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We have what they are calling a "super typhoon" bearing down on us, #19 "Vongfong". We aren't getting along with the Chinese too well now, so the government meteorologists give the bad typhoons rude Chinese names. Still five or six days away out in the Pacific, but they aren't usually giving...

Tell me about it, shoveled snow for four hours yesterday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-09/an-three-dead2c-500-injured-as-heavy-snow-hits-japan/5247782

After almost no snow in my area this year, highly unusual, now we are getting bombed. I think they stopped the trains, certainly the high speed bullet ones. Debating whether to try and drive to my shop.

Stay in your house and pull down the shades, MB!

I had a coal burner in my cabin in N. California. I went to sleep one night with the damper closed down too much. I woke up some hours later to half way to hell. i think I was lucky to wake up.

They are thinking about it, Butch, surplus H2O from the Columbia River in Oregon, sent down to Cali. It could also generate a very large amount of revenue for Oregon.

Man, I can't believe reading how some of you guys are getting clobbered with cold temps. "You mean it's colder than here", my wife asked. No comparison by a long shot, i said. Hope your water pipes are holding up.

Dave, looks like you got your snow problems with the neighbor sorted out at just the right time....if they are sorted out.

Thanks for the info. I figured that you had to have a lot of insulation in whatever you use, but was curious if you could still properly hold on to a saw and pull the throttle. By chemical, do you mean the carbon packets? I don't find that the heat from those much gets down into the fingers...

Glenn, what do you use for gloves in those temps, ones that enable you to use a saw?

Sunscreen!

Past two days no fire needed in the stove, but the mountains are white and they have opened up the ski slopes.

Bob, pretty soon you can move into your ice fishing shack. Still marvel about the curtains!

Ah, you heard about that, MB. Never used to get them, but now they are showing up for some reason. About three and a half hours south. Currently heading into typhoon season.

They have big turds, Butch, quite a voluminous surface area. No offense. It's amazing to see sometimes, have to ask yourself, now what size could have produced that? :\:

It looks like you are blocking the trail there, Paul. Bear trail?

Maybe suggest that your dad try the fan timer method, if it is cheaper than ac running all the time? My friend has a big old place, I think three fans, one on each end of the house and one in the hall. I go over there sometimes to check on things because he isn't in the area most of the time...

When I was delivering tree work flyers around vacation homes, lots of places don't get used much, and high humidity in the woods. I could sometimes smell the mold coming from inside while putting the paper in the mailbox next to the front door. I wouldn't imagine it very habitable inside. On...

People must really have a problem with mold.

I grew up in Cali, so I didn't realize that being near the coast is where the humidity gets high. Maybe California is pretty unique in that regard, with the dry winds balancing things out. It certainly is that way over here, one reason why you don't find summer homes along the coast. With the...