Baby, it's cold outside...

[sumi]

I don't think we went much over freezing yesterday, with the wind chill. That is a few degrees higher than our lowest annual winter temperatures and we're barely a week into winter proper. Ireland's climate is fairly mild compared to many other places, winters can come and go with no snow fall in most of the country, but the way things are starting over here, I won't be surprised if we get some soon. And the coldest months are still coming

I think we're in a for the deep freeze this year. How are things looking where you all live?

 

[MoonShadows]

I've always been very intrigued by PA. Just driving through, it's gorgeous. Don't know much about it in regards to taxes, laws, etc. but if I ever relocate it's on my short list of places to investigate.

If I get tired of snow someday though, I'll probably go to TN.

PA is a gorgeous state, but so many states are beautiful.

Out of the 50 states, PA ranks:
32nd in Land Size
30th in Schools
39th in Overall Taxes (State, School, Property, etc.)
20th for Retirement
10th in Population Density
45th in Unemployment
28th in Gross Domestic Property per Capita
22nd in Average Wage

 

[MoonShadows]

Moonshadows, did you have to take the pic of you sitting on the porch steps away? You looked so relaxed. LOL And warm!

LOL @Mini Horses. Funny, I was just thinking of how impersonal my new avatar is, so I changed it. This one is a pic of me...from a number of years ago...when we reclaimed the old outhouse on the property by moving it to the side yard. In this pic I had just finished whitewashing it and painting the trim green. We used it for years for winter storage of outdoor stuff. Sadly, I had to move it, when we extended our driveway to our present warehouse for our home business. It weighed so much with the slate roof, I had to remove the slates and the rood to move it, and it is still sitting without its roof at the top of the back field. Another project I am going to get to some day!

Here's a pic of the side yard with the outhouse in the height of summer.

For comparison, here are two pics, both taken in the Fall, from almost the same vantage point that show the side yard before and after we built the warehouse. Unfortunately, the beauty is gone, but because of the hill just behind our backyard, we had to build the warehouse where we did. To build it down in the back field would have cost to much to extend the driveway, and I would never make it up that hill in our van during the winter.

 

[MoonShadows]

You must be freezing, Sumi. You are not used to these cold temps. Yesterday, it was below freezing and even after the temps rose into the low 30's it still felt like it was in the high 20's with the wind, at times gusting up to over 30mph. We also had our first snow yesterday, not much, just enough to cover the grass. Some areas of the US had upwards of 2 feet! Oh, how I hate the winter unless I'm watching it from a warm house.

 

[lcertuche]

In Arkansas we usually have frosty mornings but by afternoon it has warmed up again in the winter. We have maybe a couple weeks of really cold weather and maybe a couple of days of snow. There is many years we don't have any bad weather until after Christmas but you never know.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I think our high yesterday was around 33. We have an inch of snow. Return of the frozen water buckets, ugh!

 

[MoonShadows]

I would like to live in a more moderate winter climate, but I set down my roots here in PA and I don't know if I want to leave everything I've done here. It really has become home. However, check back with me in 5 or 10 years when I am that much older!

 

[NH Homesteader]

I've always been very intrigued by PA. Just driving through, it's gorgeous. Don't know much about it in regards to taxes, laws, etc. but if I ever relocate it's on my short list of places to investigate.

If I get tired of snow someday though, I'll probably go to TN.

 

[Land of Lincoln]

Weather here has been cooling off the last week or so - lows have been in mid to low 30's with highs in mid 40's. We've had some morning frost a couple of days but it's burned of by mid morning. It was a nice run of warmer than average temperatures here so I can't really complain. Definitely not ready for the white stuff just yet.

 

[tortoise]

Wisconsin is unusually mild this year! We're just starting to get frosty mornings.