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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

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Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 07 2019 :  07:00:35 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yesterday the skies looked so rainy/snowy...But the sun peeped through off and on and the temperatures were in the 60s. Today should be pretty also. I need to do some outside work one day...So I'm hoping for several sunny days.

Texasgran
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl

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Debbie
Madras OR
USA
2627 Posts

Posted - Jan 11 2019 :  6:19:00 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
We were fogged in all day. It's very common for us in the winter time. We live next to a deep river canyon and we often have a temperature inversion. One winter we had fog for SIX weeks! It was pretty dreary. My son in law started for town this morning and actually turned around and came home because he literally could NOT see! It would have been a perfect day to sit and knit or quilt, but I set a goal for myself to finish my farm books so I could get my end of year reports done. So I made some homemade bread to go with our soup for supper and the smell was lovely while I had to work on the computer.
Sounds like it's going to be cold and foggy for several days to come....

Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 11 2019 :  7:21:02 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Debbie, I'm glad your son in law chose to be safe. We used to have terrible fogs. But recently they have come at night and dissipate as the sun appears, thank God.I think it is fascinating to be driving along and find a dense fog over a field. I assume that the heat of the fertilizer that each farmer used on his way fields makes the air above that field warmer than the winter air, creating fog. Once we had a very dense day time fog. I was driving. It was very difficult. My eyes just could not adjust. When I arrived home, I needed a nap!!!

Texasgran
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mbenton16
True Blue Farmgirl

180 Posts

Maryellen
Denver North Carolina
USA
180 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  05:13:10 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Debbie the homemade bread sounds amazing! Nothing I love more than to be stuck in the house all day! Here in North Carolina the weather has been quite mild. I actually cleaned our outdoor storage area out. Which was quite nice, lots of items donated. The weather is suppose to turn cold tonight and we are expecting snow/ice mix. What a difference a day makes! Maryellen

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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl

2627 Posts

Debbie
Madras OR
USA
2627 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  07:22:41 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Marilyn, I agree...driving in the fog wears you out!
Maryellen, it sounds like you were busy! I'm hoping to get more of my sewing closet cleaned out this weekend so I can drop things off in town next week. The bread was yummy.... I shared with the kids when they came over. My oldest grandson, who is 7, will be hanging out with us today. I'm thinking he might like some cinnamon sugar muffins... I know I would with my afternoon tea break!

Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl

5982 Posts

darlene
Loleta California
USA
5982 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  08:45:37 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wow Debbie, fog like that is not fun to drive in. We used to have fog like that in this County, they logged one area close to the ocean for housing and the fog hasn’t been as thick since. I don’t miss the continued foggy days, grey is bad enough.
Driving in fog is scary when you can’t see two feet ahead of you.
The smell of fresh bread is so good.
Well today so far there is some blue sky peaking out. Yay, I might get something done today.

Hugs
Darlene

Farmgirl # 4943

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6

Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  12:46:25 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
WHO LEFT THE BARN DOOR OPEN??? The North wind is HOWLING and it is COLD. Brrrrrrr!

Texasgran
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2459 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
2459 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  1:05:44 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Cold and windy here too. 46 feels like 33

FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019

Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  3:53:28 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know Sara, it is winter! I must remind myself that grey skies and cold wind go with winter.

Texasgran
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho

9127 Posts

Denise
Ohio
USA
9127 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  3:56:53 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The wind was blowing for 3 days here. 3 days is my max for listening to it before I started get a bit crazed. Lol. Snow in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow.

Denise~~

Sister #43

"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105

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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  4:55:55 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oooh, snow! Something we rarely see.

Texasgran
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl

2627 Posts

Debbie
Madras OR
USA
2627 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  5:04:49 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It's easy to see how some of those pioneer women went a little off the deep end listening to the wind howl day after day after day....can you imagine? It would come in through the cracks of the walls, dust filtering into and onto everything...I don't know if I could have done it!

Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho

9127 Posts

Denise
Ohio
USA
9127 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  5:14:12 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know I couldn't have done it Debbie. I would have been plugging my ears and plugging up the cracks anyway I could.

Denise~~

Sister #43

"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105

www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  8:19:38 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Debbie, when my daddy was about seven, sitting in a one room school house with the wind howling, he decided to howl 'just like the wind!' His teacher said, "Alton, stop that noise!"
Well, you know how little boys are...in a few minutes he tried again...and got an identical response from his teacher.
He thought she was a lucky guesser! So when she was busy helping another student, he tried again.I
This time she took her chalk, drew a circle on the blackboard, pulled a very tall stool over, and told him to climb up and sit down! Then she put a dunce hat on his head! He sat there a long time, trying to keep his nose in that circle.
When he told us this story, he laughed at how silly he had been.

