I spoke too soon yesterday about being glad I didn't have to chop ice. Figures. I went out this morning and there were empty heated water bowls in the peafowl pen and poultry pens. That meant I either had to carry water out from the house, which is a fair distance, or chop the ice off the top of the unheated water buckets so I could pour water out of them into the heated buckets. Follow that?
I chose the latter, and whew! That's tiring work. The good news is I had enough water to fill the bowls back up. The bad news is, if it's still this cold tomorrow, I'll have no choice but to carry water from the house to the distant water bowls.
While I'm chopping through ice to fill water bowls for the domestic fowl, some of their wild cousins are trying out for the Polar Bear Club, and splashing around in the birdbath.
Even though this birdbath has a heater to keep the water from freezing, it's not THAT warm, and the air is FRIGID. Personally, I think they're birdbrains to be playing in the water when it's this cold.
I figured I was providing drinking water during the cold weather months for the birds, but never imagined I'd be providing a heated spa!
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Uh huh. I keep saying I want more snow, then it comes and I remember we don't have underground water lines run yet. Fortunately, I have two 14 year old boys, and enough hose to reach from the basement (where it's stored this time of year) ALL the way to the water trough in the upper shed. That's a LOT of hose. And difficult to pull up there, when there's a foot of snow on the ground. But a lot easier when you have two 14 year old boys helping. Schooling them at home was a smart idea.
Live in help can certainly be handy!!!