Life is good

[bjrogg]

Glad to hear everyone is getting back to normal. Good on Matt for checking in on Bob. It’s been brutally cold and windy here lately.

Pappy I wonder if you could use one of those heater for water troughs for your fish tank.

Bjrogg

[Pappy]

I thought about that BJ, but was afraid to try it, they can be a little finicky , I tried moving them inside a few years ago and lost a lot of them, so now just try my best to keep it from freezing solid, once the electric came back on the heat lamp is doing a good job of keeping it from doing that.Think I have got by this one. Still got pipes froze in the cabin, heading down this morning to see if they thawed with the heaters I put on them yesterday and if any of them are busted, keeping my fingers crossed. 
 Pappy

[JW_Halverson]

The cabin looks picturesque with the snow, Pappy! I bet the woods are quiet and peaceful, too. Not gonna like, I am a little bitter, Pappy. You have more snow than we do here in the Black Hills.

Next time you get a nasty cold snap like this, turn on faucets at the slowest trickle you can manage. That wee bit of dribble often stops the pipes from freezing up completely. We far northern Yankees sometimes have to do that even though we insulate our houses. Lots of newer homes are no longer putting in water lines unless they are on an interior wall in order to prevent this.  I replumbed the kitchen sink water lines to come up through the floor under the sink so they aren't in the wall anymore.

Hang in there, spring is coming.

[bjrogg]

Yes we always left the water trickling in the barn when it gets this cold. But if you have a well and don’t have electricity you don’t have that option. It’s still very cold and very windy here. I’m thinking about somewhere warm.

Still a lot of winter left here, but every day gets one day closer.

Pappy I think they even have those heaters for fish tanks. I seem to remember having one when we were kids.

Bjrogg

[Pappy]

Yes JW the woods are beautiful , but not very quite, the snow was covered with about and inch of ice, pretty noisy when I went out for a walk yesterday, the problem with the cabin is not the wall but the lines coming in under it, hard to keep it warn under it. I have a heat light under it at the point it come in and that usually works fine but the no Electric put a monkey wrench in that plan so now just have to get it thawed and see what i got. I will check into that BJ ,but again you need electric for it to work. Off grid solar panels is the answer and may look into that. got the bathroom thawed yesterday and all seems good for now, now on to the kitchen. 
 Pappy