What is your weather like?

[Edwin]

Two things are happening here now. Our days are getting shorter. It is staying dark late in the morning, and by 6:30 p.m. the sun is down, and it is getting dark. Also it is getting colder telling us it is fall and winter is around the corner. Yesterday morning a skim of ice froze on the water for the animals! We are running our pellet stove/furnace on low heat during the night and for the first part of the day. It gets warm enough in the afternoon to turn it off. It is still warm enough outside during the day if a person is moving working, but too cold for inactivity. As I finish walking with the dogs around 6:30 p.m., I would be cold if I were not walking. I keep warm walking even when it is fairly cold, as I walk at a fairly brisk gate/pace. Many times here we have our first snow within 2 weeks of now. It usually doesn't stay on the ground until a month later or even into the first of December, but it can stay on the ground any time within 2 weeks. Many years it snows, warms up, melts off, or even the snow turns into rain. During the winter we get anywhere from 2 to 5 feet of snow, and when the winds blow the snow it can drift anywhere from 10 to 15 feet deep. A few years ago there were canyons that drifted 30 feet deep. When there is snow on the ground and it is bitterly cold like anywhere from 10 about zero F. to 10 or more below up to 30 or 40 degrees minus, below zero F, and the wind blows hard, it is bitterly cold then, and cold enough to be dangerous, and people caught out in storms like that have frozen to death. It can be very scary, and important to be careful, dress warmly, take extra blankets and coats, and not sit in a vehicle running while windows are closed, while snow is drifting as people have died in situations like that from carbon monoxide poisoning. They go to sleep and they never wake up. Winter is okay, but it is important to take the precautions and be careful not to be at risk from the dangers of the wind, snow, and the cold.

[crisipicada]

The weather is okay, it is sunny day today wake up late, sleep tight last night, wake up almost 7am, then pray thanking the Lord for another year He added in my life. Thanks Lord that i am still alive and i pray that i will be a blessing to my family and friends and all people i meet.

[Edwin]

The weather is okay, it is sunny day today wake up late, sleep tight last night, wake up almost 7am, then pray thanking the Lord for another year He added in my life. Thanks Lord that i am still alive and i pray that i will be a blessing to my family and friends and all people i meet.

You must have had a birthday, Crisis? Happy Birthday, Crisi! I am glad for a sunny day for you, and a wish to be a blessing is a wonderful wish, and the Lord will continue to make you a blessing to all you come in contact with.

[jadegil6]

Happy Belated Birthday Miss Crispicada...still looking like a teenager!!

[Edwin]

Sorry, Crisi, here I called you Crisis again. Not nice of me, huh? Well, as Sir Michael said, you still look like a teenager, and keep looking that way, Crisi!

[crisipicada]

Thanks a lot for the greetings!!!!

[Edwin]

Thanks a lot for the greetings!!!!

Welcome, Crisi, you are amazing with your work with the fire department, and your love for Jesus, and serving the Lord!

[abufarsi]

today it is cool, first frost of the year is due tonight.

I spent the day preparing the wood stove for yet another year of heat. I went crazy with cutting firewood last year so several years worth is stacked in the machine shed. Had dinner on the front porch, the view is over a hundred miles one direction but mostly 20-50 every other direction. First leaves have turned, some such a bright red it looks as if God has spilled paint on the hills.

The lawn mower is put away.

Still lots of apples on the trees. The deer visit me every night eating those that have fallen.

Many of the farmers have done the first plow for winter wheat but it is still stubble near my home.

When I gaze to the west and see the blue mountains 150 miles away, I marvel at the clarity of the air, I think I can make out single trees amid the blur.

Fresh, cool and clean... Fall is really here!

[Edwin]

Our daughter's thermomenter is more accurate than ours. She said that it was 29 degrees F. this morning, freezing ice on the water. We are at about 2800 feet elevation where we live. We have been running our pellet stove on the very lowest setting during the early evening, night, and into the morning for quite a while now. It is cool all day long lately, but the sun heats our house for a few hours during the day.

Our neighbors have disked their wheat stubble twice now, trying to work it into the soil, and chop it up some. It is definately fall here with a hint of winter coming. I lived in a place where wood was abundant and free. It was about one mile from our house where the National Park Service piled wood logs and invited all the people living in the area to get all they wanted. Each year I would get far more wood than I needed. The landlord asked me when I moved to have the place full of wood for burning in the stove. Well, I didn't realize we were going to move as soon as we did, so I had a lot more wood than he required of me. There was another person in the valley who got caught short, so it worked great for him, because I told him that wood belonged to me, and go get it, and help yourselve to all you want, and it saved his hide, because he was able to keep warm that winter without having to cut wood. These people were good to us, so I was happy to help them as well.

We live on the top of the world here, so we can see airports 30 miles in two different directions. We live not far from Grand Coulee Dam, but we can't see that direction, but we can see the lights from Chief Joseph Dam at night. We can see lights int he distance several directions. We can see the Cascade Mountains towards where we used to live in the Stehekin Valley, and they already have deep snow on them. Mostly what we have here are haystack rocks, grass, and wheat. We have very few trees on this hill that we live on. There are scattered trees various places not far away, but there are only just a few that we can see in the distance. The Columbia River is not far away one direction, and the Okanogan River is not far away the other direction, but we can't see either of them without some driving. The Columbia River is very close, like just a few miles, like maybe 10 or so. It is about 25 miles to the Okanogan River. We have a quite a large lake, for this area anyway, Omak Lake, just down over the hill from us.

Cool feels good after the heat of the summer, but it will not be long before the cool will turn to cold, and very cold, with strong winds and often minus temperatures, as well as drifting snow. We often are not able to go anywhere at times in the winter because of the deep drifted snow. Our son-in-law drives to work each day, but he has 4 wheel drive, and there are times that he has to wait for the snow plow to come past our place before he can go to work. He is often late in the winter because of that, and there are times that he misses entire days of work because of being snow bound.

[Edwin]

Day before yesterday it was miserably cold. I bundled up, and wore my very warm coat, gloves, warm stocking hat, and was comfortable walking the dogs. Yesteray it was warm enough that I wore no coat, base ball cap, no gloves, and I was warm enough. I saw the neighbor's hired man putting tarps on hay stacks, and I asked him if he was getting ready for snow. He told me that it was supposed to snow one foot that night. I said oh, really, and he said, yes don't you see those clouds. There was not a cloud in sky, but he was being funny. Today it was miserably cold. I wore everything that I did 2 days ago, and I was comfortable because of walking, even though the wind was blowing. This morning Carol, my wife, built a fire in the cook stove, and kept it going until noon. I was digging in my cellar, and I was warm enough I could only wear one shirt and my tee shirt as using the rock bar and throwing dirt higher than my head out of the hole with a shovel kept me plenty warm, and of course in the hole while working I am sheltered from the wind. Digging in my cellar is almost impossibly hard, but I am looking at it as my fitness program, and in that way I can enjoy it. I usually start digging about 10:30 or 11 a.m. then I sometimes break for lunch, then continue working until 2 or 3 p.m. Sometimes I get so engrossed in my work that I eat after I finish working at 2:30 or 3:00, or so. The days are getting so short that lately I have to be walking before 4:30 p.m., or I end up coming back in the dark. I have been walking earlier than that often lately, and the days are getting shorter very quickly. Then in a few day we will go off day light savings, and then I will have to start walking one hour earlier than that! I walk for 6.5 miles every day, and I have been thinking about how cold it might feel when it really does get cold, but I will dress warmer, and then at any given point I am only about 10 minutes walk away from the house, so if I get to feeling really miserable I could make it to the house in 10 minutes, so that shouldn't be too bad.