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    Texas weather

    I heard on the news the other night that it was 17 F in Dallas---and so I just took a couple of minutes to check in on you Texas boys----and you are still in the chill

    Dallas and Tyler at 30 F , Houston at 43 F and poor Joe at 36 F and a thunderstorm

    We pretty much haven't been above freezing in more than a week (it could be a lot more) and it snows about every other day---but that is more like a "normal" winter used to be like for us. The deer seem to be perplexed by the snow---they have been staying close to the house and nipping the buds and young shoots on the shrubbery rather than paw through the snow for grass. It is only in the last few days I have seen a few pawed areas.

    One interesting observation: when we got the first snow the ice on the ponds was pretty thin. The deer tracks skirted the ponds after the snow--despite the fact that the ponds were then snow covered and there was no clear demarcation of the edge of the ponds. Only now have I seen tracks across the ice---and not many of them. Somehow they sense what is under the snow.
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    No winter in Az this year......

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    While I was at it I did check in on you---at 70F ---does that mean you layer up before going outside?
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    I warned my tenant to drip a faucet this weekend, supposed to be subfreezing......Ben
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    You kind of have too if you're going to be outside all day I wore a long sleeve jersey on my ride this morning and am currently in shorts and a t shirt. The desert can get some big swings in temp. 40's at night and close to the 80's in the day time this week.

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    It's supposed to get down to 6 here Monday night.
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    Welcome to ‘Merica!

    We are in the middle of three days of “wintery mix”.. deck has 1/2 inch of slush.. it will be gone soon and we will have 1/2 inch of ice..

    We are already getting the “Texan driving in winter “ videos..

    Good luck..

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    Up in the 'Dacks, we are looking at around 15 to 20 below. But its a dry cold, so...

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    Glad it's real cold everywhere the weather channel has finally quit talking about global warming 43 times a day.
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    There has been no change in our weather patterns and none are in the forecast.

    The deer remain close to the house and now this morning, as I look out there are "beds" in the snow within 30' of the house. It occurs to me that for so many years I pursued the deer as one of my highest quarry and now they bed down beside me---seemingly without a care. I sure hope they don't look through the windows and see their brothers adorning the walls
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    Got a little snow on the ground here...I haven't seen that for a while......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Got a little snow on the ground here...I haven't seen that for a while......Ben
    OK, maybe it was a tad more than a "little"...The front porch was a little slippery too......Ben
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    Do you guys even have snow plows?

    I just looked at your temperature---16 F in Houston and 9 F in Tyler
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I just looked at your temperature---16 F in Houston and 9 F in Tyler
    11° in Conroe at this time......Ben
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    ...so...do you have snow plows or are you stuck waiting for warmer weather?
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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