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5 degrees last night and 42 degrees coming in a couple of days it's fun, but you get used to it living up north during the winter time and trust me when I tell you wood movement is alive and doing quite well. Having spent most of my adult life here I'm used to it and the only thing that I really fight with is the ability to heat my shop consistently through out the winter seasons. My general rule is if the temperature is below 30 degrees it's a good day for me to stay in the house and do a thing, but once the temperature gets over 30 it's game on. In Minnesota we can get weeks at a time where the temperatures may linger below 30 degrees, and if I'm in the middle of a project guess what I'm not doing during it. So something that might take me a week to build during the summer has taken me sometimes over a month to complete during the winter, but I've always been aware enough to never put myself in a situation that the time frame has been an issue with what ever project I may be building or undertaking. My current project is feeling the restrictions put on me by the temperatures we are having right now, and it shows with my posts in social media. But that's okay because I never approach any thing I build with a thought of how fast I can do it, I would rather take a year to build something than slam a thing together anyways. So this weather just helps me to take that time and not rush something that will leave me less then proud of it once it's built.
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