In this substance, no one, nothing was distinct. All forms were blurred, distorted. We became half humans, half fish, half angel, half pirate. The blizzard was delightful and the new carburetor ran smoothly as the world was buried in snow.
Source material: The Manitous, Cat’s Cradle, Andor.
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[0:00:02 – 0:00:03] SPEAKER_01: Hi, Snowlog listeners.
[0:00:03 – 0:00:04] SPEAKER_01: This is Natalie.
[0:00:04 – 0:00:11] SPEAKER_01: I am reading tonight’s excerpt from The Manitous by Basil Johnston.
[0:00:11 – 0:00:14] SPEAKER_01: This is my favorite chapter.
[0:00:14 – 0:00:20] SPEAKER_01: I think it’s so beautiful the way he captures the descriptions of water.
[0:00:20 – 0:00:22] SPEAKER_01: And here we go.
[0:00:24 – 0:00:27] SPEAKER_01: I thrashed, I twisted, all for nothing.
[0:00:27 – 0:00:30] SPEAKER_01: Waves broke over my shoulders and over my head.
[0:00:30 – 0:00:35] SPEAKER_01: I held my breath until my lungs burned and I could hold no more.
[0:00:35 – 0:00:36] SPEAKER_01: I had to have air.
[0:00:37 – 0:00:40] SPEAKER_01: I gasped, gulped, and felt water rush into my nose.
[0:00:41 – 0:00:42] SPEAKER_01: Then I lost consciousness.
[0:00:43 – 0:00:44] SPEAKER_01: How long was I out?
[0:00:45 – 0:00:45] SPEAKER_01: I don’t know.
[0:00:46 – 0:00:57] SPEAKER_01: But when I woke up, I could hear voices and sounds like indistinct hollow echoes that one might hear in a cave or in a canyon bouncing from one wall to another.
[0:00:57 – 0:01:06] SPEAKER_01: And I could see, but everything and everyone was enveloped in a fog, a sea blue green fog that felt like water.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:25] SPEAKER_01: in this substance no one nothing was distinct all forms were blurred distorted the beings near me were talking in our language though they sounded as if their tongues were tied and their voices were muffled but i understood
[0:01:26 – 0:01:27] SPEAKER_01: Why did you bring him here?
[0:01:27 – 0:01:29] SPEAKER_01: Why did you leave him where he belongs?
[0:01:30 – 0:01:32] SPEAKER_01: What good is he to you, to us?
[0:01:33 – 0:01:33] SPEAKER_01: He’s too young.
[0:01:34 – 0:01:35] SPEAKER_01: How can he look after you?
[0:01:36 – 0:01:37] SPEAKER_01: You’ll have to look after him.
[0:01:37 – 0:01:40] SPEAKER_01: How are you going to do that?
[0:01:40 – 0:01:43] SPEAKER_01: An older voice, a woman’s voice asked.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:46] SPEAKER_01: But I wanted him, a girl’s voice protested.
[0:01:47 – 0:01:48] SPEAKER_01: He’ll get older.
[0:01:49 – 0:01:55] SPEAKER_01: I tried to see who was talking, but the light from above was too bright to enable me to see clearly.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:56] SPEAKER_01: I had to squint.
[0:01:57 – 0:02:01] SPEAKER_01: It was like looking directly into the sun, except that there was no sun.
[0:02:02 – 0:02:08] SPEAKER_01: I found that if I turned my head away from the glare and squinted, I could discern shapes and forms.
[0:02:09 – 0:02:17] SPEAKER_01: Some I recognized at once as fish, minnows, hundreds of them, which, on seeing me, darted away.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:23] SPEAKER_01: The others I had to study more closely to make sure that my eyes were not deceiving me.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:32] SPEAKER_01: The dozen or so people who were there looked like men and women, but from the waist down were men.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:39] SPEAKER_01: In flesh and form, fish, half-men, half-fish, or half-women, half-fish.
[0:02:40 – 0:02:55] SPEAKER_01: I heard about such nabowabewook and nabownowbaewook, sorry, but I didn’t believe in them, thinking that perhaps they were creations of someone’s overworked imagination.
[0:02:56 – 0:03:00] SPEAKER_01: And then I’m just going to skip ahead to another part I really liked.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:04] SPEAKER_01: Ignoring her, I looked around.
[0:03:04 – 0:03:06] SPEAKER_01: Things had not changed.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:09] SPEAKER_01: It had not been a bad dream, but a reality.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:16] SPEAKER_01: It was a blue-green world, illuminated by a blue-green light that had somehow been filtered from its source above.
[0:03:17 – 0:03:20] SPEAKER_01: Bright, dazzling, almost too dazzling for sight.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:30] SPEAKER_01: Not only was it different in hue from the light that I had been accustomed to, but it seemed to be in constant motion, a fluid, watery light.
[0:03:31 – 0:03:39] SPEAKER_01: I thought I saw motion as it is sculpted by the wind on sand and little ridges, waves and ripples and whirls.
[0:03:39 – 0:03:41] SPEAKER_01: but I could feel it as well.
[0:03:42 – 0:03:46] SPEAKER_01: Not as forceful as the wind that sometimes drives living things to cover and shelter.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:54] SPEAKER_01: Not like that at all, but more like a breath, a caress that touched my entire body, even my heart and my soul.
[0:03:55 – 0:04:02] SPEAKER_01: It swirled and flowed, ebbed and waned, inviting me to go wherever it carried and to do its every bidding.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:10] SPEAKER_01: Anyways, I really like how Basil describes what it’s like to be underwater.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:13] SPEAKER_01: I think it’s beautiful.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:17] SPEAKER_01: And you should really read this chapter about the mermaids and mermen.
[0:04:18 – 0:04:19] SPEAKER_01: And you.
[0:04:19 – 0:04:19] SPEAKER_01: Bye!
[0:04:20 – 0:04:22] UNKNOWN: Why in the night sky are the lights hung?
[0:04:34 – 0:04:48] SPEAKER_02: Why is the earth moving round the sun Floating in the vacuum with no purpose, not a one Why in the night sky are the lights on
[0:04:55 – 0:04:57] AdamSnowLog: Bonjour.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:01] AdamSnowLog: My name is Francois Le Castor coming to you live in the snow globe.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:08] AdamSnowLog: Thank you, Natalie, for the Basil Johnson opening passage on the merpeople.
[0:05:10 – 0:05:10] AdamSnowLog: Um,
[0:05:11 – 0:05:27] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, Natalie definitely had a copy of this book back in the day, and it got lent out and never returned, so having this book come back to us in this way through the Tumbleverse and through the Tumble Homies has been a real treat.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:32] AdamSnowLog: I’ve really been enjoying my first full read-through of this.
[0:05:33 – 0:05:34] AdamSnowLog: Natalie read this book a long time ago.
[0:05:35 – 0:05:41] AdamSnowLog: And I told her, I got into the chapter on the merpeople, and her eyes lit up.
[0:05:41 – 0:05:44] AdamSnowLog: I said, well, maybe you want to read the passage tonight?
[0:05:45 – 0:05:51] AdamSnowLog: While I was trying to get the little guy to bed, she read the passage, so very nicely done.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:55] AdamSnowLog: Nice to hear somebody else’s voice, I’m sure.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:58] AdamSnowLog: Been a big week here.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:01] AdamSnowLog: The merpeople are underwater, but…
[0:06:03 – 0:06:11] AdamSnowLog: As we always say, snow takes many forms and all of Cook County and especially along the North Shore has been under snow.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:14] AdamSnowLog: The light has certainly been different.
[0:06:17 – 0:06:22] AdamSnowLog: This week we got a lot of snow up here.
[0:06:22 – 0:06:25] AdamSnowLog: It’s been really great.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:34] AdamSnowLog: I think I said last week I had a really good gut feeling about what the models were showing and predicting coming into this week.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:57] AdamSnowLog: And I did I just I felt really good about it and part of that was because I had I had taken this carburetor off the snow blower the carburetor had not been running well and I Took it off there, and then I couldn’t get the new one hooked up right away the way like night You know it wasn’t hooked up properly and then I started to get anxious and
[0:06:58 – 0:07:08] AdamSnowLog: Because I knew this storm was coming and you don’t want to be sitting here with a dead snowblower when you’re about to get rocked for two feet.
[0:07:08 – 0:07:15] AdamSnowLog: But this is the snow log officially for February 21st.
[0:07:17 – 0:07:24] AdamSnowLog: But for the last week we had 25 inches of snow here at the tumble shed on the Cadence River.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:35] AdamSnowLog: and that brings us up to rapidly all of a sudden brings us up to 64 inches for the winter so all of a sudden it’s looking real respectable out there and uh
[0:07:37 – 0:07:48] AdamSnowLog: Went out today and restomped down all the home trails with the snowshoes because the old trails, friends, they’re gone.
