What is your weather today?
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uncle jimbo
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Week 7 Day 3
70° here in northern Utah today at 10:30 am. Getting too hot to fast for this time of year.
70° here in northern Utah today at 10:30 am. Getting too hot to fast for this time of year.
Rally
NC Minnesota
Yep Ian. Occasionally the wife goes with to run traps (summer only). She thinks it's a big deal to ride in the canoe! I try to get her to help tear out small beaver dams, but she'd rather paddle the canoe over to the beaver house or go cut cattails for her crafts, then tells me I work too hard???? I've been finishing the inside of her shop this winter, and she's getting all excited. First she doesn't want shelves, then she does, then she wants false beams on the ceiling, then she doesn't. As long as I have the saws working, can I cut this, fix this, build a drawer for this, build a new picnic table, fix this old picnic table, wants corner shelves now etc. If you figure them out please email me the answer, I've been trying to figure them out for almost 44 years now.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
LOL, let me know if your figure them out! I never have!
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
We were scandalous today. Jimbo's time count on the house arrest matches my own, and we were totally shack-whacky. TO THE DESERT!
If you read the news items from Kalifornistan over the weekend, a sizable civil disobedience incident occurred on both Saturday and Sunday at "Old Man's" (Huntington Beach) with between 30K and 40K beach-goers each day enjoying the warm temps and gentle surf (2'-3', long period). Further south in Encinitas, San Diego SD made a couple arrests/detentions of people violating some ordinance about beach closure/health wonk edicts. Really bad optics, and I'm sure that lawyers are looking at sailboat upgrades and Range Rover purchases as this idiocy continues.
Today Marie and I got onto eastbound I-10 at about 10:45 A.M. expecting the sparse traffic and empty lanes that newsfolk had been showing on TV for a few weeks now, with sordid tales of CHP writing tickets/arresting drivers/impounding cars for speeds from 110-145 MPH. I think the house arrest part of this charade is over--traffic density was pretty much mid-morning-Monday-normal, all the way out to the Low Desert. In keeping with Gavin The Magnificent's strict guidelines on outdoor activities, we limited ourselves to getting food (at Wienerschnitzel) and buying groceries (at Ralph's). We also had to get fuel (in Chiriaco Summit) take photos of restored Camp Young signposts and tank laagers before driving out to Wiley's Well to shop for chuckwallas and desert iguanas. Marie found one in a campground privy, which did not thrill her. Something about "Snakes with legs!" in Spanish. I only half-heard the remark. It's so precious when she defaults to Spanish at these times. So endearing, at full-auto.
Significant numbers of campers "boondocking" in BLM campsites and dispersed areas, and along the Joshua Tree NP south border. JTNP is gated shut, closed for the duration of the current Mangy Critter Onslaught. BLM posted warning signs on all campsite restroom doors, advising of closure and wrapping the privies in orange plastic Cal-Trans netting......and left all the doors unlocked and unbound by the netting. From this I gather that BLM takes this goat roping sequence about as seriously as I do--the government pretends to rule us, and we pretend to obey. Deal.
A great day outdoors, some ammunition expended, desert flora and fauna accounted for, high temp at Wiley Wells today was 104*. Lovely.
If you read the news items from Kalifornistan over the weekend, a sizable civil disobedience incident occurred on both Saturday and Sunday at "Old Man's" (Huntington Beach) with between 30K and 40K beach-goers each day enjoying the warm temps and gentle surf (2'-3', long period). Further south in Encinitas, San Diego SD made a couple arrests/detentions of people violating some ordinance about beach closure/health wonk edicts. Really bad optics, and I'm sure that lawyers are looking at sailboat upgrades and Range Rover purchases as this idiocy continues.
