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Yeah I have learned to accept the darkening as long as the wood is still protected. My entire house(logs) is yellow pine. White pine on the interior walls. Luckily the inside was a one and done finish. It just ambers over time, which is a nice look- just have to make sure when you hang a picture that you don't want to move it years later lol.

Not bad points you make, but given the disappointment in this unexpected disastrous season, why not give the fans something NOW, instead of a few weeks from now(not sure I completely believe they will bring em up then either). What's the risk? Virtually nonexistent.

It will be getting hot by the end of this week. Actually starting midweek. Doesn't look like we bake though- upper 80s-low 90s outside of the UHI.

Thanks. Yeah its the usual aging treated lumber. I replaced some a few years ago, now a few more. They were originally nailed and ofc the ends of the boards split, the nails rust away and the top of the joists start to rot. Repairing that, doing some sistering in some cases, and offsetting the new boards as much as possible so the ends are attached to different joists. And using deck screws ofc. Any experience in cleaning log cabins? Can't power wash-maybe at very low pressure- but no one I have hired ever does it right. Ends up uneven and with streaks and I have to go over it anyway. What I have always done myself is scrub the logs from bottom up with oxyclean and warm water by hand and rinse, then using a ladder as I go higher and continuing the process(scaffolding would be easier and safer lol). Works great but very laborious and it has gotten really old. I use a tinted Woodguard finish(oil based penetrating) and brush it on, which is also getting old. The result is fantastic but fuck am I getting tired of doing it every few years. The finish last longer than that but with all the farming around here, plus tree debris/pollen it gets dark and skanky looking pretty quick.

Tonight might be the coolest night of this this beautiful stretch of weather, with HP nearly overhead, calm winds, and mostly clear skies.

I'm outside replacing some deck boards. Fucking amazing, except for one damn mosquito that keeps trailing me. 78/58

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Also hinting at a ridge over GL, but it would need to be a bit further south. With a -EPO and TPV in that position, there would be plenty of NS energy dropping southward. How far south and how it interacts with any potential southern stream waves might be interesting. Overall that depiction looks quite Nina-ish, but with the NE Pac ridge in a more favorable position/orientation for cold in the central and perhaps eastern US, especially NE.

With the HP positioned just to the NE, the flow is out of the east. A bit unusual this time of year.

Random shower rolled in on the easterly flow. On the northern edge here just a few drops but looks like Ridgely is getting a downpour.

So nice this morning. Next few days are going to be as good as it gets for early August.

Jimmy Smith was picked late in the first round.. so if he was drafted a few picks later he would have sucked? Pretty sure Ray Rice was a second rounder. There are others. Even IF what you say was true in past drafts, what does that have to do with this one or future drafts? Luck? Superstitiousness? Silly and Irrelevant.

This dude is likely the biggest steal of the draft. Go Ravens!

Pretty much the same look as the CanSIPS.

Looks like a really low probability of rain in our region end of the week and through the weekend . HP is dominant and any forcing is super weak. Early next week doesn't look all that promising right now either, but we shall see. The HP will be shifting eastward into the western Atlantic, so an opportunity for a disturbance to make some northward progress with with a more moisture laden flow on the backside.

Low of 57. Beautiful sunrise.

Just northeast is probably better than say.. 8 miles south. Just a guess.

Low of 57. 59 currently. Spectacular morning.

12z ens guidance- EPS and GEPS depict the more significant precip chances for central/western VA late week, with lesser amounts possible for locations further north/east. The GEFS keeps all notable precip southeast of our region.

Do you ever look at the ensemble guidance? It's inherently less volatile run to run in the LR, and gives us an indication of forecast uncertainty. A single deterministic model cannot do this.

DFH 120 time. Limited release edition. The best yet imo. Might not age well like the other versions because of the the dry hopping, but it's so good no one would ever let it age anyway lol.

77/57 at 4pm on August 2 in the MA. Hard to beat.

Drier air is moving in and dewpoints should continue to drop into the 50s this afternoon.

Sunny here. 73/62 Low was 63.

Always the case with these Climate models. I don't pay much attention to the h5 height anomalies on these tools, more so the height lines and the flow. At the surface the depicted temp anomalies give a sense of where the colder air will be relative to avg. At least there is some blue! And its nearby.