Texasgran
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 12 2019 :  8:21:42 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I think it might drive me nuts too. Just last week we had big wind that was spinning those things on top of the house. I was fussing at them after only ten minutes.

Texasgran
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2459 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
2459 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  05:26:31 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Marilyn the wind do blow in Texas and blow and blow. It's 36 now feels like 29. We live with chill factor all winter long. High of 43 today.

I will say this I like breezes and brisk wind - wouldn't want to live where the wind never blew. Extreme wind and tornados I can do without.

FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019

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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho

9127 Posts

Denise
Ohio
USA
9127 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  08:04:48 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I can't believe you all get those temps there in Texas. That is some chilly weather!
We received our predicted snow with much more than the coating. That is okay by me.
It is still coming down though not heavy, Everything looks so pretty outside.

Denise~~

Sister #43

"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105

www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2459 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
2459 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  08:11:36 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I'm in north east Texas thirty miles from OK-TX border. Our coldest temps are usually in Feb. Can get in low teens or single digits. If we get winter weather it's more likely to be ice than snow.

FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019

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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl

5982 Posts

darlene
Loleta California
USA
5982 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  09:00:26 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That is a funny story Marilyn.

Farmgirl # 4943

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6

Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl

2627 Posts

Debbie
Madras OR
USA
2627 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  12:53:56 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Marilyn, I hope your dad could see the humor in his situation! Boys are so funny! I'm betting that wouldn't be allowed in today's schools. I don't think much discipline is anymore.

Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  1:33:40 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That was 1917! When I was a kid growing up near the Oklahoma and and later the New Mexico lines we always had deep snows, maybe 8-12" . Then while living in Snyder, out in the western Texas oil patch, we had snow there too. We are wool skirts and dresses.
But since I was 17, living here snow is rare, and only twice can I remember 6 - 8". Cold, yes. Sometimes the South wind is just as cold as the north.
We rarely have sand storms like we had growing up in the pan handle and Snyder. Our first year of marriage we lived in Midland Texas. The land lady told me to get up really early, do the laundry, hang it out...But be sure to watch the sky and gather the laundry in before 9 am. Let me tell you, there were several times when I was running and grabbing it before 8 am, it had to finish drying laid out on the bed or sofa. They have cement tile fences, not chain link.
It was so hard to breathe. I do believe that God shows us things when we are young that will eventually come to pass. So walking around with a wet cloth over my nose as a four year old taught me about sand storms.
Oh yes, my grand daughter got on to me for putting my drinking glasses in my cabinet upside down. Then her mom joined in. But when I told them why...They backed off! When you live with sand storms, the sand gets in the house. It settled on the window seals, it coats every surface, it even gets in the cabinets, on your plates and if your cups and glasses are right side up, you have a deposit of sand in the bottom of each.
Cleaning house in sand storm paths, means you must raise every window and vacuum or somehow clean out the accumulated sand, or when the rain comes it will not drain away outside. That was my chore.

Texasgran

Edited by - TexasGran on Jan 13 2019 1:37:02 PM
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl

2627 Posts

Debbie
Madras OR
USA
2627 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  1:36:16 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It sounds like that would be a never ending job!

Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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TexasGran
True Blue Farmgirl

5777 Posts

Marilyn
Stephenville Texas
USA
5777 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  1:45:35 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
That is true.

Texasgran
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

2459 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
2459 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  1:56:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Marilyn I remember when dust storms hit Dallas in the 1940s-50s. People would say that's just west Texas blowing through. They never were as bad as you saw but bad enough.

From time to time the History channel runs Black Blizzard about the dust bowl. It was a terrifying time. Both people and livestock died.

FarmGirl Sister#6034 8/25/14
FGOTM Sept 2015 & Feb 2019

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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl

5982 Posts

darlene
Loleta California
USA
5982 Posts

Posted - Jan 13 2019 :  5:10:21 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have been in two dust storms in my life, one was coming from New Jersey’ to Colorado, we were going through Kansas and one hit. That was so scary. My Dad was driving, you couldn’t see anything and the dust was seeping through the edges of the car windows.
The other time I was coming from Colorado to California and we were going through the Salt Flats of Utah, you couldn’t see anything. Luckily we had a CB Radio at that time and the truckers were going there and we were able to talk with them and get through safely. That was not fun.
Well be safe out there.

Love you all!
Darlene

Farmgirl # 4943

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything.
Tell God what you need, and thank him for what he has done.
Philippians 4:6

Just follow God unquestioningly.
Because you love Him so, for if you trust His judgment there is nothing you need to know.
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