PHIL

[W.J.Langholz]

Hey Bruce
Get up there where Punxsutawney Phil lives and when that stupid gopher comes out of his hole ......stick a rag in the hole so that ($%$# &^%$)!!!!) gogher has to stay out, will ya!!!!


W.

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

Phil didn't see his shadow which is always amazing considering the camera lights present.

[W.J.Langholz]

YYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAA HHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!


W.




must be a "Minnesota Golden Gopher"

[HA]

don't get your hopes up, I read he's only right 39% of the time

[blueldr]

What the hell! 39% is better than our local forecasters do!

[jrenwick]

Being from a northern climate, I always figured the groundhog was forecasting for somewhere else. In Minnesota, what most people would call "winter" ends in April -- if we're lucky. Summer starts the first of May.

[HA]

I've been snowed on in June, all part of the fun up here. spring was in the air this morning though, at least in the form of a chunk of my lawn that I threw up with the snowblower

[DWood]

Being from a northern climate, I always figured the groundhog was forecasting for somewhere else. In Minnesota, what most people would call "winter" ends in April -- if we're lucky. Summer starts the first of May.

John:
I always heard that summer was "two weeks of bad sledding"
Dan

[cessna170bdriver]

don't get your hopes up, I read he's only right 39% of the time

So if we just reverse PHIL's prediction, we'd be right 61% of the time? Thats better odds than flipping a coin. I always thought it seemed backward. If PHIL sees is shadow, it would imply the weather is nice, right? This morning they said he did NOT see his shadow, so spring is going to come early? I often get accused of overthinking things, and this is probably no exception...

BTW, 30 degrees at home at 4000msl, and 22 degrees in the desert at lakebed level, ~2300msl. I've seen that pattern most of the winter. At least no precip lately.

[W.J.Langholz]

I was out feeding the cows tonight and got to thinking it was getting nice out............it was a -6.......I got to go see the Doc if I'm thinking -6 is nice, eh Sven

w.

[flyguy]

WHYNT YALL SHUTUP THEM DARN BARN DOARS UP THAR. HIT BLOWED TOO MUCH UV URE COALD AYER DOUN HYEAR AN IT GOTS DOUN TU 18 DEAGREAS HIT FROZE UP MY WATER PIPE INA HOUSE AN THE BIRDIE BATHS ON THU DECK THIS MORNIN. HIT DINT THAWOUT TIL BOUT TWO OR WON O'CLOK INA AFTERNOON

[wingnut]

I was out feeding the cows tonight and got to thinking it was getting nice out............it was a -6.......I got to go see the Doc if I'm thinking -6 is nice, eh Sven

w.

W,
How do you guys with cattle, in that part of the country, do it? Do you have barns? Enough barn space for all the cattle? Wind breaks? What about water?
I've got 3 due to calve any day (or night ). I've never had to deal with a newborn in single digit temps and wind chills well below zero. Do you have some type of portable shelter? Or, are MN cows tougher than these wimpy AR cows

[blueldr]

About sixty years ago, when I was stationed at Ladd AFB in Fairbanks Alaska, they had a dairy out on the north side of town.
I never did get out there to see it, but I always wondered what in hell they did with milk cows at forty below and sometimes even colder than that.

[W.J.Langholz]

Hey Del
Been busy the last few days, hopefully your cows will wait until it warms up. Yes we have calving barns to put the cows in,and we plant lots of tress for shelter belts. Big round bales, 1 stacked on top of the other to form a shelter, work also. The key is to get that calf dry and up and sucking as fast as you can. I have some calves once in a while that will lose the tip of their ears because they frooze, most of the time that comes from the mom lickin it off too much. The water fountans all have heaters in them but even in this really cold weather they will freeze up and that's a real pain. In about 3-4 days they can go outside and as long as they can get out of the wind and have plenty of bedding they will be fine. One year we had a fast moving snow storm come late March and I was 4 hours away from home so when I got home it was dark and I want to get all the calves back in the barn and they were covered up with snow so I was out there with a flashlight kicking all the klumps of snow that I could see untill I found them all oh well that's living in Minnesota they all lived.

good luck, hope all yours do well.

W.

next year you can hire me ....I'll come down there in those single digets ABOVE and work for you

[bsdunek]

Being from a northern climate, I always figured the groundhog was forecasting for somewhere else. In Minnesota, what most people would call "winter" ends in April -- if we're lucky. Summer starts the first of May.

In Da UP, they say, Summers may be short, but if day fall on a weekend we have a great picnic, Ya!