Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !

[Capt Kirk]

Well the weather has finally caught up with us here in central Ohio. It's been warm all winter up until yesterday. This morning it is 17 deg. with a north wind. My shop dosn't have heat except for a kerosene heater. If I light it off and wait for it to get warm, then I am out of the carving mood. So I will just set in the house and hand feed the wood stove! The heron will just have to wait for spring to get here like the rest of the herons!

[whitecree]

17 in the Farenheit scale is - what? around minus 3 Celsius?

Sorry Capt Kirk, but to me that is just a nice spring day. Even with the north wind!

Just think warm thoughts...

[Capt Kirk]

Hasn't gotten any warmer and I haven't done anymore work on my heron either. Got down to 7 deg. F this morning. I have congestive heart failure and when it's below about 15 deg. I don't breath too good. I get winded real quick. So I tend to stay in by the wood burner on those days! But hey, only 48 more days till spring!

[hi ho sliver]

Hey Cap....what kind of heron? Great Blue? Green? I did a great blue, going to do another one of these days, but would like to do a green too....ah, so many projects, so little time!

[Capt Kirk]

I've started the one that is in the last issue. But not at the same size. I reduced it down a little. It stands about 12 inches tall. Still in the process of roughing it out!

[whitecree]

Congestive heart failure - yerg! My doc says I have the symptoms, but everything came up clear on the angiogram. Go figure.

I'm only ribbing you about the low temps. Stay warm, and see if you can defrost your camera long enough to snap a pic or two - and post'em!

[Hugh]

My favourite time to carve. Can't do anything out side because of the cold, so I can spend time staying warm by the wood stove in the shop, and carve. Even get a little carving company once in awhile, that old wood stove is the answer to those cold days.

[whitecree]

Sounds great, I'll give it a try!



Then again, a gas furnace isn't quite the same...

[mikeg]

Capt Kirk,

You need to get yourself a big carving apron, grab a handfull of tools and a couple pieces of wood and bring them to the woodstove and do some small, hand-held carvings. I find my apron catches 99.9% of the woodchips. I'll bet the chips would make good kindling although it doesn't sound like you're letting your stove go out right now!

It's 5 degrees here in northern Vermont today with a wind chill of -20.

Where there's a will there's a way!
mikeg

[Claude]

It was 7 deg F at 6am when I was standing on the train platform waiting for the train this morning here in Virginia. Since this is technically "the South", it really shouldn't get that cold... I was actually thinking we needed a bit of global warming...

Claude

[cwahart]

thot i would revive this thread now that Summer is almost here. its been 85 to 95 the last week or two here in SE Ohio. i'd like to have some of that Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! back...at least for a bit!

[hi ho sliver]

Just to brighten your days.....it was 93 here yesterday, don't think I will bother turning the heater on Warm up in 48 days? geez, thats fall ha ha

[Hugh]

It hasn't hit 93 here yet. We live in the far north, grin, and the hot days, are few and far between. It is warmer though, Getting up around 80 which is comfortable.

[Claude]

Here in Virginia, it was 95F for the last two days. Today was much cooler - it was only 85F for the high!

Claude

[hi ho sliver]

Here in Virginia, it was 95F for the last two days. Today was much cooler - it was only 85F for the high!

Claude

7 degrees early and 95 during the day? wow, with a temperature change like that, it must be impossible to keep the air pressure in your car tires right LOL Several places we have lived, we have had 50 degree temp changes..but wow! over 80 degree change? I will stay here in the desert where its cool and steady ha ha..............but its a dry heat!