The Hogsty

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20° another clear day is forecast.

Pearl Harbor day.

We keep talking about going to a dermatologist, haven't gone yet, my Dr who does my "wellness" checks say my moles are just some other form, I can't remember the name.

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24°

Don't know if the pigs got drunk on windfalls, I think I was mostly out on the Uncle Sam cruise lines during that time.

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24° I guess is overcast because I can't see the full moon.

Congratulations on the royalties.

Way back, when my Grandfather had a 3 acre apple orchard in Apple Hill (Camino) CA, he convinced my dad to go in on two pigs to raise, but every time one would get out, he ...

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12° had more snow than a half inch plus, more like 3 inches and was able to use the electric snow blower on most of it.

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22° and we got about a half inch or more of snow last night, will have to see if the leaf blower will move it or was the ground still warm enough to melt the first few flakes causing a thin ice sheet under the snow layer.

My first winter living in Denver, my '67 VW ...

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16° maybe flurries after 4 PM here?

Well yesterday as it was only 4° maybe 6° out, I had to go warm up the truck before going to the gym, so what I do is I have one key for the ignition and one to lock the doors while I go back in while it's warming up for 5 ...

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2° here this morning.

The deer are wandering around the neighborhoods, well they have been if you found their pellets in the grass, but now there are tracks in the snow that is refusing to melt due to the temperature not going above 25° yesterday. Noticed one of the ...

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12° and 0 w.

Supposed to be Mark Twain's birthday today according to the google thing across the bottom of the screen.

Had to get an artificial tree this year, because last year my wandering off into the forest was a bit too dramatic for the person that stayed in the ...

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15° never saw the showers happen, but around 10 last night looked out and saw that it had been snowing and appeared to be about 2 inches on the truck already.

Went to Best buy one black Friday, they were having a sale on SD cards for digital cameras, and I had ...

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21° showers later turning to snow.

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23°

Maybe getting some real amount of snow starting Friday night.

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18° at 10 PM and now 16° this AM

Everyone have a happy Thanksgiving.

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21° and I can see stars off towards the West but my sensor in the yard is showing 25°, but that is also under the eves of the house in the rear, so it may affect the reading being sheltered.

Guess I should pull one of my turkey breast roast things out of the freezer ...

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27° and now a 10% chance of sprinkles or flurries this morning. I have looked at wunderground for weather off and on, my other main source is the NOAA site, but have to bookmark your area page or enter your zip every time.

Yeah I don't understand why they had to ...

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23° maybe slight chance of snow Monday night?

My grandparents on my dad's side ran a rock shop in Bullhead City, I still have a box of geodes and some are cut, one has a pane (sheet?) of crystal inside.
Got my last set of the new ugly Wyoming license plates, dang screws ...

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27° and I can see stars out in the sky.

Wonder if Silver City NM had some of that silver mining going on around the time Tombstone had it happening?

Hard to imagine people wandering around the desert looking at rocks looking for gold or silver. But times were ...

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25°

One of my trips out to Arkansas I stayed at a Motel in Flagstaff, I parked out front and it looked pretty empty until I got into the lobby and it was packed with French tourists, there were three tour busses out back, but they did have a room that wasn't already ...

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28° here this early AM.

Yeah have been slowly downsizing here, but as we slowly unpack from the last 3 - 4 years of moving somethings are being kept.

Saw on the weather news last night that it was, oh my gosh, getting snow in Flagstaff. Really weather news? like that is ...

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34° and no predictions of rain are showing today. I don't think we had much w yesterday if any.

Still plugging away at sealing up the wall in in the basement bedroom closet, some years ago the main drain developed a crack in the main drain line, I wasn't here for the ...

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43° and no rain in the future predicted

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47° and the "chance of a shower" has shown up, the ground is damp.

My imagination of what I was going to trim out of the tree was a bit more than the pole chain saw thingy could reach, but did get quite a few trimmed out.

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38°

So it looks like today I'll be trying out the corded tree trimmer chain saw, maybe I should wear my helmet just in case of falling limbs, I do have safety goggles for when I use the leaf blower snorkel to blow out my gutters.

I don't know what it is about ...

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44° slight w yesterday.

Got the icicle lights up in the back, only people going to see them is the neighbors across the alleyway or maybe some houses up on Cedar Ridge might see them.

No we didn't loose power here where I am in Thermopolis, I think I may have seen the ...

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55°?

Well the w got pretty exciting here yesterday afternoon, so didn't put up the other lights yet.

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35° now showing 30% chance of showers (maybe ) Sunday.
Unable to see the Northern lights last night either as a cloud cover moved in after sundown.

Got first string of lights up yesterday. Now have to get the icicle lights up.

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33° and the predicted rain maybe snow for Friday is not on the weather menu this morning.

