Thursday, January 22, 2015

-5 Frost

Last weekend it was me alone with the cats. Elenka left Thursday night for a extra long weekend with her Mom in Florida. It was kind of cool there but not as frigid as here in the North. Saturday morning, I awoke to -5°F and this frosty greeting on the family room window. It was cold, but not as cold as the previous week when Weather.com had us at  -20°F with a wind chill reading of -34°F. If you've never been in cold like that, I'll just say that, in my book, once it hits 0°F all bets are off. If the wind's not blowing, it makes no difference to me. I can't tell one below zero temperature from another.
Never could.
Never will.
My advice?
Just grin and bear it.
Oh, and enjoy the frosty designs on your windows.
You can scratch your name in it for added fun.
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14 comments:

  1. LowellJanuary 22, 2015 at 9:44 AM

    I could never learn to "grin and bear it." When in high school in Minneapolis, we had several weeks when it never got above -20. And the points in my car always went out late at night when it was -24! Come to "cool" Florida. It's only going to be about 75 today. I'm still wearing a sweatshirt. :)

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  2. SharonJanuary 22, 2015 at 9:49 AM

    I remember the same feeling when I lived in Illinois. Now I have the opposite problem. When it hits 110 degrees, after that, it feels all the same....just very, very hot.

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  3. PerthDailyPhotoJanuary 22, 2015 at 10:39 AM

    I have never experienced those temps Birdman, would quite like to :)

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  4. William KendallJanuary 22, 2015 at 11:07 AM

    The wonderful thing about when it's that cold and the wind is cutting into your throat like a knife, you never feel so alive!

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  5. RedPatJanuary 22, 2015 at 11:22 AM

    It's the wind that gets you! At least it was sunny.

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  6. TexWisGirlJanuary 22, 2015 at 12:04 PM

    i remember that bitter cold. buried my father in wisconsin in january at -20F actual temp. don't know how the backhoes were even able to dig the gravesite.

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  7. RevrunnerJanuary 22, 2015 at 12:46 PM

    And Elenka was laughing reading about it from Florida. :-)

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  8. VPJanuary 22, 2015 at 1:15 PM

    That is some really cold weather!

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  9. RandyJanuary 22, 2015 at 8:52 PM

    Great shot.

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  10. Taken For GrantedJanuary 22, 2015 at 10:20 PM

    When it gets really cold like that just bundle up, stay home, read a good book, find inside projects. That's what we did two weeks ago when the wind chills approached -35F. But now we've flown to a warmer climate.

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  11. Yogi♪♪♪January 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM

    That is pretty darn cold. I've been in -25F in Idaho. That was no fun.

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  12. Sketchbook WanderingJanuary 23, 2015 at 6:03 PM

    Wow! What a beautiful design, a sort of frosted up spider's web...for me, zero degrees dictates staying in... or wrapping a huge scarf around the face...

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  13. KateJanuary 23, 2015 at 9:01 PM

    Wind makes all the difference.

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  14. JackJanuary 25, 2015 at 10:15 PM

    Even as far south in Florida as I live, it has been cool. 40s overnight and some days stay in the 60s. Today it got to about 75. I do remember those cold winter days up north, but personally, I am happy to leave them behind me.

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