I like to know what is coming. Like all farmers I study the weather sites and stare up at the sky looking for action. I don’t like surprises. I need to be prepared. I am like TonTon who barked at the basement door yesterday because he could hear the water overflowing in the laundry. And there is a kind of companionship pattern forming in our weather – have you noticed that? It has become apparent to me lately that I can almost predict my weather from your comments on my blog. Here is how I have worked it out so far. 
Linda in Colorado gets the cold and beats it up a bit. Then Audrey says watch out it is coming your way.
And in it comes to chicago john, Kristy and Yummy and the Farmy (100 miles south of Chicago). There are a few more of you in Chicago but the cold has got to my brain.
Then after us Marie in Rhode Island gets wacked. Maybe Jess? Where are you in my weather map? My geography is terrible. Ksenia, are you after us. Jaz, you are before us?
Then does the weather fly across to Kate and Mad in England or Viv and Roger. Or is that pushing it just a wee bit too far. I need to put pins in a map. Because the parallels are fascinating. The weather is our constant. Isn’t that interesting! Women and men have been discussing the weather for thousands of years, since language even began.
And here we are using the latest technology known to man and still discussing the weather with horror or glee. And next summer will we inherit the heat that Eha is experiencing, or the long hot summer from NZ?. A fascinating and rather terrifying thought.
It is ZERO degrees outside this morning. (That is -18C). When dawn appears it will drop even further. So far the milking pump has kept up, we will see what happens this morning.
Good morning. There are a few of us readers and writers in and around Chicago who are thinking of meeting next month in the windy city for a ‘Chilly Cheer Up’ cup of tea. ChgJohn has kindly accepted the role of Local Knowledge and Guide though we are not terribly sure where yet or exactly when. It rather depends on how big our little group gets. We are still in the planning stages.
So The Matriarch and I will come up to the big city about the middle of next month and do a bit of drift netting. Right about the time we cannot bear the winter one moment more. Nothing fancy or clever. I cannot bring Daisy on the train or pack Kupa into my handbag but if you are interested do let me know. Just a cup of tea or maybe a cocktail somewhere nice. It could be fun. No prizes or silly games, just a wee gathering of like minds. There will probably be talk about the weather!! (laughter!)
OK I have put it off long enough. Off outside I go.
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
81 responses to “Where are you on my weather map?”
Is Bulgaria too far awy to pop in for tea? Guess so! Here the weather today is bright sunny and warm .the temperature is 20 and my dogs have been laying out in the sunshine. This is wonderful compared to last year when it was -20 and very cold and I had to cope with the donkeys on my own.
Enjoy your tete-a-tete!
Wish I could join you but it’s a little far from London….(the UK one, not Ontario) It’s pretty cold here too but of course nothing like what you are experiencing. I’ve been giving my chickens Weetabix for breakfast to warm them on these cold mornings. Enjoy your gathering and thank you for a wonderfully written blog. Maeve
Lucky you, and what a marvelous idea. Although I lived in Chicago (the way to spell Chicago is “chicken in the car and the car won’t go.”), as they used to say, I think a plane ride would be a funny way to grab a spot of tea.
I wish I could join you, though! It is freezing in NJ and getting colder every second.
I am to the south, and always get your leftovers. It is 7:00 am, and 23 degrees.
Sorry I’m so very far away. Your meetup sounds like fun!
Midcoast Maine here at our little farm. We tend to get your weather pretty regularly! It’s 15F here this morning and going to get colder as the week goes on. Fed my critters in their greenhouses this morning, trying to keep them out of the worst of the wind!
It’s 8ºF here this morning in southwest Ohio. That is way too cold, imho. As my mother used to say about such things: “It’s not fit weather for man nor beast.” Here’s hoping that the thought of a cup of tea in the future will keep you warm today!
It says we’re at 12F this morning but it feels more like zero with the breeze. We’re in WV and usually get the weather two days after you with a slight warm up. And yep I look at what your weather is doing as an indication of what’s coming our way. 🙂 I broke one water tub this morning with 3″ of ice! Kupa is looking splendid. Try to stay warm Celi!
We got two fluffy (and welcome) inches of snow overnight. I’d love to attend the gathering, but it is a bit far for me (New Hampshire). Just looked out the window to see the snow falling off the trees. I should get out there with a camera before it’s all on the ground.
Slightly warmer today in Normandy, but it won’t last – Jock is due to fly to UK on Friday and London Stansted Airport has been closed for days! He’s due to give the toast to the Haggis at a Burns Supper on Saturday – the only Scot his daughter knows who can recite all 8 verses by heart!
I’d love to come to Chicago – but no way would I travel in February – two years ago my daughter’s family landed in Chicago on their way home from 6 months in the tropics. It was minus 12 C and they had to raid the thrift shops for warm clothes. Another problem: I don’t think I’d get health insurance after the last little episode! You’ll just have to come here!!!!
That picture of Kupa is superb – Jock would like to do an embroidery of him but I don’t have a photo which shows him feet and all, specially with his tail spread. When the weather is more clement, please could you send me a few pix from different angles? I did a quilt of a peacock once (fantasy rather than real) which is now in a museum in an abbey in Sarthe.
I have just been in Helsinki where it was minus 25, so 9 degrees here in Bagni di Lucca is just fine. I am enjoying being away from the Brisbane summer temperatures of more than 35 every day, with 80% humidity….yuk.
see now! that is really really cold, how do they milk their cows over there!!? Italy sounds just lovely, are you in your new house? i shall pop over and see.. c
Hmm . . . let’s see.
A meet up in Chicago in February?
**Taps foot**
No.
Thank you just the same
Toronto, Ontario, Canada is where I am on your weather map; but I can gauge our weather from what you’re having.
Wish I lived closer, but a 9+ hour drive (in good weather) is s little much for a cup of coffee. Do take lots of photos, so we can pretend we were there with you!
Only 9 hours!? I must consider driving to Canada myself.. but you are quite right.. maybe in the summer!! c
i am east of you…where your butter churner came from! i get your weather a day or two after you. we are 5 here this morning. i am making a huge pot of chicken and dumplings for the shelter so my kitchen is toasty warm from cooking! we will be frigid for about 3 days.
yes the churn remembers its origins! chicken and dumplings sounds pretty good right about now, well now i feel bad about wishing the weather away as it comes straight to you!.. c
It makes me feel warm all over just reading how f..king cold the weather is where you are. I had a friend who lived in Chicago and I remember him telling me that he saw someone DIE at a bus stop from the cold. That’s just insane. You people have to think of the possibility of hibernation. Apparently the peasants in the Pyrenees, as late as the beginning of the 20th century, would just go to sleep with their animals for the winter. Read “The Discovery of France” by Graham Robb.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/09/historybooks.features
I shall read this book! Thank you. And goodness me, sleeping with Daisy would be nice except that I think she snores!! and I would die when she rolls over!! let alone the farting in bed!! c
Brrrrrr…..I am with you on this one as it is minus 6 this morning in Iowa without the wind chill. Ugh.