I think I have been to some of the live shows in Sturgis where I had to put my earplugs in to enjoy the music.
Is there a fix for tinnitus?

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28°

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27° and maybe some 7 MPH out of the SSE today.

Maybe today I'll put up the painted ply panel that will cover the hole the plumber ripped into the downstairs closet to get to the main drain line. I'm sure it is all ready now after painting it a happy white color.

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19°

Have to find where I stashed my router I found in a storage in Gilroy and try it out. Have to carve up the edges of some planks and varnish them outdoors before the S does show up, at least the one I already have inside the house above an entryway.

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21° here and still dark. I think the cat alarm is slowly getting adjusted back to standard time.

Sorry to hear about your daughter, praying she remains well and the child she is carrying goes to full term.
This happened up in Washington? So many things are lax with ...

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27° maybe up to the mid 50's had some virga rain off to the North yesterday, SIL texted me to ask if it was rain or smoke.

How many train companies were there between Galveston and NE Texas back then. Did you know there were approximately 144 time zones in the U ...

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51°but no full moon this morning due to the overcast.

My dental cleaning could involve the sonic thing or not, but for polishing it involves a baking soda sand blaster thing, almost can't brush afterwards.

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38° and when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie . . . this morning.

Speaking of pizza, up in Montana the prescription and recreational cannabis shops are thick around Laurel and Billings, but in Bridger I only saw one and somewhat across from it was a "A ...

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50° according to NOAA and the yard thermometer says 45°

Taking a drive up to Billings today, sure hope to return before it gets too dusky, because it's rutting season and the big critters are moving about.

Boy do we get the mud here when it rains, sometimes worry ...

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26° this morning and only up to the mid fifties later.

Maybe they could house the Northern half of Nevada at Bessemer Bend but Las Vegas is Las Angeles and Bakersfield overflow for the weekends. I know Cheyenne is too close to Fort Collins and Denver and the special ...

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36° supposed to hit 68° today.

Between trying to wave off the alarm cat and my bladder, the bladder won out, now to adjust the time pieces later today.

Congratulations on the retirement of twenty years. I was just asked how long I had been retired last week and it's ...

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27°

I think our last trick or treater came by a bit after 9 PM last night, our conditions ranged from rain, snow or just chilly. I think I checked the temperature around 8:30 and it was down to 38°.

Oh yay, tomorrow is time change, turning back the clocks one hour, now ...

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25°

Got the pumpkin carved up yesterday. The town had the trunk or treat yesterday downtown. I guess they could have had it tonight as it is Friday. But the schools are no longer in session on Fridays here, they used to be half days on Friday.

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27°
SIL thought our tree in the back is an Ash tree because of all the "ash" it drops on the ground (patio) besides the little green worms, but I pointed out that It wasn't ash it is dropping but was little tiny green worm poo. But it is not a Popular (cottonwood ...

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22° this morning

Well it seems that the low temperature, that dropped to 20°, just before sunrise, yesterday morning caused my backyard tree to drop all of it's leaves, no wind stuff, just showered down, five trash cans of them from the slab and into the dumpster and ...

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24° this morning, got some rain yesterday, when we were coming home from the gym it was looking like slush hitting the windshield with a few pellets of hail.

Congratulations on the book rankings.

Neighbor across the street has the same trees that we have in our ...

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36° here no signs of rain yet.

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Currently 46° here.

Thanks for the pointers on roses. While the SIL was living here and taking care of the place she let anything that popped up out of the ground continue to grow. and She planted a lilac right in the middle of the lawn without taking into account ...

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34° this morning.

Thanks for the info about roses, I only have one good sized one and two might be tea roses.
Got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize yesterday, they left a message, it was Costco, a recall for the Korean style pork jerky brand they sell, may ...

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30° f

Tell me about deep watering the roses, is it because we haven't had much in the way of rain and need to keep the roots moist before we finally go into freezing weather? Do you cut them back to nubs like they do at the Hot Spring park here, or just cut the ...

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32°

Got the 4Runner oil changed. Now the truck , but first it's rake up the leaves time.

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28° I think the cold mornings are here to stay now. Have to change the engine oil on the cars so the reminder doesn't come on in the middle of white stuff on the ground.

Yes the issue with longer days of trips is if you roll into some smaller place you very likely ...

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29° and supposed to be clear today.

Sounds like a good 500 +/- mile day.

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39°

Oh I planted these tomatoes really, really late, most plants were long gone at the hardware store, and then they sat on the shady side of the house under the eves for weeks before I cleared a area to plant them along the back wall. I think it was sometime in June ...

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30° and supposed to get up to 65°
Got my three tomato plants all pulled up because of all the frost / freeze damage, there sure were a lot of green tomatoes on those plants still. Next year earlier planting them.

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