2020

Friday September 18th, 2020

Greetings and welcome!

We have a chilly morning this morning. According to Athelstane Weather’s station we went down to 28.6ºF last night and made it up to 30 at 7:30am. Fall is here and it feels like winter will be hot on it’s tail.

Speaking of fall, the early maples are in their full glory right now. The deep red ones are in their prime as are the ones that fluoresce between green and orange. I personally like the early maple show the best and it is here.

They are still whitewater rafting at Kosir’s, and the water levels are still well above normal. Catching a fall colors rafting trip might be fun this weekend.

Another sign that fall is here is that the deer are running stupid. I had to slam on the brakes repeatedly this week as deer rocketed out of nowhere in front of the car. Three of them got within three feet of my bumper, but so far I haven’t hit any yet. Watch out when you are driving.

I don’t have any events for this weekend.

My fall chores are now way behind. Work has been unusually busy and I haven’t had much time off. Combined with short days (down to 12 hours 19 minutes of sunlight now) and three of the hours not great for outside work because of frosty mornings or chilly sunsets, I need to make use of every available hour of daylight.

On that note, it is time to get rolling. Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Wednesday September 9th, 2020

Greetings and welcome!

I am insanely busy this week so  am getting a head start here. We have some stuff to talk about.

First up is the short term weather.

Today we have had rain from this morning until now, 10pm, and it looks like there is just a little more on the way. It has varied between light and moderate rain all day. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s shows about 2/3″ as of 9:15pm. The radar estimates are at about 0.7″. There are areas not very far north that got as much as 1.5″.

Next up in weather is our cold weather. You have probably heard news reports from out west where their 90º heatwave had winter storm warnings the next day and a foot of snow. That is a heck of a cold front. Here is a picture from Facebook. The guy was in the 80s the day before.

Well, we got a little taste of that too. Today we had a high temp of 49 degrees. Our normal high temp is about 70. The TV weather guy showed a chart of normal high temperatures, and we are not under 50 until the beginning of November. We set a lot of records in the state today for the lowest high temperature for the date. In many cases it was by 5 degrees or more.

We are not in any danger of having snow but there are frost alerts out for counties immediately to our northwest. There are freeze warnings out for the far northwestern part of the state.

I am not looking forward to an early winter. I have weeks of outside work to do before it freezes or snows. My every instinct is screaming that I had better get on it.

Next up is fall colors.  A week ago I was wondering why I hadn’t seen any early maples changing yet. Wow did they go off in the past few days. Some of the really colorful red maples are in full color already and there is a good bit of orange and red popping up too. These are mostly just the earliest maples. It was surprising to me that it came late and then went off like a firecracker.

Next up is Parkway Inn’s End of Summer Bash next weekend. Here are the posters..

That is it for tonight. Have a good week and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Saturday September 5th, 2020-Updated

Updated 12:30pm

Greetings and welcome!

It is a nice comfortable day outside today, but there is definitely some wind (12-20+).

There are tons of people up for the holiday weekend already and more are on the way. When I was heading north this morning 141 was very busy and Crivitz at the Piggly Wiggly was nuts. The cell towers are as clogged as on any holiday weekend.

The Peshtigo River is still well above normal. Most Labor Day weekends it is too low to be fun. This weekend it is still +5″, and fun level for anyone. Call Kosirs. 715-757-3431.

Next door the Piano Man Bob Heckler is playing tonight at Rapids Resort.

Here are some more events..

Riverview Fire Department Corn Roast
Date: Sept. 5, 2020

Free corn all day! Fun for the kids and adults with food, bucket drops, spin the wheel and music! Located at the Fire Department, 15408 WI-32.

Location: Riverview Fire Department

Click here for more information »
Contact Phone Number: 715-850-0364

Lakewood Firefighter’s Annual Picnic
Date: Sept. 6, 2020
Time: 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Music, food, raffles and sweet corn! Starting at noon till 8:00pm at the Lakewood Pavilion.  For more information, call Randy at 715-276-7222.
Location: Lakewood Pavilion
Contact Phone Number: 715-276-7222

Here is a poster from the big Suring event.

That is all that I have right now. Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB

Early AM Update-

I have about 2 minutes to update.. I will have to come back later to finish up.

In the meantime there is an event this afternoon that you should know about. The Red Arrow Townsend ATV/Snowmobile Club is having their Labor Day weekend corn roast and ATV parade today. They have a very impressive list of raffle prizes (Listed on their web site) and free sweet corn. In past years there has been a really impressive line of ATVs on the trail ride/parade.

Friday 8-28-2020

Greetings and welcome!

We had a hot and steamy week this week. Some other areas had rain and storms. The USGS gauge by Kosir’s only shows 1/2″ of rain since last weekend. There is a chance of showers/storms today and tonight and then we are in for a much cooler weekend.

The frontal passage that is marked by the storm will be welcome as it will finally push out the humidity. Right now it is only 72 degrees but with the 88% humidity it still feels hot and doesn’t take much to break a sweat.

Saturday and Sunday look to be sunny and about 70. The catch is that it is supposed to be windy Saturday and Saturday night. That is OK. When I was working outside Wednesday the gnats were getting a little annoying. A nice windy day will help that for sure.

The big event this weekend is the Marinette County Fair in Wausaukee. It actually opened Thursday evening. Early reports are that it was a nice midway. The ride operators were masked up and sanitizing rides when they could. Someone still said that people were masking up in the buildings. Whatever the case people had fun there last night.

There is also a flea market at the Evergreen Market in Crivitz just north of the car dealership Friday and Saturday.

On any given year whitewater rafting on the Peshtigo River is long done by now. This year is unlike any that I have seen in my 30ish years on or near the river. We are breaking records daily, and the river is still at +7″, a very fun level.

Along that same line.. I have seen a few people that went back into their deer hunting land to scout or clear brush and were quite surprised by how high that the water levels were. I heard about several people that had areas that weren’t normally wet and were a foot deep in water. We have had a couple of really wet summers and big snow winters, so some areas might hold some water that wouldn’t normally be there. Not everywhere is like that, but a few people got surprised.

Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!

RJB