I have been trying to "sorta" keep up. Been too busy running back and forth now for three weeks (THREE WEEKS!!!!!) keeping faucets and spigots dribbling water, washing clothes, curtains, rugs and anything I can find that "might" be dirty - and some things have been washed more than twice. 
I was doing real good until night before last - when all hell broke loose - and the ice didn't. All pipes froze at -7 degrees (wind chill -23. Son came up yesterday and started a kero heater in the basement, left to come back later, and the drain froze in the kitchen. Not that it mattered since no water was coming out of the faucets anyway. When he got back, found a leak in the wall behind the bathtub, so he turned the pump off completely.
This morning he bought parts and found pin holes in a couple of joints. Got everything unfroze - except the drain. smdh.
Temps have been low teens or below zero for days. The tire/bucket/manure plan went out the window at least 10 days ago. I have been reduced to small tubs and big bowls to water - meaning I go dump the ice out twice a day and start over. I had 50 gal jugs of water in the coop - and think I am down to 8. The doesn't count the several gal of hot water I was taking down to make ice dumps easier. Water for the birds was easy enough in the heated tub as long as I left 12 inches of water in it - the jugs would thaw out overnight - even the ones not touching water.
Last night it was -2 when I finally went to bed. I did not have to set alarms to get up every two hours cause there wasn't any water left to watch. Right now it's 19 degrees with a low of 15 expected. The heatwave might hit tomorrow at 33 degrees but with a forecast of frozen mix freezing solid on the very frozen roads. (Danger! Danger! Will Robinson) I told my son he better be careful as he leaves tonight in his big rig.
Turkeys currently hate me because they were cut off from the little run when I made the ducks come inside 4 days ago. But they ate an entire cabbage overnight - or hid it well. I have six laying hens and have been getting 5 eggs one day and 8 the next. Believe me, it doesn't compute unless one of the senior hens (I might get an egg a month from one of them) is sneaking one in???
Anyway, they may still be stuck inside tomorrow while I try and get everything redone inside. But! They are claiming it's going to be 38 on Tues and 40 on Wednesday - with freezing rain or rain showers every day until Sunday.
So they "might" get out for an hour or so.
Maybe.....
I really hate Winter now.....
I was doing real good until night before last - when all hell broke loose - and the ice didn't. All pipes froze at -7 degrees (wind chill -23. Son came up yesterday and started a kero heater in the basement, left to come back later, and the drain froze in the kitchen. Not that it mattered since no water was coming out of the faucets anyway. When he got back, found a leak in the wall behind the bathtub, so he turned the pump off completely.
This morning he bought parts and found pin holes in a couple of joints. Got everything unfroze - except the drain. smdh.
Temps have been low teens or below zero for days. The tire/bucket/manure plan went out the window at least 10 days ago. I have been reduced to small tubs and big bowls to water - meaning I go dump the ice out twice a day and start over. I had 50 gal jugs of water in the coop - and think I am down to 8. The doesn't count the several gal of hot water I was taking down to make ice dumps easier. Water for the birds was easy enough in the heated tub as long as I left 12 inches of water in it - the jugs would thaw out overnight - even the ones not touching water.
Last night it was -2 when I finally went to bed. I did not have to set alarms to get up every two hours cause there wasn't any water left to watch. Right now it's 19 degrees with a low of 15 expected. The heatwave might hit tomorrow at 33 degrees but with a forecast of frozen mix freezing solid on the very frozen roads. (Danger! Danger! Will Robinson) I told my son he better be careful as he leaves tonight in his big rig.
Turkeys currently hate me because they were cut off from the little run when I made the ducks come inside 4 days ago. But they ate an entire cabbage overnight - or hid it well. I have six laying hens and have been getting 5 eggs one day and 8 the next. Believe me, it doesn't compute unless one of the senior hens (I might get an egg a month from one of them) is sneaking one in???
Anyway, they may still be stuck inside tomorrow while I try and get everything redone inside. But! They are claiming it's going to be 38 on Tues and 40 on Wednesday - with freezing rain or rain showers every day until Sunday.
So they "might" get out for an hour or so.
Maybe.....
I really hate Winter now.....
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