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It's a nipple splittin 3° here in Lexington as I head back to my little holler. Had to check on some property, and it's a good thing I did. Had contractors replacing some stuff at one and I found 2 windows open. Can't imagine what the heating bill will be...

It's my fault, too. Not theirs. God was telling me I left em open but I forgot which ones I opened... Worth the drive up there to check, anyway. Stay warm, D-League! May the Father bless you with continuous power and ample heat!
 
Good morning from ATX. Currently 14°F and clear with no wind chill factor. Today's high may reach 31°F. New heater holds up well. Wind chill = around 1 or 2 °F.

I might walk over to a nearby homeless encampment at North Austin Event Center after first light to check on frozen bodies. Stay tuned.

Happy Friday, y'all.

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Good morning folks. Rainy and windy here. I’m content to watch it through the window. Going down from about 45f to 10f in a matter of hours. Outside chance - pretty slim -well get enough snow mixed in for a white Christmas but not counting on it.

While many of us slept the Bengals clinched a playoff berth with the Jets loss. For those of us who have lived through so many years of being eliminated by about Halloween this is nothing to take for granted.

Hope it’s a good day for all.
 
Good Friday Morning D

63° at this moment and it may end up being our high. Warnings are out for a hard freeze coming our way. We have partly cloudy skies and rain chances this morning are 39%. It will be sunny this afternoon as temperatures fall to near freezing. Overnight it may get down to 27° around 5:00 AM. If it stays below freezing for four hours I am in big trouble. I am going to take a chance and not cover the plants and the trees are too tall to worry about. I might lose that avocado and my tangerine tree may be in trouble too .

I can relate. Almost

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Good Friday Morning D

63° at this moment and it may end up being our high. Warnings are out for a hard freeze coming our way. We have partly cloudy skies and rain chances this morning are 39%. It will be sunny this afternoon as temperatures fall to near freezing. Overnight it may get down to 27° around 5:00 AM. If it stays below freezing for four hours I am in big trouble. I am going to take a chance and not cover the plants and the trees are too tall to worry about. I might lose that avocado and my tangerine tree may be in trouble too .

I can relate. Almost

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Sure wish he had been actively on TV all these years...
 
Just announced, Armed Forces Bowl is the coldest bowl game ever played. Wind chill -1°. I am sorry but that is not fun to me but the winning team will probably love it.
I hope there is no grab assing in the huddle to keep warm. They would have to change the command from "Alright, let's huddle up!" to "Alright, Let's cuddle up!".
 
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Morning Legionnaires!

6° with 10-20mph winds. Wind chill factor -15°. Yesterday the winds hit 40-50mph all day and most of the night. HVAC struggled to keep us above 67° in the house so, I brought in 3 space heaters (oil radiator type) from the shop which helped. House was built in 2003 and the HVAC unit installed was made in the year 2000. It has been repaired a couple of times and the last time the repairman said it would be best to buy a new one if it goes out again. That's the plan. Probably do new windows too in the near future.

Couple of bowl games today:
Louisiana Ragun Caguns vs Houston Cougars at 2pm central
Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs Missouri Tigers at 5:30pm central
Go Tigers!

Has anyone ever noticed that the mascots for the division one schools in North Carolina are all kind of evil in name?

North Carolina Tar Heels (Pagan Ram)
Duke Blue Devils
Wake Forest Demon Deacons
North Carolina State Wolfpack (symbol looks werewolf like)

What's going on in that state?
 
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Alexa says -7, local radio says -5 with a -26 wind chill. It's hard to tell how much snow we got with all the drifts but I'd say 2-3 inches. Winds currently at 19 mph. Our Christmas gathering for my wife's side of the family will be a challenge tomorrow night. Ice is my greatest concern with the elderly that'll be here. No way am I shoveling until it gets up to 5 degrees.

19,000 without power. Prayers sent for these poor souls.
 
I knew this was coming, so I "thought" I had extra bulbs for my heat lamps. I looked for them Wednesday but couldn't find them. I checked 3 different stores, and they were all out. There was one place left to check without a 50-mile round trip. I had suggested this place to a guy I met in an earlier store, and he got there right before I did. He got a 2 pack, and I got the last one.
 
This is our local forecast for Christmas. Wind chill temperatures but for us this can be brutal cold. 30s and 20s are just different in Florida. We are not built for this.

When it is 24 in Frostproof, it is no longer frost proof.

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Wow SC, I did not know they moved the city of Lake Placid to Florida, I heard people were leaving New York, but dang a whole city!!!!!
 
Gusting snow right now. Wind really howling. We're still ahead of the deep freeze, but it is coming.

On another topic, I was reading a piece about the Bengals clinching a playoff berth and came across an interesting fact: No NFL team has started 0-2 and made the playoffs since the 2017-2018 season until the Bengals. That seems so unlikely in the NFL, given the parity and also the propensity of the league to schedule all those made-for-TV early match-ups between contending teams. You'd think that would happen every year.
 
This is our local forecast for Christmas. Wind chill temperatures but for us this can be brutal cold. 30s and 20s are just different in Florida. We are not built for this.

When it is 24 in Frostproof, it is no longer frost proof.

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Frostproof-ish?

UK82 said:

"I can't get the dog to go outside. I open the door and he runs the other way. Probably thinking "Why don't you go out and take a leak and see how you like it. Better yet try taking a dump outside".

Pissickles?
 
Gusting snow right now. Wind really howling. We're still ahead of the deep freeze, but it is coming.

On another topic, I was reading a piece about the Bengals clinching a playoff berth and came across an interesting fact: No NFL team has started 0-2 and made the playoffs since the 2017-2018 season until the Bengals. That seems so unlikely in the NFL, given the parity and also the propensity of the league to schedule all those made-for-TV early match-ups between contending teams. You'd think that would happen every year.

Darn MdW, I guess it is coming my way! Geez....

Oh well, deal with it as best you/ we can.

Oh too, I have a new phone. A Google Pixel 7..(I picked it up at a local store yesterday or would have had to wait until mid January as it is back-ordered. No extra except some gas and time.). not what I wanted in memory (128GBs) but it was the cheapest one that gave a trade-in allowance and the phone does have LOTS of good reviews.... I transferred the data last night and finished the sim card switch a few minutes ago... All seems to work and my data seems in tact. I do have to save my photo's and video's to my computer but then I will wipe my old phone a couple times and return it for my credit....

Now on to My Darlings when it arrives... (I switched from android to android with mine but with hers I will be switching from android to an IPhone... bought her the IPhone 14 Plus...(Hers has (256GBs), I just did not want an IPhone. My Darling has her IPad. I received her phone first but the red she picked when received looked like a fluorescent bloody nose so we returned it and got her a black phone... when the cases arrive hers will be a lavender type purple so all is good in the hood for a while I hope...
 
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Not to look ahead but the basketball Cats better get their act together because a tough SEC is ready to start. I watched a little of #16 Illinois last night vs. Missouri and the Illini got stomped. Missouri won 93-71. They had a guard go for 31 points and 8 assists.

I had Mizzou penciled in as a sure win pre-season. I best erase that and play the game first. Mizzou was suppose to be one of the easier SEC teams.

But it is Christmas time and I am in a good mood so I will just put this on the back burner and celebrate Peace, Love and Joy to the World.
 
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