[0:07:50 – 0:07:54] AdamSnowLog: I mean, I know where they are, but they’re undetectable.
[0:07:55 – 0:08:00] AdamSnowLog: And we’re starting from scratch here, and that’s great because…
[0:08:02 – 0:08:06] AdamSnowLog: Oh, there’s a ton of snow right now out there, so we’ll get those trails reestablished.
[0:08:06 – 0:08:08] AdamSnowLog: I think the low tonight is 9.
[0:08:08 – 0:08:16] AdamSnowLog: I think we’re hitting single digits tonight, so I wanted to really make sure I got out there today, stomped those things down.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:20] AdamSnowLog: I haven’t run the snowmobile across them yet.
[0:08:20 – 0:08:25] AdamSnowLog: I just hand stomped them with my leg hands.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:34] AdamSnowLog: My booted leg hands affixed with the snowshoe stomped them down good.
[0:08:37 – 0:08:48] AdamSnowLog: The ones back in the woods, there actually was a bit of a, you could definitely just see the edges of them where they used to be, but the ones out in the yard where the wind had been whipping, oh boy.
[0:08:49 – 0:08:50] AdamSnowLog: Those were just gone.
[0:08:51 – 0:08:51] AdamSnowLog: They’re buried.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:56] AdamSnowLog: And there’s some spots where the snowblower had hit it and it was like crusty.
[0:08:56 – 0:09:01] AdamSnowLog: And then once you get out in the middle, then it was real, you know, it’s real sinky.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:12] AdamSnowLog: But I’ll have to confirm this at the end of the season, but I believe…
[0:09:13 – 0:09:22] AdamSnowLog: So we got 24 inches on the 18th, on Wednesday, which that has to be a record for the house.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:24] AdamSnowLog: We moved here in 2018.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:28] AdamSnowLog: And I’ve been tracking the snow log ever since.
[0:09:28 – 0:09:32] AdamSnowLog: And I do not think we’ve ever had 24 inches.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:34] AdamSnowLog: I could possibly be fact-checked on the fly.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:39] AdamSnowLog: Maybe we had more and I got so excited I just erased the memory.
[0:09:40 – 0:09:45] AdamSnowLog: But I’m pretty sure we’ve never been up at 24 inches in 24 hours here at the house.
[0:09:46 – 0:09:49] AdamSnowLog: And even I had a hard time calling it that way.
[0:09:49 – 0:09:51] AdamSnowLog: But, you know, I’m not Coco Raz.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:53] AdamSnowLog: I’m not out there wiping the board every six hours.
[0:09:55 – 0:10:19] AdamSnowLog: or or less um these accumulators you know that’s how you really get these like precise absurd numbers uh you get board wipers out there um but anyways 24 hours 24 inches um and then the next day thursday it was still snowing quite well um like big flakes came in um the wednesday storm was like
[0:10:20 – 0:10:24] AdamSnowLog: Just like a billion tiny flakes per second.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:29] AdamSnowLog: I think we did hit 52 mile an hour wind, something like that.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:35] AdamSnowLog: It was probably the high wind for the local neighborhood from what I was looking around at.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:42] AdamSnowLog: I’m pretty sure the Bay of Grand Marais hit 50 plus and also the airport also I think had 50 plus mile an hour wind.
[0:10:44 – 0:10:46] AdamSnowLog: It was just insane.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:50] AdamSnowLog: They closed Highway 61 for like two hours on Wednesday morning.
[0:10:51 – 0:10:58] AdamSnowLog: The co-op actually closed, and to their credit, paid everybody for the shifts they missed.
[0:10:59 – 0:11:08] AdamSnowLog: Because, yeah, asking anybody, hell, even if you lived in Grand Marais, asking anybody to even try and walk a few blocks would have been a heinous request.
[0:11:09 – 0:11:10] AdamSnowLog: So nobody’s out shopping.
[0:11:11 – 0:11:14] AdamSnowLog: Everybody in town was closed, pretty much.
[0:11:14 – 0:11:20] AdamSnowLog: I did see a handful of businesses on Facebook being like, we’re open, stop on by, and it’s like,
[0:11:21 – 0:11:23] AdamSnowLog: on one hand, heroic.
[0:11:24 – 0:11:28] AdamSnowLog: Um, you know, what if somebody really needs some supplies?
[0:11:28 – 0:11:28] AdamSnowLog: Like it’s good.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:33] AdamSnowLog: The gas stations open, I guess, but also on the other hand, like, um,
[0:11:34 – 0:11:36] AdamSnowLog: I think less of you for being open in a storm like that.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:45] AdamSnowLog: Um, and, uh, you know, look at me, um, my big, um, big boy chair here judging other people.
[0:11:45 – 0:11:52] AdamSnowLog: Um, they can, this is America last, uh, check that you can still, it’s still a free country, um, sort of.
[0:11:52 – 0:12:02] AdamSnowLog: Uh, so yeah, good for the couple of businesses that managed to actually stay open, but I don’t know, you must’ve had, you know, $14 in total sales for the day, probably not worth it, but,
[0:12:04 – 0:12:06] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, they closed 61.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:07] AdamSnowLog: I’ve never seen that in my whole…
[0:12:07 – 0:12:10] AdamSnowLog: I moved up here full-time in 2011.
[0:12:10 – 0:12:10] AdamSnowLog: I’ve never seen…
[0:12:11 – 0:12:38] AdamSnowLog: them just straight up close it was closed and not just for like cook county it was straight up the the minnesota highway like the state highway department announced it was closed from straight up from duluth to the canadian border it’s closed now sure i’m you can still go and drive on it’s not like they have it barricaded off or something but just for them to announce that uh it’s snowing so hard that there’s it’s there is no road um and you’d be a fool to try and venture out onto it was um
[0:12:40 – 0:12:41] AdamSnowLog: That was a real, like, wake up.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:46] AdamSnowLog: Like, literally right when I woke up, I think I read that news pretty much right away.
[0:12:46 – 0:12:47] AdamSnowLog: I was like, got the text.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:50] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, co-op’s closed.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:51] AdamSnowLog: Let everybody know.
[0:12:51 – 0:12:53] AdamSnowLog: I said, all right, I’ll let them know.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:57] AdamSnowLog: And then I looked, and sure enough, like, right then is when they announced, like, 61’s just closed.
[0:12:58 – 0:13:01] AdamSnowLog: And also, like, don’t you dare even attempt to drive anywhere.
[0:13:02 – 0:13:04] AdamSnowLog: And don’t worry, I wasn’t going anywhere.
[0:13:05 – 0:13:09] AdamSnowLog: School had been canceled, like, the night before, like, the afternoon before.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:17] AdamSnowLog: Like I said last week, the track was, like, looking like it was going to bullseye us.
[0:13:17 – 0:13:19] AdamSnowLog: And not quite, actually.
[0:13:19 – 0:13:27] AdamSnowLog: It was just going to, the low was going to just, like, be 15 miles offshore with, like, just a hurricane almost driving down.
[0:13:27 – 0:13:29] AdamSnowLog: Pure east wind.
[0:13:29 – 0:13:32] AdamSnowLog: Just full fetch, baby.
[0:13:35 – 0:13:39] AdamSnowLog: Ripping moisture off the icebergs and whatever open water is left out there.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:43] AdamSnowLog: The full length of Lake Superior and just smacking it straight into the north shore.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:45] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, Grand Marais got walloped.
[0:13:46 – 0:13:50] AdamSnowLog: The whole shore, just like the incredible snow drifts we got.
[0:13:50 – 0:13:53] AdamSnowLog: A lot of cool snow drift pictures we got out of the storm.
[0:13:54 – 0:14:02] AdamSnowLog: Just the view out the window on Wednesday, just appreciating the total insanity that was this storm.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:07] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, I don’t know, got another inch the next day on Thursday while I was out.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:09] AdamSnowLog: I didn’t do any storm removal.
[0:14:09 – 0:14:15] AdamSnowLog: I dug a path to the bird feeder on Wednesday and put out some plaques on flower seeds.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:27] AdamSnowLog: For the few birds that were still trying to move around, I did see the ravens flying a little bit, and just, I don’t know, whenever you get a crazy wind, it seems like those ravens are out there having fun with it.
[0:14:30 – 0:14:31] SPEAKER_02: But I did dig…
[0:14:31 – 0:14:36] AdamSnowLog: a path to the bird feeder, and then I did sort of try and clear the steps a little at one point.
[0:14:36 – 0:14:55] AdamSnowLog: But otherwise, I did walk up to the garage and back in the afternoon with Arrow, and that was exhausting, just flat-out exhausting, like high-stepping through just absurd amounts of snow, huge drifts.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:56] AdamSnowLog: You had to just almost swim through them.
[0:14:57 – 0:15:00] AdamSnowLog: Well, yeah, by the time I got to the garage, I was huffing and puffing.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:04] AdamSnowLog: It was great.
