Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[greybeard]

RIP MB. Wal and The Dog will be missed.

 

[Latestarter]

?? He died almost 2 years ago...

 

[greybeard]

?? He died almost 2 years ago...

Yes, but I didn't know that until yesterday.

A friend of mine from NZ used to send me his books as a Christmas gift.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @farmerjan,

If this is your new farm journal, then Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! I will be stalking you -- er, visiting you -- often.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[greybeard]

currently under partly cloudy skies.....

 

[farmerjan]

Well, I posted a little in the "coffe shop" but here we are shivering in our boots this afternoon. We had 2 days of sun, then clouds, then a few sprinkles yesterday. It was up to 60 so not bad weather. Then it started dropping, and at midnight was 52 and has continued to drop ever since. It also was cloudy, and has been VERY WINDY all day. So the wind chill is near to the teens and has dropped to 29 already and tomorrow will struggle to hit 30? We have seen flurries off and on all day also. But tomorrow is supposed to be bitter with the wind... and then comes this weekend; Snow forecast, , which it is January.... okay.... but they said 3-5 and now are up to the 5-10 forecast.. Whoops.... guess it is going to be a "significant" winter storm now. Supposed to start Sat mid afternoon.... guess I will be getting everything fed up good that morning so I won't have to go out Sunday.
We did get the last group of cows and fall calves moved home today. Got the calves "worked" (bulls banded and all shots) so I will spend some time tomorrow trying to match numbers so they can get moved to winter pastures. There were about 2/1 bulls to heifers so that was good. We have stockpiled grass at the one pasture, and the other has a little grass, but it is close to home to feed at.
We got another group of cows and spring calves moved last week. The cows will get preg chkd and the calves pulled off as they should start again in March/April. Calves will mostly be sold. May keep a few heifer calves, haven't decided yet. Will see what prices are doing and if we really like any. Still have more to get moved here pretty quick... We just can't seem to get caught up this year.

 

[Latestarter]

Dress warm Jan. Hope you're able to get everyone moved to where they need to be for a while, before this storm comes in and sets you back even more. Temp dropped significantly here as well last night and wind picked up. Almost noon and still only 47°. Still sunny/partly cloudy, but the cloud cover is increasing gradually from the west. All the real moisture seems to still be way down north of San Antonio right now. Just checked the forecast and they've moved the start of rain out till tomorrow.

 

[RollingAcres]

Bundle up and stay warm @farmerjan . I hope they are wrong about the snow forecast.
It's 28 degrees now but it's dropping. Dipping down to the teens tonight then tomorrow the high is going to be only 19. I think I just had the chills writing that!

 

[Rammy]

It may snow here this weekend, but around here its a crap shoot. When we do get anything significant, its bad, and literally shuts down everything. People raid the grocery stores. Half the time, it melts off the same or next day.
It just makes me shake my head that people think they are going to starve in three days. Not many can drive in it because they arent used to it. Once Tn got a real bad storm and people abandoned thier cars on Briley Pkwy, to name one highway. People would come along and push the cars out of the way because it was a real bad ice storm. Power was out at my house for two weeks.

 

[farmerjan]

@Rammy , the thing that cracks me up, is so many go and empty the grocery shelves like you say. Then, if the power goes out, how are 90% of them going to cook it anyway? Another reason I want to move into my "own place". I have an old gas stove/oven. It doesn't even have pilot lights; in storage. I can cook on it even in the worst of weather cuz it needs nothing except to turn on the burner and light it with a match. And I always kept a couple of 5 gal buckets of water with lids so that I would have water if the power went out. Oh well.
The weather forecast went from 3-5 " to now saying anywhere from 4-8 and 5-10. Starting sometime mid day Sat.. Guess we will get hit. I am testing this afternoon, then both morning and afternoon milkings on Friday (2 different farms). It's either feast of famine it seems. This cold makes me realize how much I am "over it" with all the cold and going out at the horribly early hours all the time. So many farmers are trying to test this month since they skipped last month it seems. But the one good thing is, with not all of them testing every month, I can also say NOPE, when the weather is really bad or really cold. I wanted to get these couple done this week or I wouldn't have considered going out this afternoon or tomorrow. Next week I have 3, one tenatively scheduled for Monday afternoon. They have heat in the parlor so not miserable. The one this afternoon and both tomorrow, don't have heat so it will be "colder than a witches "tit". Of the other 2 next week, one has heat the other doesn't.
Oh well, if I can get through this winter, I really do think I will not do another winter... just not enjoyable anymore.