Arctic Vortex

[Alan Bidmade]

I hope my northern states steel friends Erv Niehaus, Frank Freniere and Dick Sexton are keeping warm!
A special 'warm' greeting to Bent Romnes in Ontario, too, who made my beautiful steel, 'Lorelei'.
Turn the heating up!

[Greg Lambert]

IF they are not warm now Im sure they will heat up when they get their electric bill.

[Erv Niehaus]

Alan,
Thanks for the good wishes!
When it gets this cold I just pile on more dogs!
Erv

[forrest klott]

We're holding our own here in Michigan. Though I do wish the sneaky Minnesotans would quit sending us their cold and snow!

Just kidding, Erv. Hope you guys are doing okay out there. I'd dare say you folks have had it worse than we have temperature wise.

Stay warm everyone, and be sure to keep the brass monkeys inside till this all blows over!

Skeeter

[Erv Niehaus]

We've got a heat wave going now!
It was only a -24 this morning!
Erv

[Kevin Fix]

Ok here now!!!! -14 this morning and -3 now!!!! -45 with wind chill here last night. Glad I don't live in Irv's neighborhood!!! Keep warm up there Irv!!

[Frank Freniere]

Hi Nick -

The wife and I escaped to Florida (despite a 4-hour plane delay) the day before the apocalypse. Traded in my mukluks for flipflops!

Regards,
FF

[Erv Niehaus]

Talk about a change!
It was a +4 degrees this morning.
Time to get out the Bermudas!
Erv

[Craig Stock]

Erv does that mean that you've had a 'three dog night' the last few days?

[Jack Hanson]

For the last week or so, it's been hitting thirty-below here in the high valley potato patch right before dawn. But unlike back in Minnie, it warms up to thirty-above in the afternoons.

[Erv Niehaus]

Craig,
You got it!
Erv

[Kevin Mincke]

It will be 44* on Sunday

[Erv Niehaus]

Kevin,
Fake news!
Erv

[Kevin Fix]

I walk 2 miles a day. Was a balmy 11 degrees ABOVE "0" today!!!!! I have inner and outer CarHart's and full head gear and boots. Life in Michigan..... Had a "Two Cat One Dog Night" here for sure. Sure glad the Old Outhouse Days are long gone when the Sears and Robuck was frozen to the wall!!!!

[gary pierce]

Yes I hated using the glossy pages at my Grandma's.

[Butch Mullen]

Better known as the John Wayne pages!!!

[Erv Niehaus]

Lady would you move over, I'm painting down here.
Erv

[Kevin Fix]

Hey Erv!!! A neighbor down the road from us years ago had a '2 Seater"!!!!!

[Erv Niehaus]

Kevin,
A neighbor of mine invented a two story out house.
For some reason it just never caught on.
Erv

[Kevin Fix]

Erv!!!! That is ok!!! Better than a basement!!!! 51 degrees here today. It is 65 degrees warmer today then what it was last Wednesday!!! The wind chill would have been 95 degrees difference.

[Mitch Ellis]

being born and raised in South Mississippi, I don't see how ya'll stand it! No choice I guess. But there is something That I have always wondered.....with the temperature dropping to such extreme levels, how do ya'll keep your water pipes from freezing?


Mitch

[Kevin Fix]

Plumbing here will keep from freezing as long as crawl space is insulated and you have no plumbing exposed to any draft. Living up here in the winter months is a good time to hibernate or just take it easy. I like the down time away from playing. Gives me a chance to do some exploring into different kinds of music. Mostly some C6 time.

[Erv Niehaus]

Mitch,
In this part of the Country, all the water pipes are buried at least 6 ft. in the ground and sometimes they freeze up. Out in the country usually the problem is with the septic systems. If you have a high water table they put in mound systems and they have a tendency to freeze up when the weather gets bad.
Erv

[Dustin Kleingartner]

It's gone from bitterly cold, to mild, and back to cold again. Now all the roads are covered in a sheet of ice. Be careful out there my fellow tundra dwellers!

[Erv Niehaus]

Dustin,
I know what you mean!
This morning I almost fell down and hurt my dignity!
Erv