Deep Frrrrrrrrrreeeeezzzee

[boondocks]

The above is my teeth chattering. Sitting in what should be a nice warm house but wind chill is 40 below and man is it C.O.L.D. Can't get the house temp up fast enough to keep up with the temp drop. My Angus are used to the cold but this might even be getting a bit chilly for them...

Now all ya Southerners can chime in about your daisies coming up now and the bluebirds singing la-di-da....et cetera et cetera!

At least we are getting a bit more daylight back every day. If all this snow melts at once we will have another major flood. Luckily (?!), there's no warm-up in sight, so I guess I don't need to worry about the spring melt just quite yet. Need to get more hay in though--with the very cold winter and amount of snow, they have really gone through it. We don't feed it very efficiently--need to work on that...

Anybody else freezing their tuchus off tonight?

 

[greybeard]

Not freezing, but for sure no daisies here but we also all know winter ain't done in Texas yet--even this far South.

 

[Williamsv]

Looking for 25 degrees tonight here in middle GA. That is cold for us. I am so ready to see spring arrive. My daughter and her husband live in New York City. Cold there, but not as cold as you are in Upstate New York. Try to stay warm if possible. I worry about my cows and calves in this cold, and have babies due in the next few days. We are very wet here as well as cold and more rain coming in next week.

 

[Orerancher]

About 62deg. today, Sunshine no wind... It was so nice out I pulled the 45-70 out and did a little plinking...

 

[Son of Butch]

Just Freez'ick'n Wonderful here in MinneSnowta.
Days like this make me wonder how great grandparents did it year round over 100 years ago before electricity, indoor plumbing
and heating a home with little or any decent insulation. I remember grandma talking about grabbing clothes and running
downstairs to get dressed in front of a pot belly stove as a kid because the bedroom walls upstairs were covered with frost.

 

[boondocks]

Just Freez'ick'n Wonderful here in MinneSnowta.
Days like this make me wonder how great grandparents did it year round over 100 years ago before electricity, indoor plumbing
and heating a home with little or any decent insulation. I remember grandma talking about grabbing clothes and running
downstairs to get dressed in front of a pot belly stove as a kid because the bedroom walls upstairs were covered with frost.

I really do wonder how it was to feel cold all the time...think they were made of sterner stuff than we are now! And what about the cavemen before that?
Guess I have it very lucky but this wind is making me realize I still have leaks in this house despite spending half the summer trying to find them and seal them up!

 

[Stocker Steve]

Just Freez'ick'n Wonderful here in MinneSnowta.
Days like this make me wonder how great grandparents did it year round over 100 years ago before electricity, indoor plumbing
and heating a home with little or any decent insulation.

over 100 years ago ??? You must be in the cities.

 

[Son of Butch]

Da Cities? Why? Cause I'm old? My great grandparents arrived from Germany with a 2 yr old and a baby in tow in 1870's.
Lived in a cousin's grainery 1st year. Walked 6 miles each day to clear trees to make fields on homestead and 2nd spring
built what they called a summer kitchen to live in while building 1st home to live in the 2nd year.
Then built a real house and added a real barn several years later. But the house must have still been cold in the winters because after that they started adding fall calved kids every other year for the next few years.

 

[Aaron]

Da Cities? Why? Cause I'm old? My great grandparents arrived from Germany with a 2 yr old and a baby in tow in 1870's.
Lived in a cousin's grainery 1st year. Walked 6 miles each day to clear trees to make fields on homestead and 2nd spring
built what they called a summer kitchen to live in while building 1st home to live in the 2nd year.
Then built a real house and added a real barn several years later. But the house must have still been cold in the winters because after that they started adding fall calved kids every other year for the next few years.

He is referring to the fact that most of the north country hasn't had electrical power for more than 50-60 years. Poles weren't planted here until the late 40's/early 50's.

 

[Son of Butch]

Mom's childhood home farm got electricity in 1928, Dad's didn't have it till after WW II.
But great grandparents farm never did and we turned that entire farm, building site and all into plow ground in 1972
in the go-go '70s. Does anyone else remember Earl Butz's call for farmers to plant fencerow to fencerow?

 

[dun]

Da Cities? Why? Cause I'm old? My great grandparents arrived from Germany with a 2 yr old and a baby in tow in 1870's.
Lived in a cousin's grainery 1st year. Walked 6 miles each day to clear trees to make fields on homestead and 2nd spring
built what they called a summer kitchen to live in while building 1st home to live in the 2nd year.
Then built a real house and added a real barn several years later. But the house must have still been cold in the winters because after that they started adding fall calved kids every other year for the next few years.

He is referring to the fact that most of the north country hasn't had electrical power for more than 50-60 years. Poles weren't planted here until the late 40's/early 50's.

A lot of this part of the Ozarks didn;t either.

 

[Nesikep]

Frost is out of the ground here.. 40F most mornings.. Yeah, it's unseasonably warm.. Forecast says next frost is in march!

 

[Caustic Burno]

Mom's childhood home farm got electricity in 1928, Dad's didn't have it till after WW II.
But great grandparents farm never did and we turned that entire farm, building site and all into plow ground in 1972
in the go-go '70s. Does anyone else remember Earl Butz's call for farmers to plant fencerow to fencerow?

Goes back to FDR and the Rural Electrification Act in the 30's.
This was part of his New Deal trying to put Americans back to work.
Took twenty years are more to complete.
Our first meter was nailed to a white oak tree in the yard.
We didn't put a pole up until the 80's when the CO-OP said we all
had to get certified poles and breaker boxes.

 

[dun]

We should start calving in a couple of days, about a week ahead of schedule. The weather is supposed to really go down the dumper sunday afternoon and stay cold for better then a week with snow and ice starting sunday. I can hardly wait!

 

[kjonesel]

I have finally found an advantage for year round calving. At least I only have two to calve next week.

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

It had been cold all week! Well, maybe not Monday. Just as Murphy has it, we had a calf due the 20th born on Wednsady (11th) in the freezing cold wind. I got home from the college and saw a small calf in the pasture from the road and figured it was the cow due the 13th (today), and when I put on my chore clothes and marched out there I realized it was an early baby and she was shivering! So we moved her and her dam to the barn in a pen with some straw. She weighed all of 64 pounds, but cute as a button (an embryo calf, with a white face!). I later looked at the forecast, down to negative temps with the wind chill that night, and decided to bring the cow that was due into a pen also because she was acting like labor was starting, nervous, licking her sides and such. We got her all warm and cozy and went to bed. She decided to calve at the coldest part of the day, 4AM! That one was a real surprise because the cow was AI'd to a bull known to throw big calves (Mo Better), and this was her 5th calf so I was expecting a good sized calf. Cow was 285 days gestation, and had a 59 pound heifer calf! Smallest calf that cow has ever had... And sure bet had she been left out that little heifer would have been froze to death!!!
So Dun is right, only colder from here, expecting our first snow down here in the lower south part. It has not seem like a real winter without some of the white stuff! But it will probably miss us like usual... And then we are just stuck with the cold, dry, miserable weather!

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

We have been having record high temperatures, most ski resorts have closed down due to lack of snow.

 

[backhoeboogie]

We have been having record high temperatures, most ski resorts have closed down due to lack of snow.

We hit 80 last week. Gonna be 74 today. My boysenberry plants have leaves budding. Just in time for three days of freeze next week.

 

[dun]

The goofy bluebirds are starting to buil nests. Maybe they're just packing them so they'll have insulation from the cold

 

[wacocowboy]

Been real nice here but that ends today suppose to start raining and getting colder tomorrow.