It is here

[Jacob Bugge]

[tromboniator]

Yule forgive us if we're stumped.

[Jacob Bugge]

Indeed, Peter.

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At my daughter's yesterday, before the storm:

[Jacob Bugge]

She must have quite some views, Peter (unless the drifts cover the windows after the storm).

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[Jacob Bugge]

Still no show here, for another fortnight it seems. It should have been here six weeks ago. A very long autumn.

[Jacob Bugge]

At long last, more than two months late, after the long thaw followed by bare frost for two weeks with rime for just a few hours: the very first show this winter.

[Jacob Bugge]

Better late and little than never and none.

 

[Steve Fairbairn]

Ours has gone away again for the moment but a tree got blown down in a gale the other day.

So we got a fine Christmas tree and plenty of logs to burn.

[Jacob Bugge]

What a fine, clean cut, and nice to see a real saw being used.

I presume what is in the picture is out of the picture for the tree, unless you have a rather tall house, and ladder. So the logs will be cut on the spot.

Our burner could take almost what is in the picture as one log.

[Steve Fairbairn]

I couldn’t be bothered  borrowing a chain saw  for a quick job like that.

I measured the tree. It was about 8 metres high. One of the first ones we planted in around 1974 or so and rather a spindly specimen.

The trees needed thinning a bit anyway, so it was no great loss.

There are about a couple of metres more of the tree out of the picture to the right.

The blue construction on the right is out tool-cum-woodshed.

[tromboniator]

Cold and clear for weeks, not much accumulation from the storms before that.  Persistent macrocrystalline frost. Beautiful!

[Jacob Bugge]

Beautiful indeed, Peter.

[Jacob Bugge]

A shot just at the breaking point. Was it done without undercutting (there seems to be no tear)?

And which kind of spruce, Steve?

[Steve Fairbairn]

Sitka spruce (Sitkagreni). And it fell onto another small tree which held its weight, so no undercutting necessary.

Nice picture, Peter.

[tromboniator]

Thank you.

[Jacob Bugge]

This is a little more like it; the more the more we like it.

 

[tromboniator]

Lovely! Alas, we have reverted to wet, here in the metropolis, so navigation is no fun.

[Jacob Bugge]

But no flight cancellations (and no shootouts), either.

[Steve Fairbairn]

We still bask smugly in the warmth of the Gulf Stream and see Northern and Central Europe on the telly slowly grinding to a halt in that 0%K stuff.

[Steve Fairbairn]

Still no sign of It and the forecasr is wet and windy.

But here’s what happened to that tree.

Glad Yule, everybody 🙂

[tromboniator]

Nice transformation!

Just returned home after spending four hours with our two little grandsons. In order to see through the windshield we had to delete a 350 pt. stroke of 0%C, 0%M, 0%Y, 0%K.

[Nini Tjader]

No lack of snow here (just outside Stockholm Sweden).

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[Jacob Bugge]

Very nice, Steve; and a fine top we finally got to see.

Lucky you, Nini. It seems that Stockholm is the place to be, even for a puffed up blackbird.

And lucky you, Peter.

Here, the good weather has only just started again, 272.46, B = 7, and something white moving horizontally. Unfortunately the weather downcast is all about thaw fore day is done, hopefully wrong.

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