SageHill
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Wish I could send some of our warmth to you all. We need to be about 10 degrees cooler.
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It got down to 6 on the recording thermometer.... with a wind chill feel like of -2 so the weather said. I got to thinking and the thermometer hangs just under the porch roof... so it might be even colder out away from the house. It is up to 24, the sun is mostly out with some clouds... supposed to hit 30.
I texted farm and said I was not coming due to frozen pipes... Which sadly, I did encounter last night... Took over an hour of opening up all the cabinet doors, running water in the bathroom sink, and the washing machine, to break loose the ice in the cold water pipe to the bathtub... they run off the same main pipe. Did not get the water to the corner sink in the back room to run yet... but it was dripping just a smidge. Finally got the cold water to the tub to run... so did manage a shower as the hot is HOT.... and had to leave it trickling all night. Same with the kitchen water all the way on the other side of the house... This is partly from being an old house, foundation that has "air leaks" and when the wind blows like it was, the cold air gets in... They ran the pipes on the outside walls too, which doesn't help....
I just do not feel like going and testing today...so won't.
Needless to say I was not happy. But at least no busted pipes.. And I got a load of jeans washed... they will get hung as the weather is supposed to get alot warmer in the next couple days... forecast for the next 10 days is all 40's and 50's days and upper 20's and low 30's at night... since it is forecast to be mostly nice, I will probably do at least another load of clothes, or 2... catch up with laundry while they will be able to hang and dry.
Will go out to the chickens here in a little bit. Will have to go up to the big concrete water trough at snyder's and possibly break some ice on top... it continually flows from a spring... to make sure they can drink, but it will stay open pretty much unless we have prolonged bitter temps... and the top freezes over... water will still flow under the ice crust on top if it stays too cold for too long, and out the overflow...
Just thankful it is warming up and do not have to look at a week of temps like that.
I texted farm and said I was not coming due to frozen pipes... Which sadly, I did encounter last night... Took over an hour of opening up all the cabinet doors, running water in the bathroom sink, and the washing machine, to break loose the ice in the cold water pipe to the bathtub... they run off the same main pipe. Did not get the water to the corner sink in the back room to run yet... but it was dripping just a smidge. Finally got the cold water to the tub to run... so did manage a shower as the hot is HOT.... and had to leave it trickling all night. Same with the kitchen water all the way on the other side of the house... This is partly from being an old house, foundation that has "air leaks" and when the wind blows like it was, the cold air gets in... They ran the pipes on the outside walls too, which doesn't help....
I just do not feel like going and testing today...so won't.
Needless to say I was not happy. But at least no busted pipes.. And I got a load of jeans washed... they will get hung as the weather is supposed to get alot warmer in the next couple days... forecast for the next 10 days is all 40's and 50's days and upper 20's and low 30's at night... since it is forecast to be mostly nice, I will probably do at least another load of clothes, or 2... catch up with laundry while they will be able to hang and dry.
Will go out to the chickens here in a little bit. Will have to go up to the big concrete water trough at snyder's and possibly break some ice on top... it continually flows from a spring... to make sure they can drink, but it will stay open pretty much unless we have prolonged bitter temps... and the top freezes over... water will still flow under the ice crust on top if it stays too cold for too long, and out the overflow...
Just thankful it is warming up and do not have to look at a week of temps like that.
Glad your pipes didn't break. We had a partial frozen pipe years ago in a rental. It was a duplex where a bathroom was added by enclosing a porch. Of course the water pipes were added against an uninsulated wall. Geniuses. 
Mini Horses
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Checking barn pipes yesterday, realized I had not plugged in the heat tapes. Cold way earlier than normal so hadn't done it. But there is foam insulation tubes over all the pipes with the heat tapes inside, so I've been ok, so far. There is underground pipe all the way back to my DD trailer, crop up spigots in between for water. A few thousand feet underground! Had 2" of frozen on tubs this morn 
Broke that & plugged in a heated one to thaw it. Winds have died down -- thankfully! It's cold but sun is out nicely. Still low 20s & teens tonight. 
Broke that & plugged in a heated one to thaw it. Winds have died down -- thankfully! It's cold but sun is out nicely. Still low 20s & teens tonight.
SageHill
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Glad your forecast is to warm up. And thank goodness the pipe(s) didn't burst. I so remember dripping faucets all winter long.
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