Good Morning!

[WLLady]

We had a snow squall sit over london all day today. The snow was up to my knees in the parking lot lol. Glad it was there and not at home.... The drive again was nasty with drifting and blowing packed into sheets of ice on the highway. Great friday evening to stay home. Who knew that figuing out what to eat for dinner would be such a chore every day. Argh.... Gotta go and root through the freezer and see what is there....so glad its friday

[Farrier1987]

Good morning,
something about brass monkeys comes to mind,

OK. Everyone thinks that freezing the balls offf a brass monkey is nasty. Not so, it is from the days of the sailing ships and cannons.

There was a a brass ring that they put out on the deck next to the cannon. Then they would take cannon balls and set them inside that ring and make a small pyramid out of them for storage until required in battle. That brass ring was known as a brass monkey. When the cannon balls were snugly piled, and the temperature dropped, the brass ring would contract and get smaller. If it was cold enough, the cannon balls might fall off. Hence,: Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey,

Lots of our daily expressions come from the age of sail. "Son of a gun" is another one that is actually really nasty, whereas balls and the brass monkey is not. But we will save that one for another time.

[Farrier1987]

Boy you knew you can suck me in on that one

I wouldn't touch that line with a ten foot pole. And Kareem Abdul Kowalski wouldn't touch it either. And he is a seven foot Pole.

[Ontario Chick]

So -35 wind-chill this morning, never mind the brass monkey, standing behind the house, I actually considered sticking my head in the patio door just to de-frost my eyeballs, this is the time of the year when the question "who's idea was it to move to Canada anyway"??? tends to be asked

[baronrenfrew]

So -35 wind-chill this morning, never mind the brass monkey, standing behind the house, I actually considered sticking my head in the patio door just to de-frost my eyeballs, this is the time of the year when the question "who's idea was it to move to Canada anyway"??? tends to be asked

bah - the cold kills bugs so I'm all for it.

[Ontario Chick]

Oddly enough, that was the DH response too, of course he wasn't the one standing on the outside of the house !

[Epona]

Did someone say frozen balls? Burr’s not taking any chances

[Ontario Chick]

Smart dog :)

[KimChick]

Yup, the temperature can rise a couple of degrees anytime; it would be most welcome.
But just think - It's almost Spring!
In the meantime, I'm wondering what to do with a little RIR hen that has isolated herself from some bossy bigger, and older hens. She stays in a coop outside all by herself. She is healthy, eating, drinking, and getting out and about. If I could catch her, I would be thinking of taking her into the barn and putting her with the other 2 hens on the other side of the fence away from all the other hens.

[WLLady]

we ended up buying a net to help catch birds. it's been a life saver-especially with the muscovy ducks! maybe a net could help? or moving the other 2 out to her? but if she's happy and healthy etc and not craving company maybe she's just fine? i have a couple of birds like that. they just putter around the barn and stay out of everyone's way....

we busted the tractor on the weekend....lol. had a bolt shear on the hydraulic pump. we thought we were hemorrhaging engine oil, but thankfully it wasn't, it was hydraulic oil, which was cleaning off the crud on the engine on the way down....sigh. hopefully we'll get it fixed up. Had a scary couple of hours yesterday when the tractor got stuck on the logging road on sheet ice under the snow pulling 3 big logs....we ended up having to do some fancy footwork to 1) stop the logs from jamming the differentials, 2) stop the tractor from literally sliding, brakes on, down the hill backwards, and 3) trying to avoid leaving the tractor at the bottom of the hill in the ravine for later (preferably upright). we managed, but man....not fun. everything is home, but the hydraulics needs a fix and we need to buy some chains for the tractor i think. it's either that or dump loads of rock down the logging road.....
chains will likely be cheaper, and easier on the road!

just hope we get everything fixed up before hay moving time again!