"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Looks like winter is here for the next week, anyway. I'm going to have to get up pretty early in the morning, as Captain Kangaroo used to say, to clear the snow and get to church by 7:30. Sure hope the snow doesn't force us to cancel. 👼
 
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screened porch said:
Looks like winter is here for the next week, anyway. I'm going to have to get up pretty early in the morning, as Captain Kangaroo used to say, to clear the snow and get to church by 7:30. Sure hope the snow doesn't force us to cancel. 👼
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Mass at Saint Emydius (patron saint against earthquakes) doesn’t start until 10. Thankfully it’s only four blocks away from my house. The best part is the temperature will be a balmy 50 degrees and sunny. I’ll say a prayer for you that the snow is not too bad. 😃
 
btb01 said:
Bit chilly here today, too.

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Just finished watching the Winter Classic that was played there in Minneapolis Barrett. Blues won, (sorry if your a Wild fan). I can’t imagine playing or watching a hockey game in those temps. Teens are cold for where I live near St. Louis, 10 below is way too cold for me, stay warm! 🥶
 
Grateful said:
Yesterday afternoon it was 60 degrees outside. It’s currently 10 degrees outside. A 50 degrees drop in 24 hours seems a bit much.
Happy New Year to all.
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That's crazy! :eek: Here we had the mildest New Year temperatures on record, at 61.
Mister Coffee said:
Jack Black Jack Black Outstanding photos, Jack. I wanted to click 😍 and 🤣.
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Thank you very much Mister Coffee :D :) :thumbsup:
 
As I watched the Blues play in the Winter Classic in Minnesota it was 78° here in Punta Gorda at 7 pm. In Minnesota's outdoor stadium it was -6°. By the time the game ended it was the second coldest temperature ever recorded for a sporting event in the US, only behind the Dallas v. Green Bay "Ice Bowl" at -13°. And . . .

THE BLUES WON!!
 
screened porch said:
Looks like winter is here for the next week, anyway. I'm going to have to get up pretty early in the morning, as Captain Kangaroo used to say, to clear the snow and get to church by 7:30. Sure hope the snow doesn't force us to cancel. 👼
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I shoveled off the back walk before taking the dog out this morning. Looked to me like about 5" at 6am. The photo below is from 11 months ago, but it's a fairly accurate image of the current situation. I'll do another session of snow removal in front of the house in about an hour, and then do the driveway after lunch. I hope all the shoveling doesn't give me a swayback (thanks for the SBJ, Paul)!
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5K Qs said:
I shoveled off the back walk before taking the dog out this morning. Looked to me like about 5" at 6am. The photo below is from 11 months ago, but it's a fairly accurate image of the current situation. I'll do another session of snow removal in front of the house in about an hour, and then do the driveway after lunch. I hope all the shoveling doesn't give me a swayback (thanks for the SBJ, Paul)!
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Somebody did my front walk while I was at church! I did the rest when I got back. I love to watch the sun soak into that south-facing driveway. I think it was about 4" here.
A snow day for church wouldn't help me anyway. I wield the sonic lightnings for streaming.
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bigfish64 said:
Just finished watching the Winter Classic that was played there in Minneapolis Barrett. Blues won, (sorry if your a Wild fan). I can’t imagine playing or watching a hockey game in those temps. Teens are cold for where I live near St. Louis, 10 below is way too cold for me, stay warm! 🥶
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I don’t know how cold it has to be before skates stop working, but there comes a point where the pressure of the blade will no longer melt the ice to give that slender cushion of water that lubricates the blade and allows it to glide over the ice. In my six or seven years as a rink rat at Lake of the Isles, I only experienced it twice. At most temps, hockey will keep you warm enough, but when your skates start sticking, then it is really too cold to be outdoors at all.
 
Henry Beige said:
I don’t know how cold it has to be before skates stop working, but there comes a point where the pressure of the blade will no longer melt the ice to give that slender cushion of water that lubricates the blade and allows it to glide over the ice. In my six or seven years as a rink rat at Lake of the Isles, I only experienced it twice. At most temps, hockey will keep you warm enough, but when your skates start sticking, then it is really too cold to be outdoors at all.
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That’s fascinating Henry, I had no idea that skates could stop working. Thanks for posting this. 👍
 
I remember reading that ice starts to become less slippery at -30C (-22F). Ice is complex stuff 🤓
 
I guess I’ve never heard of ice becoming less slippery because it just doesn’t get that cold around here. Zero or a few degrees below is really cold around here. 🥶
 
bigfish64 said:
I guess I’ve never heard of ice becoming less slippery because it just doesn’t get that cold around here. Zero or a few degrees below is really cold around here. 🥶
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The ice skating is the first I've heard of it having a noticeable effect -not that I've paid much attention. I think it was some Swedish physcists who did a paper on it. I've seen negative 20's a few times but didn't notice the ice being less slippery. It's never been cold enough that I couldn't slide a car into a ditch 🏎️ 😜
 
mbkr said:
The ice skating is the first I've heard of it having a noticeable effect -not that I've paid much attention. I think it was some Swedish physcists who did a paper on it. I've seen negative 20's a few times but didn't notice the ice being less slippery. It's never been cold enough that I couldn't slide a car into a ditch 🏎️😜
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It’s not so much that the ice itself is any less slippery as that the cold keeps the pressure of the blade from melting ice to create that thin layer of water. That seems to be the most popular view of how skates work, but it has its critics. Another view holds that friction between the blade and the ice melts the ice. The pressure idea, informed by junior-high science, satisfied my simple mind for about sixty years, but my recent reading suggests that ice is pretty strange stuff whose behavior is not fully understood.
 
Henry Beige said:
It’s not so much that the ice itself is any less slippery as that the cold keeps the pressure of the blade from melting ice to create that thin layer of water. That seems to be the most popular view of how skates work, but it has its critics. Another view holds that friction between the blade and the ice melts the ice. The pressure idea, informed by junior-high science, satisfied my simple mind for about sixty years, but my recent reading suggests that ice is pretty strange stuff whose behavior is not fully understood.
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Fascinating stuff :thumbsup:
 
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