Looks like Old Man Winter is making a play after all

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  • Johnny
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2024
    • 713

    #16
    It's 0500 and the outside air temperature is -24. I've been running back and forth to the chicken coop all night checking on the heaters and the birds. Moments ago it was 11 degrees in the coop with just a small propane heater going. I lit a couple candles and an oil lamp and will check again in an hour. I didn't anticipate this level of cold. This Summer, I'll make a few improvements in the coop to handle colder weather.

    As I'm typing this the power just went out. It's gonna be a busy day.

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    • Sanders
      Moderator
      • Oct 2024
      • 1639

      #17
      It's pretty dang cold...

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      • rto
        Moderator
        • Oct 2024
        • 876

        #18
        Good one! I used to have a guy that worked for me that we nicknamed him Scrat. He looked like him and acted goofy but he was a good tech.

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        • Wraith
          Member
          • Oct 2024
          • 44

          #19
          It was -23 F for me yesterday morning and after eating my breakfast I went to rinse the plate in the sink and no hot water the pipe had froze up in the wall. Luckily it didn't take long to get it thawed out and the pipe didn't burst.

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          • ColonelKorn
            Senior Member
            • Oct 2024
            • 284

            #20
            We're waiting for some sleet/snow/ice here on central NC. I'm running between my house and Mom's house keeping fires going in the wood stoves just in case.

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            • Klauss
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2024
              • 250

              #21
              I need a flamethrower

              screw this shoveling BS 😂

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              • aviator
                Administrator
                • Oct 2024
                • 2385

                #22
                Hey, remember lots of people die from heart attack while shoveling snow every year, take it easy out there.
                Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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                • dinkydow
                  Moderator
                  • Oct 2024
                  • 763

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Full Otto

                  Damn! That is one nasty looking mugg. Just looking at that has made my dick shrink to near nothing.

                  Even a paper sack with a mouth hole for face fucking could not conceal the fugly.

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                  • Johnny
                    Senior Member
                    • Oct 2024
                    • 713

                    #24
                    Keeping our laying hens warm has been top priority. I think we've got it figured out short-term. A small propane heater kept the coop temperature at 30 degrees last night while outside it was 0. This Summer, I plan on doing a few coop modifications in the event we get another hard winter next year.

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                    • Pogo
                      Mystic Knight of the sea
                      • Oct 2024
                      • 660

                      #25
                      I have 10" of snow on the ground. I'd rather have that than sleet.
                      We have met the enemy and he is us.

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                      • Klauss
                        Klauss commented
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                        Think we got 13”, still better than ice. Have family in TN that’s lost power.
                    • aviator
                      Administrator
                      • Oct 2024
                      • 2385

                      #26
                      I'm looking at the fact that Sunday is my wife's birthday and she likes to have lunch at this ocean front restaurant in the Florida Keys.....well...it's going to be 38º...ocean front maybe a couple less, but the wind. Not for us tropical creatures.
                      Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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                      • Full Otto
                        Senior Member
                        • Apr 2025
                        • 225

                        #27
                        My kitchen window

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                        • GARANDNUT
                          GARANDNUT commented
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                          That is really pretty and would make a nice desktop background.
                      • aviator
                        Administrator
                        • Oct 2024
                        • 2385

                        #28
                        That's pretty, can I borrow that picture, I like it.
                        Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.

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                        • Full Otto
                          Full Otto commented
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                          Absolutely help yourself
                      • Full Otto
                        Senior Member
                        • Apr 2025
                        • 225

                        #29
                        Wind today really helps "not"

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                        • dinkydow
                          Moderator
                          • Oct 2024
                          • 763

                          #30
                          Originally posted by Full Otto
                          My kitchen window

                          That reminds me of the winter scenes in the "Country house," of Dr. Zhivago's family...from the movie of that name.

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