What are you doing today?

[Back in the fold]

All you guys better get ready for round two . We had a foot of snow here in my area of Montana , tonight and tomorrow night are going to be below zero Fahrenheit and it’s moving east . The good news is that we are to have a significant warm up Thursday . The weatherman says highs in the upper 40’s and nights in the low 30’s . That should get to you after the next arctic blast .

 

[jaylach]

All you guys better get ready for round two . We had a foot of snow here in my area of Montana , tonight and tomorrow night are going to be below zero Fahrenheit and it’s moving east . The good news is that we are to have a significant warm up Thursday . The weatherman says highs in the upper 40’s and nights in the low 30’s . That should get to you after the next arctic blast .

Ya, pretty much the same here. Six more days of winter then warmer; like you in the 40's. I would still like to see more snow in the mountains.

 

[BigDog]

Not much going on here

I pulled out my back by shoveling the snow way form the front of my sidewalk

 

[anewbie]

I took a picture:

It used to look like this:

and just a mere 3 months ago it looked like this:

I guess the 50 or 60 fishes in there are feeding the plants. It reminds me when i was in college and setup a swordtail aquarium for my gf. By the end of the school year (approx 10 months) it was packed with plants and 30 or 40 swordtails... of course the above tank is true blackwater with ec of 20 but still....
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Other than that i've been thinking about what i need to do tomorrow which is well not today.

 

[Alice B]

That storm is headed my way but almost no precipitation - just bitter cold. 65 hours below freezing doesn't sound bad unless you're not used to it, your house isn't built for it, etc. It starts tomorrow afternoon

 

[fishorama]

Well, we don't have any of your winter weather here, just rain, thank goodness. But we're thinking of where to move to next. Michigan is where our families but I'm not sure we want to deal with snow/slush/ice anymore. I lost all my shoveling muscles when we moved from Mass. But I was pretty buff for middle age, lol. Not any more...

 

[Naughts]

This is now my favorite poem . It deeply affects my feelings and mood today . The clock is indeed now still .

Incredibly hard times. How long were you together?

 

[GaryE]

One of my best friends, an older guy, had been in the Merchant Marine on the convoy runs from Canada to Europe and Russia during World War two's long Battle of the Atlantic. The two things Danny hated most were submariners and ice. He said they would chip ice off the ships for as long as they could, huddle in warmth and go back out and do it again, endlessly.

I don't know what in recent days reminded me of that long gone friend's stories, but last night the winds were so violent the house sounded like we were out at sea, and recently, I've been chipping a lot of ice. Dan would have been cursing if he lived here. He'd also have been 110 years old, so that's another issue.

Everything out there is sheet ice. I used 40 kg of ice melting salt yesterday, and this morning the melting it caused had largely frozen over again. We need some sun.

When I look out back though, the field is shining. It's quite beautiful, with lots of low hills and contours made silvery white by the snow and ice. The view out the fishroom window is almost worth it. But it is time for Spring to start.

So what am I going to do today? Probably feel cold a lot, maybe draw horses with my 5 year old niece, and move some fish to breeding tanks I put heaters in last night.

 

[Alice B]

I flipped the inner cover on the white hive and loaded them up with more fondant. A lot of bees in there, and they all have to eat. blue hive feels like it has a good honey store, it's heavy. picked up firewood yesterday, doing a little laundry today while its warm enough to run the washer. Dryer heats the greenhouse so its not a big deal. Need to cover outdoor faucets and get the front yard relatively hardy plants on the porch. Change the house chick's bedding and plug in the heat lamp for the outdoor coop. and I am sure that is NOT everything The plants that have to come indoors came in sunday

 

[BigDog]

It’s going to be a slow day for me

Back is still hurting a lot

I been wanting to order some shrimp

Temperatures here have been as low as - 20 at night

And as cold as -10 in the morning
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I know they have closed all the schools by me this week so far

Do to the coldness out side

The company says the shrimp will arrive to my house a live

I wanted to see what other people thought of shipping shrimp in such cold weather

 

[gwand]

The nightmare ended. The power outage that started Sunday afternoon has come to a close. Just in the nick of time. My propane tank was nearly empty. Once again my generator pulled me through a tough situation. My seven tanks were protected from certain catastrophe.

 

[anewbie]

The nightmare ended. The power outage that started Sunday afternoon has come to a close. Just in the nick of time. My propane tank was nearly empty. Once again my generator pulled me through a tough situation. My seven tanks were protected from certain catastrophe.

My generator is on natural gas so i can go a year without electricity

 

[gwand]

My generator is on natural gas so i can go a year without electricity

I wish my neighborhood had natural gas. The power outage was so extensive that if I ran out of propane I would not have been able to procure more. It is scarce at the moment.

 

[anewbie]

I wish my neighborhood had natural gas. The power outage was so extensive that if I ran out of propane I would not have been able to procure more. It is scarce at the moment.

Well the way things are going a lot of things including vaccine are gonna soon be scarce.

 

[MaloK]

I chose to go with standard gasoline for my generator...

With stabilizer in the gas mix. You can leave the tank for years without draining and carburetor to become gunk out.

For the moment it still starts at a quarter turn at minus 30C.

Another 20-40 hours of breaking in, and I will put it on synthetic oil.

That should be my last "addition" to the power outage gear. I have the full kerosene powered stuff, heater, stove, light it can be used under pressure or directly.

I always like it a lot, 25 years old cans are still perfectly good and has not lost a mm. A couple of large cans can provide months of use.

Lamp oil devices are also very welcome in these situations.

Whatever happens in a complete black out... I'm always mesmerized by what real silence is...