I Am NOT Ready For This

Same here, when we look at Montana, we’re usually looking what’s coming to us in a couple of days.

Thanks for the advanced weather report.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

You can get similar views farther south, but not with much greenery. I’m afraid early winters is the price you pay in Montana.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

Todd, I guess that’s what you get when you live in such a beautiful part of the country. You have to pay somehow. LOL! 52*F. and rain here in NW. IN.

-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"

Yes, but it sure is pretty.

Todd, please keep the snow up there. Here in the Ohio Valley (if you can remember back that far) , we generally do not get any of this until late December/early January. Personally, the thrill that comes from shoveling the driveway is long gone. I believe I had to do that about 5 times last year and that was more that the previous three years combined. And forget about temps falling below 20 degrees for a low. That only happens here on rare occasions.

I can remember back during my working career attending a week long training course at Montana State University in Bozeman about the middle/end of August. We left Kentucky and packed plenty of shorts and t-shirts since the weather here was in the 90+ range. Needless to say we were surprised to find the ambient temps at night in the mid 40s. This certainly put a “chiller” on the evening entrainment that the staff at the university put on for us.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

You could always move south…..but you’d be giving up more than you’d be getting. Not many mountains to climb in Florida!

-- Premium firewood created daily.

I lived in Florida for a couple of years, ‘89 to ‘91. The rock climbing was sorely missed. I got yelled at a couple of times for scaling the sides of buildings.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I would soooooo trade your cold winters for my hot and HUMID the rest of the year…

I woke up this morning with the air conditioning still struggling to keep up with the 60% humidity and nearly 80 degree weather. A norther is blowing down right now though, it is supposed to be 60 degrees by lunch time today I think… Raining and upper 60s for the daytimes this weekend. Good weather to clean out the shop…

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

Right with ya’, Todd … but … smells like downhill ski season to me :-)

-- -- Neil

Oh no I can’t have this starting now.

-- Ain't better or worse than any other woodpecker in the woods.

I was thinking you were pretty brave when I saw you ripping your doors out the other day (after I just got done blowing out the sprinklers and putting the swamp cooler away…) It seems like we missed fall this year – it went straight from a nice mild summer to suddenly winter. I wouldn’t trade it for hot and humid though – not ever.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

One of the Joys and benefits of living up north

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I like snow a lot, but…

Todd, please keep it there until maybe mid-January!

-- - Please help keep Lumberjocks an enjoyable escape by refusing to participate in political discussions. Simply spit out the bait and ignore the thread...

Brrr – I can handle the snow, but I hate the cold and the wind. That’s one of main reasons that I moved from Nebraska to Arkansas.

-- Joe

Cmon south here it is to be 85-90 degrees today cooler tomorrow 78

-- Gary, Little River,SC I've Learned that the Lord didn't do it all in one day and neither can I

two tickets to CA

currently 68 and sunny

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In Hibbing and Summit that weather means the sap is soon out of the basswood trees and we can start processing carving wood. Enjoy. Pass the ski wax!

-- Steve, 'Sconie Great White North

my students are griping it is 55 degrees and rainy here. When they complain it’s cold, I tell them they will be wearing shorts in Feb when it is 45 degrees. And they don’t believe me. I then remind them it is all about perception and what we are used to.

I don’t miss the cold one bit!! Going to milk cows when it’s 30 below sucks!! Walking to and waiting for the school bus whens its 20 below is worse! Working out in 10 below all day is even worse than that!!! Winter is for rain. The temp is about right for winter when the rain doesn’t freeze:-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I’m not ready either. I feel for you. Temps will go below freezing again here in northern NY this weekend, but no snow forecast until Tuesday.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

Dang is right, and it is just a matter of time for us here in the great white North eh! I am looking at renting shop space for this winter what do you think is appropriate rate the lowest I have right now is 10 bucks per hour pay as you go. The shop is near my home and is fully loaded with tools. I took a course there last winter and I am familiar with the set up.
Advise would be welcomed I have a deadline of October 31st to sign up.

