Hi everyone,

Speaking of warm buns, it dropped to 30F (-1.1C) today with fierce winds and blowing snow. We normally don't get this kind of weather until February.

Glad I didn't need to go anywhere!

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Hello Sean!

On 10 Nov 2025, digimaus said the following...

Speaking of warm buns, it dropped to 30F (-1.1C) today with fierce winds and blowing snow. We normally don't get this kind of weather until February.

February is usually the "primary" month of really winterish weather here, although some snow usually appears (and sometimes also stays :-D) in early or mid-December. Christmases have rarely been white here for many years, sadly...

Forecasts say that we'll be getting 0C this Friday, and the first snow next week, so I guess winter is on its way now...

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Re: Brr
By: digimaus to All on Mon Nov 10 2025 18:18:20

Speaking of warm buns, it dropped to 30F (-1.1C) today with fierce winds and blowing snow. We normally don't get this kind of weather until February.

According to Ryan Hall Y'all (YT weather channel), this Winter is going to be tougher than we've seen in the past several years for most of the northern half of the lower 48. Check out his Snow Prediction video at ryanhallyall.com.
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Sean,

Speaking of warm buns, it dropped to 30F (-1.1C) today with
fierce winds and blowing snow. We normally don't get this kind
of weather until February.

It was in the upper 20s at Little Rock the last 2 mornings, so our
growing season is over.

Glad I didn't need to go anywhere!

I had to go to get my wellness check yesterday, and my weight and triglycerides are very elevated. The thing is, when you're on a fixed
income, you have to eat on the cheap. At least the cholesterol was
good.

At least the A1C was 6.2, so just below the threshold of type 2
diabetes. But, I know he's going to put me on a strict diet. The
thing is, I'm NOT getting rid of the food I already have...except
by eating it.

Daryl

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Speaking of warm buns, it dropped to 30F (-1.1C) today with fierce winds and

>blowing snow. We normally don't get this kind of weather until February.

Glad I didn't need to go anywhere!

I guess that far south that would be a bit of a shock..

I took out my water system almost a week ago because the water lines
were freezing up every night and it droppd down to under 20f the
last 2 nights with daytime highs still below freezing. I was out
yesterday afternoon sweeping the snow off my deck, fortunately
hardly an inch of it rather than the 4 inches they said we might
get. This is still a bit early for any serious snow..

My place was never intended for winter use so I have hassles like
having to chop holes in the ice in bay out front and carrying pails
of water up the hill for basic needs.

I've sat through November storms (The Gales of November!) with
100 mph winds and had temps hit -47f in mid winter, but it hasn't
gotten quite that cold in a long time. These days it rarely gets
below a balmy -20f. B)

I'm about 160 miles North of Toronto BTW..

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According to Ryan Hall Y'all (YT weather channel), this Winter
is going to be tougher than we've seen in the past several
years for most of the northern half of the lower 48. Check out
his Snow Prediction video at ryanhallyall.com.

I *LOVE* his weather briefings, and tend to watch the live streams, especially when they affect my region.

He's also a ham radio operator, KJ4WHM.

He also just came out with a new version of the Yall-O-Meter for
measuring snow...and apparently, those sell like hotcakes!!

Daryl, N5VLZ

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February is usually the "primary" month of really winterish weather here, alt

>gh some snow usually appears (and sometimes also stays :-D) in early or mid-D
>mber. Christmases have rarely been white here for many years, sadly...

Forecasts say that we'll be getting 0C this Friday, and the first snow next w

>, so I guess winter is on its way now...

I always feel like Sweden is 'way up North', but it sounds like the
weather here in Central Ontario (160 miles North of Toronto) maybe
would give you a run for your money.

We can pretty much figure on serious winter weather from mid December
until late February, possibly into March. We've already had some
snow and a few night-time lows down at -7c or so..

