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[pennyJo1960]

We are to have more rain next week but not horrible

 

[bobbi-j]

Lovely sunshine and in the 40's today. Even got a short walk in after work!

 

[Alaskan]

Did i show you guys the picture i took today of the live pine trees that fell over? At least the new garden area will be less shady. And they didn't fall on my truck or workshop. My metal chair is flattened though.

Because of too much rain?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Cap, I didn't see. Post it.

Bruce, still snowing here, as well. Mostly I have a mud soup with a snow topping but still have quite a few areas of really thick ice under it, too. Found one at 0600 heading out to fill the wild bird feeders. Luckily it was right in front of the bedroom window so bf got a good show.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

@NotAFarm

Fulton, illinois is done! Love this one and not sure I want to throw it in a quilt. If I have enough rows it might become a table runner

 

[bruceha2000]

Bruce, still snowing here, as well. Mostly I have a mud soup with a snow topping but still have quite a few areas of really thick ice under it, too. Found one at 0600 heading out to fill the wild bird feeders. Luckily it was right in front of the bedroom window so bf got a good show.

No pictures? Didn't happen
I hope you weren't damaged while putting on the show for BF.

Stopped snowing, looks like closer to a foot than the 9" Mr. NOAA suggested. Heavy with a lot of windpack. Went out in the dark at 5:30 (if we can't get rid of the shift can we at least put it back where it was before GWB screwed with it??) to move enough snow that DW could get out onto the (unplowed) road at 6:30. I cleared her a path and some of the road as well. Two fortunate things:

• A vehicle came up the road from the south heading north so DW had some tracks in the snow drifted onto the road to follow out.
• The cable on the winch for the blower on the garden tractor didn't fray apart until I had finished that part.

So the GT is out in the parking area unable to lift the blower. Not sure how I'm going to fix that, there is a loop over a thimble with a ferrule clamping the cable back to itself. Don't have ferrules or a clamping tool and there are 2 parallel rods across the front of the winch that won't let cable clamps through. "After snow blowing nap" finished (I DO NOT get up at 5 AM!!!) Breakfast finished. Time to see if the alpacas are snowed in, feed and water them and the chickens, clear the snow off the solar panels and see what I can do about the GT.

 

[NotAFarm]

... quite a few areas of really thick ice under it, too. Found one at 0600 heading out to fill the wild bird feeders. Luckily it was right in front of the bedroom window so bf got a good show.

I hope you didn't hurt anything!

@NotAFarm

Fulton, illinois is done! Love this one and not sure I want to throw it in a quilt. If I have enough rows it might become a table runner

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Wonderful job! Lots going on on that panel...glad you like it!

 

[NotAFarm]

@CapricornFarm
You didn't post the tree pic here

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning it is 10:30 am here did not get up till early still having coffee Darn Bruce hope you did not hurt yourself out there

 

[microchick]

Hi everyone. I'm alive, just super busy. Spring is here...sorta. Feels more like Late March here now. The snow is gone, temps in the 50s. Mud is drying up...until it rains tonight into the rest of the weekend. DH and I have been busy out cutting paths in the timber, cleaning trails close to the house, repairing radio antennas, putting up a new antenna and in the in between times, I have the run panels all rearranged for the birds, new fence up, plans to expand the shed coop and get rid of the original coop which is starting to look it's age, poor thing. In the meantime, I'm transplanting seedling garden plants (the area, cleaned and fertilized by the chickens where their run used to be is destined to be my garden) doing spring cleaning and when I have the time sleeping!

All of you with snow, my deepest sympathies. All of you flooded, deeper sympathies, and all of you waiting for spring, many hugs.

If anybody is looking to relocate, the house and acreage next door to us is for sale. 32 acres, 5 bedroom house remodeled. Big barn, walk out basement and best of all....you'd get to be my neighbor! Of course there is that pesky Marek's disease that is in the area to deal with but hey! Amish chickens cure that problem! See! I have all the solutions! Seriously, the current owners are funny people. Nice folks with 14 kids, moved here from ND because they were tired of the long cold winters. They put in a solar power system (we advised them to go with on grid power as the summer's here could be brutal and unless they loved 105 degree weather they would want AC) when they told us they were deciding to move and relocate, they said now get this. The winters were too mild. They missed snow and the summers were too hot for their solar system to handle the AC.

Sometimes you just have to bite your tongue to keep from laughing when people tell you that kind of stuff.

So that is my week in a nutshell. Hope y'all are feeling well.