-- All bleeding will eventually stop.

I’m here in Rochester NY…can it be far behind? Oh boy! I’ll use Todd’s post as a marker for gassing up the snow blower. Thanks Todd.

-- Max the "night janitor" at www.hardwoodclocks.com

Huh and the so called experts say we have global warming brrr what do they know.LOLAlistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

here in northern NM the snow has already been flying….....all peaks around covered. Welcome to early winter.
One good thing….you have a workshop and can always fabricate your own snowshoes!!

-- Doug, New Mexico.......the only stupid question is one that is never asked!........don't fix it, if it ain't broke!

no snow here. mostly sunny and 25C (77F) here for the next few days!
it’s spring here too

-- BRODY. NSW AUSTRALIA -arguments with turnings are rarely productive-

Todd, you can keep the cold. I don’t miss it one bit. I like these mild NC winters.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

You and me both! We are suppose to have a real feel temperature of 22!!!! Sunday morning. I have lost 65 pounds since July 1st. and discovered this old man cannot take the cold like I used to. I think I will pass on bow hunting that morning. Hope the snow holds off for awhile yet. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Today we rode for 4 1/2 hours on the south end of the Wolf Mountains(where we live) gathering heifers. Temperature about 20 degrees, wind from the NW at about 25 and lots of driven snow. We got some heifers but quit about 11:30. It felt really good to come in the house. Wanta trade??? We have more to get tomorrow. I’ve learned that there are a lot of similarities between tough and dum. The shop is really lookin’ good, Todd. This global warming is about to freeze my butt off.

-- Thos. Angle

Snow forecast for here tomorrow. Ugh! Fortunately it won’t be much. The ground is too warm for that. He said hopefully.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I’m in Los Angeles. I couldn’t work in the garage tonight because by the time I got home the temperature had dropped to around 60F.

Darn.

Bothus

-- Professional kitchen designer, amature woodworker.

Myrtle Beach,SC today high was around 87 and it was a chilly 69 when I got up this morning. Didn’t get a chance to go to the beach today. Dang. LOL

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

I’m moving to the land down under where they drink twice and cut once, where the neighbor drop off exotic lumber for fun, where the wee beastly tames the most figure woods, where cutting board created Godzilla size dust storms, where safety boots don’t have to be remove for pedicure, where Paul Bunyan will have to take a back seat too Lazy Larry….LOL…Blkcherry

During our lunch hour here in KC, the local news stations keeps showing the temps in your neck of the woods. A lot of folks around here are complaining about 50’s, but that sorta seems like summer compared to the pix you posted. Hope you shop heater dosen’t break!

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape right!

I have an extra hot surface ignitor just in case this one cracks. Being in a shop the dust settles on them and causes them to crack every few years.

It always happens on a weekend when my supplier is closed so I just keep one handy.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Hey Todd, You could come down to Arizona for the LJ’sPicnic in November. It STILL won’t be that cold here. haha

Todays high: 87F Tonights low: 60F

You are all welcome to visit, but you might want to leave before it hits 115F in the summer! HA!

Love the pics of snow, but I live in the desert for a reason!

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

todd—-this whole system hit us hard before it got to you…it took us down into the 60’s…and at night—-into the 40’s…I dont know what you are complaining about…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

now im getting a little disapointed here…..whatever happened to the montana moutian man…..get some hair on yer head…grow ya a beard…and you’ll be just fine…...keep the doors open…you’ll get use to the cold…..turn off the heater…....get ya a beaver hat and put on your leathers…..you aint soundin like no montana man at all…....shesh…....ill give ya this alabama weather any day for yours….....just keep movin…you’ll stay warm…....

-- The Grizzone

Send it down here Todd. We have a bit of a water shortage. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Get over it. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I’ll make you a deal, you spend the winter here in my shop and I’ll spend the summer there in yours.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

Believe it or not, I just witnessed our first snow… and I am quite north of you.