Today Marie and I got onto eastbound I-10 at about 10:45 A.M. expecting the sparse traffic and empty lanes that newsfolk had been showing on TV for a few weeks now, with sordid tales of CHP writing tickets/arresting drivers/impounding cars for speeds from 110-145 MPH. I think the house arrest part of this charade is over--traffic density was pretty much mid-morning-Monday-normal, all the way out to the Low Desert. In keeping with Gavin The Magnificent's strict guidelines on outdoor activities, we limited ourselves to getting food (at Wienerschnitzel) and buying groceries (at Ralph's). We also had to get fuel (in Chiriaco Summit) take photos of restored Camp Young signposts and tank laagers before driving out to Wiley's Well to shop for chuckwallas and desert iguanas. Marie found one in a campground privy, which did not thrill her. Something about "Snakes with legs!" in Spanish. I only half-heard the remark. It's so precious when she defaults to Spanish at these times. So endearing, at full-auto.
Significant numbers of campers "boondocking" in BLM campsites and dispersed areas, and along the Joshua Tree NP south border. JTNP is gated shut, closed for the duration of the current Mangy Critter Onslaught. BLM posted warning signs on all campsite restroom doors, advising of closure and wrapping the privies in orange plastic Cal-Trans netting......and left all the doors unlocked and unbound by the netting. From this I gather that BLM takes this goat roping sequence about as seriously as I do--the government pretends to rule us, and we pretend to obey. Deal.
A great day outdoors, some ammunition expended, desert flora and fauna accounted for, high temp at Wiley Wells today was 104*. Lovely.
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Glad you had a good day. 14 hours of sunshine here, but high will be about 75.
Traffic is less than normal, just because so many businesses are closed. No hunting ,fishing or camping yet but maybe next week.
Traffic is less than normal, just because so many businesses are closed. No hunting ,fishing or camping yet but maybe next week.
uncle jimbo
Well-Known Member
68° at 11:30 am today, most sunny with high wiffy clouds. Looks to be another good day.
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Bright and sunny here today, predicted high of 88*. DE-LUXE. Brass is tumbling (45 ACP and 45 AR from yesterday's trip), guns are cleaned, all is right with the world.
I had fun with the S&W Model 642 as well, about 125 rounds of #358477 atop 4.5 grains of WW-231. I wonder how many thousands of THAT LOAD I have run through 38 Specials over the years. This is about as strong a load as I run in my non-Plus-P 38 Specials; they produce about 825 FPS from a 4" barrel and not quite 875 from the 6" tubes. They are accurate as all get-out, and their 357 Magnum version with 5.0 x 231 do similar things. In the little 642 the load let you know the rounds discharged, but weren't difficult to manage. It was Marie's first try-out of this little monster with the Pachmayr Com-Pac grips installed. HUGE MISTAKE--just like bringing home the SIG P-228 in 2003. I might not see it again, except to clean it and reload for it. She gave our swinger plate no end of grief at about 20 yards off the muzzle. No surprise there, she grew up shooting. An orange grove kid, like I was.
Only mad dogs, Englishmen, and orange grove kids go about in the noonday sun. (Apologies to Noel Coward). Those 104* temps held for most of out time afield yesterday, and SBIs Like Us remain largely unfazed. (SBI = Sun Baked Idiots).
I had fun with the S&W Model 642 as well, about 125 rounds of #358477 atop 4.5 grains of WW-231. I wonder how many thousands of THAT LOAD I have run through 38 Specials over the years. This is about as strong a load as I run in my non-Plus-P 38 Specials; they produce about 825 FPS from a 4" barrel and not quite 875 from the 6" tubes. They are accurate as all get-out, and their 357 Magnum version with 5.0 x 231 do similar things. In the little 642 the load let you know the rounds discharged, but weren't difficult to manage. It was Marie's first try-out of this little monster with the Pachmayr Com-Pac grips installed. HUGE MISTAKE--just like bringing home the SIG P-228 in 2003. I might not see it again, except to clean it and reload for it. She gave our swinger plate no end of grief at about 20 yards off the muzzle. No surprise there, she grew up shooting. An orange grove kid, like I was.
