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Re: OT weather-winter

To: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Subject: Re: OT weather-winter
From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:57:43 -0700
Good thing you have Nancy to keep you warm.

Wes

On Dec 12, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Jon Wennerberg wrote:

> On Monday, December 12, 2005, at 03:40  PM, Joe Lance wrote:
>
>> Doug;
>>
>> 49?    That's sissy stuff!!  Down to 13F here in western PA tonight. 
>> It's so
>> cold I saw a Lawyer with his hands in his own pockets,
>>
>> Lance
>
> Last night I celebrated by putting a new battery ("NeverStart" brand) 
> in my plow truck -- and then spending 45 minutes going back and forth, 
> back and forth, moving snow around in the driveway to the house and 
> the road to the barn and out on the street.  They still hadn't plowed 
> the road when I left the house this morning.  Season snowfall total is 
> about 4 1/2 feet.  Only another 10-15 feet and it'll be May and 
> spring!
>
> It was about a dozen degrees or so outside as I plowed.  Being that 
> warm I plowed with the window open and didn't have the heater fan on.  
> No gloves, either.
>
> Then later on I remembered that I needed something that was out in the 
> barn, so I put a flannel shirt-jacket on and wore my slippers (yes, 
> you preverts, I had on other clothes too!)  as I strolled the two 
> hundred yards or so to the barn and back.
>
> But that said -- when the temps soar into the 80's -- dang, I'm pretty 
> much done for.
>
>                 Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
>              Marquette, Michigan
>              (that's 'way up north)




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