What's the temperature where you are???

[2 Acres]

Hey! That would be a hoot!

Well it supposed to be 5 degrees colder tomorrow

That sounds like a pretty comfortable temperature....at least if it was sunny. What is a graziers alert?

Currently 30 degrees. Feels like 27. That's a livestock report to the best of my knowledge.

 

[2 Acres]

Had a miserable drive going to Bowling Green and back to get chicken feed for the girls.

Also hit Home Depot and got 3 bags of Rockwool. Spent the evening in the coop insulating the Southwest corner of the coop. It usually gets hit the hardest.

Spent most of the morning insulating the coop. I just came in to warm up a little. Got the West wall and back wall finished.

Knowing that chickens will eat about anything, I am covering the insulation with plexiglass. Guess I'll find out what the mice will/can do.

 

[2 Acres]

Spent most of the morning insulating the coop. I just came in to warm up a little. Got the West wall and back wall finished.

Knowing that chickens will eat about anything, I am covering the insulation with plexiglass. Guess I'll find out what the mice will/can do.

I know for a fact that chickens are attracted to that pink "fanfold" insulation.I can't believe they eat that stuff.

 

[2 Acres]

Drop to 28 Fahrenheit tonight, wind chill lends to feeling 20 degrees. Looks like winter finally decided to stick around.

I gave my furnace a break. I have enough windows on the front to get passive solar gain. Propane was expensive this year.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

71° and sunny with 29% humidity at 1:00 P.M. High of
72°. Chicken delights are peas and wheat grass.

This pretty little gray fox stopped by to say hello yesterday. They are really small, about 12 inches at the shoulder and weigh 4-5 pounds.

 

[Nym]

And here it’s unseasonably cold. Christmas here is spent inside - I’d love to spend a Christmas at the beach!

Currently -11C it was showing -12C driving in around 6:30am. Had snow overnight, around 10” of the evil white stuff from lake effect snow squalls. Wind is now NE so the snow machine has been turned off.

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It’s pretty but I’d rather not have it.
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Saturday it was lovely, that was the last the chooks could get out.
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Sunday had snow also, thankfully it wasn’t cold, stayed above freezing most of the day yesterday.
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I hope you get to experience a beach Christmas. Most want the white Christmas experience but it looks like a whole of work to me. In Australia, even today, most cards are designed around the white Christmaa with snowmen and such typical scenes. As kids my sister and I were always puzzled by this. As adulrs we were peeved lol

I now buy cards designed and sold by a local artist.

 

[Nym]

Tuesday 2nd of December 8.38a.m. Sunny and cold and windy. 33.3 / 42.5kph S, Hg 44%, 17C / 66.F feels like 10C / 50F. Forecast: 21C / 70F. Becoming windy. Mostly sunny. Marine wind warning + Sheep Graziers alert.

Moon is 91%

December:
"twelfth and last (by modern reckoning) month of the calendar, the month of the winter solstice," late Old English, from Old French decembre, from Latin December, from decem "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten"); tenth month of the old Roman calendar, which began with March.


The -ber in four Latin month names is probably from -bris, an adjectival suffix. Tucker thinks that the first five months were named for their positions in the agricultural cycle, and "after the gathering in of the crops, the months were merely numbered."

If the word contains an element related to mensis, we must assume a *decemo-membris (from *-mensris). October must then be by analogy from a false division Sep-tem-ber &c. Perhaps, however, from *de-cem(o)-mr-is, i.e. "forming the tenth part or division," from *mer- ..., while October = *octuo-mr-is. [T.G. Tucker, "Etymological Dictionary of Latin"]

Decembrist, in Russian history in reference to the insurrection against Nicholas I in December 1825, is by 1868 in English, translating Russian dekabrist, from dekabr' "December."

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I hope you get to experience a beach Christmas. Most want the white Christmas experience but it looks like a whole of work to me. In Australia, even today, most cards are designed around the white Christmaa with snowmen and such typical scenes. As kids my sister and I were always puzzled by this. As adulrs we were peeved lol

I now buy cards designed and sold by a local artist.

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Haha! I love that!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

In Hawaii, Santa arrives on a surfboard.

 

[Bsmac]

In Hawaii, Santa arrives on a surfboard.

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I could handle Hawaii! The surfing... likely not lol!