Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

Bitsy pooped

Yay Bitsy!!

Did you get pictures of the poop? How much did it weigh?

 

[cassie]

I have been to Minnesota a few times. Beautiful state. One memory sticks with me though. I was at a well maintained over a hundred year old farm not far from Bimiji (sp). I noticed a beautiful big obviously old barn with very thick walls. I asked the owner how cold it got in that barn. He told me that it never got cold in that barn. Why, it never got below zero.

Everything is a matter of perspective.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have been to Minnesota a few times. Beautiful state. One memory sticks with me though. I was at a well maintained over a hundred year old farm not far from Bimiji (sp). I noticed a beautiful big obviously old barn with very thick walls. I asked the owner how cold it got in that barn. He told me that it never got cold in that barn. Why, it never got below zero.

Everything is a matter of perspective.

It most likely was filled with dairy cows, they keep the inside of a barn above freezing, plus you have compressors and milk storage in the barn, manure and so forth.

However, I still doubt the below freezing, maybe not below zero, but below freezing is hard to believe.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Yay Bitsy!!

Did you get pictures of the poop? How much did it weigh?

No poop pics sorry but I bet it weighed a ton- smelled like a ton of poo.

 

[jerryse]

No poop pics sorry but I bet it weighed a ton- smelled like a ton of poo.

 

[cassie]

It most likely was filled with dairy cows, they keep the inside of a barn above freezing, plus you have compressors and milk storage in the barn, manure and so forth.

However, I still doubt the below freezing, maybe not below zero, but below freezing is hard to believe.

There were no dairy cows in that barn because there were no cows on the farm. They bred dairy goats but I don't remember if it was a commercial dairy or not. What I do remember is the walls of that barn were several feet thick and that the barn itself had to have been at least a hundred years old. Hay was stored in the loft and that, along with the thick walls, would have provided a fair amount of insulation.

My dad grew up on a farm somewhere in Minnesota. He told me about there being a stout rope that went from the barn to the house so that no matter how bad a blizzard was, and how bad the visibility was, by holding onto it they could get to the barn and back safely.

 

[duluthralphie]

There were no dairy cows in that barn because there were no cows on the farm. They bred dairy goats but I don't remember if it was a commercial dairy or not. What I do remember is the walls of that barn were several feet thick and that the barn itself had to have been at least a hundred years old. Hay was stored in the loft and that, along with the thick walls, would have provided a fair amount of insulation.

My dad grew up on a farm somewhere in Minnesota. He told me about there being a stout rope that went from the barn to the house so that no matter how bad a blizzard was, and how bad the visibility was, by holding onto it they could get to the barn and back safely.

The rope thing was true. For the western part of the state.

As far as the barn not freezing, there has to be a heat source of some kind. I don’t believe You could not make walls thick enough to not freeze over the 7 months of winter.

Goats would be a heat source..

 

[duluthralphie]

There were no dairy cows in that barn because there were no cows on the farm. They bred dairy goats but I don't remember if it was a commercial dairy or not. What I do remember is the walls of that barn were several feet thick and that the barn itself had to have been at least a hundred years old. Hay was stored in the loft and that, along with the thick walls, would have provided a fair amount of insulation.

My dad grew up on a farm somewhere in Minnesota. He told me about there being a stout rope that went from the barn to the house so that no matter how bad a blizzard was, and how bad the visibility was, by holding onto it they could get to the barn and back safely.

The rope thing was true. For the western part of the state.

As far as the barn not freezing, there has to be a heat source of some kind. I don’t believe You could not make walls thick enough to not freeze over the 7 months of winter.

Goats would be a heat source..

 

[cassie]

The rope thing was true. For the western part of the state.

As far as the barn not freezing, there has to be a heat source of some kind. I don’t believe You could not make walls thick enough to not freeze over the 7 months of winter.

Goats would be a heat source..

The farm owner said nothing about it not freezing in the barn. He just said it did not get below zero. Exactly what he said to me was this: "Oh, it never gets cold in that barn. It never gets below zero". As far as I am concerned, anything below freezing is cold, never mind below zero. But then I am a wuss originally from California. I now live in southwestern Missouri and we occasionally get a few days below zero. However, unlike that farm owner in Minnesota, to me that's cold!!

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Another cloudy cool day here . Much like we had at the lake . Must be a big system . Warmer days coming and some sun . I am ready for some sun .