Twin Oaks in January
Twin Oaks in January. About 4PM Wednesday, I knocked off for the day. Most of the afternoon was spent chainsawing some branches and debris from a recent squall line that came through here. Much of January has been unusually warm. Temperatures in the 60's even during a couple of nights. And a lot of rain. Wednesday was the end of our first big cold snap of 2020. Temperatures plummeted into the lower 20's for a few nights and never got out of the 30's a couple of days. The wind was also relentlessly windy, two days and nights of 20 MPH gusts. My heat pump can't cut that. I used emergency heat and some propane. So, I cleaned up most of the debris from all that and knocked off about four. It was so quiet here. I could hear a lite amount of traffic on the state highway two miles away. The sound of I-75 was mute. No vehicle passed my house. There was a dog barking way off somewhere. Then a cow bellowed. There was a barn owl a mile or so to the south