The Old Folks Home

[Pozees]

Thank you for that link. I have to admit, electricity isn't my thing. I can do calculus, differential equations, organic chemistry... but I almost failed physics.

BF called around and couldn't locate a portable generator, but I told him that that was okay, because I/we have no idea what we're doing yet and just purchasing one outright by guessing isn't going to help. He's going to head over to his mom's after work and make sure she still has power (she's out of town until tomorrow) and that the house is okay.

I've got all the wood stoves going again, all the tubs are full, finally got the clothes finished washing and drying (when the power went out my comforter was in the dryer, wet).

I'm ready now, bring it Mother Nature.

LOL This made me think of that old margarine commercial - "It's not NICE to fool Mother Nature!" - but in your case, to dare Mother Nature

 

[scottcaddy]

~~SCG keeping for you and your electricity. I went out yesterday on a small adventure to another frozen waterfall. Here are some pictures













This last one will give you an idea of the size of the falls.

Very Nice!! reminds me of the high country of central Ca.

Scott

 

[gryeyes]

Linda, I've been meaning to ask you, is your homemade filter keeping the duck pond clean? It looks clean in the last pic but it's hard to tell. Do you get a lot of sediment? Have you had to do a complete clean out since you built it?

If there were only the five geese, maybe the Skippy filter would be able to keep up with the "sediment," but twenty-some ducks plus five geese is a major overload. The water is no more clear than any ol' natural pond out in the hinterland. The water coming out of the Skippy filter and falling back into the pond is fairly clean, but if I move anything IN the filter box, the accumulated sediment will be disturbed and get poured back into the pond. Turkeys like to jump up there and poke at the filter media; when the water hyacinth and water lettuce plants were growing, the turkeys snacked on 'em but would disturb the media so gushes of green water would sometimes get poured back into the pond. In that one picture where the falling water has frozen into a stalactite and the splatter from the pond surface is also frozen, the water isn't all that dirty. However, the pond water itself is murky green. I have not emptied it for a refill, yet. Lazy. I have been lazy about adding beneficial bacteria, too....

 

[Arielle]

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This last one will give you an idea of the size of the falls.

Scrolling down slowly I was thinking of the frozen water on my bus route as a kid . . . .then I swas the two adventurers and man,

, that is unbeleivably huge, where's Paul BUnyun to step over THAT?

Quote: What kinds of beneficials Linda????? Just curious.

Have you been car shopping yet??? Going for 4WD this time? Though that might help one idota on ice. Hope you are healing up fast.

 

[Cynthia12]

SCG, no electicity?

Glad that you have a wood burning stove! Or two. How many do you have?

DiDi...oh wow! Where is that?

 

[Arielle]

THe benefits of woods stoves!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG, no electicity?

Glad that you have a wood burning stove! Or two. How many do you have?

Big snowflakes just started falling, but we have had power since being restored around lunchtime. Until next time...

We have a BIG farmhouse. Really big. There are 2 wood stoves that don't require electricity and then a pellet stove which does. One wood stove is gargantuan and ugly and not quite high quality (it is not air tight and burns out really quick) and is in the basement. We only use that one if the power goes out to keep our pipes from freezing. We have another small wood stove which used to be in the kitchen, but it was too small to heat that large area (it's an open farmhouse) so we moved that one to the fireplace in the "formal" dining room/living room (which does have doors) and put a pellet stove in its place in the kitchen. The wood stove heats that smallish room up rather nicely unless it's super cold out & without power. For those of you in cold regions, I highly recommend a pellet stove. So much easier than a wood stove. My wood stove always went out when I was at work and the house would be really cold when I got home. It would take 2 hours or so to warm the area back up after restarting the wood stove. Then it was time for bed. Repeat. And you never really get good and warm. With the pellet stove it runs at a lower temp when I'm gone (when I remember to turn it down) and then I turn it up when I get home and it heats the area up fast again, no more waiting for the stove to get hot. No more splitting a ton of wood and hauling wood all the time (well except for the 1-2 cords or so I use in the woodstoves each year). The pellet stove takes 1-2 40 lb bags a day to run. However, it's useless in a power outage. When I'm home all weekend I run the one wood stove in the dining/living room and we always have the pellet stove on.

 

[dsqard]

Cynthia, it is called Waterfall Canyon. It is in the benches on the east side of Ogden. Did a little searching online to find a place to go take pictures yesterday morning and stumbled across this place. I can't wait for spring/summer to go back and get pictures when the water is flowing. I doubt that I will be able to get as close though. I think I was standing on the pond at the bottom of the falls to get the close ups I got. The two gentlemen in the "scale" shot were super nice folks. The older gentleman was from Arizona and they both liked to go places to take pictures (but didn't have a camera with them yesterday) so we stood there and chatted for a bit about different places to go in Arizona and around southern Utah. I must be getting somewhat used to the winters up here. It's either get used to them or go stir crazy in the house waiting for warmer weather. Seeing how winter just officially started a week ago, I am going out if it looks like it will be around 30 degrees. It actually doesn't feel all that bad anymore. Don't get me wrong, I am wishing for spring already.

SCG we have a pellet stove too and LOVE it. We had two fireplaces in the house I lived in Mass but I hated the mess and feeding the fire. The house plans for the house we live in now called for a regular fireplace but I told the builder I wanted a pellet stove in it's place. We had a pellet stove in our house in AZ and just loved how easy it was to use. Of course in AZ we might go through two 40lb bags of pellets in a winter. In Utah we go through one to two bags a week but we use the regular heater for most of our heat. We run the pellet stove for only a few hours in the evening.

 

[Highcotton]

Cynthia, it is called Waterfall Canyon.  It is in the benches on the east side of Ogden.  Did a little searching online to find a place to go take pictures yesterday morning and stumbled across this place.  I can't wait for spring/summer to go back and get pictures when the water is flowing.  I doubt that I will be able to get as close though.  I think I was standing on the pond at the bottom of the falls to get the close ups I got.  The two gentlemen in the "scale" shot were super nice folks.  The older gentleman was from Arizona and they both liked to go places to take pictures (but didn't have a camera with them yesterday) so we stood there and chatted for a bit about different places to go in Arizona and around southern Utah.  I must be getting somewhat used to the winters up here.  It's either get used to them or go stir crazy in the house waiting for warmer weather.  Seeing how winter just officially started a week ago, I am going out if it looks like it will be around 30 degrees.  It actually doesn't feel all that bad anymore.  Don't get me wrong, I am wishing for spring already.  :/
SCG we have a pellet stove too and LOVE it.  We had two fireplaces in the house I lived in Mass but I hated the mess and feeding the fire.  The house plans for the house we live in now called for a regular fireplace but I told the builder I wanted a pellet stove in it's place.  We had a pellet stove in our house in AZ and just loved how easy it was to use.  Of course in AZ we might go through two 40lb bags of pellets in a winter. In Utah we go through one to two bags a week but we use the regular heater for most of our heat.  We run the pellet stove for only a few hours in the evening. 

I have some friends that have just moved from Georgia to Layton. The have been taking some beautiful pictures I will have to tell them about this.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have a son in GA. He has been missing the winter scenes..especially during Christmas time..he loves the White Winter for Christmas. He'll be back at the end of the year..next year..that's coming up real quick!