[0:15:05 – 0:15:08] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, so everything was basically shut down.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:09] AdamSnowLog: Got the day off.
[0:15:09 – 0:15:12] AdamSnowLog: I didn’t even attempt to just let it pile up.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:14] AdamSnowLog: I was like at first, you know, I got lots of gas.
[0:15:14 – 0:15:17] AdamSnowLog: I’ll just stay on top of it and keep snow blowing.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:20] AdamSnowLog: And never let it hold.
[0:15:20 – 0:15:24] AdamSnowLog: That just sounds great, but when it starts blowing like that, there’s literally no point.
[0:15:26 – 0:15:29] AdamSnowLog: You go out there and snowball, it’s just going to fill right in behind you as you go.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:35] AdamSnowLog: So you’re just wasting your gas, your energy, and your time.
[0:15:35 – 0:15:48] AdamSnowLog: You’re much better off just staying inside and reading a good book like The Manitous by Basil Johnson or maybe Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut or maybe watching some Andor.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:51] AdamSnowLog: Maybe watching a little Common Side Effects.
[0:15:52 – 0:15:58] AdamSnowLog: Another one I’ve been watching, and Eric, I think, suggested that along with like 10 other people to me.
[0:15:58 – 0:16:03] AdamSnowLog: So it’s been the winter of catching up on things that a lot of people recommended to me.
[0:16:04 – 0:16:05] AdamSnowLog: And it turns out they were right.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:08] AdamSnowLog: People that have known me a long time know me.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:22] AdamSnowLog: And when a longtime friend makes a recommendation to you, and then when like five more longtime friends make the same recommendation, like wise up and listen and just go and enjoy what they’ve recommended because you’re going to love it.
[0:16:23 – 0:16:25] AdamSnowLog: And that was definitely the case with Common Side Effects.
[0:16:25 – 0:16:31] AdamSnowLog: It’s been really a real treat in the middle of February, as was the storm.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:32] AdamSnowLog: Holy moly.
[0:16:35 – 0:16:35] AdamSnowLog: Yeah.
[0:16:37 – 0:17:02] AdamSnowLog: Thursday, I finally managed to get out there, and it took two full tanks of gas in the snowblower, and then, I don’t know, the whole morning, just on the snowblower side, and then I went back out there and, like, shoveled all the nooks and crannies, and, Christ, the path to the dog kennel, to Arrow’s kennel, and the old chicken coop building, like, I…
[0:17:02 – 0:17:05] AdamSnowLog: That wasn’t even possible to snowball that.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:07] AdamSnowLog: I just had to tunnel my way back there all the way.
[0:17:08 – 0:17:13] AdamSnowLog: Her house, which she was born in, is a pretty good-sized dog house.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:14] AdamSnowLog: Again, just gone.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:16] AdamSnowLog: It’s not there.
[0:17:16 – 0:17:17] AdamSnowLog: It’s just buried.
[0:17:17 – 0:17:25] AdamSnowLog: Honestly, if she had never claimed she’s a great runner and she’s a great dog, but she’s not a thinker, this one.
[0:17:26 – 0:17:33] AdamSnowLog: There’s not a whole lot going on in that coconut, just a couple of seeds clicking back and forth in there.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:36] AdamSnowLog: And she could straight up just jump out of that kennel.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:40] AdamSnowLog: At this point the snow is basically up to almost to the top of the fence.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:43] AdamSnowLog: She’s never pulled that trick off.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:48] AdamSnowLog: I’ve always worried that she’s going to just jump the fence one of these winters when you’ve got these crazy drifts in there.
[0:17:48 – 0:17:49] AdamSnowLog: Not a whole lot you do.
[0:17:49 – 0:18:06] AdamSnowLog: You try to knock them down, but I was sore, friends, and I took all I had after snowblowing to dig the trench and tunnel back to her house and uncover the barrel, and then I gave her fresh straw while I’m in there.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:09] AdamSnowLog: Of course, animals love fresh straw.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:15] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, it was just brutal.
[0:18:17 – 0:18:19] AdamSnowLog: By the time I got us all dug out, I didn’t even…
[0:18:20 – 0:18:23] AdamSnowLog: So definitely no school, definitely no work on Wednesday.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:25] AdamSnowLog: Nobody’s going anywhere.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:30] AdamSnowLog: Thursday, I was like, well, we’ll see.
[0:18:31 – 0:18:37] AdamSnowLog: If I was really busting my ass, I could have probably gotten her cleared out a little earlier, but also I’m enjoying the snow day.
[0:18:37 – 0:18:39] AdamSnowLog: So back-to-back snow days, you aren’t getting that very often.
[0:18:41 – 0:18:45] AdamSnowLog: So, you know, paced myself and took it easy.
[0:18:45 – 0:18:48] AdamSnowLog: Still worked very hard, but you know, don’t overdo it.
[0:18:48 – 0:18:50] AdamSnowLog: Got everything cleared out of there.
[0:18:50 – 0:18:55] AdamSnowLog: Like just in time for Natalie to get to yoga like Thursday night.
[0:18:56 – 0:19:00] AdamSnowLog: We finally got the driveway cleared enough to link into the main road.
[0:19:01 – 0:19:23] AdamSnowLog: where she could get out of here um and go uh go to yoga um but yeah just wild by the time I was done like I got done with that we got I took the kids out we all we all went for a nice walk and like the kids didn’t get the little sled out and taking comical pictures of like
[0:19:24 – 0:19:28] AdamSnowLog: Little children standing next to a pile of snow that’s like 10 times taller than they are.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:32] AdamSnowLog: You know, pretty magical.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:38] AdamSnowLog: Just whipping the boy into a snow drift, you know.
[0:19:39 – 0:19:41] AdamSnowLog: A lot of good times out there.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:57] AdamSnowLog: uh because the wind did finally die down by like thursday afternoon and then it was like wow just look at all this snow like this is even to me i’m six plus and this is like an absurd like there’s eye level and higher piles of snow all over the place
[0:19:58 – 0:20:21] AdamSnowLog: it just it does make you feel like a brand new creature makes you feel like a little kid again and maybe not a mer person where I’m like half human man half fish maybe it’s like half human man half snowshoe hare I don’t know what that’s called um
[0:20:24 – 0:20:48] AdamSnowLog: now uh i’ll have to think about that one but i did when i was snow blowing just caught on motion out of the corner of the eye while it’s just windy and still snowing and it’s like oh no it is it’s a huge snowshoe hair just like ran across the snow covered driveway right in front of me while i was up there with the john deere which was pretty neat to see um
[0:20:50 – 0:20:58] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know, you know, not an uncommon sighting, but they’re just neat, especially when they’re in the all-white, you know, winter mode.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:05] AdamSnowLog: Jesus, I need to get into this ice-cold beer.
[0:21:08 – 0:21:10] AdamSnowLog: Got me a bear hop.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:12] AdamSnowLog: Half bear, half man.
[0:21:15 – 0:21:15] AdamSnowLog: Um…
[0:21:20 – 0:21:33] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, I got done snowboarding and then got the kids out in the yard and then had like an hour until Natalie was going to head over to her class.
[0:21:35 – 0:21:36] AdamSnowLog: I was like, I gotta hop in the shower.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:38] AdamSnowLog: I stink.
[0:21:40 – 0:21:50] AdamSnowLog: I stink like, you know, carburetor and snow and just hard work and grit and determination.
[0:21:52 – 0:22:01] AdamSnowLog: And I’m going to go have a beer and stand in a hot shower for like 40 minutes, just not even move, which felt great.
[0:22:01 – 0:22:07] AdamSnowLog: But like I’ve never experienced this before with a snowblower, but my fingertips hurt.
[0:22:08 – 0:22:12] AdamSnowLog: Not my fingers, not my hand, like my fingertips specifically.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:15] AdamSnowLog: And, you know…
[0:22:16 – 0:22:20] AdamSnowLog: Hell, half the screws and bolts in that machine are not original anymore.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:23] AdamSnowLog: The John Deere is older than I am.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:48] AdamSnowLog: and, um, yeah, like, I think the, like, the, just the, the thing, like, rattles and shakes so much that, um, running that much snowblower, um, it, like, vibrates, it, like, shakes your fingers to the core to the point where, um, it actually, like, hurt them, and sort of the same thing was going on with my toes, even, but, um, after a nice long shower, and then
[0:22:50 – 0:23:10] AdamSnowLog: got the kids fed and got them to bed and then I promptly put myself to bed right away on Thursday I was like I’m so sore and tired from the snow clearing operation that I like couldn’t I didn’t even want to sit upright I just had to lay down and that was the end of a two-day snow day and it was something else folks
[0:23:13 – 0:23:35] AdamSnowLog: also had a big week on the red squirrels deterred um got three more this week um including another one this morning that was the toughest little son of a ever seen try and steal bird seed um i’m taking a hard line i don’t feel good about it and i
[0:23:38 – 0:23:39] AdamSnowLog: Got too many damn squirrels.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:47] AdamSnowLog: I wonder on, we got, um, not a, it’s an, you know, we got some land, but it’s not that much.
