Big J
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It's now a year since we lost Katie. She's left a big hole in our lives and our children still talk of her often. I'm glad they got to grow up with her, but by Christ, I miss her. We've been dogsitting a jack russell for the last 4.5 months for friends who are travelling. It's only served to reinforce how lucky we were with Katie. She was irreplaceable.
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Down by the lake on the way back from kindergarten. The lake is completely frozen, but where the river exits it's ice-free. It was steaming in quite an atmospheric manner this morning.
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Minus 21c here. A really beautiful morning too
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Mediocre. Had a couple of good sites and a couple of bad ones. You're very much at the mercy of the harvester operator and how well they understand the limitations of a smaller machine. Most thinnings harvesters around here are Rottne H8s, which have very clever self levelling suspension. It's great for them, but can be very troublesome for the forwarder that follows, as an inattentive harvester operator might not notice the side slope or the massive rocks that get in the way.
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All the forecasts said snow to start at 17:00. Right on cue, 17:05, starts to snow. I am looking forward to Wednesday night's skiing on fresh powder!
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Minus 11 this morning. Blue skies. The weather has been lovely for the last couple of weeks. We had snow 10 days ago, that's been very slowly melting each day as the temperature has been above freezing, but nights have been minus 4-7c. Clear skies throughout. The weather is to change this week though, with significant snowfall forecast and the possibility of minus 15-20.
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Bah! Cold spell? We've got minus 16c forecast for Wednesday (with wind chill, minus 27!) 😄 Quite a lot of snow forecast too.
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An individual idiot is easier to explain than the nearly 30% of the audience who also got it hideously wrong!
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That's not funny, it's just true! When we lived near Edinburg, some summers were lovely, but there were some years where we scarcely had any days over 20c. We used to swim a lot outdoors when we were there and on the worst summer, the water temperature didn't exceed 15c. It was like 3 months of autumn.
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They are hundreds of metres from shore and the ice is too thin to walk. First time I've ever seen them here, or indeed anywhere!
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I really have no idea what's caused them! I've never seen offgassing from the lake at any time, and it was really very still and cold over the weekend when it froze. I shall do some research.
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Back to winter again. Had a few inches of snow on Friday and frosts to minus 15 over the weekend. The lake refroze in the strangest way too. A friend flew a drone over and it revealed crater like ice circles. Anyone any idea how they've formed? I didn't add the music to the video by the way 😁 VID-20230206-WA0000.mp4
