A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Here is How cold looks at dodge's house today.. enjoy!!!

First photo is in my garden.. I created a bon fire and didnt roast marshmallows.
I was burning cardboard boxes from the holidays and plastic stuff.
It melted the snow like a pond.. Isnt that cute.?? No



2nd is my yard looking toward the barn .....My smallish christmas tree.
Quick change from last week.
-10 here this morning.




I know you envy me......

Hi Dodge, You must live near to my area.
We were minus 10 yesterday morning, -2 this morning. Heat wave!
Lovely old barn. :)
Your weather looks the same as my place. ~Sigh We are only 3 days for being under two months till spring. It will be here soon and we will all be posting pics like this....

Western pa.......I live clear at the bottom of the state.. But were loving your snow..LOL

Nice pictures Dodge,,,, I love the second one,,, looks like a post card,,
Kim I can't wait to see those hummers again,,

Thanks diane,

I know what your thinking..LOL

yep

Dodge, I was thinking of you this morning...as a fellow PA-er. We hit -20 this morning...Stephen saw it on his way to work at 4:45am. Many people here, including us, have had problems with water pines freezing and bursting. The problems come from how old some of these houses are. We were lucky, the pipe that froze and broke was not inside of a wall and was also in the rear room which is the laundry room. Stephen was able to weld it back together.

Jenn on our old house (a 2 story farm house built in 1914) we too had issues with pipes----on the nights when it is going to get below freezing leave doors open to pipes if you can.

as an example:
on nights when the weather was going to get below freezing or close to it:

In the kitchen, where my sink was on an outside wall, at night I would leave the doors to the sink pipes open.---our washer & dryer was in the back porch & we would leave the kitchen door open, just perhpas 2 or 3 inches. in the bathroom I would leave the vanity doors open to those pipes--we never had a problem if we did that.

and oh--we got some heat tape I think is it called---and wrapped the water pipes under the house that were not in the basement. ( we had a cellar really) rod would only plug it in when it was supposed to be below freezing.

(I shudder to think what the people who live there do to it now)

and I am glad that stephen was able to fix the pipes.

Thanks for the thoughts..

Yesterday (saturday was -12

Sunday a heat wave .......15 above......And snowing like crazy..

Sorry to hear of your pipes.
When we first moved in, we had to put cement aroud the pipes entrance and outside we put them down deeper.. No problem since. Heat in the basement makes a difference. We also closed in the walls below the porch..

Gosh hope it is warmer today ..

b

It's snowing here today. All morning.

Great pics Barb. You really put that Canon to work! I like it.

Dodge, your barn is MAGNIFICENT! I could live there! (If you would shovel out my stall once a week.)

Thanks Loz,

Not many days where canon isnt at work.LOL
A year now......

Beats the blahs..

You have to clean your own stall, cut the Hay and Corn, And dont SHOOT THE BULL!

that barn is pretty great.

Dodge--sorry I got side tracked with what Jenn had said about her freezing pipes.--

I too love your barn--and all the photos your lovely camera takes---great camera, & great items to photograph. You are one lucky lady....

that's very true dodge. You're a fortunate person.