38 degrees F October 19, 2018

Temp showed 37.8 degrees F this morning, I think this was the first temp in the 30's for the season.

Wild Blackberry Blossoms!

Took this picture today near the bottom of our driveway, we have a hillside covered in beautiful blackberry blossoms!  Hoping for an excellent black berry crop!

31 degrees F April 30, 2018

The temp dropped below 31 degrees F on the morning on April 30, 2018.  Will this be the last freezing temp of the season? 

28 degrees F April 20, 2018, 31 degrees F April 21, 2018

Below freezing again the last two days here. 

28 degrees F April 17, 2018, snow flurries yesterday

Yesterday we had snow flurries off and on during the day and a high temperature of perhaps 40 degrees F.
This morning it was 28 degrees F and frosty, but with a beautiful clear sky.

Wild turkeys, fish, and an interesting skull

Yesterday we had a nice group of wild turkeys out in the pasture, I have seen quite a few lately.

For the last two weeks we have seen folks fishing along the Emory river near us.  Apparently there is world class striped bass fishing nearby on the Clinch river system and it's tributaries.  A friend also said that the state releases trout upstream of us near Frozen Head and they can be caught here also.

Yesterday Mary was out riding her horse and she came back with a skull she found in the upper pasture that had curved tusks sticking out from the upper jaw.

I know that there are wild hogs in the nearby Catoosa WMA, but we have not seen any on the farm.  Mary said she did not see any other remains where she found the skull, so I'm not sure what it is or where it came from.

Plateau micro-creeking

A pretty little creek borders our farm and winds through the forest on it's path down stream to a river.  Last night and today we received a fair bit of rain, so from our house you can easily hear the roar of the creek.

While going out to run errands today, Mary and I saw some vehicles and kayakers parked near the bottom of our driveway, so we went and talked to them.  We often see kayakers in the area, but not at the bottom of our driveway.

It turns out that this group of kayakers came up from Chattanooga so that they could kayak the creek from our property down to the river, there is a nice parking area at the river where people often park to fish or kayak. 

The group told us that they discovered this route and first kayaked it last year, and that it was a class 4+ rapids under these conditions.  

These are some seriously skilled kayakers, and they were all friendly, happy, and having a great adventure.

Just upstream from us the Emory river  becomes the Obed wild and scenic national park, and it is also popular with kayakers.

One of them posted this video online of them kayaking the creek:
 https://vimeo.com/264891306

26 degrees F April 8, 2018

This weekend we had low morning temps, 27 degrees F on April 7 and 26 degrees F with a good bit of frost on April 8.  

4 degrees F (3.6) January 2, 2017

This morning at about 7:45 am the outside temperature reading at the farm was 3.6 degrees F.   Coldest temp so far for the season.  Clear moon lit night, clear blue sky today.

12 degrees F December 28, 2017

12 degrees F this morning on the farm.

16 degrees F Dec 13, 2017

On Sunday December 10, 2017 the morning low dropped below 21 degrees F, it was 20 point something.
This morning, Wednesday December 13, 2017, the temp dropped into the teens for the first time for this year.

24 degrees F November 20, 2017

On Monday morning November 20, 2017 the low temp was 24 degrees F at the farm. 

Linux runs on the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world

Linux has been dominating the high performance computing space for a while.

Now, linux runs on the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers

China has topped the US and now has more systems in the top500 list than any other country.

At ORNL we have the Titan supercomputer, now five years old, it has dropped to #5 in the rankings.  A new supercomputer called Summit is being developed and installed at ORNL and is expected to take over the #1 spot on the top 500 list of supercomputers next year.

Switzerland has the #3 supercomputer.

www.top500.org

27 degrees F October 30, 2017

Definitely got some frost on the pumpkin this morning, coldest temp of the season so far, the temp hit 27 degrees F.  Outside water drinkers froze, including the ones in the coops.
Last week one morning we hit 32 degrees F.

October 19, 2017: 36 degrees F and first frost of season

This morning the low was 36 degrees F and there was ice on the windshield of my truck and light frost on the grass etc.

The sky was clear, beautiful and starry last night.

A pack of coyotes came up fairly close last night, the dogs kept things under control.  

44 degrees F October 1, 2017

Beautiful clear night, 43.9 degrees F this morning.