Day Five - Milk Challenge - Seasonal Warmup?

in hive-174578 •  5 years ago 

2-29-2020

Into every life some snow must fall

January has been a pretty cold, bitter cold at time month here on the Kenai Peninsula. I think this is only the second day this month were we breached the 20F degree mark. last time we got our first significant snowfall of the month and needed to have the drive way plowed. Since I was not expecting the amount of snow we got last week, I did not have a pre-Driveway Saga picture of before the snow. This time the snow has started earlier and I was I have a pre-snow shot. (well pre-snow in that it has only been snowing a little bit so far).

Here is a two shot panoramic cropped and edited slightly, (okay major cropping because it was hand held), image of my driveway. Some of you may be more familiar with my driveway than you want to be because you have seen all my #drivewaysaga post.

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The nice thing is it is 23F, when I took the pictures about an hour ago, and not minus 16F. Monday when they first forcast the 20 degree range for us again this week they were still expecting lows of the minus teens by the weekend, at least today they have backed off on that back to super cold and we now looking at the single digit to minus single digits for Saturday. 7 to -5F. I certainly hope it holds to that. New month we should have a new trend.


The Milk Challenge was a fun thing started by @whatsup 5 days ago. Pretty much mostly about engagement, and fun posting. I have to say I have been having fun with it, and the comments.

I did not set out to use different ways and means, but through the course of this challenge, this post is the third post through "Communities" pages. I made one through my own, one through creativecoin, and now through OCD home community page. I have also tried to incorporate a few other engagement encouraging post such as caturday, @photo52, and musicmonday tags. I'd probaly do the posh tag, but I never liked twitter, facebook, and youtube is pretty marginal, (I do like the ease of finding music on YT).

We complain and bitch and moan and groan about a lot of things steem and steemit related, yet we are all still here, I saw the milk challenge as a way for me to maybe get one more number added to my weekly poster badge, but I don't think that will happen, not because I won't finish, but because the middle of my day runs into to the next day UTC timewise. At 4pm, it becomes midnight and the next day is starting for most of the rest of the world.


So it looks like we might actually be done with the bitter cold days, although February and March can be bitterly cold at times also, now with the warm up we need to be careful to still stay stocked up on primary supplies, because the missing snows of the season could all come in February.

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Where's the Kenai Peninsula...? I'm too lazy to look it up :>)
That shot posted looks like it can be anywhere from Northern California to Alaska!!! With all dem Pine trees and stuff.
Ooooopppppssssss….Disregard the above @bashadow … I had you confused with someone else. I know where you're at :>)

Kenai is about 60 air miles south of Anchorage, or 170 miles driving. Cook inlet on one side, and Prince William sound on the other side. There is a narrow stretch of land that stops us from being an Island. Kodiak Island is just south of the Kenai Peninsula.

It's a fairly nice place, but not a lot of roads or anything. Just small towns, cabins, hunting, fishing, snow machining (when there is snow), and a lot of mosquitoes and tourist in the summer.

I was North of Fairbanks about 200 clicks from the Arctic Circle for about five months...during Winter...It took me about five more months to thaw out after returning to the lower 48 :>)

We do see some very cold temperature in Alaska, I never liked Fairbanks, it was always to cold or to hot, no happy pleasant middle ground for very long at all. If it is not a wet/rainy year, June and July are great.

I kind of enjoyed the buffalo walking down the road snorting at me, the bull moose charging from out of the brush trying to impale me, the sound of wolves running in the woods mere steps from my path, wondering if they were hungry or not...bears looking through my window at night, not knowing if it was Sassquash, Abominable Snowman or Extraterrestrials seeking to abduct me and probe my orifices...

It was a very relaxing time in my life.

I've been in Alaska a long time, moose I see almost everyday, don't think I have seen a buffalo/musk ox yet in the wild, and I have only seen a handful of bears, but yeah one bear up close is enough for a lifetime. The moose and wolves wander through our yard every now and then, easy to get a picture of the moose, but the wolves they hang right at the treeline. I think it is the Dall Sheep that one needs to be concerned with standing up high above everyone on the edge of the cliff ready to pounce at a moments notice on the unsuspecting tourist. It's the Ewe's you ahve to watch out for, they have two spears to stab with the guys only have battering rams, thats why they call them Ewes and Rams, cause the Ewes make a gooey ewewy gory mess of things, and the Rams only break things.

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What a perfect milk post with all that milky white snow! Our temps have been extremely warm and will get above freezing for the 10 days. What a change from last year at this time when it was bitterly cold for days. I'm good with warmer weather.

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