Winter is almost upon us

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hmm...? have seen others strongly reccomend that Ethanol Sheild aswell..for preserving gasoline . For the next season.

The problem with the snowblower?????
I thought about it last night and decided what was wrong. The gasoline was old, several years old, and moisture had accumulated in the gas. So when I began to use it the moisture froze the input shut. So today I tested this theory.

I turned the snowblower to its side and drained out all the gasoline. Then I placed new gasoline in the engine and started the snowblower. It started fine and worked very well. So all I have to remember when the winter season is over with is to drain out all the gasoline from the engine.

Even though this snowblower is around 30 years old, it is well constructed and a good machine. The problem here is that humans are not as well constructed and they can break especially when they age and their brains are destroyed by a stroke, a massive stroke. My heart stopped. All the various valves in my heart came to a complete stop. And I died. This lasted for over 5 minutes. Then there was a massive surge of voltage that spread through my body. It was a final restoration event that was constructed in humans. And my heart started beating again. But the damage was already done. I had died. It is hard to come back from the dead.

I agree. That is especially true in the winter when we can't get the sun exposure for the body to manufacture Vitamin D. That is even more the case the further north one lives. According to Dr Michael Holick, (See http://drholick.com/), our ability to manufacturer Vitamin D in the winter ends at the latitude of Atlanta, Georgia.

I take it every day all year round.

In spite of an enlarged prostate, I have an easy time of urinating. At the time I started taking Vitamin D, it was taking as much as 20 or 30 minutes of initiating a stream. Now I am in and out of the bathroom in a minute or two.

When I had covid, I had a very easy time of it. I got tested because I was experiencing really strange and mostly unidentified smells in spite of losing almost all of my sense of smell about thirty years earlier. That only lasted about eight hours before it returned to normal, but by then I had already made an appointment to be tested. About the only symptoms after that resembled a mild allergy issue after about five or six days and lasting about four days. I actually stayed at work and ran the office and sent everyone else home for the duration.

I think that I had covid again about six months later but without the interference with my ability to not smell. I still had the exactly same"allergy" symptoms as before. I did go to the doctor, but was told that if they tested I would be in quarantine for ten days. I told him that the CDC and the state health department say otherwise -- the ten days is from the onset of symptoms, not the date of the diagnosis. We had an argument and I left without being tested.

One doctor was published in the Lancet saying that the fourth of his patients with the lowest Vitamin D in the body tended to have the worst outcomes and the fourth of his patients with the highest Vitamin D in the body tended to have the best outcomes.

For pregnant women and children, it may even be more important. There is some possibility that too little Vitamin D may be a cause of autism. Keep in mind that they may easily be other causes as well.

Gasoline does go bad over time.

It was another cold night in southern Indiana. The temperatures dropped down to 19.2 degrees F (- 7.1 degrees C) this morning. There is a slight bit of snow coming down. We had cleared off our driveway and I was able finally to get the problems worked out with our snow blower. A neighbor came by and helped with some of the snow removal down below.

But winter is coming and the temperatures will begin to fall down to below 0 degrees F tonight. So tomorrow will be a very cold, cold morning. It is the kind of weather when the water pipes buried underground might freeze. I have allowed my cat to remain in the attached garage for the past few nights so he could keep warm. But tomorrow I may have to bring him inside for a little.

I went outside and filled up the bird feeders. There are around 30 to 40 birds taking advantage of the little bit of extra food in a land filled of snow.

So true, so true.

We had a real big dump of snow here last night

Invest in shovels...? Its been a heavey storm so far...it has let up here. But still bitter cold

The temperature dropped down to -2.4 degrees F (-19.1 degrees C) last night. This is bitter cold. But the inside of the house is warm. We have plenty of firewood. Our cat is in the attached garage and is sitting on a heated bed staying warm. The birds outside have plenty of food to help them stay alive in the extreme cold.

The forecast is for 3 inches of snow to hit tomorrow. We will stock up some more firewood in the garage for the next round of snow. The long driveway is clean.

Another winter storm is about to strike. The weather forecasters said 24 hours ago that we would get up to 5 more inches of snow. Then 12 hours ago they said up to 3 inches of snow. That is good, it is moving in the right direction. This morning they said that the snow would begin to fall about an hour ago. But it still is not falling.

The temperature as I went to sleep was around 10 degrees F. But by morning it had risen to around 20 degrees.

I went out first thing this morning and fed the birds. I filled up all the bird feeders. My bag of birdseed is almost empty. But yesterday we went to town and I purchased another bag just in case this turns out to be a bad winter.

I am ready to go. My large snow blower is fueled and in running shape now. But for this type of storm, I think I can use my small STIHL lithium ion battery leaf blower. I have 3 batteries and they are fully charged. I kept them indoors last night so they are warm. I found out many years ago that if I left them outside in the cold, they could only store a small amount of energy and they would stop working very quickly. By keeping these batteries indoors, they will provide 30 minutes of air blowing.

Well woke up to a rather frigid 12 F ,,but have hopes for it to go up....and yes Jimmy bring your batteries from handheld devise in for the season...They seem to give a much better battery lifespan , if they at least get this little bit of care,during the winter ..Am afraid, I will have to go work in it today...And am still tecovering from this chest cold/flu/
/// ? what ever they are deciding to call whatever,it is now called that I appear to be recovering from .now.Suppose to be a few more inches coming...bur am not so sure, it will land on us.?

When I was a kid, 12 F was getting close to the lowest I could sleep at night with the window open.

With enough blankets, sleeping with the window open was fun. Getting up the next morning, however, wasn't much fun. I'd close the window, grab my clothes, and run down the stairs to get dressed sitting in front of the heat stove in the living room (the only source of heat in the house).

Moderately heavy snow in Arkansas last night. Hoping it'll thaw soon. No further snow forecast, temperatures will be getting above freezing point during the next few afternoons, and we should have a bit of sunshine here and there. Main roads seem to be clear enough if you can get out onto them. Not much chance of that here with an ornery car. It's high time I got me a pair of Wellington boots. My regular leather boots stand up to snow quite well if I grease them with lanolin, but rubber wellies would be better. As it is, I'm glad we stocked up on food before we got the snow. It'll go below freezing most nights, so any thawing in the daytime might create dangerous icy conditions.

I have a couple pairs of boots so I can rotate through them to keep my feet dry!

When the snowstorm finally arrived, it came with a lot of energy. Four inches of snow fell, which combined with the 7 inches of snow from a few days before means that we received almost a foot of snow in the last few days. The low this morning was 25.3 degrees F. But my wife said the news forecast was for temperatures to fall down to near 0 degrees F for the next couple days.

Since the temperatures have remained below freezing for the past several days, very little of the snow has melted away. So I will spend today in cleanup mode.

Jakki I am glad to hear that you feel like you might be on the road to recovery from your cold. There are many strange diseases flying around this winter. Keep healthy.

kokopelli, When we are young we can to crazy things. In the current cold weather, my grandson walks around with short pants. He is immune from the cold. But I remember the effect of cold weather on my family. One of my brothers was outside too long and got frostbite. It effected him for the rest of his life.

ToughDiamond, a pair of Wellingtons might be a good idea for this winter.



Us older people need a little more protection.

BTDT Having extra pairs of boots can be a good thing.

I began to think about our combined life experiences. Our combined age is 209 years. I could not add in Jakki or kokopelli age because they didn't disclose it. But I suspect we might add up to over 300 years of life experiences.

Thank you Jimmy am trying ..you too please .... little bit of a fight...but still going .Temps are starting to look up .