Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[misfitmorgan]

I have never had a GP but DH's grandfather had many many of them and in fact still had 5 when he passed away. DH lived with his grandpa so he knows a lot more about GP then i do. Basically I am waiting on DH to give me the yes.....to tell the lady. We have discussed it and he has not told me yes or no yet.

 

[Bruce]

Does he have any concerns?

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yes his concern is we own 6 dogs already. I told him i could part with Stella if we could get the Pyr but he wasnt convinced. He is also concerned because the Pyr has a problem with hair sheep....which look similar to goats. Wool sheep she is fine with i guess, also cows and horses. She would not be in with the sheep/goats though, he is also concerned the llama will attack her...again she wont be with the sheep/goats.

I told him Pyrs are not cheap around here and training them to guard poultry is hard to do.

I would part with Stella because her and Kora fight a lot and it makes the other dogs fight. She has attacked my small older dogs more then once. She is a good dog for a family without other dogs, she is fine with cats, loves kids, is totally house broke etc. Her only bad habit is barking when someone comes over. Stella was one of my brothers dogs otherwise i never would have kept her this long.

 

[misfitmorgan]

The past week and a half has been so cold it is ridiculous. Almost every day last week was negative temps when i came into work for 6am, last thursday was -18F at 6am. Highs have been in single or low low double digits with the exception of the past two days it was 20F

Today 20F/-3F windchill 8F /-30F
Thurs 3F/-7F windchill -18F /-25F
Fri 2F/-8F windchill -19F/-25F
Sat 5F/0F windchill 3F/-16F
Sun 25F/23F windchill 18F/17F

February is suppose to be the coldest month of the year....someone got it backwards.

 

[Bruce]

We are looking at -13°F on Saturday. That is an improvement from -20°F. Of course the wind chill will be -36°F. Wife's mother, father and aunt were going to come over for the annual New Year/DW's BDay rib roast on Saturday. We moved it to Sunday when it should be 11*F with a windchill of only -2°F. Gotta be nice when the age range is 84 to 100!!

 

[Baymule]

How do you keep water for your animals in sub zero weather? We've been in the teens, water frozen, hauling hot water from the house, NO fun. Glad that temps are going up. Still freezing at night, but up in the 40's during the day. I can deal with that. Phooey on frozen!

I hope you can get the GP and that it works out for the dog and y'all. If nothing else, you could get a litter of pups and raise them the way you wanted to.

 

[farmerjan]

God bless you for the fortitude to withstand those temps. We used to get cold in Ct and family had it worse in Vt. I moved to Va 35 years ago to have 4 seasons, but alot less of the winter season. We are Exceptionally cold for this time of year and it is just holding on. Guess it isn't as bad a thing as those south that have no experience with this cold, but it is abnormal for us to have it last so long. And making our watering a real nightmare with everything freezing up solid, and having to haul water to several places now.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We are looking at -13°F on Saturday. That is an improvement from -20°F. Of course the wind chill will be -36°F. Wife's mother, father and aunt were going to come over for the annual New Year/DW's BDay rib roast on Saturday. We moved it to Sunday when it should be 11*F with a windchill of only -2°F. Gotta be nice when the age range is 84 to 100!!

I did see that you guys would be getting i think the worst of it. Try to stay warm.

How do you keep water for your animals in sub zero weather? We've been in the teens, water frozen, hauling hot water from the house, NO fun. Glad that temps are going up. Still freezing at night, but up in the 40's during the day. I can deal with that. Phooey on frozen!

I hope you can get the GP and that it works out for the dog and y'all. If nothing else, you could get a litter of pups and raise them the way you wanted to.

You keep your hose in the basement and reel it out to fill up large containers, then you pack hay or straw around them and hope for the best...when that water freezes solid....your down to buckets or reeling the hose out daily. So far we havnt had to bucket to much...i think about 2 days worth since winter.

The water does freeze for the goats/sheep. Their water trough is the bottom of a 55gallon poly barrel so DH uses the back of his maul and hits the sides of the tub until the ice block comes out then we put in fresh water and they have until that freezes to get their water needs met. We do bucket hot or very warm water to give them more time to drink as well. Ideally you have a heated waterer or a deicer in the trough and you just need to make sure you keep it full of water manually. We had a deicer it broke finally so i need to order a new one. I assume you have seen deicers but in case not...something like this https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Products...e=UTF8&qid=1515067112&sr=8-31&keywords=deicer

God bless you for the fortitude to withstand those temps. We used to get cold in Ct and family had it worse in Vt. I moved to Va 35 years ago to have 4 seasons, but alot less of the winter season. We are Exceptionally cold for this time of year and it is just holding on. Guess it isn't as bad a thing as those south that have no experience with this cold, but it is abnormal for us to have it last so long. And making our watering a real nightmare with everything freezing up solid, and having to haul water to several places now.

I do hate the cold but i've pretty much decided not to complain about it to much because it wont change it. Some day we will move to a warmer climate I'm sure. Dh does not want to live in Texas so I'm thinking Tenn....he is thinking Louisiana

Oh also.... @Baymule we are going down tonight to see the Pyr!
@Southern by choice any advice on what to look for? Apparently her parents are on sight and are working guardians.

 

[Baymule]

It freezes here so rarely that a driver or heater isn't worth it.

Your DH doesn't want to live in Texas but prefers Louisiana?

I hope you get the GP!

 

[misfitmorgan]

It freezes here so rarely that a driver or heater isn't worth it.

Your DH doesn't want to live in Texas but prefers Louisiana?

I hope you get the GP!

He lived in texas for 4 yrs....in houston. I think the fact it was in houston has something to do with it. He wants to live in lousiana out in the booney's/swamp....i told him yes i would be happy to live there but first he needs to teach the livestock to swim and defend themselves from crocs and gators.

I hope we get her too!!