Brrrrrrrr.....

[5 SHOTS]

My truck said -21F below this morning on my way to work.

5shots texted me and sent me this pic from HIS truck   

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This was in my pickup between Glendive and Sidney Montana. I discovered it doesn't read below -40 the next morning when it was a little colder. I have started driving a water truck in the oilfield so I can be home more often.

[Okanagan]

Glad for you that you can get home more rather than living on the road.

 I took a change of assignment at work one time that put me on the road.  I had taken it partly to help a friend, but I bailed out on that after a couple of months of being gone from wife and growing kids so much.  Being on the road gets old for most of us, whether in North America or internationally.  I've sure enjoyed seeing pics of some of the places you've been over the years. You've been there and done that enough that I'll bet it makes it easier to stay home at this stage of life.

[Okanagan]

All this cold talk reminds me of an incident back in the day. I was part of a NATO winter warfare exercise called Thor's Hammer which took place in the Sondheim Fjord in Norway. We were practicing amphibious landings to counter the evil Russians in the event of World War III. We had a seal team on board and they were doing surveillance and other unknown things. One of them whose last name I recall was Potter was surveilling a small Norwegian village and some old guy spotted him and thought he was a peeping Tom and took a shot at him with his .22 rifle and did a threw and threw right on Potter's ball sack. As a result of that just about every time when everybody was having dinner in the mess deck somebody would yell out Potter show everybody where you got shot. Potter would jump up on a chair and drop his pants and whip his balls sack out    . True story. Getting back to the cold, sweet frosted polar bear balls it was cold there. Even for a deep northerner like myself. The snow squeaked like Styrofoam when you walked on it.

Yowie!

Re snow squeaking when cold, I've lobbied for years to have someone do a doctoral research project to show that we can tell temperature by the tone of snow squeaking.  If you set it up to tell the difference between a fat white man walking on -40 snow vs a black lesbian trans, you could probably get some major grant money for the research.   

[nastygunz]

That wouldn't make it with Elon on watch ! 

[Okanagan]

That wouldn't make it with Elon on watch ! 

Hope you are right!