Greetings and welcome!
There is a bake sale today from 9-3 at Jungle Jims with the Silver Cliff Fire & Rescue Aux.
The weather still looks challenging for the weekend. We could see a little snow overnight and into Sat, but nothing significant is expected. The wind will still be strong though. The NWS put out a wind advisory for our area with 30mph sustained winds gusting to 45. That might be a stretch, we will see. Sunday looks a lot nicer.
RJB
Greetings and welcome!
It is already getting a little busy around here in anticipation of this weekend’s opening of gun deer season. I ran to get gas and groceries tonight, and town was busy with like minded locals.
We have some interesting weather coming up this weekend. The forecast is for a big storm to track over us bringing quite a bit of snow to MN, and maybe a little to northern WI too.
The story won’t be the first snow as much as it will be with the wind and cold. The forecast has us for winds picking up Friday, and for sustained winds of 15-20 gusting to 30 right through Saturday. It is a pretty fast moving storm so winds should calm a little by Sunday.
The temperatures are expected to drop from the low 60s Thursday and Friday to the Low 30s for late Friday and the weekend. Low temperatures should be around 20, ads with some wind the wind chill will come into play. I usually don’t turn on the heat in the well house until after deer hunting, but if we are only getting up to around freezing for daytime highs, I guess that it is time.
This weekend’s weather looks pretty real as far as model consistency goes. I will submit that it is very common for the forecast to be worse than the weather. In this case it looks like the worst of it will come Friday night into Saturday morning.
The cold weather might be a blessing for freezing the ground. We had a very wet fall and there are a lot of soft and muddy spots when you get off of the road a little.
I will update again ASAP with deer hunter specials and a weather update.
One last item.. Thank you to all that came to my parking lot sale last weekend. Your support and generosity is greatly appreciated!
More to follow soon-
RJB
Greetings and welcome!
It is the weekend before deer gun season, typically a pretty busy weekend around here. There are folks getting cabins and deer stands ready, people getting in one last weekend of bow hunting, all sorts of stuff.
I can tell you from my rides to and from work that the deer are active and running stupid. I have seen a few bucks, but so far no huge ones. The way that they were standing out in the road suggests that they may be a little distracted.
We have a sunny and above normal temps weekend ahead. The weather forecast in for temps in the low 50s and a little wind both days. With clear skies the nights will be cold though, tonight they are looking for low 20s, and Saturday night around 32.
I will be at Athelstane country Mart this Saturday with my little red tent selling my LED flashlights, headlamps, floodlights and such. They also have a 1 day LP sale with some hard to beat prices. Stop in and let me know that you are a site visitor and I will make sure that you get a good deal.
Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB
Greetings and welcome!
You know that it is the end of the show when the tamaracks give their golden grand finally. The swamps are alive with color right now. There are a few other tress still in color, but you can see pretty far into the woods now.
That is good, because it is getting into prime deer hunting season. I have been seeing a lot of deer out on the roads and it has been the source of more than a few E-stops. The two deer that caused the contents of my car to fly forward this morning might have been part moose or Guernsey or something, they were both pretty big. The fact that they couldn’t care less that I was there at 55mph laying on the horn suggests to me that they might have been bucks.
While I am not a fan of dodging them with my car, it is good to see more deer around.
The word on the street is that a lot of dirt two track roads are pretty muddy. It is true. We have had a very wet fall and the ground is very soft. There are some pretty good mud holes too. I have seen some tracks that suggested the folks weren’t having much fun in the mud. Be ready for that.
We have a very mild late week and weekend ahead of us. Friday is expected to be nice and in the upper 50s. Saturday and Sunday we could see nice days and low 60s, what I would guess is 10-15 degrees above normal. With clear skies we can expect some cool nights. Lows in the mid to upper 30s are expected Friday and Saturday night.
There was a graphic on the Green Bay weather the other day showing how dramatic the temperature change in November can be. They showed a normal high of about 50 on the 1st, and a normal high in the low 30s at the end of the month. That is pretty significant.
That has me with big plans for the weekend working on outside chores. Anything that I don’t want to freeze hard or that needs to get done above 50 degrees needs to get wrapped up. A third list is stuff that needs to happen before the ground freezes. Much colder weather is showing up in the farther reaches of the GFS forecast model.
Also on the list is firewood.I have 5 8′ bundles of slab wood coming tomorrow, a fair bit of wood to cut and stack. Other than a little more big stuff for deep winter, that will pretty much secure the wood shed for the winter. I had about 1/4 of my wood left from the mild winter last year, and that helps. I have been burning through the night on cold nights, a lot of nights like tonight a small fire to take the chill off is enough.
One last item is the flashlight business. With hunting season and shorter days here I have been having very good sales. Tonight I proofed my very first newspaper ad, letting people know about my parking lot sale the Saturday before gun hunting at Athelstane Country Mart. They are also having a propane sale, so it should be a busy day there.
Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB