Settling in~ - Page 2

violet · 09-14-2007, 11:30 AM

The nights are getting chilly in the midwest~
Time to bring out all the quilts and blankets!

Pastor Gary · 09-14-2007, 12:59 PM

We are currently at our northern states Rectory in Wisconsin. We have snowfall in our forecast for this evening and temperatures around 29 to 34 degrees F... just a dusting of snow is in the wind, and a hard freeze to our north by 100 miles.

Several years ago, we were at our Cathedral of the Pines location in January. We saw two guys on a snowmobile out on the well-frozen lake. The guy on the back of the snowmobile was holding a fishing rod and was dragging 200 feet of line behind him on the ice. When they got back to shore, I asked them what they were doing... one of them said, "Trolling"...

violet · 09-14-2007, 01:05 PM

SNOW???
Maybe just flurries, but I am not ready to see a single flake, just yet!

Trolling?

Boanerges · 09-14-2007, 01:28 PM

I wonder if I will see any snow this year- it has been coming on the average of every 8 to 10 years so I might be due!

violet · 09-14-2007, 01:53 PM

I do love the snow, just not in September!!!

God's_Child · 09-14-2007, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by violet

I do love the snow, just not in September!!!

Hmm... Me too.

Boanerges · 09-14-2007, 06:18 PM

Last time I saw snow I was standing in the Canadian Rockies on an April afternoon- curiously I was wearing a t shirt but it never really felt cold- try 30 degrees with high humidity and even your hair will be cold.

Pastor Gary · 09-14-2007, 09:50 PM

I'd like to quote from my Great Grandfather Sam's journals from December 12, 1867. He was a 'Log Boss' who ran a lumber camp in the farthest reaches of northern Wisconsin in the mid 1860's. Sam was 31 years old when he wrote this. He was a typical lumberjack - 6 foot 6 inches tall and 240 pounds.

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December 12, 1867.

It has been snowing now for 3 days and is blowing so bad that I can not see out the window in the office. It is getting deep and our only good coal shovel got broke a week ago and the blacksmith is trying to work on it. We have to shovel a path from the office and bunkhouse to the mess hall and stable.

This morning our cook treated us to eggs, pancakes, slab bacon, beans, potatoes, his famous cornmeal biscuits with gravy left over from last night and coffee. It is 9 degrees and the coffee sure warmed us all up.

Since we can not work in blowing snow this bad, a couple of the men went to the southeast to see if they could bag a couple grouse or a deer. Cookie said if they bring back some game, he will make up something special.

I am going to dress up warm and snowshoe over to Laona Junction to help cut wood for the engine. They were running a little low to keep the boiler hot. When I get back I will try to hitch up a team and get some of the new snow off the drag road between the spur line and the fellings that have to be loaded on the flatcars and taken down to Wabeno.

Respectfully wrote down, Sam - (edited for security), Section 112 Camp, (edited for security) - Lumber Company, Cavour, Wisconsin. December 12, 1867.

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That year, that part of the state received over 11 feet of snow from September 1866 to April 1867. Sam's journals mentioned drifts 15 feet in height and the next summer, some snow was still in the deep forest until early July.

Violet - That's Snow!!

Boanerges · 09-14-2007, 10:57 PM

It might have been just a tad of snow (or so).
I was in Montana and a lady told me it had gotten so cold the year before even the old timers moved out.

adonaicole · 09-14-2007, 11:42 PM

I'm not ready for summer to end yet, it's been in the eighties and I'm still planning on swimming in the river this weekend.

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