The best 24 hours of hunting I’ve ever had was one of those days south of Malta. A mule deer buck in the evening, a mule deer buck in the morning, two limits of pheasants and a few grouse by early afternoon. -20 was about as warm as it got.
Coldest I have ever been was feeding cattle. I can not remember the exact day but it was mid 80's around Christmas. The thermometer read -50 and the wind was blowing briskly. We were feeding small square bales off the bed of a 76 ford. Only thing we could get to start. One old bull had been doing what old bulls do, hiding out in the hills by himself and now he decided it was time to come home. He was maybe a 100 yards off the road and just standing taking the wind and cold. If he didn't get something in his belly there was a good chance he was going to die so I packed a 80lb bale out to him. We didn't dare risk driving out and getting stuck. That was the coldest two hundred yards of my life. I am not sure I would have wanted to try much more. The cold just sapped the energy out of you. It would have been real easy to die that day if you were not careful.
Might have been 1983. I remember one night working at the aluminum plant when it dropped to -44. Heard it got colder on the prairies.
The wind is no joke on the prairie in the winter time. I'll work outside all day in coveralls and a sweatshirt if it's -20 and calm. But you add in those 25-30mph winds and it's no fun
yep me too. And if the sun was shining with no wind it was a pretty nice day.
How dare business owners Not make employees wear masks on private property for a virus that has a 99.6% survival rate. It’s almost like they feel like they live in a free country.....
It might have been, I was thinking I was out of HS , but it may have been my senior year.
I see ... so what's the mortality rate from second hand tobacco smoke? I'm guessing much less than COVID. But smoking is banned in public places. The poor chain smoker who stocks the grocery store shelves has to put up with a nicotine fit until he can get a break and go outside. It's the law. He has no right to impose his filthy and potentially deadly habit on other people using the facility. Personal freedom is set aside for the benefit of general public welfare. But with COVID we're not talking about the major inconvenience of a nicotine fit ... simply wearing a mask and washing hands. But no, personal freedom is so much more important. The difference is cigarette smoke is visible ... the COVID virus is not. Somehow wearing a mask in a public facility becomes a matter of personal freedom ... while the same personal freedom is obliged to go out the window for dirty smokers. The difference is the idiot in the White House telling everyone COVID "isn't so bad." Almost as deadly as the vice-idiot telling people cigarette smoking doesn't cause cancer. A better example doubtless would have saved a lot of lives. Mixed messages were not in the country's best interest.
So much to tackle on this one, well first off comparing covid to second hand smoke and smoking is laughable at best. Second do you really think these cotton masks people are wearing are really doing anything?? Do you honestly think they are stopping microscopic particles?? I live in California which was one of the first states to start pushing the mask mandate and the stay at home Order and guess what it’s still spreading!! Guess what the masks people are using aren’t doing a lot other than giving people a false sense of security. But if you think they work by all means use them
Ah ... is that O'Doole's? Pulled out the good stuff, eh?
OMG, get some gloves on! How did you ever make it out alive?!
The families of the 300,000+ dead in the U.S alone from this virus would tell you it's NOT like a cold or the flu. People like you are why this virus will hang on so long.
