Our Morning Coffee and Weather

[JEBar]

this first Wednesday in October has gotten off to a much stronger Fallish start with a cool crisp feeling .... 71 at noon with a forecasted high of 76 followed by the temp dropping to an overnight low of 53 .... had to take a vehicle to a local repair shop this morning .... seems like we are having to do that all too often .... nothing major on tap for the rest of today

[Mags]

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Mags, that’s an impressive stack of good looking firewood. I’m with envy….

Thanks, and I'd guess you have as much if not more. Seems I remember you have more lateral space to spread out your stacks.

[cooperhawk]

Fair, 61°F, Humidity 72%
Wind Speed Calm
Barometer 30.13 in
Dewpoint 52°F
Visibility 10.00 mi
Sunny, with a high near 85.
Light and variable wind becoming south southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
At the gun club last evening the Gnats were terrible so I didn't stay outside long.
Today we have a lunch date with our youngest daughter. We don't see the kids much.

[Hatchdog]

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Mags, that’s an impressive stack of good looking firewood. I’m with envy….

Thanks, and I'd guess you have as much if not more. Seems I remember you have more lateral space to spread out your stacks.

Not this year, I’m going to come up short. However the next few years are looking good with what I have on hand to cut and split. Took delivery of two more large trees yesterday. Plan is to start cutting on Saturday but it will be too wet to burn this year.

Could use a fire, woke up to a cool foggy morning. 48 but with the fog it feels colder. Here in a minute I’m going out to play in it, we got more rain last night and I’m going to mow the dry areas around which are now nice and wet. Later today it’s supposed to get sunny which will continue into next week but with more fall like temps. Looking forward to it.

[Mags]

51' and raining this morning. 65' with rain continuing expected for the rest of the day. Maybe clear up Sunday for a few days, then more rain.
In the past with the amount of rain we've had burn season would open Oct 1. But the notification made in June is still active and says we're still under severe conditions and burning season is closed. I think someone at TVFR forgot about what's posted on their website and automated phone system.

[JEBar]

while this morning's weather was beautiful, Oct 2nd got off to a miserable start .... with the temp in the upper 40's and an 11 mph wind I had to move away from shorts and sandals to long pants, socks and regular shoes to take Maureen to an early medical appointment in north Raleigh .... happy to be able to say that by the time we got back home shortly after noon, the temp had risen to 71 .... it was nice to be able to get back to shorts and sandals .... on the way home we stopped by a local garage where our '05 Trailblazer is once again in for repair .... some sort of sensor had to be replaced .... nothing else on tap for today

[cooperhawk]

Fair, 57°F, Humidity 100%
Wind Speed Calm
Barometer 30.11 in
Dewpoint 57°F
Visibility 7.00 mi
Sunny, with a high near 87.
Calm wind becoming south southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Wow! July in October again. Nice.

[JEBar]

another chilly morning .... 50 at 8AM .... the forecasted high for today is 75, temp predicted to drop to 54 overnight .... only thing on today's list is to haul trash .... I haven't followed Major League Baseball this season, well more accurately for the last several seasons .... did watch the NY Yankees game last night and was happy to see them move on in the playoffs

[Hatchdog]

A crisp 43 this morning, not sure what the high is supposed to be. Probably in the upper 60’s and sun expected. Just saw Fargo ND is expecting 90 and Coop just mentioned his high is expected to be 87. Wow! We are looking at a nice weekend coming up with crisp mornings and sunny pleasant afternoons. Good weekend to get all the trees I got from my neighbor cut up into rounds for the splitter.

Today we heading up to the property to see if we can hike up to where the fire was. Hopefully after this weeks rain we should be okay. But we won’t’ take any risks and if it looks iffy we’ll turn around. I need to service the mower up there and do some other maintenance tasks. We might take the motorhome up there next week weather depending. We’ll bring a few firearms and do some plinking if time allows.

[Mags]

49' and cloudy this morning. Dense fog? Not seeing it. Maybe 67' later with some sun breaking through. Mon-Wed supposed to be sunny and in the 70's.