Last winter was one of the worst in many years. The man who plows out
the road here said he's been doing it for 8 years and that was by
far the worst snow conditions he's ever seen here. There were also
stories on the news saying that certain storm systems, some lasting
for days, were the worst we've had in over 30 years. A few times
we had to have the private road in here plowed 4 times in a week,
which adds up at $75 per visit, paid by 2 owners..

On the plus side, in recent years, we much more rarely get temperatures
down in the low -30's and into the -40's Celcius.
(Not that much different in Fahrenheit since -40 is -40 in both..)

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Daryl Stout wrote to digimaus <=-

At least the A1C was 6.2, so just below the threshold of type 2 diabetes. But, I know he's going to put me on a strict diet. The
thing is, I'm NOT getting rid of the food I already have...except
by eating it.

One can eat decently even on a fixed income but you have to cook
everything to make sure you control what's going in your body. The most expensive thing for me to buy is meat of any type.

I keep my eye out for sales and what-not across different stores to help
with that. My doctors get upset that I don't eat three meals a day and
I tell them I can't afford it. I make too much to get SNAP benefits
($200 too much a month) but after all the bills are paid, I barely have
enough for food.

Of course, no one has any help for me with that.

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Rob Mccart wrote to DIGIMAUS <=-

I guess that far south that would be a bit of a shock..

I live in the Appalachian Mountains so I am no stranger to cold but it's usually in the late winter when it hits here.

My place was never intended for winter use so I have hassles like
having to chop holes in the ice in bay out front and carrying pails
of water up the hill for basic needs.

I've lived in tents and cabins with my family here we had water in metal barrels that would freeze solid. Since I was the oldest child and the
only son, I was out there at 5 AM with a blowtorch warming up the
barrels.

I've sat through November storms (The Gales of November!) with
100 mph winds and had temps hit -47f in mid winter, but it hasn't
gotten quite that cold in a long time. These days it rarely gets
below a balmy -20f. B)

It is unusual here to drop below freezing for any great length.

I'm about 160 miles North of Toronto BTW..

I'm 270 miles northeast of Atlanta.

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Re: Re: Brr
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar M. on Wed Nov 12 2025 17:47:51

I *LOVE* his weather briefings, and tend to watch the live streams...

Me too, and I hope he never has one for my area, IYKWIM.

He's also a ham radio operator, KJ4WHM.

Didn't know that. I don't recall him ever mentioning it. I'll have to start tuning in his area more often.

He also just came out with a new version of the Yall-O-Meter...

And don't forget about the $1K prize if he picks your pic. Cha-CHING!
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Hello Rob!

Thank you for your reply!

On 13 Nov 2025, Rob Mccart said the following...

I always feel like Sweden is 'way up North', but it sounds like the weather here in Central Ontario (160 miles North of Toronto) maybe
would give you a run for your money.

Sure sounds so! :)

On the plus side, in recent years, we much more rarely get temperatures down in the low -30's and into the -40's Celcius.

We've had -20C during some of the past winter seasons, but it rarely falls below that. I remember checking if the (then newly installed) LED lights in the lighting fixture on the balcony still worked at -21C, and they did. :)

Best regards
Zip

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Sean,

One can eat decently even on a fixed income but you have to
cook everything to make sure you control what's going in your
body. The most expensive thing for me to buy is meat of any
type.

Right now, I'm on a Starkist Tuna Salad sandwich kick, with the
Funion Onion Rings on the side. They have several varieties of the
tuna salad, including Deli Style, Ranch, Bacon Ranch, Hickory Smoked,
Honey Barbecue, Herb N Garlic, and Lemon Pepper. They also have HOT
things like Buffalo and related items, which I don't care for. But,
one package makes 2 sandwiches, and I add Kraft Sweet Honey Barbecue
Sauce to enhance the flavor.

I keep my eye out for sales and what-not across different
stores to help with that. My doctors get upset that I don't
eat three meals a day and I tell them I can't afford it. I
make too much to get SNAP benefits ($200 too much a month) but
after all the bills are paid, I barely have enough for food.

