Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

Merry Christmas to all! Yep, stay safe if you are on the road.
Nice Packer win for sure!
Hope you got some meat out of the deal cw?

bigz

 

[Spyderk117]

Merry Christmas!
It's a bummer the Vikings lost!

 

[corewassen87]

no special licenses jim! Smart arse lol. I got all but one of the front shoulders. The last deer cost me 200 dollars and this one 500. This next deer better be a Holstein if it costs more than that! What a nice Christmas anyways. Saw my entire family today. Usually I dread family events but it wasn't so bad at all.

 

[jvls1942]

this is the snow slowly sliding off of the metal roof.



this is the left side of the snow showing the icicles hanging horizontally



this is from the end of the house showing the tunnel along the soffits

last night the whole shebang fell off.

today I tried plowing the slush in the driveway.
what a mess .
It is going to be a big skating rink if it freezes.

...........jiminwisc.......

ETA:
I mixed up about 5 gallons of potting soil.
transplanted about 26 elderberry shoots into a nice deep flat.
the roots on some of them were awesome.
I had about 80% success rate with the rooting. not bad for my first time ever; and not knowing exactly what I was doing.

........jiminwisc.........
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[bigzio]

Windy Day here today...gosh why would a ViQueens loss be anything but celebration...Only the strong survive in Cheeseland!

Good to hear you captured some good red meat cw.

Yep, normal view out the windows here Jim....except my slides are in the wrong places and need snow removal when it happens...stupid is as stupid does....

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

Windy Day here today...gosh why would a ViQueens loss be anything but celebration...Only the strong survive in Cheeseland!

Good to hear you captured some good red meat cw.

Yep, normal view out the windows here Jim....except my slides are in the wrong places and need snow removal when it happens...stupid is as stupid does....

bigz

I know what you mean. I have a lean to roof that slides onto the sidewalk of the chicken coop. I did that to myself.
luckily it is a small roof..

........jiminwisc........

 

[jvls1942]

good Tuesday morning,

no news is good news..

........jiminwisc......

 

[bigzio]

Frozen skating rink area in front today...I usually have a big feed bag full of sand for the slippery areas, but failed to collect some earlier this fall...wood ashes work even better, but make more of a mess when tracked into the kitchen floor....wish I had a mud room here for sure......if I could build a new home, it would have all the practical features one needs and would enjoy.....just a pipe dream for sure.

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

Frozen skating rink area in front today...I usually have a big feed bag full of sand for the slippery areas, but failed to collect some earlier this fall...wood ashes work even better, but make more of a mess when tracked into the kitchen floor....wish I had a mud room here for sure......if I could build a new home, it would have all the practical features one needs and would enjoy.....just a pipe dream for sure.

bigz

same here, I created quite a hazard by plowing and leaving some clumps here and there. now they are frozen clumps.
step onto one of them and slide off . makes walking a real challenge .
use wood ashes in areas far away from the house.
sand and salt close to the house.

it was really cold on the ears today.
I closed the chicken coop door . egg production took a real dive with them running loose in the cold.

.......jiminwisc.........

 

[wyoDreamer]

My chickens are refusing to leave the coop - not stepping in the white stuff at all.
The melting snow and rainfall has saturated the ramp for the barn and is seeping through the walls and into the barn. Now the coop is damp and I think I saw some frosty combs this morning. I wish the Sagitta's had small/rose combs, I like those birds but I had to deal with frostbite last winter...

EDITTED FOR JIM - Sorry, but I can't get this text to go larger.