[cooperhawk]

Fair, 70°F, Humidity 73%
Wind Speed S 7 mph
Barometer 29.91 in
Dewpoint 61°F
Visibility 10.00 mi
Sunny, with a high near 90.
Breezy, with a south wind 10 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
I guess I'll finish up mowing this morning before the wind pick up too much.

[Hatchdog]

A bit warmer this morning at 48 with mid 60’s expected later. Overcast now but the sun is supposed to come out after it burns off the cloud layer. Nice weather expected all week with sunshine and temps in the 60’s and lower 70’s. But we do have frost warnings for Monday and Tuesday mornings.

Went up to the property yesterday and got some winterization work done. Then went for a hike up to where the fire was. We got to the logging road behind our place which I expected to be the fire line but it didn’t burn to the road, at least in the area we walked. Funny, the firefighters cut a new road in between our property line and the existing logging road. Not sure why or where it goes but the next time I have my UTV up there I’ll drive it out and find out. It’s real silty and would be a very dusty ride now so hopefully there will be some rain soon.

We were thinking about heading up there for several days but it’s so overgrown with Canadian Thistle (a noxious weed) that the dogs would get so full of stickers we decided to wait until next year after I get it mowed.

Took a couple of rifles and a couple of revolvers along but didn’t have time to shoot. My range is in need of some clean up and the time required to do this plus set up and tear down the stands wasn’t available. Had the dogs at doggy care thus had a time line to get home.

Interesting, the DNR folks came into the property and scraped the grass/weeds from around the building and from around all the poles set in the ground, both power and support poles for the open shed. Pretty impressive they would do so.

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[Mags]

52' and cloudy this morning. Maybe 67' later. Probably cloudy all day.

[cooperhawk]

Fair, 66°F, Humidity 68%
Wind Speed S 13 G 20 mph
Barometer 29.80 in
Dewpoint 55°F
Visibility 10.00 mi
A high near 80.
Breezy, with a south wind 15 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.
A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 1pm.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Sure could use some rain about now.

[Hatchdog]

41 this morning but a nice day is expected with sunshine and 60’s. More of the same this week other than maybe a couple of mornings with frost. Winters coming…

Speaking of winter, yesterday I started cutting up the trees my neighbor gave me. This wood will be for winter 26/27, this winter’s wood is all cut and split. Put a nice dent in it yesterday focusing on the larger logs to put those rounds on the bottom of my stack. My body feels it, these trees were just cut in the last month and have a high water content making them very heavy.

This is what I got done yesterday…

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This is what I have left to cut…

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[BigAl52]

Just think Hatch if you moved to the south all that work would be non existent and you could shoot more

[Mags]

51' and hazy sunny this morning. Haze should burn off in a little while and maybe get up to 72. Looks like rain next weekend.

[Vaquero]

Good morning, thought I'd pop in for a quick moment.
It's 70 here this AM, with 93% humidity, with a 4 mph breeze. Says the high only going up to 77.

I put a bid in on another Redfield Revolution scope, 2-7x33 last week and won it last night.
That'll be #4, these were made by Leupold several years ago and have been discontinued for a good while now.
I have a good friend up in WI and he says the clarity of these are on par with his VX3 scopes.
IDK that as I don't have a VX3.
Anyway I'm off to work this morning.
Depending on some rain coming it could end up being a short day.

RP

[cooperhawk]

48°F, Humidity 82%
Wind Speed N 6 mph
Barometer 30.16 in
Dewpoint 43°F
Visibility 10.00 mi
Wind Chill 45°F (7°C)
Partly sunny, with a high near 62.
North wind around 5 mph.
Back to seasonal temp today.

[Hatchdog]

33 our there as I type this. Brrrrr no frost yet. The official Deer Park temp according to the weather guy is 26, I keep my 33 thank you! I have to make a run to Deer Park here in a few minutes so I’ll watch my dash thermometer. High in the mid 60’s with sunshine forecast. Warmer every day this week with 70’s by Friday. Then maybe some rain over the weekend, sure hope so as we need it badly.

Got more logs cut up yesterday but only worked a half day. Came in to watch the Seattle Seahawks lose a football game due to stupid play and then watched the Seattle Mariners baseball team win. They are 1-1 with Detroit and today is a travel day to Michigan. Go M’s…