Warmed up today, and is cooling down now, approaching freezing. WINDY!!!!!!!!!!!! Really started cranking around 4 AM. Trash pickup was supposed to be yesterday but I think they didn't finish their Wednesday houses due to the ice and we got pushed out so our cans were still out from yesterday. Our 32 gallon cans had been blown over, DW picked them up when she left for work at 6:45, I guess not much fell out.
The guy that lives "next door" on the other side of the road that runs up our property came down about 7:40. The girl (who I think is about 13) was already down waiting for the school bus. Their recycle bin was knocked over, stuff all in the snow. He started picking it up, son came down the long driveway. Dad still picking up. Floors me that neither kid helped at all, but then I wouldn't be surprised if my kids wouldn't have been just as 'helpful' unless I told them to help. My guess is the girl called Dad to tell him about the problem (assuming she actually got a cell signal), I don't think he could have seen it from the house it is over 100 yards from the road.
I went to town to pay the property taxes (1/3, just shy of $2K), stopped twice on our road to pick up a 96 gallon can that had been blown into the middle of the road. Those were empty recycle cans but I saw a number of other cans, empty recycle and full trash that had blown over. Went to get cat food and 3 bales of pine shavings. When I got back our trash was over again. I righted it and put the few things that had fallen out back in. The trash truck came by as I was taking the first bale to the barn. Supposed to be gusting to mid 30's all the way until tomorrow afternoon when the high will be 18°F.
Last spring I bought a bag of 5 horizontal chicken water nipples. Planned to take the pipe out from the "basement" of the nest box in the coop and replace the 5 vertical saddle nipples and attach the pipe OUTSIDE the nest box. Didn't get to it, figured I had the heated dog dish and it worked fine the last 2 winters so no rush. The last time I had a failure in the 5 nipple pipe a few years ago I made a 2 nipple pipe and attached it under the (crappy) box that holds the 5 gallon drink cooler, removed it when I fixed the 5 nipple pipe. But that had some leakers 2 years ago I think. I decided yesterday that since the element in the dog dish seems to have failed (solid block of ice Tuesday morning) to replace the 2 vertical saddle nipples with 2 horizontals and reattach it. Seems the birds have taken to it just fine, I saw several drinking from it from the original June 2012 chicks that were used to the old nipples to at least one of the girls from last spring. This even though their dog dish is full. I might skip replacing the dog dish, the nipple waterers are more convenient.
Must be your place is quite deep. Is this one of those places where they hack up a whole lot of acres into a lot of skinny lots along a road?
The people that build our house, bought 25 acres and divided out this 5 acres, for themselves and 20 acres for their son. 
