Out and About...

Now in a normal January, it's usually too cold to do much outside. In the past, I'd mainly split wood, cause it almost explodes when struck with an axe at twenty below or colder. But now I mostly use the hydraulic splitter in the spring and fall, so don't  do that anymore. Now when it's too cold to run dogs, I've just been taking walks to get outside for some exercise.

You get to see a lot of decent sunsets in January, since the low angle of the sun keeps it setting for quite a while in mid-afternoon.

And when it does warm up a bit, like it did today, you can get the dogs out for a short run. That's because it's been quite a bit warmer east of town, where we live, maybe around ten below, as opposed to twenty to thirty below at the airport. It's likely due to a slight wind moving through, so that the extreme cold air that settles into the valley is getting mixed with warmer upper air in our area, but not quite reaching into town. Sometimes an ill wind does blow good!