The Old Folks Home

[Latestarter]

You know it's cold when the smoke from the chimney comes out and quickly descends down to ground level and rolls away. It has climbed back up to a toasty 24 degrees here with the sun over the tree tops. I'll be waiting till it gets above freezing then I'll head out with the chain saw to my huge blow down to replenish the almost gone wood pile. Started cutting on it last fall and went through about 1/2 of it. Getting down to the real thick trunk area now. I'll be swinging the maul this afternoon.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yes, when it looks like this, i tend to stay indoors but i have a rabbit cage to build so i may be in the unheated work shop!

Nature is trying to get her to take a break, if only a small one!


Geez SCG, is there a dark cloud over your head that follows you everywhere??

 

[microchick]

I just came in from taking care of the chickens. Northwest wind 15 with gusts to 26. Just freaking cold. The bantams ran outside, ran around the coop once and headed back inside. The other two coops followed their example and so did I!

I think my attitude about winter does this every year. I would rather have cold with snow so we can get outside and do some cross country skiing over cold with no snow when all you want to do is be inside where it is warm.

As for splitting wood in the winter. The Amish do it that way. They say that way it warms you up twice. Frankly, I've always had trouble getting warm and staying warm in the winter when I'm outside. Doing winter bike rides back in IL was always miserable for me. Everyone would be steaming from the exercise and my teeth would be chattering and my toes numb even wearing insulated foot protectors. Guess I'm more of a parrot than a penguin when it comes to cold.

So we always do our wood supply for the next winter starting in late Feb or March so we have it all on the ground and chained into rounds by June. Then we set the splitter in the shade and split wood in the mornings so we can quit by 11 when it starts getting hot. Usually all the next winter's wood is split and in the barn curing so it will be ready to go by October.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Woke before 8 this morning BF outside calling to Freckles. We lost an indoor cat yesterday realized the smaller male Freckles was not in BF's room, We went throughout the house all around the house no sign of him the guys went to the dump yesterday as they where loading I think he got out

 

[chickadoodles]

This is our carport crushed.

 

[microchick]

Here's something else DH and I have been collaborating on. He is printing the stars and bells using his 3D printer then I do the decorating. We have two done so far with #3 waiting for my attention.

This was the only 'brown' filament that he had on hand. I tired staining the last star and it actually turned out pretty good. I may try to stain this one using a q-tip.

Here is the Amish legend of the Barn Star:

 

[Alaskan]

Not snowing here, yet. We got downgraded last night from the red alert to the orange one.

My new spigot is working out great, so last night we decided to break the outdoor electrical outlet for the heated waterers.

The look of disappointment on the ducks faces was amazing this morning when they discovered their water had frozen solid.

solid cube? My muscovy can break through maybe half an inch, the chickens can only bust through about paper thin ice.... poor birds!

No plans here. Still so much snow on the ground.
Our carport shed collapsed from the weight of the snow on it.
We are hoping the poles are not all bent up.

ouch! That is why heavy wet snow is so dangerous. Hope it isn't too bad!

Nature is trying to get her to take a break, if only a small one!


Geez SCG, is there a dark cloud over your head that follows you everywhere??

What? There is more than one of those? Or did she take mine? ?

You know it's cold when the smoke from the chimney comes out and quickly descends down to ground level and rolls away. I

Hot air rises.... so I thought when the smoke dropped it was a barometric pressure thing... ??.. ??..???

So we always do our wood supply for the next winter starting in late Feb or March so we have it all on the ground and chained into rounds by June. Then we set the splitter in the shade and split wood in the mornings so we can quit by 11 when it starts getting hot. Usually all the next winter's wood is split and in the barn curing so it will be ready to go by October

Are you saying that your February and March are WARM months? Wowsrers!

Love the actually doing stuff right though. .... getting the wood chopped in a timely manner and all. purty cool.

This is our carport crushed. View attachment 1205348

might be able to whack it back into shape

 

[pennyJo1960]

Here's something else DH and I have been collaborating on. He is printing the stars and bells using his 3D printer then I do the decorating. We have two done so far with #3 waiting for my attention.

This was the only 'brown' filament that he had on hand. I tired staining the last star and it actually turned out pretty good. I may try to stain this one using a q-tip.

Here is the Amish legend of the Barn Star:

What a wonderful story

 

[pennyJo1960]

This is our carport crushed. View attachment 1205348

Something we need to be aware last year it was my greenhouse that got crushed
I hope your poles come out alright

 

[bruceha2000]

Take it easy @Latestarter. I gave up hand splitting a few years ago, too much pain on the arthritic hands. They aren't bad most of the time but the shock of splitting = OW!

I know you have too much to do, thus the wood not cut and split yet. But as @microchick said, split this winter/spring for next fall/winter. The wood doesn't dry until it has been split. I've had 3" branches still "wet" inside after sitting for months. They do make an interesting hissing as the water boils out in the wood stove.

Hot air rises.... so I thought when the smoke dropped it was a barometric pressure thing... ??.. ??..???

Me too.