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farmerjan

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Keeping the house around 60 +/-, and the bedroom warmer with one of those oil/radiator heaters. I do like a cooler room to sleep in so at night the bedroom is fine at 60-62. Have one in the bathroom also because that corner is always colder than a witches' teat. I normally will wear a light sweatshirt in the house due to the colder temps. One day I will have a house where it will not have 900 million little air leaks......
The funniest thing is that the floors in this house have a real pitch, I mean some places there is a 3+ inch difference in level. The scooter actually rolled down from where I had "parked it" to the other part of the room even on the "carpet". They just need to have the support beams in the cellar jacked up a little at a time to get them more level, and not cause any buckling in the floors. I would take all the carpet out and see what is there and put good hardwood floors in if the ones aren't that good. Such a shame the owner wouldn't just sell us the place on this side of the road so the house could be made nicer. Got a nice barn and all. But he won't do anything he absolutely doesn't have to do. Oh well.....
 

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Barb you’d HATE it here!! It’s typically about 57*-61* in here...I turn it up on real cold days, like today. We wear long underwear all the time. It’s a very big ranch. It’d cost a fortune to heat it all...and as most of you know...we ‘have budgetary constraints’. That’s my husband’s catch phrase!! :lol: It just means we’re cheap!! :lol: We just like to line our mattresses with wads of cash...oops, that was before we started a farm, and now the animals eat it all!!:love
 

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Our house can get down to 58 overnight because the fire in the wood stove dies down, and I do sleep better when it's cold, but I crank that fire up in the morning. It's 75 in the living room right now and feels good. No way could I handle a house temp like Ducks! I'd be crabby, LOL. 36* and snowing right now.
 

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When I say mean, I think of willful malice. The scheming to cause harm.
I had a young "oops" rooster that had a mean streak for one particular hen. It happened to be the hen that raised him and the rest of his batch from Meyer. It started when I had her in the broody buster and she stopped being broody. I opened the door and she flew out almost landing on him. The fight was on, I had to separate them twice, looked like a cock fight. After that he managed to leave her alone in the coop and barn alley but when I let them out into the yard he would seek her out and attack her. The last time he ripped the skin open on the back of her neck just below her head. I can still tell which Black Australorp she is of the 3 because while it healed she has a crease where the cut was. He went to a friend at the farmer's market the next day and apparently was found by a coon the day after that.

I hope everyone else’s weekend is going to be as good as mine!
I hope the little ones let you sleep all the way to 6 AM!!

the only time I was in Pa.. it rained for days and was cold...
I've been in FL 3 times. Two of those times (March and June) it POURED rain. The other time (end of March as you may recall) it didn't rain much but wasn't warm enough for shorts either.

No way no how I can't even sleep if it is 65 in the house.
My wife thinks 65°F is a furnace in the bedroom, we have the register closed and keep the door mostly closed so it doesn't get much heat and stays at least 5°F or more lower than the rest of the house. The door would be fully closed except the 2 male cats often like to sleep on the bed.
 

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Our house can get down to 58 overnight because the fire in the wood stove dies down, and I do sleep better when it's cold, but I crank that fire up in the morning. It's 75 in the living room right now and feels good. No way could I handle a house temp like Ducks! I'd be crabby, LOL. 36* and snowing right now.
My hubby keeps his ‘man cave’ at like 48*!! He’s nuts!! And cheap!! :lol:
 
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