We're talking cold.. like real cold.... -41 degrees Celcius this morning. I dare not check the Weather Network for the forecast for wind chill.... that might scare me too much! brrrr!!!
Our big development today is that our pipes have frozen. Argh! Last night around 10 p.m. Tootsie the wonder chicken herder came in smelling like cat's pee.... this means that the ground is so frozen that the cats are now using under "My Deck" to take a whiz.... Tootsie, who is little more than a scrap cannot find a place to walk in the deep snow and has taken to using the space under "My Deck" as a bathroom too... and so he comes in smelling rather like a litter box. Since this is not pleasant it means bathing him regularly.
Me: Turn on water in shower upstairs. Slight trickle comes out. "Crap! Deaarr (calling out in a panic stricken voice) I think our pipes are frozen".
Hubby: "Crap!" (great minds think alike) "Is it frozen everywhere.....?"
Me: "Who cares about everywhere..... oh you mean in this house.... I don't know..!"
We check all other taps and there is only a slight dribble coming from the kitchen and the downstairs bathroom.
After Hubby went down into the crawl space under the house he came back quite exasperated to inform me that TC (the contractor) and TCH (the contractors helper) didn't finish insulating the addition and that the furnace vent that heated the crawl space, had been closed offduring the renovations. Argh!!! Hubby spent the next few hours crawling on his stomach in the crawl space insulating thepart of the new section of the crawl space under the addition that had not been insulated. Then he re-insulated the hatch door where the insulation had been torn off.... and then he opened the furnace vent.... and then he put in a heat lamp over the pump. With all this done we went to bed in the hopes that the pump would be thawed out in the morning since we think that the pump is the main problem.....
This Morning:
Me: Crap! Deaarrr (in a melodious voice) there's still no water.
Hubby: Crap! I'll go check the pump....
The result of which is, we are still hoping things will thaw out down there and the water will run again, now that heat is getting in there.
And so I sit here with tea in hand watching Hubby rearrange the animals once again so that the lambs can get to shelter. He is checking them all to see if they need ice removed from their nostrils too. The alpacas have suddenly gotten a whole lot friendlier as they cozy together for warmth. I am heading off to church in a little while if the truck will start. We have a visiting clergy person and I will have to be there in plenty of time to open the doors for her, warm the place up, with a smile on my face.... more than likely it will be a frozen smile....really!
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