[0:23:47 – 0:23:56] AdamSnowLog: Like how many damn red squirrels are in an acre of, uh, North shore, um, you know, Northern hardwood forest.
[0:23:59 – 0:24:04] AdamSnowLog: Because it seems like there’s literally an infinite supply of them, and they just keep coming.
[0:24:05 – 0:24:08] AdamSnowLog: Got three more this week, so that’s eight red squirrels deterred.
[0:24:09 – 0:24:10] AdamSnowLog: And I do not feel good about it.
[0:24:10 – 0:24:21] AdamSnowLog: Every single time I have to step out there with Dr. BB Gun and shoo them away and blast them off the bird feeder.
[0:24:23 – 0:24:29] AdamSnowLog: I always feel pretty bad, but I do feel like we are strengthening our alliance with the local raven.
[0:24:30 – 0:24:46] AdamSnowLog: So that is a positive because I’ve been putting them out on the biggest snow pile and something keeps coming and taking them and I’m putting them in front of the cameras and I cannot capture it.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:51] AdamSnowLog: So either these ravens have some sort of stealth cloaking technology or
[0:24:51 – 0:25:09] AdamSnowLog: because the stupid camera picks up like whatever snowflakes going in front of it’ll set off the like motion thing but yeah somehow like a raven swooping down and grabbing its prize um not recorded give me a break this is a conspiracy and a cover-up of the
[0:25:11 – 0:25:15] AdamSnowLog: At least a medium magnitude by the raven consortium.
[0:25:16 – 0:25:21] AdamSnowLog: But anyways, always good to get in tight with the local raven.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:24] AdamSnowLog: You want those guys on your side.
[0:25:24 – 0:25:25] AdamSnowLog: Everybody knows that.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:28] AdamSnowLog: Heyo.
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] AdamSnowLog: Eight, though.
[0:25:29 – 0:25:30] AdamSnowLog: That’s a lot.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:33] AdamSnowLog: Stop it, guys.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:35] AdamSnowLog: It’s a bird seed feeder.
[0:25:36 – 0:25:37] AdamSnowLog: No squirrels allowed.
[0:25:37 – 0:25:38] AdamSnowLog: Maybe I need to get a little sign.
[0:25:38 – 0:25:40] AdamSnowLog: Maybe I need to improve my signage.
[0:25:41 – 0:25:43] AdamSnowLog: Just something as simple as, like, no squirrels allowed.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:46] AdamSnowLog: Back off, you little scamps.
[0:25:49 – 0:25:51] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, let’s talk records, though.
[0:25:51 – 0:26:01] AdamSnowLog: I said earlier that the 25 inches for this storm here, the storm was supposed to start Tuesday night.
[0:26:01 – 0:26:04] AdamSnowLog: The blizzard warning was in effect at 9 p.m.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:16] AdamSnowLog: And I sat up because I already knew at that point that the school’s out and canceled and I thought there was a very high chance, very, hell, I wasn’t going in either way probably.
[0:26:16 – 0:26:17] AdamSnowLog: I wasn’t going to be able to get out of here.
[0:26:18 – 0:26:22] AdamSnowLog: But I figured the co-op was probably going to end up making the correct call to close, you know, and they did.
[0:26:24 – 0:26:26] AdamSnowLog: But I stayed up pretty late on Tuesday.
[0:26:26 – 0:26:30] AdamSnowLog: I was pretty jazzed up awaiting this storm to arrive.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:32] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, 9 p.m. rolls around, nothing.
[0:26:32 – 0:26:33] AdamSnowLog: 10 p.m., nothing.
[0:26:34 – 0:26:35] AdamSnowLog: Midnight, nothing.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:36] AdamSnowLog: It’s starting to get windy.
[0:26:38 – 0:26:41] AdamSnowLog: There’s something in the air, but nothing coming down.
[0:26:41 – 0:26:43] AdamSnowLog: I’m watching the radar.
[0:26:43 – 0:26:48] AdamSnowLog: It’s creeping its way up the shore as the low-pressure system tracked its way up here.
[0:26:49 – 0:27:15] AdamSnowLog: and I don’t know, I finally went to bed, and then I got up at like 3, one of the kids was crying, and I looked out, and yeah, it’s snowing, okay, but like nothing, I looked out the side window, and there’s like nothing landing, you know, I was like, what the hell, it turns out it was just the wind, because even by morning, when I finally got up at like 6, 5, 45, 6, I got up and checked it again, and
[0:27:16 – 0:27:29] AdamSnowLog: There was still nothing over on that side porch, but I was just getting absolutely scoured by the wind And nothing was gonna sit there, but then you look around the corner It’s like oh, okay over by the bird feeder.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:29] AdamSnowLog: Holy shit.
[0:27:29 – 0:27:43] AdamSnowLog: There is a goodly amount of snow already dropped by like sunrise and So yeah, once it started snowing it was Accumulating easily at like an inch an hour or more at points even though that wind
[0:27:45 – 0:27:47] AdamSnowLog: Man, that wind makes it so hard.
[0:27:47 – 0:27:51] AdamSnowLog: It makes it very tough to get an accurate read on it.
[0:27:54 – 0:28:00] AdamSnowLog: But, you know, you get the snow stick out, you take a lot of pokes and averaging and walking around as you can.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:10] AdamSnowLog: On Thursday morning, once everything has settled down, you know, you can kind of like see, well, yeah, there’s multiple spots where there’s like, oh, there’s only like 16 inches here.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:12] AdamSnowLog: It’s a nice, easy to walk through spot.
[0:28:13 – 0:28:16] AdamSnowLog: Multiple spots where it’s 21, 22.
[0:28:16 – 0:28:20] AdamSnowLog: And then there’s like a lot of spots where it’s, you know, 25, 26, 27, 28 spots.
[0:28:23 – 0:28:24] AdamSnowLog: And then those are just the flats.
[0:28:25 – 0:28:30] AdamSnowLog: There’s multiple drifts that are just, like, up to your, like, chest.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:38] AdamSnowLog: Up in the middle of your thorax is a grown man that you’re literally, if you try and walk through that, you’re just, you’re not even on the ground anymore.
[0:28:38 – 0:28:42] AdamSnowLog: You’re just sort of, you know, you are a merman at that point.
[0:28:42 – 0:28:43] AdamSnowLog: You’re a frozen merman.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:48] AdamSnowLog: swimming through the drifts.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:54] AdamSnowLog: The light behaves differently in those situations, as you will find out.
[0:28:56 – 0:28:57] SPEAKER_02: But…
[0:28:57 – 0:29:00] AdamSnowLog: You know, so it’s like, it’s really tough to figure it out.
[0:29:00 – 0:29:08] AdamSnowLog: But we have a lot of resources at our hands, mainly talk to your neighbors, you know, kind of take a lot of measurements and then sort of smooth that average out.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:12] AdamSnowLog: So I was for sure originally like, okay, we’re at 21, 22, easy.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:25] AdamSnowLog: But what happens is not so much the problem is that the wind blows it away because the wind is blowing it away from your driveway, but it’s also just blowing river snow over from the river into your driveway.
[0:29:25 – 0:29:26] AdamSnowLog: So like you’re,
[0:29:27 – 0:29:30] AdamSnowLog: Whatever you’re losing to the wind is being replaced.
[0:29:30 – 0:29:34] AdamSnowLog: Displacement is replacement when it’s that windy.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:40] AdamSnowLog: Then you just sort of smooth out the drifts and the low spots and come to that.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:46] AdamSnowLog: But the thing that people don’t realize, especially with a really heavy wet snow like this, is compaction.
[0:29:48 – 0:30:11] AdamSnowLog: I put a stick in the big pile out here by the bird feeder and kind of watched it and at one point it was up to like almost 22 inches and then by the next morning that it was down to like just under 20 for the same snow and it wasn’t even that windy by that point so it’s compaction and that was in a relatively like not sunny spot
[0:30:13 – 0:30:14] AdamSnowLog: So you’ll get varying degrees of this.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:23] AdamSnowLog: Um, you’ll notice like on Wednesday when I did go walk up to the garage, you’re still like, even though it’s heavy, wet snow, you’re kind of booting through it.
[0:30:24 – 0:30:34] AdamSnowLog: Um, by Thursday, the same spot, I was kind of just like walking on top of a lot of the drifts, not fully, but you can tell that it’s not the same.
[0:30:34 – 0:30:36] AdamSnowLog: Uh, snow takes many forms.
[0:30:38 – 0:30:42] AdamSnowLog: And when you get that magnitude of snowfall, it behaves very oddly.
