate it further away from the stove since the stove can't heat the entire house. Might be a good inside project for this weekend!

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Here's the cat . . . tempted to keep him . . . but that would make #7 and would officially put me solidly into Crazy Cat Guy territory.

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That's a great thing you did for that cat! I am sure it's quite happy to be in the warm house.

Inside it's 71 and rising...just hit 0 outside. Got about 1.5 hours until I put in the overnight load and run the heat a bit to circulate the water.

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My thermostat is in the same room as the stove. I have a large old house so i really need to relocate it further away from the stove since the stove can't heat the entire house. Might be a good inside project for this weekend!

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I'm tempted by those remote wireless thermostats that you can move from room to room. They would be a great way to ensure the bedrooms are warm and that would keep the wife happy! Too expensive, and they would result in more propane use, which is not my goal.

TE

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Here's the cat . . . tempted to keep him . . . but that would make #7 and would officially put me solidly into Crazy Cat Guy territory.

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Awwww...but look at his face...wish my dog wasn't morally opposed to cats. I miss having a couple fur butts around.

That's my cat! Kidding. Looks very content, think you're officially "that guy" now sorry. It's already done. Just call him 7.

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Here's the cat . . . tempted to keep him . . . but that would make #7 and would officially put me solidly into Crazy Cat Guy territory.

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I don't know, 2 is fine, 3 is on the edge, and 4+ is crazy cat guy in my books. You already have the moniker, may as well keep him and call him Frosty.

Good thing we only had one when my mom brought home 4 kittens from the SPCA once! Anyone that keeps a trap on hand also fits the crazy description (confession - I have a trap too, but only one foster cat ATM).

I have a trap for catching groundhogs... but I catch my own two dogs in it far more often than groundhogs.

Jake... time to start building a dairy barn. My family used to own a dairy farm... always had lots of cats living in the barn. They just seem to go together, somehow.