I had always heard the term “Freezing the balls of the brass Monkey”… well I took it to mean a real brass monkey but I guess the real truth was an old Navy saying…
Dad was a sailing man… all but in the Merchant Marines he served the country. It took many years for him to get qualification as a veteran even though he was shot at and sailed with the real Navy. He enlisted in the Navy with his best friend but due to a birth certificate problem he never made the Navy and waited out the time till he was taken by the Merchant Marines. Any way, to my story here… it has frozen the balls off… damn it got cold last night and never got warm today… kind of like our first winter in Colorado. We moved to Alamosa and when we came back from Christmas/New Years vacation it got real cold down there… actually way colder than here… that winter I saw –47 on the thermometer at the weather station in the airport. They couldn’t report that temp anymore as people didn’t believe that it got that cold that far south but I claim I saw it on the big official thermometer and beyond that… it was 6 weeks before we saw zero as a “HIGH”. All that was before “Global Warming” set in and things weren’t as cold… it was just about 15 years after the “next ice age” scare of the late 50’s and early 60’s… ha!… Anyway my official temps were…
Look close it was –5 last night and got all the way up to a whole 8 degrees here today… whew… and it snowed a little… but really fluffy stuff.
I went out twice to clear off the front drive, every time I did… it would cloud back up and snow some more… oh well it was good exercise and I kind of enjoyed it…
WD0AJG