This is a picture of the back yard of a friends house so you can see all the snow we have had this Jan. We also got another 2 inches today, that would make about 19 inches this month, sigh.
We also had some pretty low temps the past 3 days. Tuesday night got down to about 25 below zero Fahrenheit and with wind chills was about 40 to 45 below zero. Last night we broke a record with a low of -30 below zero and with wind chills it got down to about 55 below zero. Our daytime temps were in the lower 20’s below zero and with wind chills close to 40 below (that is in the day time!), On Wed the post office actually closed and said no postal deliveries. We got up to -1 today! Tomorrow should be 18 above and by Sunday we should be around 40 above, a heatwave!!!!
The hat my daughter chose for me to knit from the alpaca I hand spun (a fingering weight) for her was the Basia hat, unfortunately it calls for sport weight, so I added my last skein of the polypay yarn (a sport weight) from the last fleece I sent in a couple of years ago. I died it brown and tho it is much lighter than the alpaca (I knit them together) it is a very pretty marled color. I think she will be pleased. She could have used it this week :P, but it will be done hopefully by the week end.
We got more snow over night. The weather station said 5 inches but I think it was more like 4 inches, still it’s added to what we had last Friday into Saturday. The biggest add on for this one was that yesterday morning was mostly freezing drizzle so we had a thin sheet of ice under the snow that happened later in the evening. Yeah, slippery roads. Also forecasted to have substantially below 0 temps on Thursday night (- 20F) and 0 on Friday, so with wind chills that could be very cold, and forecast for more snow Thursday thru next Monday, we will see how well the weather forecasters called it. Good day (and week end) to stay in and maybe spin or knit :). Hope everyone is safe and warm.
We got our 2nd snow storm of the winter, last Friday overnight into Saturday. We ended up with about 5 to 6 inches depending on where you took the measurement. We were spared the ice and freezing rain with the storm, but we did have minus temps over night and with wind chills they said it could get down to -20, I didn’t check to see what it actually did get down to with the wind chill, it was enough that it was below zero :P. It was up to 9 today and tonight is suppose to be down to -4. BRRRR, but on Monday it is suppose to be in the teens and maybe to 30 on Wed, woot woot a heat wave :P. Looks like more snow on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, doesn’t look like much but the temps by Friday will be back to minus numbers. Friday ambient temp will be -3 and -10 over night, wind chills will make it feel colder than that. Looks like Old Man winter is finally here. Only good thing about that is, we can now start to look forward to SPRING! Ok, so now I start asking, is it Spring yet?
We have finally received our first substantial snowfall for the 2018-2019 winter season and it’s already into January. We have a had a few little snow storms this season, but you noticed I didn’t even post a picture they were so minor. We will probably end up with between 3 and 4 inches. It started last night sometime (I was a sleep :P) and it is still snowing (about 1:30 pm my time). I took this picture about 10:00 am. The weather map shows it continuing until sometime after 7:30 pm. These are tiny flakes so it take a lot to make an inch :P. I hear the snow plows going over the roads off and on, noisy critters they are. 😛
Oh my gosh this was on my wheel for a little over a year! But—it’s finished!! The problem besides procrastination and a broken hand was the 
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