Jeeze! What a difference a day makes. The sun came out today and the winds died to next to nothing. And the temperature soared. It was 19 degrees at sunrise and went up to 37 degrees around 3 PM.
The 19 was considerably higher than the forecast and the lack of wind was a surprise, too. I had already decided that, based upon the last two days and the forecast, I was going to sleep in and go down to the church for breakfast with Terry. (Mansfield is celebrating a Home for the Holidays event today.) Yeah, I could have gone out hunting this afternoon, but, well, the freezer is pretty full as it is. Instead, I finally got the Adirondack chairs off the deck, and then filled the firewood rack in the garage. (Burned wood all day yesterday as the temps never got above 17 degrees. That's why the reading of 19 at 7 AM this morning was such a surprise.)
Tomorrow's forecast is a puzzle. It will get down to around 20 degrees tonight. Then they say we'll start off with some freezing rain in the morning which will change to regular rain with a high of 38 degrees by the afternoon.
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I spent some time in the workshop cutting the last few pieces of the quilt square. Then I sanded and fit all the pieces together. next will be to glue everything down to the backboard. Won't take more than a couple of hours to get everything done.
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Army just can't seem to get Navy's goat. Thanks to a couple of penalties on long passes, the Cadets did manage to take a 3-0 lead into the locker at halftime, but after the intermission...it was all Navy with a 17-3 final. As a result, Army's season is over with a 5-7 record and UCLA (6-6) goes bowling against Temple in the EagleBank Bowl in Washington, D.C. on December 29th.
Meanwhile, the Appalachian State-Montana semifinal in the FCS is turning into a heck of a game. The winner plays Villanova on Friday night in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was being played in Missoula...in the cold (15 degrees) and the snow. Montana scored a TD with 1:39 left to go ahead 24-17 but App. State marched down the field. They converted on a 4th-and-10 from the Montana 25 with 18 seconds to go. Then got a first and goal at the 4 with 6 seconds--and no timeouts. Two incomplete passes later and the Grizzlies of Montana were headed south to play one more game. Hell of a finish!
2 comments:
We never got above 16 at my place today, after an overnight low of 13. Tomorrow will make a week of this unchanging, foggy/frosty weather. I wouldn't mind seeing the sun again.
38 would be unseasonably warm, but a nice mid-20s day with sunlight would be a welcome event.
Nine here this AM. Wish Al Bore was here shivering in my computer chair instead of whatever globally warmed spot he actually occupies.
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