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After 10 days of sub 30 F, 4 days being no higher than 16F, I think we’ve broken out for good. The last 2 have 20’s overnight but 40 during the day. Tomorrow those guessers say 50F, then 5 days of 40+. I hope so, I feel like Frosty, frozen but thawing out. The state allowed the utilities to raise rates by 20% so we’ve been getting killed on the…[Read more]

Wow, that is complete dominance. I hope it doesn’t happen because the MN feat is pretty cool. Temps here below freezing in the morning and rises to 40 or so in the afternoon. Next week they are saying snow. I guess we’ll see word.

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Been freezing my butt off. 3 straight days the temp didn’t breach 20F. Morning below 10. Things are looking better, +32 today possibly mid 50’s by Wednesday.

Went with the kids to the Rutgers / Penn State dual meet last night. I knew ti was going to be a blowout and it sure was. If not for opening bout upset, PSU would have pulled an upset.…[Read more]

Yeah, that is cold. MN kind of cold. We don’t usually get that here in the PNW, it is fairly temperate here. But it is 26 right now. Seems like it is colder than usual everywhere. Be safe word.

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So it rained for about an hour before it turned to snow. We saw a mere inch and half but after it stopped the temp dropped and froze the wetness against the ground. It was pretty slick this AM. Fortunately we had blue sky all day so after scrapping the top fluff the sun melted the bottom. We’re headed to low single digit for the next few nights.…[Read more]

Sledding is pretty much fun at any age. Get an innertube too!! No snow but was 26 last night. I’d like snow, but driving is better around here without that stuff. Snow here is usually very wet and then freezes and is icy. Either way extremely slippery. When I lived in MN, the snow was dry and very easy to drive on, plus the roads were…[Read more]

Those guessers are saying 6-12″ of snow this afternoon before the temp drops below 30. I’m guessing 1-2 inches but still the coldest week of the year. Gks want me to come north to go sledding. I may do just that.

Getting cold here as well. Next 6 days (including this morning) will be lows below freezing. Not all that cold but a little. I think it gets to 27 at the coldest. My son is a salt spreader and is busy the next week word.

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I forgot to mention the Old Ebbitt Grill downtown near the Whitehouse. It’s a great place for lunch. The oldest bar in DC.

Heading into freeze week here. It’s been cold the past few days barely breaking 30 but next week, which is typically the coldest week of the year in the Northeast promises to hold true with single digit temps. We get a…[Read more]

Thanks for the eatery help. That will be great to try some of those. We are looking forward to being there word.

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About 5 years ago there was an east coast earthquake that ran from Boston to Virginia, The Washington suffered cracking. I too like the view from the outside now.

The are some great restaurants in the Georgetown section

Oki Bowl – Asian
Rimtang -Thai
Burgers – La Bonne Vache
Pizza – Pizzeria Paradiso
Sushi – Kyojin Sushi
Schnitzel – Kafè…[Read more]

Yes, there is a lot of walking going on there for sure. It is a half a day journey from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and almost that much to get to the Jefferson Memorial from there. I have to say, standing against the Washington Monument and looking up, I decided right there, that I did not want to go up and look out the windows.…[Read more]

There’s plenty to see. My new favorite is Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center a/k/a the new air and space museum extension out in Chantily VA. It’s a bit of haul from downtown, about 1:45. It has the latest in air travel. If you haven’t been to the monuments, consider an electric bike tour. It’s probably the quickest way to tour them. It’ll save a…[Read more]

Yes, that is our plan. We have an airbnb chosen right along the metro, it is in north DC. He just needs to confirm that this is a thing we can do. The goal is to visit him and his girlfriend. And see DC word.

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April should be nice. The cherry blossoms should be open, at least what’s left of them. Biden’s administration removed a lot of them. I always stayed just outside of the city and Metro’d in. The hotel rates were 1/3 to 1/2 inside the city. You ride the metro so much to get around when you stay inside, that staying along the metro outside is…[Read more]

We are planning to visit them in DC in April. We will be using the subway almost exclusively to get around. Should be a good visit and hopefully warmer word.

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DC was a great city to visit, but the City Council and Mayor have ruined it like many other big cities. Crime is rampant. I have to say the Metro Subway system is the best I’ve ever ridden. Well, it’s also the newest. The residents and visitors keep it clean unlike MY and LA. And its surprisingly quiet unlike the one in NYC. No riffraff…[Read more]

Yeah, my son hasn’t said anything about that. He works 3rd shift so hopefully he is ok.

We here in PNW have gray skies and rain. It is wet outside all the time. Today it got down to 32 but I didn’t see anything frozen anywhere. So not quite there yet here word.

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DC had it far worse than us. We had only 2″ though it was enough to cause me to blow the dust off the shovel. It’s the first snowfall more than a dusting in 3 years. I wanted to get back into working outside, but this wasn’t what I had in mind.

You my friend, are not retired!! My wife is similar, she thinks something should take 30-40 minutes and wonders where I’ve been for 2-3 hours. I have a few projects around here to do. Prune apple trees, prune blueberries, put new cupboards that we dragged out of someone’s remodel into our shed. That will be tougher as she will need to…[Read more]