[0:30:42 – 0:30:42] AdamSnowLog: Um,
[0:30:43 – 0:31:10] AdamSnowLog: it’s got uh you know it’s got an ability to like compact pretty quickly and then that changes its whole like how you can walk through it how a dog can run through it how the snowblower treats it how the snowblower can like chew into it and and then throw it um how it behaves on getting it off your windshield or your vehicle um shoveling it um getting it off of a
[0:31:11 – 0:31:15] AdamSnowLog: you know wooden deck board versus a gravel bottom packed snow um
[0:31:18 – 0:31:20] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, compaction, though.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:28] AdamSnowLog: And this is why you see these records and you’re like, how the hell are they getting 38.6 inches?
[0:31:30 – 0:31:32] AdamSnowLog: And I don’t know if that means 38 and a half.
[0:31:33 – 0:31:36] AdamSnowLog: I’m assuming that means just because we’re using inches.
[0:31:36 – 0:31:38] AdamSnowLog: I’m assuming 38.6 means 38 and a half feet.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:38] AdamSnowLog: But I saw like a 24.3.
[0:31:44 – 0:31:46] AdamSnowLog: So is that 24 and a quarter inch?
[0:31:47 – 0:31:50] AdamSnowLog: I’m definitely not cocorat sanction, but that’s my read on those.
[0:31:50 – 0:31:58] AdamSnowLog: But like in a world in which I’m like, wow, I don’t even, I’m somewhere in between 22 and 28 inches here.
[0:31:58 – 0:31:59] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:31:59 – 0:32:01] AdamSnowLog: It’s kind of settling in the middle.
[0:32:01 – 0:32:05] AdamSnowLog: And then based on the reports, the neighbors like feel pretty good about that.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:06] AdamSnowLog: Yeah.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:11] AdamSnowLog: 24, 25 inches for the storm, reasonably high certainty and confidence in that call.
[0:32:12 – 0:32:12] AdamSnowLog: Um,
[0:32:13 – 0:32:17] AdamSnowLog: How the hell is anybody out here getting like, oh, yeah, no, I didn’t have 24.
[0:32:17 – 0:32:19] AdamSnowLog: I had 24.3.
[0:32:21 – 0:32:29] AdamSnowLog: Especially when you’re dealing with that kind of wind factor and that kind of just the nature of snow.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:30] AdamSnowLog: It doesn’t just sit still.
[0:32:30 – 0:32:36] AdamSnowLog: It looks gentle and calm and that it just falls and lays there.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:39] AdamSnowLog: And I don’t want to say snow has a mind of its own.
[0:32:39 – 0:32:45] AdamSnowLog: But I will just say that snow takes many forms and that it is always doing something.
[0:32:46 – 0:32:46] AdamSnowLog: Snow is in flux.
[0:32:47 – 0:32:49] AdamSnowLog: Snow is not stagnant.
[0:32:50 – 0:32:55] AdamSnowLog: The snow you see out there today will not be the same snow you see out there tomorrow.
[0:32:56 – 0:33:12] AdamSnowLog: So I kind of had to look into it because I saw 38.6 inches in Hoveland and I looked and the mark is like in fabulous, thriving downtown Hoveland and like right on the lake off of Chicago Bay there.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:13] AdamSnowLog: which was not unheard of.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:19] AdamSnowLog: A lot of the heaviest snowfall reports were like right on the big lake, which is weird.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:27] AdamSnowLog: Usually you get the heavier snowfall like up the hill, which up the hill on the first hill at least did get smacked, which is where we’re at.
[0:33:29 – 0:33:34] AdamSnowLog: But all the really crazy readings were right down on the lake, including that one.
[0:33:34 – 0:33:44] AdamSnowLog: Hovland was making the news at 38.6 inches, and people were like, this is some sort of malfunction.
[0:33:44 – 0:33:45] AdamSnowLog: This is some clanker.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:46] AdamSnowLog: It’s off its rocker.
[0:33:50 – 0:34:01] AdamSnowLog: No, that’s a very well-respected and longtime CoCoRaHS human reporter with a board, and they are wiping the board is what they’re doing.
[0:34:03 – 0:34:15] AdamSnowLog: So instead of just sitting around watching common side effects or reading Basil Johnson, these people are out there like they got their official reporting station, and then every six hours minimum,
[0:34:16 – 0:34:19] AdamSnowLog: But I don’t think there’s any rule against wiping it every hour.
[0:34:19 – 0:34:27] AdamSnowLog: You go out and you measure the board, and then you scrape it down with like a squeegee thing, like flat to the board, so you have nothing left.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:41] AdamSnowLog: And then you record that, so you’re incrementally recording the 24-hour or whatever full storm totals in that way, little by little, instead of trying to record it all on Thursday afternoon.
[0:34:42 – 0:34:46] AdamSnowLog: When it’s all been packed down and blown about.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:48] AdamSnowLog: This is the smart way to do it.
[0:34:50 – 0:34:54] AdamSnowLog: So, you know, I’m here and I’m like, yeah, we got 24 or 25 inches or whatever.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:59] AdamSnowLog: Like the Hoveland, downtown Hoveland is like seven miles away as the Raven flies.
[0:34:59 – 0:35:03] AdamSnowLog: And there’s no fucking way they got 38 and a half down there.
[0:35:03 – 0:35:03] AdamSnowLog: I don’t care.
[0:35:04 – 0:35:05] AdamSnowLog: These people are cracked.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:09] AdamSnowLog: But in reality, it doesn’t take a whole lot extra.
[0:35:09 – 0:35:19] AdamSnowLog: And then if you’re actually recording it properly to go up to that level, which makes me wonder, is 24 even a good call for here?
[0:35:20 – 0:35:22] AdamSnowLog: Because that’s just a one-time measurement.
[0:35:23 – 0:35:25] AdamSnowLog: I wasn’t wiping nothing.
[0:35:26 – 0:35:28] AdamSnowLog: I wasn’t paying that close attention, frankly.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] AdamSnowLog: But that’s how you get it.
[0:35:29 – 0:35:29] AdamSnowLog: It’s every…
[0:35:31 – 0:35:47] AdamSnowLog: every once in a while you go out there and you measure it and you wipe it and then you mark that down and then you start over and then um that way you’re capturing the snowfall at its fluffiest snow so fluffy you can’t get enoughy tumble homies um that’s what you want so
[0:35:48 – 0:36:01] AdamSnowLog: So that is a way at least to – it’s a really good way to both combat the wind and also if you put your platform in a spot that’s going to get some protection from the extreme winds that you get.
[0:36:02 – 0:36:04] AdamSnowLog: And then also a way to –
[0:36:06 – 0:36:28] AdamSnowLog: combat the snow packing itself down before you get a chance to really measure it so is considered to be the most accurate but even that is you know questionable and then you’re basically just taking like the average of all the you know trained reporting from the whole county to try and paint a general picture of what everybody ended up getting in the end does it matter it does not
[0:36:30 – 0:36:32] AdamSnowLog: Um, I had another official station.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:33] AdamSnowLog: It’s pretty close by.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:34] AdamSnowLog: I hit 23 point.
[0:36:34 – 0:36:36] AdamSnowLog: Uh, I’m sorry.
[0:36:36 – 0:36:37] AdamSnowLog: According to these notes, this is 23.8.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:39] AdamSnowLog: So I don’t know.
[0:36:40 – 0:36:43] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know what that means, but it’s more than 23 and not quite 24.
[0:36:46 – 0:37:10] AdamSnowLog: for the 24-hour period and then the lumber mill station that set the state record um 2022 um we were like above 165 over there like that one that one had like 20 so a lot of real like zany big numbers out there anyways it was like all over the news and on the internet like
[0:37:10 – 0:37:21] AdamSnowLog: Hovland, Minnesota has destroyed the 24-hour record previously held by Finland from that famous 1994 storm.
[0:37:22 – 0:37:30] AdamSnowLog: And then, like, the next day it was like, sorry to inform you people, but they actually didn’t technically set the record, which was 36 inches.
[0:37:33 – 0:37:40] AdamSnowLog: But it’s on technicality because the official record for the state of Minnesota is a calendar day.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:45] AdamSnowLog: And that was 36 inches, Finland, Minnesota in 1994.
[0:37:48 – 0:38:07] AdamSnowLog: and uh what they got the 38.6 mark the way the website set up now is like it’s a rolling 24 hour so you know like i said it didn’t quite start at midnight when we were expecting it to it didn’t it was more like 2 33 in the morning when it really started snowing so
[0:38:09 – 0:38:18] AdamSnowLog: You know, if you went from there all the way through to daylight on Thursday or whatever, you know, somewhere in there, whatever the heaviest 24 hours was, is how they got that 38.6.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:23] AdamSnowLog: I believe they ended up like with 40 plus in that station for the storm even.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:28] AdamSnowLog: So, I mean, even crazier, but that was over like 30 plus hours or whatever.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:39] AdamSnowLog: So anyways, Finland has retained the record technicality, but I believe the credibility of the Hovland station and that number and their methods.
