Who is the wiseguy or gal sending that cold weather way down here to me????? I wake up weehours of the morning and I always check on the weather to see what I need wear-shorts or pants..WELL..It is COLD!..I never know from day to day about this time of the year..hot or cold AND also cold and hot on the same day..my poor AC unit doesnt know either whether to cool or stay off..LOLOLOL...I am heading out to Walmart this morning to get few items and plus go to the fabric store..I have to make a wedding cloak and a new plastic covering for my patio doors.. using the clear plastic this time so I can see out alittle better than white plastic..lol...
BBRRR..it is COLD!
I wish I was going with you today, I need a plastic mat to cut my fabric on. I now have picked out the pattern for my quilt and it takes three colors of fabric so I went by Joan Cooks and she took me to a fabric store in Tyler and I got some cobalt blue colored. What does quilting have to do with the poultry and livestock forum, I'm using a peacock feather pattern.
Yesterday morning it was 72 degrees and had a 94% humidity, then the front blew in and boy did it blow. It was suppose to be 31 this morning but it only got down to 37, yea!!! I can bring in more plants. It was raining by the we left and was raining when we got back and is misting now, we can really use the rain.
Its still 57 here, but the front is on the way. Its way windy. The chickens are loving it.
I don't know the temp is right now but it is cold and raining yuck.
Cold is OK, rain is OK, cold rain - yuck.
We had cold and rain this morning but it is clearing - just windy and cold now.
Kenboy, I wanna see that quilt when ya done with it!!!..lol...Well it is sunshining right now..got all my stuff done and now working on the wedding cloak..to send to Idaho tomorrow...
still dark and gloomy here but rain seems to have finally stopped and temps have dropped about 15 degrees already. Supposed to be 30 for us in the morning ugh!!
It dropped down to 32.7 for the last few hours before the sun came up..Now it is warming up..lol
yep same for us Nadine
32F this morning here. Water bucket had a skim of ice, but not the chicken waterers.
My chickens was ready to come out n play this morning! My water pans had some ice on top..but I move them so the sun can shine on them to warm up the water. I also fed them some red pepper poultry cookies to warm their tummies up..lol..tomorrow..they will get warm oatmeal w red pepper n olive oil for breakfast..lol..
19 here this morning and lots of sunshine
Moodene wrote;" Red pepper poultry cookies"
Okay, I'm good with dog cookies, but how do you make Chicken cookies?? I mean, of course, cookies FOR chickens.....:)
I make poultry blocks and cookies..Here is a pic of them.
This is basically scratch grains,whole oats,corn grits,oatmeal, powder milk and water. You can add black oil sunflowers and chopped peanuts..Baked them in oven for about 20 mins..lol..I use small to large loaf bread pans for the block style. I just dropped 2 large spoonful of the dough on parchpaper cuz I don't want anything sticking period...lol..
On these snacks have powdered red pepper for my hen's jump starting the egg dept OR you keep your birds warm in the above pic. Powdered Red Pepper acts just like corn do..keeps the birds body warmed for the winter. It doesnt affect the eating of the eggs..
Cool! Thanks, I'm shopping today, and the birdies will benefit. Have to be careful that the dogs don't think this is for them, don't think they'd appreciate the pepper *g*.
We have been having the Ups and downs in Temps here too! Last night was the coldest so far in the low 30's, icy frost on the ground and a thin sheet of ice yesterday and this morning over the waterers. Right now it is starting to get windy and slooooowly warming...we know here in the south that means only one thing... more rain! Then the Co-o-o-old will come back with a vengence. Im with you Kenboy , cold is cold and rain is okay but the two together is just not a good thing!
My Drama for the week is that I finally had to turn my central heat on........uh ..... tried to turn it on rather! It seems that after not being in use all summer and Fall, i had no idea that the heating element or coil or whatever the thing-ama-jig is called is burnt out! Soooo I have no heat! I now have to resort to using an electric heater, toting it from room to room, until I can go and buy another one for the bedroom! Ding Bobbit!!! Calling the repairman and hoping he can accept partial payment today!
It seems I am forever having to spend money that I dont have or money put aside for something like Christmas. month before last it was 4 tires for my truck,( you can go around on bald tires for just so long), then last month , wouldnt you know it I had a nail in one of my brand new tires and ffound out that the Spare was no good! So new tire and a spare! LOL! You have to laugh to keep from crying sometimes!
Okay I'll stop Whining now...back to Chicken business!
Eufaula, I feel for you. We had to have our heat pump replaced last spring. And he replaced the inside unit too. Found the electrical part inside had been gone for awhile and it was using the emergency heat coil only to heat the whole house! Might as well have had electric heaters going full blast in every room. No wonder our bill was so high! And we felt cold all the time. Those things need some kind of indicator on them to say "hey I need replaced" or something...
oh I don't even want to think about having to replace the central heat. Would probably be a expensive nightmare.
Have you ever heard of Auqa Therm??? me neither!!
Cost me a 100 buck for repair man to come out and laugh at me!!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrr
It seems Aqua Therm heats from your Hot Water Heater. I also found out real quick if you leave you propane Hot Water Heater on it sucks up 150 gallons in 2 months. Quite an expensive lesson for propane & Repair man. So we only turn it on at night for a little while for baths and Dishes. You probably can't even find a Hot Water Heater with water lines coming out of the top any more.
I thought Propane was supposed to be cheaper and more energy efficient than Electric?? I only saved 50 a month on my Electric Bill when I started flipping the breaker on it at the old place.
It really does save if you can remember to turn your electric hot water off,If I turned mine off at 10am and then back on when I get up the next morning around 6:30am I save about 20.00 dollars a month and I have plenty of hot water,but if you had a big family you would have to figure out when you use the most hot water and go from there,I turn mine off in the electrical box in my bedroom.
that's what I did. Flip the breaker