They said I'd only be able to get $20, and I said "it's not worth
it".

Of course, no one has any help for me with that.

Too many have more money than they know what to do with.

Daryl

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I *LOVE* his weather briefings, and tend to watch the live streams...

Me too, and I hope he never has one for my area, IYKWIM.

It's like if you see Jim Cantore in your area, you're screwed.

He's also a ham radio operator, KJ4WHM.

Didn't know that. I don't recall him ever mentioning it. I'll
have to start tuning in his area more often.

He has been a ham at least 15 years, from what I understand.

He also just came out with a new version of the Yall-O-Meter...

And don't forget about the $1K prize if he picks your pic.

Exactly. He said those things and the NOAA Weather Radio units
sell like hotcakes.

This week, YallBot turned 1 year old.

Daryl

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Daryl Stout wrote to digimaus <=-

Right now, I'm on a Starkist Tuna Salad sandwich kick, with the
Funion Onion Rings on the side. They have several varieties of the
tuna salad, including Deli Style, Ranch, Bacon Ranch, Hickory Smoked, Honey Barbecue, Herb N Garlic, and Lemon Pepper. They also have HOT
things like Buffalo and related items, which I don't care for. But,
one package makes 2 sandwiches, and I add Kraft Sweet Honey Barbecue
Sauce to enhance the flavor.

I like my tuna sandwiches with a little salt and pepper. Plain like me.

Too many have more money than they know what to do with.

Not always an enviable position but an extra $500 amount wouldn't
hurt.

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My place was never intended for winter use so I have hassles like
having to chop holes in the ice in bay out front and carrying pails
of water up the hill for basic needs.

I've lived in tents and cabins with my family here we had water in metal

>barrels that would freeze solid. Since I was the oldest child and the
>only son, I was out there at 5 AM with a blowtorch warming up the
>barrels.

The first time I started staying here over the winter, back in the
late 80's, I learned the hard way that I needed more insulation
than I had added. I woke up a few times in the morning to pails
of water on the kitchen floor having a layer of ice on the surface.
I wintered here for 13 consecutive years back then.

I was here last winter and am expecting to survive it again this
year, but I'm not as young as I once was so I'm not sure how
long I can continue doing that, which also makes it impractical
to spend a lot of money on renovations to make thing better for
just a couple of years.

For a lot of years I was living with my parents in winter since
they needed the help then and, although I missed being in my own
place, it was more comfortable in winter being in a 'normal' house..

It is unusual here to drop below freezing for any great length.

Wouldn't that be nice.. B)

Right now we're getting just above freezing during the day and
just below freezing at night but, within a week or two, it will
drop below, and stay below freezing non stop most likely until
early March.

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On the plus side, in recent years, we much more rarely get temperatures down in the low -30's and into the -40's Celcius.

We've had -20C during some of the past winter seasons, but it rarely falls be

> that. I remember checking if the (then newly installed) LED lights in the li
>ing fixture on the balcony still worked at -21C, and they did. :)

My biggest worry whil I was still wintering elsewhere was that temps
much lower than -20c can damage LCD monitors and TV sets..

I generally have a lot of computer stuff here so I have to move
some of it with me if I leave here over the winter..

It's always nice finding people from far away places to find out
how the rest of the world makes out. In the early years of this
BBS system (early 90's) I made some good friends in a number of
countries, quite a few from Australia back then.

I even had a couple from Australia stop in to visit me here
when they were on a bit of a world tour one year. They were
lucky they got here as late in the spring as they did or
they'd have had to hike in through deep snow to get here..

Ha.. I always thought at the time how wild it would be to
maybe see a Kangaroo in the wild if I ever visited Australia,
but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

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Hello Rob!

but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Did they explain why? Did they think it was some kind of
harmful rat?

