2008 temps !!!!

Normal avg temperature for the first 77 days of 2008..... 32.26F
Actual avg temperature for the first 77 days of 2008...... 32.56F

20% of year gone by......
Still "warm" by 0.3 F .....
But basically..... Normal......

Global Warming????

Snowman time!

IMG_0767, originally uploaded by oldlefthander.

With all of the snow out there and it being the biggest snow my kids have ever seen, I just had to go make a snowman. I mean seriously......snowman are a part of life. Enjoy it !

Blizzard of 2008 !

IMG_0709, originally uploaded by oldlefthander.

Well.....so much for my "It's never gonna happen" line just 2 posts ago. Man what a storm!!! You have to understand that this storm dropped 20.5 inches of snow in Columbus. That is their greatest single storm EVER!!!!! The last one was 1910 and it was only 15.3 inches. Heck Saturday alone we had 15.5 inches. Their greatest 24 hour snow.

It was interesting as I listened to the forecast for this storm, the forecasters never got it right. How can you be inside of 2 days for a storm and not know the possibiity of 20 inches. I mean they were calling for 5-8 then it was 7-10 then within 24 hours they called for 10-12 and while it was going on they up'd it to 12-15. I mean how to you miss by 12-15 inches inside e a 48 hour forecast. I'll tell you how...... Models......

All people do is watch the models and then follow them like lemmings. If you actually studied the weather you could better understand how a storm could wrap up and give us 20 inches instead of say 7. The track of this will be interesting to see after all the data comes in. A shift 50 mi east or west and what we end up with is different.

Good to see the kids have fun playing out in the snow...!! Click on the picture to see some pics I took of it all.

Biggest snowfall they have ever seen and probably biggest for a long time.....

Course I did say a couple of days ago that we were done with the big snowstorms......

Hmm I must have been watching the models with them................

Painting 2008 "The Sequel !!"

Well I finished painting the rest of the "bowl" and kitchen. I think that it looks very nice. Although I'm biased since I spent all of the hours actually doing the work. Now we have everything on the first floor painted except the 2 story foyer.

I was going to give it a shot but the Mrs. doesn't want me up there with nothing between me and the hardwood floor except air (Although some days I bet she'd change her mind hehehe )

So, on I go to get some quotes to get it done. Hopefully we can have it all finished before Olivia turns 1 on the 16th. Man.... 1 already... seems like yesterday she came into the world.

Time Flies.....

Snow?!

Well we haven't been hit by the big snowstorm that my kids are waiting for. Not gonna happen this year.......
But we have gotten a couple of snows that may allow the dynamic duo to go outside. So without further rambling by me a pic of the pair...