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How many of you guys spent this weekend doing winter prep?
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Cleaned two chimneys,last of the gutter debris and winterized the boat..Just finished treating myself to a good rib eye,fixins and a cold Oct fest ...
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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Yesterday I checked the anti-freeze in all the tractors and the truck. It won't be long now until we have a freeze. Moved all the liquid herbicide into the heated garage too. I've already used my spot sprayer for the last time and put RV anti-freeze in it. Need to get some wood in before long.
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I've got all my wood in and a couple of bottles of scamper juice stashed away. I'm ready.
Also worth noting.....I actually bought a big pack of D-Cells and replaced the batteries in all the flashlights whether they needed it or not. I try to do this every year but I usually forget until the power goes out and I realize they're all near death if not completely dead.
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We started in a week or two ago.
Draining our irrigation pipelines and pulling pumps out of the river. Running RV antifreeze through the old Spra Coupes. Plug in all the waterers. Filled my bulk tank with #1 diesel this morning. Had 3 loads of crushed gravel hauled in and spruced up some low spots in the 'roads'.
Dozing manure and moving dirt back into our little feedlot. Hay is all hauled off the fields. The next two weeks is basically the mad dash to get everything ready for Winter and bringing all the cows/calves home.
Chopping corn tomorrow.
I'll probably get around to cutting wood when there is 2' of snow on the ground......grin
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Your winter prep sounds a bit more involved than mine Sam. Boy am I glad I'm retired.
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Your winter prep sounds a bit more involved than mine Sam. Boy am I glad I'm retired. Nowhere have I ever heard that retirement was ever over-rated...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Been working on the place the last 10 days or so, about done, got the wood in did cut a nice dead ash that fell next to the road the other day, Ill get the easy ones when I can! even got a buck in the freezer, need 2 more deer tho!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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I think I 'prepped' yesterday.......
Turned the A/C off, opened the windows and sliding doors and went to bed!
Apologies to my northern friends.
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
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run down the tractor to get ready for winter mix fuel, clean chimney, get saws ready to cut next years wood, antifreeze in sprayers, repair tire chains, unhook and store hoses from hydrants, get heated waters out, clean out wood trailer, straw in berries, and the list goes on
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I aint ready for fall yet!
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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What is this winter you guys speak of?
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Barry, in NW Ontario, it gets so cold, ice forms on the surface of the lakes, but only about the top three feet!
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Hell, it was 90* here last week. It finally cooled off and we got our first frost yesterday. Maybe I'll go out and shoot a deer tomorrow.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan
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When we were at the place in north Idaho for the summer we cut and stacked about four cords under cover. Turned the heat tape on and should be good to go. We will be heading up in a couple of weeks for some rainbow and Mackinaw fishing and the wood stoves will be lit. I cannot wait...
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Perfect timing ED......this is by far the best time of the year for No. ID.
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What is this winter you guys speak of? It's the delightful opposite of what youse guys have!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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winter makes wet cow piles into nasty projectiles when you back into them with a snow blower (and we ain't talking about Frostie's girl friend) on the back of a 100hp tractor
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Been spending time getting firewood put up. Cutting, splitting, stacking. I always like the way it looks all stacked up. A certain satisfaction seeing it there and knowing we will be warm later on when it really gets cold.
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Cleaned the chimney and rounded up the firewood for the wife to use while Im on shift. Nice weekend.
Yup.
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