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Nobadays
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# Posted: 6 Sep 2020 19:26 - Edited by: Nobadays
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Just got back to the cabin, cut our AZ trip.... thankfully short (104* in Payson AZ... the Mountains!!) ... because a winter storm is moving into souther Colorado Tuesday. Could be from 18-22* Tuesday night and possibly 5"-9" of snow! We had left the greenhouse vents wide open so sprinted back here so we can protect the tomatoes and squash. The crazy thing is it it red flag warning g Monday and winter weather advisory for Tuesday! Don see that often! Here's a screenshot
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frankpaige
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# Posted: 6 Sep 2020 20:48
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This weekend Colorado weather was WARM, true that. More smoke at the cabin. I know it's September, but doesn't mean I am ready to worry about frozen water jugs. No much snow forecasted for South Park. Leaves turning more each day. Still a great time
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 6 Sep 2020 23:32
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Our leaves aren't turning yet, thinking after this coming storm and freezing weather they will start. Not sure that's good or bad! But our wood is up!
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 11:45
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Well the forecasters weren't wrong... we got dumped on. Unfortunately the aspens are still in full leaf. Lots of limbs down and trees broken off. Wadded snow to check on neighbors cabins (Wife, "think we need snowshoes? " Me, "naw.".... wrong!) Wife checked the cabin east of us where our road runs... trees and limbs down over the road... neighbor's cabin fine. I cut cross country to the cabin west of us, a few limbs dow around it but looks good. We were unscathed but will have a lot of cleanup when the snow melts. Just hoping it goes off slow and doesn't flood.
Not going anywhere!
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paulz
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 11:59
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Man that looks beautiful (coming from a guy who never gets snow). Makes me wish we had some, instead of fire!
Whanna see what it looks like here? Orange. The sky is orange. Everything is orange. It's like another planet out there. The air isn't smokey like it has been, for some reason.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 12:09
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Couple more pics. New shop/woodshed we built this summer. Shop on the left 10x12, woodshed to the right, 10x10 and packed full of split wood right to the doorway now.
My three new PV panels on the front of the deck are cleared of snow so if we get a little break today we can make some power. Rooftop panels are still covered with better than a foot of snow, it might slip if we get a sun break.
Full now!
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 12:12
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Stay safe Paul! Some of the stuff we got last night would help out west.... even some rain. The kids live in eastern Oregon and Vancouver, Washington, say it's hot and windy... oh and smokey too. We had a lot of smoke here until this moved in. No fires near us.
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ICC
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 22:08
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hummingbirds 'n' snow
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 23:07
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So that's where our hummers have gone! We are down to 4 or 5 here now. They seemed to know weather was coming, they po pretty much started disappearing a few days ago.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2020 15:26
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Finally got out this morning to clear our road. We have trees and limbs down all over the property... and it was all cleaned up of dead fall! But that can wait, needed to have the road cleared in case we need to get out. Supposed to hit mid 50s today and 60 tomorrow, yesterday it was mid 40s. Snow has melted and settled where I'm pretty sure we could get out, certainly will be able to by tomorrow evening.
We are a mile up from a somewhat maintained FS road... local county we heard plowed it yesterday... one grader and 6 gh guys with chainsaws! Took us nearly 2 hours to cut trees and pull limbs out of the snow to clear a half mile down our road. Fortunately a neighbor had cleared the remaining half mile already!
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Brettny
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2020 15:43
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Geez nobadays do you cut your fire wood on a chop saw with a stop? That stuff is very uniform.
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paulz
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2020 17:10
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His wife cuts their firewood.
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Nobadays
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2020 17:36
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Haha! No but we do use a marking stick and a lumber crayon so it is all pretty close to the same length.
Well to be fair Paul, I buck up the biggest share of the firewood but my wife more than does her share of getting the wood in! While I'm felling trees in one place she is limbing the ones I fell in another place... we intentionally fall 4-5 in one place then I go a 100 yards or so away from there to fell a few more. She split the lion's share of the wood this year while I bucked it up. But she did take her turn once in awhile!
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paulz
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# Posted: 11 Sep 2020 20:03
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Your a lucky man Nobs! Speaking of firewood, got to the cabin today and lit the first fire of the season. Yeah, 110 degrees last week, cold this week. The ash from the fires is blocking the sun. The sky isn't orange any longer, just dark with soot covering everything. I painted my rain gutters today, already they are speckled with soot, in the tacky paint..
I'm enjoying working in the 60 degree weather, not supposed to because of the bad air, but my wife is cold in the cabin.
We had a major fire that came within 10 miles of the cabin but it's been contained for days now.
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