Freezing and Planning
Nov. 24th, 2010 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnGiven the arctic storm that hit us, we've had unseasonably cold temperatures here lately. Between the ice and snow, its been a bit tricky to get everyone fed and watered. And by tricky, I mean keeping the water in liquid form and not landing on my ass as I do so!
The ducks have a bucket heater, so at least one bucket has warm water in it - I just need to haul buckets from the laundry room out there a few times a day since we had to cap the outdoor faucets with insultors. The rabbit water bottles, unfortunately, freeze quite readily so they need to be switched out every few hours, then the frozen ones placed on top of the heater vent in the kitchen to thaw. Same with the chicken waterers in the Blue Shed Coop. Thankfully the Bantie barn is small enough, that a bowl of water placed under the heater lamp stays above freezing.
This is all very wearying, especially since the cold seems to have re-aggravated the cold I was getting over. I'm stuffed up, sneezing and coughing, again. Now, on top of all this, since we've been housebound, we haven't finished Thanksgiving meal shopping - so after I work the closing shift at the bookstore today, I need to meet hubby at the Commissary to go shopping.
Have I mentioned that I don't even know how to cook a turkey? Yep, never done it. My father always handled the turkey (my mother dislikes turkey and in a rare sense of irony, prefers HAM for Thankgsiving) or we wouldn't have had one. My job was bread and a few desserts. *sigh*
Me, I wanted a sushi feast this year. *sigh*
The ducks have a bucket heater, so at least one bucket has warm water in it - I just need to haul buckets from the laundry room out there a few times a day since we had to cap the outdoor faucets with insultors. The rabbit water bottles, unfortunately, freeze quite readily so they need to be switched out every few hours, then the frozen ones placed on top of the heater vent in the kitchen to thaw. Same with the chicken waterers in the Blue Shed Coop. Thankfully the Bantie barn is small enough, that a bowl of water placed under the heater lamp stays above freezing.
This is all very wearying, especially since the cold seems to have re-aggravated the cold I was getting over. I'm stuffed up, sneezing and coughing, again. Now, on top of all this, since we've been housebound, we haven't finished Thanksgiving meal shopping - so after I work the closing shift at the bookstore today, I need to meet hubby at the Commissary to go shopping.
Have I mentioned that I don't even know how to cook a turkey? Yep, never done it. My father always handled the turkey (my mother dislikes turkey and in a rare sense of irony, prefers HAM for Thankgsiving) or we wouldn't have had one. My job was bread and a few desserts. *sigh*
Me, I wanted a sushi feast this year. *sigh*
