Thursday, March 8, 2007

Record Low High

I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but when you look at all the high temperatures on this date over the years, some are higher than others and some are lower than others. For the past few days we've been breaking (actually shattering) those records for the lowest high temperature. I need to look up the exact numbers, but on the TV weather Tuesday, they said we broke the record by 12 degrees. BRRRRR!!

We were having decent maple syrup weather. Apparently you want the temperature during the day to go over freezing but the temperature at night to go below freezing. We did that for a couple of days, but then it's all been below freezing. And the wind's been blowing which doesn't have any effect on maple syrup but oh my, wind chill is REALLY cold when it's already REALLY cold. It's going to stay below freezing through Saturday and then Sunday it will go back over freezing.

I better hurry up and go ice fishing and/or smelting because soon the ice will start thawing.

March 8, 2007: Half Way Day

I came to Maine on January 8, 2007 and I have to head back to Dallas on May 8, 2007. That makes today, March 8, the halfway point of my 4 months in Maine. I can't believe it's half over. Didn't I just arrive?? And if these 2 months have whipped by so quickly, I don't even want to think about how fast the next 2 months will zip by. Wow.