[0:38:40 – 0:38:42] AdamSnowLog: And that is absolutely fucking insane.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:44] AdamSnowLog: 30, 40 inches for a storm.
[0:38:46 – 0:39:04] AdamSnowLog: because that was the report, so it was like, well, at first it was like, I don’t know, 10 to 16 inches, and then 12 to 18 inches, and we’re having a meeting at work, and, like, while we’re in the meeting, it, like, bloop, bloop, 16 to 24 inches, and then there was a lot of reports of, like, there could be localized hits of, like, four feet.
[0:39:05 – 0:39:08] AdamSnowLog: You might see the kind of stuff where, like, entire cars are buried or whatever, but…
[0:39:09 – 0:39:13] AdamSnowLog: It did not quite go to four feet, but damn, 40 inches of snow.
[0:39:13 – 0:39:14] AdamSnowLog: I mean, I don’t know.
[0:39:14 – 0:39:23] AdamSnowLog: The 25 inches that we got here felt just like an irrational amount of snow to move.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:27] AdamSnowLog: Move it, we did.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:34] AdamSnowLog: On Sunday, we did get out and ice fish a little bit, and it was, like, the first fall spring on Sunday.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:35] AdamSnowLog: It was just beautiful.
[0:39:35 – 0:39:38] AdamSnowLog: Like, got out and fished.
[0:39:38 – 0:39:48] AdamSnowLog: Buddy Josh got a rainbow and a couple little splake and went out and got some margarita mix and came home, and we were down to, like, nothing on the porch for snow.
[0:39:48 – 0:39:56] AdamSnowLog: And I just set up, like, the lawn chairs right by the bird feeder and, like, had a couple margs on the porch just watching the chickadees real close.
[0:39:57 – 0:40:00] AdamSnowLog: And just taking it in, like, knowing the storm was coming.
[0:40:00 – 0:40:01] AdamSnowLog: And, like, look at this.
[0:40:01 – 0:40:06] AdamSnowLog: The entire deck, it’s the middle of February, and the entire deck is just clean right now.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:11] AdamSnowLog: Right now, there’s two feet of snow out there, you know.
[0:40:11 – 0:40:12] AdamSnowLog: It happens real quick.
[0:40:12 – 0:40:17] AdamSnowLog: I did have the wherewithal to, like, put the chairs away and kind of clean up the…
[0:40:18 – 0:40:37] AdamSnowLog: you know, the kid’s bike, I had my bike out, put the bikes away, get everything buttoned back up, that was a fall spring, and it’s okay to enjoy a fall spring, as long as you’re honest with yourself about what you’re experiencing, but to watch that duck go to, like, that Sunday was, like, well, all the snow we had had on it was, like, finally just
[0:40:37 – 0:40:46] AdamSnowLog: melted off and you’re sitting out there and basically just a light hooded sweatshirt, drinking a margarita, watching the birds.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:50] AdamSnowLog: So then all of a sudden just being in one of the craziest blizzards you’ve ever seen in your life.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:54] AdamSnowLog: I saw fluffy clouds and it’s like, well, it’s all connected.
[0:40:54 – 0:40:57] AdamSnowLog: You know, it was the low pressure system.
[0:40:58 – 0:41:17] AdamSnowLog: combining with that warm moist air and then that colliding with the cold arctic air um you know and luckily the line for us was south of here and we just got pummeled with snow a lot of people got like heavy rain down south out of the same system
[0:41:20 – 0:41:22] AdamSnowLog: But, yeah, we handled it.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:27] AdamSnowLog: That snowblower, as I said, is older than I am, and it’s a beast.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:31] AdamSnowLog: John Deere 1032, big dog, nothing heavy as hell.
[0:41:31 – 0:41:36] AdamSnowLog: It’s got, like, you know, two different wrenches, and you can basically work on the whole thing, take it apart.
[0:41:39 – 0:41:41] AdamSnowLog: Everything’s pretty simple to work on on that thing.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:46] AdamSnowLog: There’s definitely no touchscreens or any goddamn computers to deal with.
[0:41:47 – 0:42:08] AdamSnowLog: But even a carburetor on a simple Tecumseh, yeah, a Tecumseh 10 horse, basic, you know, carburetor, anybody that has worked on that kind of engine knows you can tell the carburetor is bad, it’s not running right.
[0:42:10 – 0:42:18] AdamSnowLog: happens, you know, you can treat them well, do everything right, and after like eight full winters of running, they just end up getting to the point where you either got to clean them,
[0:42:19 – 0:42:20] AdamSnowLog: Or replace them.
[0:42:20 – 0:42:30] AdamSnowLog: And I’d love to be the kind of person that I’m going to go spend, you know, $50 on the fancy little needles and teensy drill bits you need to clean a jet or whatever.
[0:42:32 – 0:42:34] AdamSnowLog: But it’s not like that wasn’t OEM part on there.
[0:42:34 – 0:42:37] AdamSnowLog: That was already like just a $22 Amazon thing.
[0:42:40 – 0:43:03] AdamSnowLog: carb and I’m not proud to be using that stuff but on the other hand I’m not paying $250 for a OEM you know Tecumseh carb that was made in Moline or whatever I mean I gotta you know I got bills to pay you know and I gotta keep this driveway clean and try and live you know life in a good way and live life clean but
[0:43:05 – 0:43:12] AdamSnowLog: Um, yeah, sometimes you gotta buy a $22 carb off Amazon and, uh, even came with a new spark plug.
[0:43:13 – 0:43:26] AdamSnowLog: So, um, yeah, goddamn carbs are always a struggle though, even if you’re well prepared and you pick the right week to do it where it’s going to be like nice and warm in the middle of February.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:29] AdamSnowLog: Um, it’s still a pain in the ass to change a carb.
[0:43:31 – 0:43:32] AdamSnowLog: Big shout out to…
[0:43:34 – 0:43:44] AdamSnowLog: One of my favorite YouTubers, Donnyboy73, anybody out there who’s working on Tecumseh 10 horses or literally any small engine that uses a carburetor,
[0:43:46 – 0:43:48] AdamSnowLog: You’ve guaranteed watched Donny Boy.
[0:43:48 – 0:43:55] AdamSnowLog: I have no idea how somebody can explain small engines in such a perfect way.
[0:43:55 – 0:44:02] AdamSnowLog: The know-how, the confidence it builds watching those videos.
[0:44:03 – 0:44:03] AdamSnowLog: I can do this.
[0:44:04 – 0:44:04] AdamSnowLog: I can do this.
[0:44:05 – 0:44:05] AdamSnowLog: I’ve seen it.
[0:44:06 – 0:44:07] AdamSnowLog: It all makes sense.
[0:44:08 – 0:44:21] AdamSnowLog: But, like, how is he getting these camera angles of, like, I’m going to get in here with this tiny little, you know, screwdriver and adjust this jet through this little hole, this pinhole, you know, and this cover.
[0:44:21 – 0:44:26] AdamSnowLog: And it’s, like, somehow I can’t even see that with my eyes when I’m doing it.
[0:44:26 – 0:44:29] AdamSnowLog: And he’s somehow getting, like, HD video of it.
[0:44:29 – 0:44:35] AdamSnowLog: And that was shot 12 years ago now, wherever in London, Ontario, or wherever Donnyboy lives.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:37] SPEAKER_01: Donnyboy?
[0:44:37 – 0:44:41] AdamSnowLog: If you’re out there listening somehow, if you’re a Tumble homie, God bless you.
[0:44:42 – 0:44:43] AdamSnowLog: I want to do a trip with you.
[0:44:43 – 0:44:44] AdamSnowLog: You should come on the Tumble homie trip.
[0:44:45 – 0:44:46] AdamSnowLog: It’s going to be in September.
[0:44:47 – 0:44:48] AdamSnowLog: Get on the Discord and hit us up.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:50] AdamSnowLog: I don’t know.
[0:44:50 – 0:45:00] AdamSnowLog: If anybody out there is fretting about their carb or literally anything that’s going wrong with your snowblower, I’m sure Donnyboy’s got a video on it.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:02] AdamSnowLog: I watched a bunch of other videos, but…
[0:45:04 – 0:45:26] AdamSnowLog: excuse me he just does the best job of explaining it in a way that makes sense and he’s got video isn’t like here it’s so easy to clean the main jet and the idle jets or whatever just here’s how you do it um you gotta have very specific little little teensy tools um but if you have those tools then you’re set like a jet
[0:45:28 – 0:45:42] AdamSnowLog: hey um but uh he also had a video and he was like i understand sometimes you know you just know a carburetor needs to be replaced so here’s how you just replace one and that video um really
[0:45:43 – 0:45:56] AdamSnowLog: You know, took me a long ways as far as figuring out the most efficient way to possibly do this, even though it was like going to be nice the week before the big storm and that like we didn’t have any snow in the forecast that whole week.