Only mad dogs, Englishmen, and orange grove kids go about in the noonday sun. (Apologies to Noel Coward). Those 104* temps held for most of out time afield yesterday, and SBIs Like Us remain largely unfazed. (SBI = Sun Baked Idiots).
fiver
Well-Known Member
it barely broke 60 today and is supposed to be closer to 70 tomorrow.
light winds keeping it not so bad.
I'm kind of worried we usually have some decent weather like this in the start of may and then have a couple of cold snaps with night time temps in the 20's and some snow at the end.
light winds keeping it not so bad.
I'm kind of worried we usually have some decent weather like this in the start of may and then have a couple of cold snaps with night time temps in the 20's and some snow at the end.
Hawk
Well-Known Member
We had a thunderstorm last night that was sumethimg else. It looked like the camera stop at the Oscars! Lightning on top of lightning for over an hour.
Also had rain over the tops of our 6" gutters in the streets.
They said we had a continuous storm from Dallas all the way to Detroit!
No apparent damage to our property.
I hope everyone weathered it alright.
Also had rain over the tops of our 6" gutters in the streets.
They said we had a continuous storm from Dallas all the way to Detroit!
No apparent damage to our property.
I hope everyone weathered it alright.
Same storm went through here last night, quite the light show and extremely noisy, whole house was shaking from the thunder. Rained hard for a couple of hours but no apparent damage here either. Well except the dog was not a happy camper, she was convinced that all that noise was a really nasty dog getter and it was looking for her.
She's kinda strange, when younger the thunder didn't bother her, she would just look at me and if I wasn't in a panic she'd just go back to sleep. As she got older though it clearly stress's her. But seems strange to me it's only if she's in the house, if she's outside she doesn't bat an eye and could care less.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Hmmm . . . this didn't get posted yesterday morning, so here goes:
A medium density fog burned off by 8:00, and was replaced by a mostly sky. A low fog is still hanging over the bay and wafting inland several blocks. High will be in the low to mid-60s with a light wind.
Now for today:
Early fog has given way to overcast, a high of 64 is scheduled and there should be afternoon shadows.
A medium density fog burned off by 8:00, and was replaced by a mostly sky. A low fog is still hanging over the bay and wafting inland several blocks. High will be in the low to mid-60s with a light wind.
Now for today:
Early fog has given way to overcast, a high of 64 is scheduled and there should be afternoon shadows.
uncle jimbo
Well-Known Member
74° at 10:30 am. Suppose to to hit 84° today by late afternoon.
Charles Graff
Moderator Emeritus
Weather here is hot, dry and windy. The air is full of Mexican smoke drifting up from agricultural burning as far south and Yucatan.
Cloudy and wind. Posted temperature of 42, real feel of 32 with breeze and humidity. Rained all yesterday and last night.
What gets me is, I keep telling my wife that that's the last of the wood in the house, I am done with the stove for the season, then I get up and I feel cold in the tip of my nose and my toes. Rain defeats allergies somewhat, so I light the stove and open the window for circulation and fresh air.
I am out of small-split pine and kindling, so I have to go outside and split some more in nice weather, when we think I will not need it. Now I am almost out of dry firewood inside the house. Have to brave the mud to the woodpile, and what's under the tarps is moist from the last two days' intermittent rain.
Too cold and wet to cast. Running out of paper to chase inside. Going to the grocery store is our big outing...
What gets me is, I keep telling my wife that that's the last of the wood in the house, I am done with the stove for the season, then I get up and I feel cold in the tip of my nose and my toes. Rain defeats allergies somewhat, so I light the stove and open the window for circulation and fresh air.
I am out of small-split pine and kindling, so I have to go outside and split some more in nice weather, when we think I will not need it. Now I am almost out of dry firewood inside the house. Have to brave the mud to the woodpile, and what's under the tarps is moist from the last two days' intermittent rain.
Too cold and wet to cast. Running out of paper to chase inside. Going to the grocery store is our big outing...