Are ya ready for winters coming?

AM I READY? It hit 100 for the first time today. Aint no way im getting out in this heat to do anything. As for the hay, its quit growing, but it could be cut now without a problem, other than the old windrows still in the field. I fixed up a tongue on my old dump rake Sat with boys help. I at first thought id have to buy some squares top break up and run through my sq bailer when/if I get a guy out her to lok at it, then after the first hay went to hail, I thought id just rake up some of that out of the field to run through the bailer to get it tying again. Not have to buy any.
Boy came out here Sat, We got his WD AC plumbed up, he thinks for 2 way hyd action. It wouldn't start, so I took the carb in to be vatted out. Ill get it out tomorrow. Still cant figure the starter. Take it out, and lay it on the footboard of the tractor, hook jumper cables to it, and it works. Put it back in the tractor, and it don't?? The hole it fits into isn't rusty in the least. Its a bit oily. Im going to get a can of carb cleaner and take the oil off where the starter fits in the hole, and do the same to the starter, and see if that makes a difference.

have 1 snowmobile to overhaul , pick some things up around the yard , get the new door on the shop .I am close

Winter?!?! It's just now really getting hot. Y'all need to migrate down here.

But I might need to buy some new flip flops before 'winter' hits us down here in Texas.

Nope, not ready... we put in a pool this year and it's been cool all year. Usually, I'm ready to jump into fall... hoping just for a few more weeks of summer, but the leaves are actually already changing.

We need more firewood and I have a couple of building projects yet.

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I just got off the phone with my propane co. 400 gallons coming and 200 more locked in at current prices.($1.41) After the shortage last year, I wanted a reserve.

I have a couple of cord left over, so I didn't cut any this year. Next year my Huscvarna will earn its keep again.

I still need to heat tape and insulate some of my plumbing, and fill in some cracks in my foundation.

I still have 14 broilers to butcher, I am planning on five every Friday until they are in winter camp, and I have ordered 45 more, due to arrive in a week or so. This will get me thru winter and them some.

My rabbits are breeding like rabbits and I have 21 to butcher within the next month or so, with three prego does to keep the meat coming.

Am I ready? NO! Can I get by? YES!

Peace,
Curtis

No, I am not.

We've still not recovered from last year. Add to that a mild summer and I'm having panic attacks with every three leaves I see falling from the trees. I am not looking forward to this.

yep ive noticed a few dropping after the temps hit 100 yesterday.

Don't believe in anything FA says. 3 years ago they forecast we would have wetter and milder summer. We have been in the worse drought since the Dust Bowl. I'll save my $5, but I have 800 gal of propane locked in at $1.69, 106 round bales of hay. Have to order two pallets of wood pellets (120 days) and my feeder cubes. Trying to get a Mitsubishi Split heat pump put in but installers only want to do new construction. Going to put in a vent-less heater in case power goes off. Then I'm going to stay home. Hope it is so mild and good won't have to use half of my supplies.

no

i'm counting on autumn actually happening. hate it when winter and summer seem to gloss right over fall and spring. really hoping for as much extra time as possible.

The post is just begging for a smart alec reply

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Moving to that big black hole in the night satellite photo. (also the hole in cell phone coverage )

Not sure if you are rural or not but in a pinch I've see folks place straw bales around their foundations. Not sure that would go over well in a more developed area though. I'm sure it made it extra hard to keep pipes from freezing.

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Yup, heard a few this past week over here in W. OR too.

Been looking at kerosene heaters for the winter. My dream would be to reinstate the woodstove. It was removed years ago by previous owners but the pipe outlet is still there.

Yep I don't wear skirts either

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OK then I will put up the calender so we can all pick the month we want to stay at your place. I go first FEBRUARY

I have maybe a weeks worth of firewood. I need to clean the chimney. And my new neighbors said that the previous owner nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning because the chimney back drafts when the wind comes from a certain angle. So I need to extend it up higher than the barn roof. I can't get time off from work to do anything. I need to check the fuel tanks in the basement.

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How can I be lost, if I've got no where to go?

Well come on down son we got an extra room. But I hope you don't mind an old hound dog trying to climb in bed with you and that's not me an actual hound. And be careful she likes to jump up and kiss all our guests in the mouth. Southern hospitality at it's finest

DH doesn't use the computer, but has gone into overdrive. It wasn't me fretting about the approaching Winter, but HIM! Today, he put up the chicken fence, a fast t-post w/chicken wire job. I took one look at it, and said, "Really?!" Okay, no way to make the chicken wire straight without more t-posts, but DH was trying to be frugal. I'll wait for my next check and buy the dern t-posts myself! He finished fixing our furnace, re-sealed everything on our motorhome roof, and was talking about all the work he had to do to get ready for Winter. The man completely overestimates how long it takes him to do everything, but I guess it is better he is in overdrive mode than not taking it seriously at all. I mentioned it may be a good idea to build a slant roofed carport for our motor home and he ran with that, then started worrying about long it would take to finish everything. I keep telling him to take it one project at a time, one day at a time, and everything will be fine.

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and the "S" word (Snow).

Yes, I'm (mostly) ready. The propane is paid for in advance this year, and the tank is full. Enough wood is split, but more will be split in September. We invested in a whole house generator a month or so ago; it is installed and ready to rock. The bucket is on the tractor to shovel snow, my coveralls, boots, mittens, hats, scarves, etc are ready too.

We have a few storm windows to put up on the ground floor, squash to put in the root cellar, and more canning to do; but it'll happen in due time. Hay is cut and stored, but not yet delivered; that should be in the next couple of weeks. And the property taxes are paid.

After dealing with the onslaught of nagging irritating flies during mega-humidity, heat, and rain, I'M READY.

Next week is the Fair, and after that, autumn begins here, regardless of the weather.

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Supposed to be 30 degrees Sunday. I hope to shoot a caribou. 4 days to find one.