[0:45:56 – 0:45:58] AdamSnowLog: I was like, this is a safe week to do this job.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:01] AdamSnowLog: I’m going to get this new carbon here while I’ve got a chance.
[0:46:03 – 0:46:07] AdamSnowLog: Got her going in the garage, got the little heater going, got some nice music going.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:12] AdamSnowLog: And yeah, pulled it all off, put it all back on there.
[0:46:12 – 0:46:14] AdamSnowLog: And it’s the goddamn fuel line.
[0:46:15 – 0:46:17] AdamSnowLog: That fuel line might have been the original fuel line.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:35] AdamSnowLog: I hook it all back up and it’s like it ain’t it’s it runs and then I’m trying to adjust the jets and it dies on me and then I I flooded it trying to get it I was panicking a little bit trying to get it like going again but I I suspect that
[0:46:36 – 0:47:03] AdamSnowLog: and the last time I replaced the spark plug was probably three years ago on that thing, the carb was put in in 2018, and the fuel line was probably an original John Deere fuel line from 1978 or whatever, it looked like it was in real horrible shape, so I just said, you know what, all right, I’m gonna go to town, took me, ended up taking me three days to get this job done, but I went to town, and
[0:47:04 – 0:47:08] AdamSnowLog: Napa had some really good, like, heavy-duty fuel line, quarter-inch fuel line on most of these.
[0:47:09 – 0:47:16] AdamSnowLog: I failed to buy extra clamps, though, so I do have a fuel filter I want to, like, splice into the line at some point, but I’ll do that in the spring.
[0:47:18 – 0:47:24] AdamSnowLog: But got that all hooked in there, but, like, the way that fuel line, like, threads through the middle of those tecumses is absolute bullshit.
[0:47:24 – 0:47:31] AdamSnowLog: But got the new fuel line hooked in there, put a new spark plug on it, re-installed the carb, and…
[0:47:34 – 0:47:41] AdamSnowLog: you know, hit the choke, give it four pumps and pull the rope and fired right up.
[0:47:41 – 0:47:42] AdamSnowLog: Perfect.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:44] AdamSnowLog: I made a couple of mild adjustments.
[0:47:45 – 0:47:48] AdamSnowLog: That was like the Friday going into that weekend.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:52] AdamSnowLog: Um, and I got it running and I’d been like,
[0:47:53 – 0:48:20] AdamSnowLog: kind of consultant and just talking with a couple people who I know who are like really good with small engines including my buddy Josh who instead of having to help me come come over here and help me out with this stupid carburetor on Sunday we just got to go fishing and that was a real uh a real delight so I don’t know it takes a little bit longer and even though it’s a simple machine um when you finally do like make a repair and then it like runs properly
[0:48:22 – 0:48:26] AdamSnowLog: one of the more satisfying things in life for sure.
[0:48:26 – 0:48:32] AdamSnowLog: Um, and then it’s like, okay, get a bunch more extra Primo gasoline for it.
[0:48:33 – 0:48:38] AdamSnowLog: Um, don’t run the cheap gasoline through these, get the non oxygenated, like Primo gas.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:41] AdamSnowLog: Got everything ready to go.
[0:48:41 – 0:48:55] AdamSnowLog: Sitting here Wednesday watching it just dump and then Thursday morning going out to the garage and it fires up on the first pull and just runs absolutely perfectly for two full tanks of gas and just absolutely
[0:48:56 – 0:48:58] AdamSnowLog: in the snow that is up over the gas tank.
[0:48:58 – 0:49:00] AdamSnowLog: It’s not over the top of the auger.
[0:49:00 – 0:49:03] AdamSnowLog: I mean, that’s a huge, that’s a huge screw.
[0:49:04 – 0:49:10] AdamSnowLog: Um, that old John Deere is a big heavy machine and the snow is way up over the top of it on multiple occasions.
[0:49:10 – 0:49:11] AdamSnowLog: You’re just sort of like,
[0:49:12 – 0:49:40] AdamSnowLog: um nudging it through um just kind of leaning on it to get through the first path and then once you get a established uh you know a trail down the middle then you’re just sort of taking you’re not even doing halves you’re taking quarters at best quarter cuts and it’s just there’s snow like up over the top of the gas tank jesus christ i mean it’s amazing that thing just no matter what it keeps running and it’s vibrating like like a maniac the whole way
[0:49:41 – 0:49:45] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, this is my love letter to the John Deere 1032.
[0:49:45 – 0:50:00] AdamSnowLog: It’s not the first time I’ve written a love letter to that old machine on a snow log episode, but this is probably its greatest achievement and a long life of clearing snow.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:06] AdamSnowLog: This is its masterpiece to date, but it’s still running strong.
[0:50:08 – 0:50:10] AdamSnowLog: And I was really happy with how it went.
[0:50:11 – 0:50:12] AdamSnowLog: Like I said, I was physically sore.
[0:50:12 – 0:50:14] AdamSnowLog: That machine handled it well.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:16] AdamSnowLog: I only lost a couple extra screws.
[0:50:16 – 0:50:19] AdamSnowLog: So I got to go out there and tighten everything back up.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:21] AdamSnowLog: But it should be good to go for the rest of the winter.
[0:50:23 – 0:50:24] AdamSnowLog: And that’s a really good feeling.
[0:50:25 – 0:50:44] AdamSnowLog: and you know probably gonna be another six or seven years till I have to worry about the carb on that thing but um I do have uh an x350 now um which I just was using for grass mowing I don’t have that much grass but um brother-in-law um
[0:50:47 – 0:50:48] AdamSnowLog: basically just gave me that one.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:50] AdamSnowLog: The price was truly right on that one.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:56] AdamSnowLog: Brother-in-law Tim wasn’t using it and was like, you can have it.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:57] AdamSnowLog: I was like, well, thank you very much.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:02] AdamSnowLog: And that comes with a big 44-incher that mounts on the front of the little tractor.
[0:51:04 – 0:51:08] AdamSnowLog: But I am I’m still missing a piece.
[0:51:09 – 0:51:14] AdamSnowLog: It’s a very specific weird little like hanger piece that goes where the mower deck goes and I don’t have it.
[0:51:14 – 0:51:15] AdamSnowLog: So that one was not functioning.
[0:51:16 – 0:51:22] AdamSnowLog: Everything’s by hand this winter and feels really good to be up there in the 60s now for snowfall.
[0:51:23 – 0:51:30] AdamSnowLog: It truly feels like now we’re hitting like May and winter, and it is damn near the end of February.
[0:51:30 – 0:51:34] AdamSnowLog: So, you know, March is probably the best month of winter.
[0:51:34 – 0:51:35] AdamSnowLog: No, not probably.
[0:51:35 – 0:51:38] AdamSnowLog: March is the best month of winter, and so we’re all really set up here.
[0:51:39 – 0:51:41] AdamSnowLog: The snowpack’s going to be generous.
[0:51:42 – 0:51:47] AdamSnowLog: The trails are going to be impeccable, and the trout are going to be biting like crazy.
[0:51:48 – 0:51:53] AdamSnowLog: And, you know, you hit daylight savings and all of a sudden everything looks a lot better and everybody’s in a little bit better mood.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:59] AdamSnowLog: So, yeah, I’m really excited for the rest of winter.
[0:51:59 – 0:52:04] AdamSnowLog: I feel like this storm was the hinge point on which this 2026 winter has now rotated around.
[0:52:08 – 0:52:10] AdamSnowLog: Um, it was a good winter leading into it.
[0:52:10 – 0:52:13] AdamSnowLog: Honestly, it’s been pretty steady, but, um, you know, where were we?
[0:52:14 – 0:52:20] AdamSnowLog: We’re coming into this week, um, sitting on like 30, uh, 39 inches of snow in the middle of February.
[0:52:21 – 0:52:22] AdamSnowLog: It’s like, it’s pretty healthy.
[0:52:23 – 0:52:26] AdamSnowLog: Um, living anywhere else, you’d probably feel like that’s a lot of damn snow, but…
[0:52:27 – 0:52:32] AdamSnowLog: But up here, you know, like, well, the trails look halfway good, but, like, it’s light, you know, we could use more.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:47] AdamSnowLog: The lakes and the streams in the spring will definitely be feeling a lot better if we can throw some extra snowpack on here and then get, like, a reasonable kind of steady melt instead of all melting at once kind of spring, so…
[0:52:48 – 0:52:50] AdamSnowLog: Overall, we’re really set up well.
[0:52:50 – 0:52:51] AdamSnowLog: Shout out to Donny Boy.
[0:52:51 – 0:52:53] AdamSnowLog: Shout out to the carb.
