Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

Going to twelve degrees tonight. I have never lived anywhere that it got that cold.

It's 9 degrees here this morning and I didn't want to get out from under the covers.

You have us beat- we are currently at 0* and maybe get into the low 20's today...

Got down to 3° here this morning....hi of 24....if I dealt with these kinds of temps too often I'd have to rethink having animals cause I just want to hibernate....

It's 18° here right now. Sun is shining, but not adding a whole lot of warmth. forecast says high of 32 today. The hot water line to my kitchen sink is frozen solid... not even a dribble. I hope the pipe holds out and doesn't burst. Gonna be another real cold one tonight so I think I'm going to let the other faucets "leak" overnight. I do NOT want to be laying on my back under the house repairing water lines...

Saw the neighbor doing that exact thing yesterday Joe, his wife was bringing him a blow dryer and pipe insulation....sure hope it thaws out without adding problems....open up the cabnet door too to circulate some warmth.

The problem as I see it is that the floors here are NOT insulated. The house is built on piers maybe 3 feet above ground at the back of the house and 2 feet or less at the front. There is skirting around the house, but it does not extend into the ground, which allows cold air to blow under the house, especially when it's real windy. The last cold snap we had back in December I opened the taps a bit over night, but for some reason this time I completely forgot. I don't know that it will be warm enough today for the pipe to thaw. I have left the tap opened a bit so if it does happen to thaw enough to move, it will hopefully run enough to clear the ice. Tomorrow is supposed to be mid 40s, so hopefully that will melt it. I'm going to be monitoring for broken pipes for the next several days...

@Latestarter turn your water off tonight and open all the faucets. Then if you do get a busted pipe, it won't spew all over the place. Turn the water on tomorrow and then go turn off the faucets. Maybe draw up some water for the inbetween time. This might be a good time to buy a hair dryer for thawing out pipes.

@Latestarter I'm glad you got your water line thawed out. The water troughs are getting such thick ice in a short time that I resorted to using a sledge hammer to break the ice.

I made what to me is an interesting observation today with the pup and this is the third time in as many days that I've seen it. I have spent a lot of time breaking Thor from moving the sheep and i haven't seen him do it in a couple of weeks but there is a new twist to what he's doing and I'm inclined to not stop this one since I'm not REALLY sure that what I'm seeing is anything other than coincidence until I see it more.

Sheep being sheep they will head butt each other and when they go at it fairly seriously he will start walking toward the pair doing the butting. With him being so big, they stop and start walking away. As soon as they stop, he turns away and stops paying them any attention. He won't even walk toward them until they start butting again and he will do the same thing.

Guess he is trying to decide who is the aggressor and protect the other....or referee....