The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

I spilled water on my glove today while refilling the goat waterer. By the time I got it the 30 or so feet to the goat haus my glove had frozen to the handle. Thankfully I was wearing gloves.

I thought I was going crazy for other reasons, but we can blame the weather, sure. Works for me.

We're getting 10-14 inches of snow predicted for Saturday night into Sunday. Just made a trip out to Joann Fabrics to ensure I've got something to do other than clean the house and shovel snow!

I do not know why but for a minute I though I was reading a post by @chiqita She lives in San Jose California and even though it has been cold, wet gloves will not freeze to water buckets that fast in San Jose California.....

Congrats on the Snow?????

 

[scottcaddy]

Send them here when you're done. BF is purchasing a new truck tomorrow and they won't get the snowplow off the old and onto the new for 2 weeks or so. I'll be snow blowing and snow scooping and shoveling to get us out of here.

He should go to a Dealer that will do what is needed When it is needed!!

Scott

 

[Pozees]

Those pictures remind me of all the traveling fun I had before I returned to chickens.







A wild Scarlet Macaw flying free on Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

These are such beautiful pictures, love Macaws. I had exotics a long time ago, and I often miss them.

 

[Pozees]

Send them here when you're done. BF is purchasing a new truck tomorrow and they won't get the snowplow off the old and onto the new for 2 weeks or so. I'll be snow blowing and snow scooping and shoveling to get us out of here.

I can sympathize. When we bought this place in 2006 we got three big snows the first winter. That year all we had were shovels and the three of us to shovel out ... the 1000 foot driveway. One snow took us two days to get to the end of the driveway so we could go to the grocery store and work. Now DS is gone finishing college, but it's okay, we have a snowblower and a garden tractor with a snow blade. That little tractor has earned its keep. One or two storms that would have kept us home is all it took.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I can sympathize. When we bought this place in 2006 we got three big snows the first winter. That year all we had were shovels and the three of us to shovel out ... the 1000 foot driveway. One snow took us two days to get to the end of the driveway so we could go to the grocery store and work. Now DS is gone finishing college, but it's okay, we have a snowblower and a garden tractor with a snow blade. That little tractor has earned its keep. One or two storms that would have kept us home is all it took.

Oh yeah, feel your pain there. I first moved to this house with a long driveway in 2007. I thought that I could just snowblow the driveway. I had never used a snowblower before and didn't have any idea how long it actually took to snowblow the driveway. This was BC (before chickens) and some storms I'd get up at 0200 to snowblow and be done in time to get a shower, eat breakfast and then there was inches of snow back on the ground when I went out to leave for work. It was infuriating. There was one morning I had to call a coworker in a panic to pick me up at the end of the road because I couldn't find my car buried in the snow drifts.
Then I started getting BF (who was just a friend at that time) to come plow me out with his uncles truck. And then I fell in love with plows on trucks. And then I fell in love with him and we split a plow as our first purchase.
I'm in charge of getting the snow out of the animal pens, the oil pipe and the steps. He plows. I think I got the better deal even though he's warmer.

 

[Pozees]

Oh yeah, feel your pain there. I first moved to this house with a long driveway in 2007. I thought that I could just snowblow the driveway. I had never used a snowblower before and didn't have any idea how long it actually took to snowblow the driveway. This was BC (before chickens) and some storms I'd get up at 0200 to snowblow and be done in time to get a shower, eat breakfast and then there was inches of snow back on the ground when I went out to leave for work. It was infuriating. There was one morning I had to call a coworker in a panic to pick me up at the end of the road because I couldn't find my car buried in the snow drifts.
Then I started getting BF (who was just a friend at that time) to come plow me out with his uncles truck. And then I fell in love with plows on trucks. And then I fell in love with him and we split a plow as our first purchase.
I'm in charge of getting the snow out of the animal pens, the oil pipe and the steps. He plows. I think I got the better deal even though he's warmer.

I call this, "A man and his driveway"



The dark speck in the center near the top is Bob with the snowblower. He is halfway to the road. I remember having to stifle a giggle when he came in with icicles on his beard and mustache Poor guy. Country living. It has its moments, eh?

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: Been there and done that! I spent my early years (in the 50 & 60's) in northern Indiana. I don't even want to remember how much snow I have moved with a shovel!

Scott (who wishes he had a garden tractor with a blade back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote: My hat is off to Bob!! I would have had to get a tractor for that drive.

Scott

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I call this, "A man and his driveway"



The dark speck in the center near the top is Bob with the snowblower. He is halfway to the road. I remember having to stifle a giggle when he came in with icicles on his beard and mustache Poor guy. Country living. It has its moments, eh?

I love this photo. And I take back what I said about having a long driveway. I don't even see where yours ends. If I was Bob I would cry.

And then buy a truck with a plow on it.

 

[Pozees]

Been there and done that! I spent my early years (in the 50 & 60's) in northern Indiana. I don't even want to remember how much snow I have moved with a shovel!

Scott (who wishes he had a garden tractor with a blade back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

LOL

Yeah, I grew up in upstate NY (Rochester) where we could earn money all winter shoveling snow off the neighbors' walks; I was young and horse crazy and would go to the barn every weekend no matter how cold, just to clean stalls, jog horses, bathe them, cool them, feed them, and feel as if I was in paradise, because I just spent all day with horses Who cared that I couldn't feel my extremities any more??? Then go home and find the last shovel in the house so I could go find my brothers and earn some money shoveling with them. It was a badge of honor if you were approaching frostbite - a sign you had faced down today's challenge from Mother Nature. Now? Hoo. I hate being cold. I'll brave it to take care of the chickens, to be sure, but I much prefer spring and fall.

I'll wager you had more snow than we did over time, though, and not just the lake effect snows we usually got. We would get some big snows, but where you were you probably got inches every day, so by January you were feet deep with no relief in sight.