HOT Today

[doc henderson]

When my kids were young, no one was allowed to smoke on my property, even my parents.  they have both since (15 years) died of lung cancer.  My daughter once saw my dad smoking about age 8 and said "WOW" when smoke came out his mouth and nose.  back in the day, it was promoted as good for the nerves in the military.  I understand it is addictive and that most folks of that generation smoked.  Now they vape.  I started as a respiratory therapist in 1980 to work through school and then 85% of RTs smoked.  I did not want them to think it was cool cause they saw grandpa smoking.  Out of respect I assume most folks do not even think of smoking on my property.  We burn stuff in a barrel around the sawmill, and that is prob. a bigger fire hazard.  The sawdust can smolder like a punk.  I am responsible for that.  I still remember doing a demo at @customsawyer event where I used potassium permanganate and glycerin to demo spontaneous combustion to start fires, and my sawdust made fire starters.  A good time was had by all.     I have a big burn barrel from a combine wheel, and if I have coals in there, I then fill it to the top with sawmill dust/shavings and it never catches fire but smolders away over 4 days or so.  

[Southside]

Yea, some of us remember you thinking that starting a fire in a sawmill building was a good idea.  :D

[SawyerTed]

Um, aftermath of fire in a sawmill building...


 

[Magicman]

47° here this morning so I doubt that it will be HOT.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Good thing you're not far from the wood pile. ;D

[firefighter ontheside]

It seems we are done with the hot for the year.  36 deg as I type this.  Was 60 deg yesterday for the high.  Probably about same for today.  Supposed to be a warm fall, so I assume that means a lot of 60s.  I wont complain about that.

[doc henderson]

got a lot done yesterday.  heat tolerance must wane as we get older.  Or we choose not to push and get acclimated to the heat, and only work hard when we want!

[Resonator]

Here the people are punkin' pickin' and hear the furnace kickin' in...
No more weather warming, frost warning in the morning. ;D

[Magicman]

We have an 87° forecast for Friday but hopefully the 90°'s are gone.

I will probably be "bringing up da wood" this week so we will be ready when the cooler weather gets here.

[SwampDonkey]

50's weather here all next week. Last week of thinning trees for this year.

[caveman]

High sixties at night here and close to 90° during the day for the next week or more.  We have not had rain in quite a while.  It looks like smoke puffs when walking in the yard and the grass is crunchy.  

[Magicman]

We had a bruiser here too @89°.  We are still topping records for heat and dryness. 

It looks like we might get some precipitation Sat, Sun, & Mon of this and next week and with the temps dropping to 24° toward the middle of the week.  There is Snow in for 2am Monday.  Of course those forecasts are for the valley, not where we will be.  We need to be prepared for and expect anything.

We are excited!!   ;D  

[SwampDonkey]

38F and stars this morning, but likely will drop some more by day break. Might be our first frost on the ridge.

[RetiredTech]

We had a bruiser here too @89°

 It is still hot down here, but I'm thankful we're out of those triple digit days. Grass is beginning to get crunchy again. We could use a good slow rain.

[Southside]

Was 32 here yesterday at day break, didn't see what this morning was but pretty close. 

[Rhodemont]

Beautiful here in RI.  mid 60's and clear since a DOWNPOUR on Saturday.  We are going to have a Hot spell climbing toward 80 this week ( 1919 80deg current high temp record for this Saturday).

[jasonb]

The burn bans in several parishes around Baton Rouge have been lifted and the first meaningful rain since May has fallen last night.  Several inches of standing water at the sawmill shed but that will be gone by midday.

[sawguy21]

We got our first snow last night, just a dusting but it's here. :'( 

[Magicman]

Yupper, Hot Today.  Thankfully today I was shaded for the 5 hours of sawing.  I knew that tomorrow's sawing customer had no shade and was sorta dreading calling him when I got a text from him wanting to know if we could wait until October to saw his logs.     YES.

I suppose that this pushes that 100+ log job to the top.  I will make a site visit tomorrow and see what his shade situation is.  I already know the answer and it ain't good, but I still have to get the customer out there and make a decision. 

[Southside]

Heat index was 123F today according to my weather station.  This is impacting the cows in a big way.  Was trying to bush hog some Horse Nettle before it can throw mature seed and had to get off the tractor and lie down in the shade for a while and nod off.  Times like this I begin to look at farm land in far northern Maine that is for sale. 

[SwampDonkey]

  I thought it was beautiful day up here.   

[newoodguy78]

Any farm land for sale in your area Swamp? 

[doc henderson]

Now I can see @Southside moving cattle and chickens back south every winter.

[Magicman]

Yikes, Snow Bird chickins & cows.  That puts "free range" in a completely different category.    

[Magicman]

I just noticed the customer and tailgunner's empty water bottles in the back of yesterday's trailer and we only sawed 5 hours in the shade.