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Post by dawg53 on Jan 5, 2019 6:33:22 GMT -5
Cooler and sunny for the rest of the week!  |
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Post by maryellen on Jan 5, 2019 12:17:30 GMT -5
Pouring here. While im glad its not snow im not liking the mud.. lots of mud:(
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Post by Sylie on Jan 5, 2019 22:56:02 GMT -5
58 and sunny all day here today...january 5th in Iowa...WTH? lol
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 9, 2019 11:08:06 GMT -5
back to 20 later and cold all this week.
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Post by Sylie on Jan 9, 2019 21:01:40 GMT -5
This is more like January in Iowa...27, very windy
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Post by boskelli1571 on Jan 10, 2019 5:23:06 GMT -5
Snow today - we have a couple of inches, but the ground is warm so it won't last long
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Post by Sylie on Jan 10, 2019 23:52:29 GMT -5
it was in the low 30's today, a little better!
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Post by dawg53 on Jan 11, 2019 5:40:09 GMT -5
It's in the mid 30's this morning brrr!
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Post by boskelli1571 on Jan 11, 2019 6:38:30 GMT -5
Winter has arrived - 13F this morning + wind chill. Next few days about the same according to the 'weather folks'.
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Post by Sylie on Jan 11, 2019 10:30:06 GMT -5
It's in the mid 30's this morning brrr! Hahahaha! Dawg, my post right above yours saying low 30's was feeling better and then you post that mid 30's was cold hahaha, perspective is a funny thing. |
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 11, 2019 11:48:15 GMT -5
We went from 60 for a few days, to 30 with serious wind chill to 20 and 25 during the day and 20 this morning!!! Snow this weekend.
I have been lugging buckets of water out for the horse. I can carry 3 gallons at a time, so it's several trips.
Worst thing happened yesterday morning. Powell is yelling me awake because my horse is running down the street! OMG! I just jumped out of bed and ran down the street with pajamas, a blanket over me and barefeet. She got so far I couldn't see her so I came back to the house and she must have turned around and ran past the house in front of me standing there. I just stood there and she came back and walked up to me!
It's my own fault. Something must have spooked her and she ran thru a flimsy fence I had temporarily. I walked her back to her paddock over frozen mud ruts with bare feet. My feet luckily were so frozen that I couldn't feel them. I was exhausted the rest of the day.
Yesterday I got 9 yards of wood chips delivered. Now I can take care of the area in front of the barn and fence.
Chickens are great. Their shed yesterday was 60, so I cut the heat down. But they seem content being locked up.
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Post by dawg53 on Jan 11, 2019 12:13:13 GMT -5
I'm glad you got your horse back safe and sound Karen. That's scary.
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Post by Sylie on Jan 11, 2019 13:52:46 GMT -5
Wow, that was really scary! I'm glad to know that the chickens are okay being locked up. Sometimes it's amazing what an animal will adapt to. For example, I have a cat that has a lot of health problems. I was giving her a bath about 6 weeks ago when the dog decided to be stupid, she jumped off my shoulder and hit the edge of the stove on the way down and completely destroyed her pelvis, both of her hips just sort of...hang there. But, on the good side, she has figured out how to drag herself around and even pulls herself up onto my bed to sleep on my pillow. She is adapting to not having the use of her back legs. Animals are so amazing! Sometimes I think that we don't give them enough credit.
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Post by maryellen on Jan 11, 2019 18:33:29 GMT -5
Omg tgank goodness you got her back safe!!!!
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Post by Sylie on Jan 12, 2019 0:28:40 GMT -5
It was cold and cloudy today and tonight we are getting snow, they say 5-8 inches tonight and another 1-3 tomorrow, we'll see! I can already hear the ducks protesting in the morning.
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 12, 2019 11:29:17 GMT -5
It snowed about 1.5 inch last night. I think there may be rain later.
Yes thank g_d she got back safe.
I emailed my parents and was telling them about what happened and my father said it was too dangerous and too much work to have a horse. (funny I've owned horses for 32 years). He's such a downer!!! Always negative. Will have to stop telling him stuff.
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Post by Sylie on Jan 12, 2019 23:40:01 GMT -5
We got 9 inches of snow today. It's pretty and I love to see the duck and chickens footprints hehe.
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Post by Sylie on Jan 12, 2019 23:41:04 GMT -5
It snowed about 1.5 inch last night. I think there may be rain later. Yes thank g_d she got back safe. I emailed my parents and was telling them about what happened and my father said it was too dangerous and too much work to have a horse. (funny I've owned horses for 32 years). He's such a downer!!! Always negative. Will have to stop telling him stuff. My father is like that too. I've told myself a million times to stop telling him certain things. I'm sorry that you have to deal with that too. I can sympathize. |
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Post by seminolewind on Jan 16, 2019 1:11:08 GMT -5
You are right. I should watch what I tell him.
my sister on the other hand emails me back with "maybe your horse wants to go back to florida!" Always funny.
yesterday I tried to turn my truck around and got stuck in the mud. HUBS pulled me out. It's cold here. 30 or so day and night. I had to let the chickens out for a while and started cutting wood for new doors on the coop. I'm not sure if I can put posts in the ground.
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Post by dawg53 on Jan 16, 2019 5:56:00 GMT -5
It's been chilly and cloudy here, mid 30's at night, mid 50's in the day. It's supposed to slowly warm up to the low 70's this weekend. Then next Monday morning the bottom is supposed to drop out of the thermometer, very cold and very windy UGH.
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