37 Replies to “How’s Your Day So Far?”

    1. When you see someone carrying a hammer with them, outside, instead of toilet paper!

      “Elsewhere around B.C., the ongoing deep freeze produced several daily minimum temperature records Monday, including a low of –46.8 C west of Williams Lake, while the Quesnel area broke a record set 78 years ago when it reached a low of –37.5 C.”

      Thankfully, we still have fossil fuels, how’s that solar array doing up by Fort Chip?!

      https://mobile.twitter.com/ReliableAB/status/1605268460824567828?cxt=HHwWqICxiZ_Kh8csAAAA

  2. Just about to touch Texas on this 1500 mile journey to the East Coast.
    Corb Lund music for the road.

  3. I’ve been there and the key is Styrofoam toilet seats. Once you sit down, only everything but your butt is cold. Still, not conducive to taking time to ponder the wonders of the universe. You still have the opportunity to replicate Trudeau’s Constitution with the toilet paper which tends to get a little damp at skin temperature.

  8. Yesterday.
    6 hrs outside tallying 200′ lengths of S40 16″ tailings pipe: -30 with a heat stealing 20km/hr wind. Warm breaks every 20 min…no choice…brutal

    Has persuaded me, that not only were the heated socks (Costco) I bought an excellent investment, but the new heated Vest n Milwaukee gloves newly arrived at home are going to be a major comfort upgrade to being out there…next set. Spare batts purchased for both.

    And for those with a penchant for writing on the shithouse walls…. gel pens are useless btw, in this weather.
    Sharpie is the way to go.

    Flyday is tomorrow.
    Yeehaw..!!

  9. As a young man I worked doing geophysical surveys in frozen swamps up north, fly in, live in tents, snowshoe all day every day, I took a crap one morning at -45C/-50F, the latrine was a pole tied between two swamp spruce trees.

  10. I lived it as a farmhouse tyke in the fifties. Although better, hot weather isn’t exactly a walk in the park either.
    The miracle of indoor plumbing can never be overstated.

  11. That was my upbringing. Winter was not that bad. You did your business and you got out, and the smell was nothing. The summers were a lot worse. Hornets, wasps, insects of all shapes and sizes, spiders crawling on your butt. And then there was the stench.

    Pro tip, use an unfinished, wood, rough sanded, toilet seat.

  13. Minus 35?? That was a warm winter day back in the 1950s. No such thing as constipation. I predate rural electricity. In about 1956 my father bought a farm for $750 and paid $950 for his share in a rural electrical association. Some people didn’t want him because he needed a mile of power line. Mighty neighbourly.

    1. That powerline was worth it.
      Being on mains is much better than firing up the Lister genny every morning.

  15. I’ve done that, east of North Bay, Ontario. There was styrofoam so one’s skin didn’t stick to the seat!

    One big pro: No bad smells!

  16. I grew up in Regina and Saskatoon. All my relatives were farmers in either the Assiniboia or Macklin areas. So I am familiar with bedpans and outhouses, and the latter at -40 or worse. The bonus, in winter in southern Saskatchewan, is that you don’t have to worry about the black widows of summertime. Most black widow bites in Saskatchewan occur on genitalia in outhouses (I can’t speak to this from personal experience, mind you, but public health records). Something for newbies to consider and to learn to give thanks for indoor plumbing.

  18. Misery, yes. But there’s still a small delight to be had from dumping a Big Trudeau and knowing it will ever so slowly freeze solid.

    1. In the not too distant past, in the construction porta turds in Ottawa, a common graffiti line was, Flush twice its a long way to Montreal.
      There isn’t much of that anymore.

  19. A decade ago it was a cold-as-f**k day and a coworker came out of the porta turd.
    I asked, “How’d that go, Phil?”
    “Well, I’ve got four inches of clothes and only 3 inches of dick.”

  20. Yep, pink hard styrofoam insulation with a hole cut in it. Your butt is instantly warm the second after you sit down.

  21. First Mistake……Never bolt down the toilet seat.
    In the old days at the cabin and outhouse, the toilet seat was always inside behind the wood burning stove.
    The seat went out with you and came back inside with you.
    Happiness was a warm seat x 2.

  22. Out on exercises in the US Army in summer, North Carolina hills. I gotta go. I see a tree stump from a chain saw cut. The center is rotted out and part of the tree where the chainsaw hadn’t cut through made a natural back. Perfect. I drop trow and get ready to sit down. Looked down at my natural toilet seat and there at the bottom of the rotted out center was a Eastern diamond back rattle snake all curled up.

  23. This might be a stupid lower 48 Flatlander question but: Why is the outhouse wrapped with galvanized hardware cloth? Are outhouses especially prone to attack by grizzly bears and psycho raccoons, or what? Do you have termites the size of gerbils up there? Insurance from nearby lightning strikes while pooping (I find they help)? Or does the hardware cloth serve some other purpose, like becoming re-bar when the outhouse is covered with rime and ice? Just wondering.

    1. I was wondering the same thing, Aggie. You can add to the ‘squatter’ list;
      -porcupine
      -flickers
      -squirrels
      -pack rats
      -woodpeckers
      I didn’t notice, was the wire over tarpaper? Cheap and dirty weatherproofing.

  24. Way back in BC when our ABC radio was worth listening to I heard an interview of one who had fallen for the charms of Antarctica.

    One of the questions was “How do you handle being “caught short” out on the ice.

    The answer was “Very quickly”

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