@fuzzi I'm good on this....I always buy iodine free salt, own chickens for eggs, goats for dairy, rarely eat out or use processed foods. And, no fluoride in toothpaste, have well water, raise 98% of own veggies. I'm a firm believer that so many health issues of today are the result of foods -- processed, additives, GMO contrived & chemicals used to spray or fertilize. Everyone has their opinion, that's mine.
This morning sunshine but cold 22 to start. There's now a huge layer of ice on the leftover snow, compliments of thawing yesterday & freezing last night. Every step is a challenge. Fed, broke ice on tubs, took care of bottle babes (2 now) and came in to thaw hands & feet. I'll carry out some hot water in a short time. Hoping this crap will finish melting, with early sun & all being strong day long
Home all week but roads are clear pretty much. Wasn't near as bad as 50 mile north where they got double my snow. I don't need to go out but, Tues I'll call to see if the trailer load of Alf/orch arrived. They are closed Sun/Mon.
Had another 4 inches of snow fall last night. Between snow coming and snow going it's packing down pretty good to the point you don't know how deep it is till you go looking. Got looking kicking a hole to the ground, yep we are little over foot deep.
Spent the day yesterday unfreezing schit, yes literally schit. You wouldn't believe how much pressure can build up in a 3 inch sewage pipe at about 43' of pipe. Twenty feet of pipe is exposed to elements and it froze solid towards the end, started dumping hot water to unfreeze it and no luck.
Took clean out cap off and started punching with hammer and rebar. Yep punched on through, all 43' feet full of sewage/water I poured in came shooting out, projectile schit launching up to 20' all over the outside wall of the pole barn too.
Four pounds of salt and 6 gallons of water later all was resolved with pipe insulated this time. Only reason this happened was a below zero NE wind which is very very rare. Last year it didn't freeze despite going down to -40°F
Noticed when we get a NE wind as such everyone is having a problem of sorts out here.