cdntx650 I think you win. -15F with a breeze is plenty for me thank you very much. 2 wood stoves running about 24/7 are keeping up, but just barely at night. Warming back up to freezing by the weekend. 
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Whats your weather right now?
- Thread starter I am Carbon
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My father grew up with a coal stove fueled from the family coal mine. I don't mean a dynasty, I mean a personal coal mine on the hillside.
I am going to try to find a country store that still uses a potbellied coal stove, just to hang out there. Love the smell. Might be hard to find. Too many people wanting to modernize over the decades. Mostly wives insisting, I suspect.
There's coal around, but awhile's back I got caught at the pile with my bucket. I can't afford to loose my other thumb. 
Burning wood suits me perfect. 4 years of heat, cut split and stacked dry.
Like you say they claim smell has the strongest memory of all the senses.
Coal smoke doesn't do it for me, but I sure like to whiff some wood smoke now and then.
Burning wood suits me perfect. 4 years of heat, cut split and stacked dry.
Like you say they claim smell has the strongest memory of all the senses.
Coal smoke doesn't do it for me, but I sure like to whiff some wood smoke now and then.
This time last year was a feast for the senses. Wood smoke from a campfire in a trailer area I was staying in, drinking the last few bottles of Ezra Brooks 100 proof ever made, as it turned out. Then part of my job was tending to the motors and drives on a coal-fired boiler with that smell always hanging in the air. Most of the time in single digits or below.
Love to randomly catch the smell of someone burning hardwood in their fireplace. Got to feel sorry for the poor sorry suckers coerced into modernity. Although sometimes a lack of it can help you understand its appeal.
Love to randomly catch the smell of someone burning hardwood in their fireplace. Got to feel sorry for the poor sorry suckers coerced into modernity. Although sometimes a lack of it can help you understand its appeal.
Scrambled
Motorcycle Man
It's so cold here that I saw a gangsta pull his pants up . About -25c ( not sure what that is in real temp, but with wind chill about -35 ) and windy as hell . Supposed to be going above freezing by the weekend .
My old house ( just moved at the end of August) had a coal furnace, big old octopus that had been jury rigged to burn oil . I still had a coal bin in the basement and the old lady that used to own the place was still using nothing but coal well into the 1980s. I still have the bill of sale and the operating instructions for it .
My old house ( just moved at the end of August) had a coal furnace, big old octopus that had been jury rigged to burn oil . I still had a coal bin in the basement and the old lady that used to own the place was still using nothing but coal well into the 1980s. I still have the bill of sale and the operating instructions for it .
After I learned to ride a bicycle my parents would proudly send me to the store for milk, which came back in the basket on the handlebars.
The store...Bill's Store, had a potbellied coal stove in the middle of the room and I swear there were always a couple of old timers sitting beside it playing checkers. Straight out of Norman Rockwell.
The store...Bill's Store, had a potbellied coal stove in the middle of the room and I swear there were always a couple of old timers sitting beside it playing checkers. Straight out of Norman Rockwell.
Scrambled
Motorcycle Man
I miss my wood stove . Growing up burning wood was our primary heat source . I don't miss cutting ,splitting, stacking and hauling fire wood much . Haven't seen any store with a wood stove in it for a long time , execept for the place that builds wood stoves up in Goodwood . He always has a few going in the showroom .
Every once in a while I'll get a whiff of coal smoke from somewhere aroud here and think of my time in England. A lot of houses were still heated with coal then in the late 70's.
It's in the upper 60's here during the days and dips to the mid-lower 30's at night.
It's in the upper 60's here during the days and dips to the mid-lower 30's at night.
SOTS33
XS650 Member
-30 with the windchill the last couple of days, but it's supposed to be +4 on the weekend and then +2 for the next couple or three days.
making it awfully hard to stay out in the uninsulated, unheated building to install my new accessories lol
making it awfully hard to stay out in the uninsulated, unheated building to install my new accessories lol
I am Carbon
shade tree mechanic
It's 7:20 am I ready to go for a ride
Fort Myers,Florida
Clear 70 °F Wind : from the SE at 5 mph
Pressure : 30.13
Humidity : 90%
Dewpoint : 67°F
Visibility : 10mi.
Fort Myers,Florida
Clear 70 °F Wind : from the SE at 5 mph
Pressure : 30.13
Humidity : 90%
Dewpoint : 67°F
Visibility : 10mi.
I am Carbon
shade tree mechanic
Not much sand on the roads.
I notice the sand where the street has 3 lanes going each way and a turn lane in the middle. the turn lane is where the sand ends up.
There's a town in Missouri where the soil is blowing and sandy and when it gets damp it might as well be a light dusting of snow. Downtown instead of a city park they have a big cotton field. Strange sight to see in the middle of a town. But good use of space I would say.
OdysseusXS
XS650 padawan
A gentle 38 degrees Celsius at the moment in sunny Adelaide, South Australia. But relief is on it's way, shifting to 40 and 43 degrees Celsius on the weekend. Seriously, how much heat can these twins handle being air-cooled?
40°C - 43°C, now that's like our West Texas and Arizona summers! Good oil, keep it moving, avoid long idling and traffic jams...
I am Carbon
shade tree mechanic
7am 72F
7:30am 57F but storming ;(
A couple of days ago it was below zero. The way the winter weather works here, precipitation only comes with warmth. Even on an hourly basis. Snow is an extraordinary event. But lots of still wet roads that freeze
A couple of days ago it was below zero. The way the winter weather works here, precipitation only comes with warmth. Even on an hourly basis. Snow is an extraordinary event. But lots of still wet roads that freeze
Coupla' days ago, record cold temps for Austin.
Now, they're forecasting record highs!
Wacky winter weather...
Now, they're forecasting record highs!
Wacky winter weather...
JohnGoodenough
XS650 Addict
32c. Thunder showers predicted