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Ha.. I always thought at the time how wild it would be to
maybe see a Kangaroo in the wild if I ever visited Australia,
but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Considering some of the scary stuff they have in Australia, that was
amusing I am sure. ;)

Mike


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Hello Rob!

On 15 Nov 2025, Rob Mccart said the following...

My biggest worry whil I was still wintering elsewhere was that temps
much lower than -20c can damage LCD monitors and TV sets..

Yep, gotta make sure to have some maintenance heating...

how the rest of the world makes out. In the early years of this
BBS system (early 90's) I made some good friends in a number of
countries, quite a few from Australia back then.

That's cool! I mostly met people through local events here in the mid-90s, but that was fun, too!

but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Aww -- those are cute. =)

Best regards
Zip

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Re: Re: Brr
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar M. on Thu Nov 13 2025 16:55:43

This week, YallBot turned 1 year old.

Has it been that long? I remember when it first got started. It wasn't too bright back then. Ryan would ask it question and get something totally unrelated back. Oh, they grow up so fast.
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Sean,

I like my tuna sandwiches with a little salt and pepper. Plain
like me.

I rarely season my food...but most all foods (especially the processed
ones) are drowning in sodium (salt). Whenever we ordered pizza, Janice
said "I want every anchovy you have in the place!!". I told her "You can
have those nasty things"...a massive salt lick, IMO.

I asked her what would she do, if an anchovy dropped off on the floor
with the dachshund in the area. She promptly growled "If he touches it,
he dies!!" <G>

Even though those who are diabetic and/or have heart issues, need to
limit their sodium, she apparently liked her food extra salty. So, I got sarcastic with her, saying "You must hate salt"...and she deadpanned "I despise it"...while drowning her food in it. After her death, her Mom
asked why I didn't stop her. I replied that when I tried to, she just
gave me the "stink eye", so I shut up...as I knew I would never win that argument.

That was the ONLY thing she was jealous of...her food. She would eat
anything that wouldn't eat her first...she'd bite it back.

Too many have more money than they know what to do with.

Not always an enviable position but an extra $500 amount
wouldn't hurt.

If prices were like what they were 45 years ago, I could make it on
what I get for disability....or even get paid the monthly deal on a
bi-weekly basis. Yet, if you don't use all the money, they will figure
you don't need that much, and will cut down your disability payment.
You don't even get the chance to save up for a rainy day, as it were.

... You have my two cents' worth. Now can I have my change?

It's like the kid who wanted Santa to send him $50 for Christmas.
He wrote a letter, and got a reply back, but only a penny was in
the envelope. The child wrote back, thanking Santa, but noting "it
figures that the government would take nearly all of it out for
taxes". <G>

Speaking of pennies, they are no longer making them. Businesses
are rounding up costs to make it come out to an even nickel, dime,
quarter, half dollar, or silver dollar amount (i.e. the Susan B.
Anthony dollars that looked like quarters, but they'd get you 5
games of pinball).

Many folks would put pennies on the railroad tracks to have a
steam locomotive run over them and flatten them...but that was
dangerous, as they could become projectile missiles, flying out
from the rail, then hurting or killing someone. Besides, railroad
right of way is private property, and they will get you for
trespassing.

Daryl

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This week, YallBot turned 1 year old.

Has it been that long? I remember when it first got started.
It wasn't too bright back then. Ryan would ask it question and
get something totally unrelated back. Oh, they grow up so fast.

At least he hasn't had to change its diaper. <G>

The thing is, if someone in chat tends to be a real doofus, Ya'llBot
will tell them how the cow ate the cabbage, and what dressing was on
it. <G>

Daryl

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but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Did they explain why? Did they think it was some kind of

>harmful rat?

