DrB Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 10 hours ago, deputy tom said: Pittsburgh was called the Smokey City for decades. tom. Ohio had the Cuyahoga River catch fire in June 1969... Down by the Republic Steel Mill. The good old days. Dave.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 3 hours ago, DrB said: Ohio had the Cuyahoga River catch fire in June 1969... Down by the Republic Steel Mill. The good old days. Dave.. so did: Rouge River, Detroit, United States, Buffalo River, Buffalo, United States, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, United States, Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, United States. Apparently water is flammable in the states governed by the "Cooler" kids. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-the-cuyahoga-river-the-only-river-to-ever-catch-on-fire.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 January 10th. and it is 52 deg here in North Coast Ohio. I'm loving this winter weather. I still have a few more tires to throw on the burn pile. Dave.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 14 hours ago, DrB said: January 10th. and it is 52 deg here in North Coast Ohio. I'm loving this winter weather. I still have a few more tires to throw on the burn pile. Dave.. 62 deg here now. I need some more tires to throw on the pile. Dave.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 90 degree difference between inside the house and outside here. The wood stove is doing it's job. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Walt Longmire said: 90 degree difference between inside the house and outside here. The wood stove is doing it's job. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 32 minutes ago, Zonny said: Nice, I like that. What is the brand of that stove? I have a Youtl. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I built my wood stove. It is a piece of pipe from an oil platform. 44" long by 30" diameter. The walls are 5/8" thickness, the ends and door are 3/8" thick. It is fire brick lined on the bottom, back and half way up the sides. I don't have to really put a ton of wood in it. It heats up slow, but really holds the heat nicely, and also gives off a steady heat. No huge spikes up and down in temperature. It is in my basement close to the man door to the garage. It is capable of heating the 2 story 4 bedroom house and the 3 car garage if I leave the door open to the garage. (I usually don't) Garage has it's own Modine natural gas heater. We have been getting double digit low temperatures for a few weeks now. It is supposed to warm all the way up to zero (haha) or a little above for a few days, then back into the deep freeze again. Weather like this will let you know if your vehicle isn't at 100% in any way. Also you will learn whether your water supply line is buried deep enough (10' for me) Hope you didn't leave a garden hose attached to your 'frostless hose bib, cause if you did you will discover burst pipes when you open the valve in the spring. Alaska isn't for *******. BTW it is stunningly gorgeous outside. Blue skies, sunshine, trees holding so much frost, looking through the forest is almost like when the trees are leafed out. Not a hint of a breeze. I have a ton of Ravens visiting my yard. I'm tossing bread out for them. Moose have been wandering through demolishing some of my trees. That's o.k. I'll feed them now and whack one of them in the fall. Walt, signing off from the Frozen North. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Unlike a 'murder of crows' I am being visited by an "Unkindness of Ravens" 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 It's 71 F right now in Pittsburgh. tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 11, 2020 Author Share Posted January 11, 2020 (edited) 50 minutes ago, deputy tom said: It's 71 F right now in Pittsburgh. tom. Look out .....the bottom is falling out here in Ohio, 39 deg. now. dropping like a brick.... 4:30 PM. Was high 60's an hour ago.. Dave.. Edited January 11, 2020 by DrB 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 10 minutes ago, DrB said: Look out .....the bottom is falling out here in Ohio, 39 deg. now. dropping like a brick.... 4:30 PM. Was high 60's an hour ago.. Dave.. Get ready, it's 27 here and headed for the teens. Yesterday was mid 50's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njl Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Central FL. Sitting on the patio cooling off after cutting the grass after getting home from shooting IDPA. Right now, it’s 82. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Winter Is Coming. barely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 3 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: Winter Is Coming. barely. In mid-January. (50mph wind early this morning.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 12 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: In mid-January. (50mph wind early this morning.) That wind was rattling my storm windows. Woke me up @ 2:10 a.m. and kept me awake for the rest of the night. tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbt Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 9:30 a.m. and 66* already. High of 70 today. It was 72* yesterday. Judging by the puddles in the yard there were some fast moving storms last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 Warmed up to 15 above. Big shock. And just now had a minor earthquake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 On 12/8/2019 at 10:30 PM, janice6 said: It took some convincing to get her to come back home with me though. She said the man told her he would make her a star in show business. You are a lucky man. Keep her forever... Dave.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 2 hours ago, DrB said: You are a lucky man. Keep her forever... Dave.. I had to ponder that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Had the doors open for awhile this afternoon. Too soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 On 1/11/2020 at 1:07 PM, Zonny said: Nice hearth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 On 12/27/2019 at 8:05 PM, janice6 said: so did: Rouge River, Detroit, United States, Buffalo River, Buffalo, United States, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, United States, Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, United States. Apparently water is flammable in the states governed by the "Cooler" kids. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-the-cuyahoga-river-the-only-river-to-ever-catch-on-fire.html I was working at a power plant (a WWII tugboat (floating) with generators, instead of propellers) in Jamaica. Way at the far end of the site, they had a smoking area. I was pacing around and had wandered to the water's edge, about 30' away. One guy trotted immediately at me, put his hands on my shoulders and spun me around and marched me away.... "Mon! You can' having cigarettes at the watah! You blow us all up!" Stupid me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 All the guys in Jamaica broke for lunch. They all had styrofoam boxes with chicken (jerked?!!). I asked where the got them and they all just shrugged and pointed (they did that a lot) down the street. If I had walked out of the front gate, I would have been forever missing, or dead, in one minute. I asked if there were any vending machines. They shrugged and pointed and told me to go see Charlie. The lunchroom was packed, because it was a big broom closet. In the back of the broom closet was a broom closet with Charlie sitting there. They told him I was hungry. I told him I'd have to go get my money, and he said he'd catch me later. He pulled a wad of grease-paper from a bottom shelf and cut off two massive (like, 1" thick) slabs of cheese (they said it was goat) and sliced two slabs of bread off of a huge loaf. He gave me a (used) paper cup and filled it up, from a jug, that was an extremely thick goat (they said) milk, and had pulverized peanuts in it, like a warm smoothie. The cheese was the best I ever had. The bread was the best I've ever had. The thick-warm-milk thing... well I drank most of it. We were all leaving at the end of the day and we heard a loud whistle from way off. It was Charlie. I had forgot to pay him. I asked the guy I was with how much I'd owe him. He shrugged and said, $5 (it was probably really only $1). All I had was a $20, so I handed it to Charlie, and he put it in his pocket and walked away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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