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Colleen Kinzie · Post by **Colleen Kinzie** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:24 pm

Al. Your ducks will give you the cold shoulder now!! Bet they thought they were in some sort of paradise. Lol
It sure can come up fast
I'm sure I'll be digging trenches in our barn yard this weekend
Our cattle don't like to swim!!!!

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:39 am

Well not a great morning here, power off since 1:00, figures incubators are running. Took them and put them in front of the wood stove until DH got up at 6:00 and got the generator going. Fingers crossed that they didn't die XX

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:30 am

I was just texting with bayvistafarm-theyre out since last night. Generator on for water....but barn pitch black inside-going out with lights so birds can eat and drink. Lots of work ahead dealing with trees and branches...sigh. that area out there didnt need another of these storms....
its snowing here-lake effect. Glad its a stay home day. Happy easter everyone. I hope everyone is safe and home and in okay shape!!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:40 am

Happy Easter ALL!
Al that looked like a good start for an above ground pool? You could share with the ducks, but the chickens may not appreciate it.
Hope all the power is back on soon and clean up can get started.
We are encased in a layer of ice, thin enough for a person to brake thru, but dog slip-sliding all over the place.
Good day to stay home and bake some hot cross buns, have to figure out if I can do it with one hand tied behind my back

Have a safe one!

Post by **WLLady** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:02 am

Al, i think your metal reinforcement is predator proof there lol. That absolutely sucks. When we moved in here at this place the basement flooded every spring. Badly. The water would come in where the pipes for the outdoor furnace came in. We packed it...still leaked. We finally decommissioned the outdoor furnace and dug to the pipes....guess what theyd done!!?? Put the pipes inside non perforated big o and sealed them at the house end-to the house-but didnt account for the 112 acres north of the house worth of melting snow draining downhill straight into the other unsealed end of the pipe!!! It was literally piping all the thaw from the field straight into the basement! As soon as we took out the seal to the house and opened the pipe up no more flooded basement. Go figure. Living in new places is always live and learn for at least 5 years lol. Sorry it happened but glad you know before you had lots of babies around to get chilled....

You could always move the pond....indoors....um....lol.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:09 am

So I went out this week before the storm to cut a bucket of wood (why use whats in the shed). Drove the tractor to the site of a few small dead elms. Cut some trees, fill the bucket, battery dead. Walk back to the house, can't find the good jumper cables, tried with the crappy ones, no luck. Pull the generator from the shed with the battery charger to put on the truck. Pull the cord to fire it up and test it before driving out in the bush. Cord breaks in my hand. D'OH! Freakin Murphy! Borrow cables from neighbour, got the tractor home, now gotta replace the cord on the genny. Good Ole Murphy.

ross · Post by **ross** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:19 am

Happy Easter all . No issues here lots a family get togethers for 3 days with family & grandyounguns . Can't ask for much better . Be safe !!!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:29 am

Oh man Baron breaking the cord SUCKS! I broke the one on one of our minibikes tryiny to pull the kids around on a sled... lawnmowers wernt fast enough. but i didnt like that motor anyways!

Sounds like we all had a bunch of fun over the last day or so. glad its over and wasnt worse!

I remember the ice storm back in the day that crippled Ontario n Quebec. that was when I was starting out with reptiles... I had to rush home to get them all in front of the gas stove to keep em alive.

but it was such fun skating all over town!

I think today im guna dig the trench to stop the pond from over filling. I may not be able to lay the pipe down but a good start I believe. all the water has drained out of the run except for the pond area... remember wheb I was trying to figure out how to seal the pond and i decided not to do anything at all? great idea! the pond hasnt been empty since I filled it up. the water table is only like 20" underground.

Have great day and Happy Easter!

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:35 am

Hydro out here since 10 PM, course the incubator is running, my husband took the chicks to the shop where they still had heat, then he hooked the incubator up to a car battery using an invertor and voilà the incubator was fine. Great to have a smart husband, I would have been sunk, I told him the new house will have a wood stove, this happens too much around here. We are also going to get a converter ( I think that's what it's called) like a generator but smaller and quiet.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:37 am

Wow ! That's a lot of water,I feel for you, that would not be fun dealing with it especially in the cold.