It takes a temperature of 20 below to trigger the B&B rule in this area. When invoked, B&B grants license to Bitch and Brag, that is, to bitch about the cold and brag about how comfortably you are surviving it because you're, like, real smart.
Officially, it's -19 the airport right now. Unofficially it's -17 at the homestead. So b'ing and/or b'ing would be wimpish.
Nevertheless, I am instructing the butler to add another log.
We had cloud cover and 4 above. Not rubbing it in, just a weather report. Keokuk had +14 which indicates that Iowa has some extreme contrasts.
ReplyDeleteKinda like Sen. Harkin and Grassley?
In my extreme yoot I worked in your river valley for a while and remember how nice it was to be a couple of hundred miles south of Minnesota -- and a few hundred feet lower.
ReplyDeleteThings are warming up nicely here, but as far as I know no has treatd Harkin's wet suit with itching powder yet.