Hope everyone is having a happy Thanksgiving. We had a cow moose and two calves behind the house today. The weather has been a little more seasonable but not too cold. I finally got to use my new snow blower the other day. Not too much else going on right now. We are heading over… Continue reading Thanksgiving in Galena
Category: Winter
Warm Spell
When I ask people why they don’t want to visit in the winter they invariably say among other things that it is far to cold here in the fall and winter. I just checked the weather and noticed that Alma and Fort Smith are 6 degrees colder than we are. Portland is 1 degree colder.… Continue reading Warm Spell
Internet back up!
I got the internet back up today! We had to get a little creative running the cable from the dish but it seems to be working out so far. The river ice finally stopped the other day but it hasn’t really been that cold yet so we have quite a few open holes yet. The… Continue reading Internet back up!
Work on the house
We are finally getting city water back to the house but it has been an ordeal and isn’t over yet. They had to run a ditch down our driveway for the new line and it took a little longer than anticipated. It is finally in now and hooked up to the house but the water… Continue reading Work on the house
Finally got some firewood in!
With help from a couple of co-workers my chainsaw is now running after being completely submerged in water from the flood. I have a cord of dry wood in the yard and finally got to build a fire tonight. The timing couldn’t be better as the weather is returning to temperatures that are a bit… Continue reading Finally got some firewood in!
Heat Wave
We have been having very warm weather here lately. It gets above freezing for a good portion of the day. The weather is more like early spring than January. There is a lot of overflow on the creeks and lakes making travel fairly hazardous. These pictures show the weird property of snow around here when… Continue reading Heat Wave
Getting Water
I finally got the snow machine broke in enough to haul water. We had a fairly good snowfall yesterday so I wasn’t able to get the four wheeler out of the driveway. My water hauling tank holds 150 gallons so it was a pretty heavy load even for this machine. Lynn had lots of laundry… Continue reading Getting Water
Too cold for propane
The temperature had been around -42℉ for most of the day, then Lynn tried to use the stove and it wouldn’t light. I checked the weather and found that we had finally got down below -44℉. The boiling point of propane is -44.1℉ so propane appliances don’t work below this temp. It should get a… Continue reading Too cold for propane
Update from Galena
The weather here has been interesting the last couple of weeks. It would warm up to unseasonably high temperatures, (30 to 40F) rain and then cool off and freeze up. This was coupled with extremely high winds for this part of the state. We had gusts of over 54 mph reported at the airport and… Continue reading Update from Galena
Finally getting a little cold weather
Fall seems to be over finally. The ice started running a little bit on Thursday when Lynn and I were flying into town. We still don’t have enough snow on the ground to run our snow machine and it is just barely below freezing. I have enclosed a short video of the ice running on… Continue reading Finally getting a little cold weather