Granny's gone and done it again

[h2oratt]

traffic or ?

Too many cars

It was -11 when I got up this morning. Windchill around -38 but yeah, the danged wind is gusting almost to 40.

I went out and carried 4 gallons of hot water to the birds along with a dozen hot hard boiled eggs smashed for them to enjoy. They aren't fairing well in this cold. The poor little bantams are huddled in a corner and the rest are on the roost bars fluffed up like basketballs. I chipped out a water hole in one of the big bowls and it refroze within 20 minutes.

So I trudged down to the barn and dragged out a bale of straw and put it down between the two coops for extra insulation. I'm seriously afraid if I don't put up a heat lamp I will have fatalities to this cold. I have one outlet that is safely secured that I could put one in. I used it last year during the day, turned it off at night and it helped them a lot.

Every time we get weather like this all I can think is....we sold the property in Florida.WHAT WERE WE THINKING?

we have this heater thing that looks like a tv screen

 

[h2oratt]

Is there some type of glue for plastic on plastic? I have silicone but if it ever needs to come back off again it would be impossible.

Yes. There is one for plastic irrigation pipe. Solvent something.

sounds like you have the thing on backwards OR you lost a part.

Hard to say with out pictures.

yep

 

[troyer]

Glad you had a good one, so did we!
Really looking forward to temperatures above freezing.

Me too. We are used to the temperature going to -20° several days a year, just not with the wind. It's pretty rare for it to be minus degrees and have a wind in this area.

 

[troyer]

in that case come on up for an extended winter vacation.

The idiot at the farm needs all the help he can get.

Will his idiocy rub off on me?

 

[CapricornFarm]

yaks are doing great, chickens ok other than slow/low egg production.

Do they get extra light?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Too many cars

we have this heater thing that looks like a tv screen

are you home now?

 

[h2oratt]

are you home now?

No not for another hour. We had to eat. Now our big rainstorm is here. Raining cats and dogs.

 

[h2oratt]

are you home now?

Did you get your creamer?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I hate driving in the rain.Maybe worse then snow. My tires did pretty good in this last storm. I didnt have problems getting up the hill I couldnt make last winter.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Did you get your creamer?

He went to 4 stores before he found a small bottle in Versailles. Might last a day. lol