[0:52:54 – 0:53:00] AdamSnowLog: Shout out to China for producing a really cheap and elegant and functional carb for that old Tecumseh.
[0:53:03 – 0:53:05] AdamSnowLog: You can still get most of the old parts for that thing.
[0:53:05 – 0:53:09] AdamSnowLog: Every once in a while you are looking for something and it’s like, nah, they don’t make it anymore.
[0:53:09 – 0:53:15] AdamSnowLog: And if you’re lucky, you find somebody on eBay or whatever that still makes a replica of that part that works.
[0:53:17 – 0:53:21] AdamSnowLog: Anyways, that’s the story of the storm.
[0:53:21 – 0:53:22] AdamSnowLog: I hope you enjoyed it.
[0:53:24 – 0:53:28] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, it was probably going to be the highlight of the winter, but I don’t know.
[0:53:28 – 0:53:33] AdamSnowLog: I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we hit another big one in March or even later than that.
[0:53:37 – 0:53:38] AdamSnowLog: I do have…
[0:53:41 – 0:53:43] AdamSnowLog: I think I covered that pretty well.
[0:53:45 – 0:53:46] AdamSnowLog: I do have one more note here.
[0:53:48 – 0:53:54] AdamSnowLog: Dear friend of the show, Cheap Dancer, sent me a direct message, sent me a little note this afternoon.
[0:53:55 – 0:53:58] AdamSnowLog: He’s been firing up the printing press.
[0:53:59 – 0:54:00] AdamSnowLog: No, it’s not printing press.
[0:54:00 – 0:54:04] AdamSnowLog: It’s like a screen printing operation.
[0:54:06 – 0:54:07] AdamSnowLog: Sure, it’s a press.
[0:54:08 – 0:54:16] AdamSnowLog: I’ve gotten I’ve got a number of like really nice pieces from the cheap dancer fashion consortium.
[0:54:17 – 0:54:19] AdamSnowLog: And I got some totes.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:20] AdamSnowLog: I got some hoodies.
[0:54:20 – 0:54:23] AdamSnowLog: I got some I got some in the kid sizes.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:29] AdamSnowLog: Little Pike’s got one with like the loon on there just says friend.
[0:54:31 – 0:54:32] AdamSnowLog: It’s really cool.
[0:54:32 – 0:54:35] AdamSnowLog: And we get compliments on that hoodie.
[0:54:35 – 0:54:37] AdamSnowLog: It’s not a hoodie, it’s just a crew sweatshirt.
[0:54:37 – 0:54:43] AdamSnowLog: We get compliments on that sweatshirt pretty much every time he picks it out for his outfit of the day.
[0:54:45 – 0:54:49] AdamSnowLog: Cheap Dancer is doing some of the greatest bootleg merch work out there.
[0:54:51 – 0:54:52] AdamSnowLog: And it’s completely independent.
[0:54:53 – 0:54:56] AdamSnowLog: And the vision is incredible.
[0:54:58 – 0:55:05] AdamSnowLog: And everybody listening to this knows that you will never peak alone with Tumble Home.
[0:55:05 – 0:55:06] AdamSnowLog: And that all starts with Cheap Dancer.
[0:55:09 – 0:55:10] AdamSnowLog: He’s got the screens out.
[0:55:10 – 0:55:14] AdamSnowLog: He’s got some ink.
[0:55:14 – 0:55:20] AdamSnowLog: I guess he had some people pay too much for some stuff, so he’s feeling generous.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:30] AdamSnowLog: He sent me a message basically saying, if anybody out there is looking to get some Tomahawk Bootleg merch, he’s got them ready to go, so get a hold of him.
[0:55:31 – 0:55:34] AdamSnowLog: He is on the subreddit, which is…
[0:55:35 – 0:55:40] AdamSnowLog: One way to find him, and if you’re on the Discord, he’s also pretty easy to find on the Discord.
[0:55:41 – 0:55:42] AdamSnowLog: Super friendly dude.
[0:55:44 – 0:55:53] AdamSnowLog: I feel fortunate to call him a friend at this point, and I’m happy to have a bunch of cheap dancer bootleg merch.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:55] AdamSnowLog: So there you go.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:55] AdamSnowLog: There’s your offer.
[0:55:57 – 0:55:59] AdamSnowLog: We would take him up on it for sure.
[0:56:02 – 0:56:06] AdamSnowLog: I got one more item on the agenda.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:08] AdamSnowLog: Of course, it’s Cat’s Cradle.
[0:56:08 – 0:56:16] AdamSnowLog: I’m sorry I ran out of time, and also I somehow didn’t have time to start Season 2 of Andor, so we’ll get back to Andor next week.
[0:56:17 – 0:56:25] AdamSnowLog: But yeah, I’ve got one more passage here to read, and I’m almost out of beer here.
[0:56:29 – 0:56:32] AdamSnowLog: But feeling good on a Saturday night here.
[0:56:34 – 0:56:40] AdamSnowLog: McCabe and Bocannon did not succeed in raising what is generally thought of as the standard of living, said Castle.
[0:56:41 – 0:56:45] AdamSnowLog: The truth was that life was as short and brutish and mean as ever.
[0:56:46 – 0:56:49] AdamSnowLog: But people didn’t have to pay as much attention to the awful truth.
[0:56:50 – 0:56:59] AdamSnowLog: As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so too did the happiness of the people grow.
[0:57:00 – 0:57:07] AdamSnowLog: They were all employed full-time as actors in a play they understood that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:10] AdamSnowLog: So life became a work of art, I marveled.
[0:57:11 – 0:57:14] AdamSnowLog: Yeah, there was only one trouble with it.
[0:57:15 – 0:57:15] AdamSnowLog: Oh?
[0:57:16 – 0:57:20] AdamSnowLog: The drama was very tough on the souls of the two main actors, McCabe and Bokunan.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:24] AdamSnowLog: As young men, they had pretty much been alike.
[0:57:24 – 0:57:27] AdamSnowLog: They had both been half-angel, half-pirate.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:34] AdamSnowLog: But the drama demanded that the pirate half of Bokanon and the angel half of McCabe wither away.
[0:57:34 – 0:57:40] AdamSnowLog: And McCabe and Bokanon paid a terrible price in agony for the happiness of the people.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:46] AdamSnowLog: McCabe knowing the agony of the tyrant and Bokanon knowing the agony of the saints.
[0:57:47 – 0:57:51] AdamSnowLog: They both became, for all practical purposes, insane.
[0:57:53 – 0:57:55] AdamSnowLog: Castle crooked the index finger of his left hand.
[0:57:56 – 0:58:01] AdamSnowLog: And then, people really did start dying on the Hyuka.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:05] AdamSnowLog: But Bokunan was never caught, I asked.
[0:58:06 – 0:58:07] AdamSnowLog: McCabe never went that crazy.
[0:58:07 – 0:58:10] AdamSnowLog: He never made a really serious effort to catch Bokunan.
[0:58:11 – 0:58:12] AdamSnowLog: It would have been easy to do.
[0:58:13 – 0:58:14] AdamSnowLog: Why didn’t he catch him?
[0:58:15 – 0:58:23] AdamSnowLog: McCabe was always sane enough to realize that without the holy man to war against, he himself would become meaningless.
[0:58:24 – 0:58:26] AdamSnowLog: Papa Manzano understands that too.
[0:58:29 – 0:58:30] AdamSnowLog: Do people still die on the hook?
[0:58:32 – 0:58:34] AdamSnowLog: Oh, it’s inevitably fatal.
[0:58:34 – 0:58:38] AdamSnowLog: I mean, I said, does Papa really have people executed that way?
[0:58:40 – 0:58:44] AdamSnowLog: He executes one every two years, just to keep the pot boiling, so to speak.
[0:58:45 – 0:58:47] AdamSnowLog: He sighed, looking up at the evening sky.
[0:58:49 – 0:58:50] AdamSnowLog: Busy, busy, busy.
[0:58:51 – 0:58:52] AdamSnowLog: Sir?
[0:58:53 – 0:58:58] AdamSnowLog: It’s what we Bocanists say, he said, when we feel that a lot of mysterious things are going on.
[0:59:00 – 0:59:00] AdamSnowLog: You?
[0:59:00 – 0:59:02] AdamSnowLog: I was amazed.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:03] AdamSnowLog: A Bocanist, too?
[0:59:05 – 0:59:07] AdamSnowLog: He gazed at me levelly.
[0:59:08 – 0:59:08] AdamSnowLog: You, too.
[0:59:09 – 0:59:09] AdamSnowLog: You’ll find out.
[0:59:26 – 0:59:30] AdamSnowLog: As we always say on Snowlog, snow takes many forms.
[0:59:45 – 0:59:45] Adam: The sky.
[0:59:45 – 0:59:46] Adam: The sky.
[1:00:14 – 1:00:14] UNKNOWN: Thank you.