It was more of an excited freak-out. Having never seen one in real
life, and probably not realizing they were common here, they just
thought it was super neat.. Chip and Dale come to life..
(Or Alvin, Simon and Theadore...) B)

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Ha.. I always thought at the time how wild it would be to

>> maybe see a Kangaroo in the wild if I ever visited Australia,
>> but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
>> over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Considering some of the scary stuff they have in Australia, that was

>amusing I am sure. ;)

Yes, they told me about a family garden party they had one time where
they had placed a baby buggy under a tree so the baby would be out
of the direct sun, and when they went to get it later, there was
a fairly large and VERY poisonous snake sleeping happily beside
the baby..

I think Australia is known for a huge number of poisonous snakes
and spiders and such.

Here about the only thing I have to watch for are rattlesnakes,
and they tend to warn you ahead of time.. B)

I suppose there are some Copperheads around as well but I don't
know anyone who's seen one in this area.

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how the rest of the world makes out. In the early years of this
BBS system (early 90's) I made some good friends in a number of
countries, quite a few from Australia back then.

That's cool! I mostly met people through local events here in the mid-90s, bu

>hat was fun, too!

We had a few of those get togethers here as well, but usually so far
from where I live I didn't manage to get there, but one time I
stopped in to visit one Sysop where he worked and he had little time
to chat but called another couple on the BBS who invited me over
for lunch and such. They gave me a copy of a computer game that I
used for years after that..

but it was an amusing shock when they absolutely freaked out
over seeing a Chipmunk for the first time.. B)

Aww -- those are cute. =)

I don't think those are native where you are, other than the
Siberian Chipmunk that was introduced into Europe and Sweden
at one point, so maybe you have that one. Checking online,
they look pretty much identical to the ones we have here..

Best wishes..

Rob

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Re: Brr
By: Rob Mccart to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon Nov 17 2025 08:37:05

It was more of an excited freak-out. Having never seen one in real
life, and probably not realizing they were common here, they just
thought it was super neat.. Chip and Dale come to life..
(Or Alvin, Simon and Theadore...) B)

Back in 2015 I was hiking up the dunes at Pictured Rocks in Michigan's UP. I heard a couple of voices just ahead but, when I got to the bend in the path, there was only one person and they were wandering off from where I heard the voices.

I looked down, and there stood a chipmunk on its hind legs. I waited a moment to see if it would impart any of its wisdom on me, but it just stood there so I moved on. :D

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Re: Re: Brr
By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Mon Nov 17 2025 08:37:05

Yes, they told me about a family garden party they had one time where
they had placed a baby buggy under a tree so the baby would be out
of the direct sun, and when they went to get it later, there was
a fairly large and VERY poisonous snake sleeping happily beside
the baby..

I think Australia is known for a huge number of poisonous snakes
and spiders and such.

Here about the only thing I have to watch for are rattlesnakes,
and they tend to warn you ahead of time.. B)

I wonder how they rectified that situation? :O

They are known for poisonous snakes and spiders. We do have rattlers in Kentucky, but the Copperheads are much more numerous, IIRC. We also have water mocs, a/k/a cottonmouths.

Mike
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Re: Re: Brr
By: Daryl Stout to Mortar M. on Sun Nov 16 2025 21:26:03

The thing is, if someone in chat tends to be a real doofus, Ya'llBot
will tell them how the cow ate the cabbage, and what dressing was on
it. <G>

Heh, I've not heard that, though I don't tune in Y'allbot much. The times I did, she was all business. Guess she's loosened up a bit.
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Mike Powell wrote to Rob Mccart <=-

I looked down, and there stood a chipmunk on its hind legs. I waited a moment to see if it would impart any of its wisdom on me, but it just stood there so moved on. :D

Reminds me of the singing frog of Looney Tunes fame... XD

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Hello Rob!

On 17 Nov 2025, Rob Mccart said the following...

I don't think those are native where you are, other than the
Siberian Chipmunk that was introduced into Europe and Sweden

No, I think I've only ever seen red squirrels here, no chipmunks... unless you count Chip 'n' Dale. :)

Best regards
Zip

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