The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

I bet that would hep with the cold!

Yep, the insulation was sitting in the garden shed when we bought the place. Won't be enough, but it will be a start. I figure to do the North side first
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[Bunnylady]

Critter isn't a very happy camper this evening.

A couple of years ago, he bought a plow blade that can be mounted on the front of our big mower/garden tractor. He got a welder to add a piece to make it as wide as the tractor, and put on a couple of hydraulic cylinders so he could adjust the angle. Ever since then, it has been sitting in the workshop, gathering dust. Well, we finally got enough snow that one of his customers wanted him to come plow their parking lot.

He thought the rig was ready to go, but when he tried to hook it up, the bolts to attach it were nowhere to be found. He ransacked the workshop, and after much searching found some bolts that would work. Got it all put together, went to load it on his box truck, and the lift on the back of the truck wouldn't budge. After much poking and peering, he decided the freezing rain of last night must have gotten into the controls, and locked them up. So, he decides he's going to have to use the trailer, and goes to put the tow bar on the truck. Wouldn't go on - apparently, there was ice in the connections. Critter comes in the house, fills a couple of jugs with hot water, and after a couple of trips back and forth finally gets the bar attached and hooks the trailer to the truck. Puts the tailgate of the trailer down and tries to drive the tractor onto the trailer. No go - the tractor went up the steel tailgate/ramp just fine, but when the drive wheels got to the 3/4" step up onto the trailer bed, they simply wouldn't go - he said it was almost like hitting a wall. After spending at least 2 1/2 hours just trying to get the rig out of the yard, Critter decided this was something he just wasn't meant to do, and told the customer he couldn't make it. Of course, he had to try his plow out, though, so he plowed a block or so of the road at the end of our driveway instead.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thanks for the recipe @ronott1 will keep that for later we are not as much into cakes as cookies or doughnuts

 

[microchick]

As for the cake....chocolate, my favorite food group!

As for plans, nope. Every single solitary freaking thing on board centers around the weather. I think we are forecast to have freezing rain on Sunday but the good news is that by Sunday afternoon the temp is actually going to creep above freezing for the first time in what feels like about 20 years.

Of course the freezing rain will probably tear the bejeebers out of my run netting but oh well, it needs replaced anyway.

 

[Latestarter]

All you New Englanders should be coming out of the Snow Bomb Apocalyptic Vortex pretty quickly now. Seems from what I've heard so far everyone here who's had to deal with it has done OK. Glad some of us "non-colders" are warming back up a bit. I now only deal with ice first thing in the morning. And it isn't 4" thick anymore.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Still sounds like a freight train outside.

We are in the blizzard warning until 4 am. Not bad.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We were told we will get rain a few days now but that is Seattle weather not here we never do get the rain they do and they never bother to say what we may see either

 

[Alaskan]

Anyone have fun weekend plans that don't involve snow, sleet, freezing temperatures?

On Saturday some poor smow gets to jump into the bay, and swim/wade out to retrieve a wooden cross. Saturday is the baptism of Christ, and as part of the shindig's we bless the bay.

Poor shmow will probably be one of my boys.

 

[Alaskan]

Here are pictures from last year. Kid #3. Such a trooper!

 

[microchick]

Penny I read on the news that Mount St. Helens is rumbling again. What are they saying about it in WA state?