Coffee anyone ?

[Show Sebright]

I need coffee this morning....
my chickens need so much attention. One of my girls yell until I come out to them at 6 in the morning.

 

[Baymule]

@Show Sebright she has you well trained!

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

April 2nd, it's 34 degrees, passing clouds with flurries, winds blowing 10 to 20.
Last week I was outside in a t-shirt. Unwrapped all the rabbit hutches. There was ice in the water bowels this morning.

 

[messybun]

It’s 39 degrees right now!
I went to the dump two days ago, someone was tossing a whole flat trailer full of pallets and scrap wood!!! I almost grabbed some but there is a strict no scavenging policy and a few of the workers were watching very closely. I almost wish I could have paid him to dump it at my house lol.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Sleep is needed. The kids have a cold and turns out i do now as well and so does dh. There go Easter plans but thats okay. We atleast watch church service and hang out here at the house ill boil eggs and let the kids dye them. Then we can hid them maybe... will be avoiding outside cause the party we were invited to is next door bouncy house, pinata and ect. Maybe play board games as well. Oh well and baymule and creal i am stocking your log house conveesation.

 

[farmerjan]

Yes the lumber prices are way out of range for anything except totally absolute neccessity..... NOT the time to be building....
I also try to check out the dumpster and get out anything I think I can use....all the time looking.

I don't know all the reasons, covid being one with the backups, but the cost of getting things cut, hauled etc, is continuing to go up.

DS is looking at building a hay barn.... been collecting timbers, all sorts of stuff. Sheet metal roofing has gone from 2.25 a linear foot to over 3.25 and the one place quoted him a price good until April 10th. He found one place he has dealt with and the price was 2.50 good until today.... we stopped there on the way from the dr to the stockyard on Wed.... price was good for 2 days, until today.... we talked about it and he was going to order what he needs for the roof at the quoted price... it will be twice that by the time he even thinks about getting it built.

Yeah, OSB is what @Crealcritter quoted.... 3/4 plywood is like 70 a sheet.

 

[Alaskan]

It’s 39 degrees right now!
I went to the dump two days ago, someone was tossing a whole flat trailer full of pallets and scrap wood!!! I almost grabbed some but there is a strict no scavenging policy and a few of the workers were watching very closely. I almost wish I could have paid him to dump it at my house lol.

That is so wrong!!!!!

(The no scrounge policy)

Scrounging is the BEST way to "save the planet ".

 

[Alaskan]

I'm bordering some areas with low 30s but actually 43 on my porch! Cruel weather impact after 70- 80 most all last week.

Crazy temperature shift.

Where I live, swings like that never happen.

Which is why I still have over 4 feet of snow...

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Crazy temperature shift.

Where I live, swings like that never happen.

Which is why I still have over 4 feet of snow...

Wait, you seriously don't have those? It isn't abnormal for us to have 40+ degree temp shifts. It is 70 here today which is nice, but I know we aren't done with snow for the year.

 

[rachels.haven]

@Poka_Doodle , I think it's an ocean thing. The ocean is nature's geothermal regulator.