Well definitely December

Sunny today but dipped into teens overnight.

dipped to 9 degrees last night. Putting nice big hole in my woodpile.

5+ inches snow overnight for Xmas day. Sunny but temp in low 20s and very windy. Did I ever mention that I hate winter. Summer may be hot and muggy and buggy, but its not cold and I dont have to babysit a fire.

Jan 2 and still cold. Yesterday it got into mid 30s and thats about as good as its gotten. I need a heatable shop building.

Single digits last night. Negative single digits next couple nights. Havent seen it this cold for quite few years. Eating into my woodpile fast and furious as I wasnt expecting this kind of long cold stretch.

Well half way through January and out of the freakish deep freeze weather. Been getting into 40s and even low 50s. Still little snow in shaded areas, but mostly gone. Has me thinking about rear tractor tires and swapping engine in Ranger. Really need to have tractor movable under own power before doing engine swap, lot easier using tractor boom to pull engine than tree branch. Everything is always complicated. One thing that might be handy is to set up tractor boom so it could mount to rear of F250. Then I would have more options in future. Maybe look at that possibility tomorrow, shouldnt be too hard to do.

Should change thread to "definitely January". Almost a year to day of "The Mother of All Ice Storms" last year and we are in process of deja vu all over again. This time just to make it more special we are supposed to get few inch snow on top of the ice.....

I hope electric isnt off for over two weeks like last year.

Got half inch ice and half foot snow on that. Just now melting off enough to see bare patches here on the hilltop.

But winter continues with couple more storms in forcast this coming week. Need to go cut few more wheelbarrows of downed limbs (from year ago) this weekend.

Somewhere around 3 inch wet snow on the ground. Quite beautiful with it sticking to trees. Not fun to navigate in, but postcard type scenic.

Now supposed to turn very cold next couple days. Not sure if UPS truck can navigate county road by Thursday.

UPS truck doesnt want to come up the county road. Its muddy and suppose expensive if it slid off. So on the web tracking of package they just put "exception" and "emergency conditions prevent delivery". Snow is slowly disappearing so hopefully road firms up enough they finally attempt it. I took Ranger down the drive and back up and no slippage or other problems in 4wd. Havent had need to go down the county road, probably wont until March for monthly shopping trip. Well unless I have to go pickup package.

Well cold wind blowing today and surface stayed frozen. Let the UPS truck finally make it up my county road, they left the compressor and tubes. Put oil in compressor and let it run half hour to seat the rings.

It is a quality product, quiet and not plasticky, just like reviews said. Could have been packed better, but no damage. Think I'd rather have it belt driven if I ever had to replace motor or compressor head. But not the way its done anymore on this size machine.