Brrrrrrrr.....

[Okanagan]

Did I ever tell you guys how much I love my woodstove?  
3 degrees outside this morning. Me walking to the kitchen in my skivies to make some coffee.

Wood stove heat just feels different, and better, than any kind of oil, electric etc.  Also, bisquits baked in a wood stove oven taste better than those baked in an electric or gas oven.  Doesn't make sense maybe but is true, no question.

[slagmaker]

5°F this morning but a dead still wind. Didn't even make it to 20 today but supposed to be above freezing tomorrow.

Soon comes the muddy mess.

[nastygunz]

-4

[pitw]

Thermometer bottomed out this am about -44C.  Been a cold week or so.  Good time to own a steamer truck as they are all busy.  Mosquitos ain't much of a problem either.

[FinsnFur]

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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[Okanagan]

Thermometer bottomed out this am about -44C.  Been a cold week or so.  Good time to own a steamer truck as they are all busy.  Mosquitos ain't much of a problem either.

-44 Celcius is between 47 and 48 below zero F.  That kind of cold is simply painful to me, and I feel pain rather than cold. I'll take our wet cold discomfort over your deep cold.  Hang in there and stay inside as much as farming will let you!

We have had the longest continuous cold stretch since we moved here, but it finally got up above freezing today and most of the snow is gone.  I think it got down to 22 F. at the coldest but it would stay right at freezing and below for days, most of the time for the past 8 weeks.  Yesterday we had drizzling cold rain on two inches of snow.  I hardly went outside. This is humid country close to salt water and the damp cold just feels colder and more miserable than the dry deep cold we endured in the Interior of BC. 

[Hawks Feather]

Okanagan,

   I will take the dry cold over your wet cold every day of the week. When the humidity is high it really bothers me. But then summer happens in Ohio and we have higher temperatures and higher humidity.

[nastygunz]

18 degrees here, its spring time!

[Okanagan]

This is another tangent but comparing damp cold with deep dry cold reminds me of a discussion on another forum about wearing cotton in the damp PNW coastal cold.  It got downright funny to those of us from SW Alaska, coastal BC and the Olympic Peninsula.  Some guy from Colorado said that he logged in deep snow in 25 below zero and stayed comfortable wearing denim jeans.  I laughed out loud because he simply did not get it. 

I replied, "Try 34 degrees F. in mixed rain and sleet on 8 inches of wet snow in brush and forest where it has been alternating non-stop rain and snow for the past six weeks.  Wear cotton if you want, and waterproof it with anything you want.  Since it is a hunting forum, hunt steep terrain in heavy brush all day in those conditions, and for the serious backpack hunters, lie down and sleep in it that night."

FWIW, I don't wear a stitch of cotton on my bod from skin out when I hunt or hike wet cold country.  If picking berries right by my vehicle on dry summer days, I may wear jeans and cotton.  Cotton gets wet easily, stays wet and hard to dry, is heavy, cold and non-insulating when wet, plus wet cotton pants tend to bind legs when walking.  I love cotton T-shirts, flannel and jeans when I get back to my vehicle after hiking, and change into cotton if I have far to drive to get home.

OK, this post is over the top with one of my obsessions.    

[nastygunz]

I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature 

[nastygunz]

Wool is the way to go !

[remrogers]

I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature 

OH, my eyes!

[Okanagan]

I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature 

We have a fair number of hornets in ground nests, and the only time I seem to run in to them is when picking berries.  Being one with nature can lift us to an intense experience when you step on one of those nests while entwined with the thick brush of nature.  May such heights of sensation be yours.

[Okanagan]

I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature 

OH, my eyes!

  We need an emoticon of rubbing my closed eyes!

[Okanagan]

5shots, where was your truck in -40 cold?  -40 is the same in C or F.

[nastygunz]

Speaking of hornets and ground nests, I recall when I was a teenager the old man had us working out back clearing some trees and brush to put in a hog pen. My younger brother was cutting brush and I happened to look down and he had a cloud of yellowjackets swarming around his legs I didn't say anything and a couple of minutes later I heard some real solid cursing and he was streaking through the forest like a Bigfoot on methamphetamine 😂😂👍

[FinsnFur]

I don't wear anything when I'm hunting and picking berries. I like to become part of the natural landscape and one with nature 

He means when he's harvesting raisins

[FinsnFur]

5shots, where was your truck in -40 cold?  -40 is the same in C or F.

I think Montana.