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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: seldomseen on February 19, 2011, 08:21:01 pm

Title: What do you do???
Post by: seldomseen on February 19, 2011, 08:21:01 pm

Ok what do you do when the ground is hard as rock and minus 15 degrees.

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: NorthEssexsmallholding on February 19, 2011, 08:32:54 pm

go inside for a cuppa tea and a slice of cake?

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: faith0504 on February 19, 2011, 08:34:37 pm

get all our warm clothes on and enjoy a walk with the dogs with no MUD  :wave:

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: dyedinthewool on February 19, 2011, 08:54:03 pm

Light the log fire - curl up with a box of choccies :yum: a nice hot cup of coffee :yum: a plate of shortbread :yum: and a good book

Mind you today we had sun - no wind - took off several thermal layers - you could have thought spring had sprung  and sat outside enjoying a our cup of coffee. ;D

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: Cinderhills on February 19, 2011, 08:59:43 pm

Quote from: faith0504 on February 19, 2011, 08:34:37 pm

get all our warm clothes on and enjoy a walk with the dogs with no MUD  :wave:

Oh yes I completely agree.  It's heaven to come in without having to clean our dog thoroughly from head to toe.  :)

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: Fleecewife on February 19, 2011, 09:08:25 pm

Spend at least three times as long taking feed and water to the livestock, legs wobbly from trudging through the deep snow.  Fetch water for them all from the kitchen hot tap, drag hay bales across the snow on a tarp....  Or of there's no snow - ENJOY the ground being solid so no mud, and the winter sun shining brightly, views for miles to the hills  ;D

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: ballingall on February 19, 2011, 09:08:44 pm

Muck out! It's great when the ground is rock hard, and then the wheelbarrow doesn't sink into 4 inches of mud and take 4x the strength to push it!

I would rather have dry bright days with a good dry ground frost than the drizzle, downpours and MUD!

Beth

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: Hilarysmum on February 20, 2011, 09:43:32 am

Drag water as the hoses would be frozen, but the feed barrow would roll easily so that would be a bonus.  Then spend hours trying to light the fire and keep it lit, unless OH is around when he just touches it and it burns beatifully all day.  :D

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: seldomseen on February 20, 2011, 12:08:51 pm

Much the same here then lol, it just gets a bit frustrating that the peas should be sown but the ground is too hard lol

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: Fleecewife on February 20, 2011, 03:37:02 pm

Ah - start them off in pots or lengths of guttering inside then plant out when the time is right

Title: Re: What do you do???
Post by: plumseverywhere on February 20, 2011, 04:40:31 pm

I mutter and moan a lot  ;) our goats live on a hill, they live out all year (with a shed though) and any frozen water has to be filled by bucket and my little legs get achey!
I also mutter and moan when it snows because that means we are blocked in as our drive is a nightmare, the school boiler usually breaks so I get 4 little girls home who also mutter and moan.
on the plus side, It means I have to make more soap and bath bombs  :)