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So we're going to get that megastorm that's threatening most of the States and eastern Canada. We've been getting snow every day, even if only for a few hours, and it has accumulated. We've got some very impressive drifts from the strong winds that we get almost daily, too. But this is going to be the first big snow dump of the season. None of us are looking forward to it.
Because we're on a farm, we don't have city water or sewage. We draw our water from a well on the property, and the pump runs on electricity. If the electricity goes out because of high winds and/or heavy snow (or a car running into a pole), we lose not just our lights and appliances but our toilets and our water inside - and outside. No water in the sheds or the barn, either. That's a lot of alpacas to water by melting snow in front of the propane fireplace. So we're going to hope very hard that we don't lose electricity or at least not for very long. We have access to a generator, but the best thing would be for everything to just stay on. Please.
We started to get the alpacas ready for the storm. I hauled extra hay and straw out of the barn, and Dar hoisted the bales into the appropriate shelters. (I don't have the muscle strength any more to lift hay bales into the loft in the suris' little house.) Tomorrow we'll do a little more: make sure they have deep bedding and that their water buckets are all clean. (Not that we let them get dirty or slimy, but we don't want to have to clean them during the storm.) I want to gather all of the snow shovels inside, too, so we don't have to go trouping through snow drifts to find them.
I'm not looking forward to carving my way through the drifts. My hips are so bad now that I can't really lift my legs that high; I lose my balance pretty easily, and I'm snow blind - I lose my depth perception and sense of perspective when I look at an expanse of snow. Not exactly cut out to be Nanook of the North anymore :) I'll be OK once the snow is packed down. In a perverse way, though, I'm kind of looking forward to getting out in the middle of things. When I was younger and living in the city, I would always take a walk during a big snow storm. Even as a kid, my parents would have to rein me in during the big storms. Hell, even the little ones. I looooved walking in the snow. Maybe I just used it all up. Heh.
Anyway - busy day tomorrow, and it's way past my bedtime. Good-night, my lovelies, and stay well during the storm.
Because we're on a farm, we don't have city water or sewage. We draw our water from a well on the property, and the pump runs on electricity. If the electricity goes out because of high winds and/or heavy snow (or a car running into a pole), we lose not just our lights and appliances but our toilets and our water inside - and outside. No water in the sheds or the barn, either. That's a lot of alpacas to water by melting snow in front of the propane fireplace. So we're going to hope very hard that we don't lose electricity or at least not for very long. We have access to a generator, but the best thing would be for everything to just stay on. Please.
We started to get the alpacas ready for the storm. I hauled extra hay and straw out of the barn, and Dar hoisted the bales into the appropriate shelters. (I don't have the muscle strength any more to lift hay bales into the loft in the suris' little house.) Tomorrow we'll do a little more: make sure they have deep bedding and that their water buckets are all clean. (Not that we let them get dirty or slimy, but we don't want to have to clean them during the storm.) I want to gather all of the snow shovels inside, too, so we don't have to go trouping through snow drifts to find them.
I'm not looking forward to carving my way through the drifts. My hips are so bad now that I can't really lift my legs that high; I lose my balance pretty easily, and I'm snow blind - I lose my depth perception and sense of perspective when I look at an expanse of snow. Not exactly cut out to be Nanook of the North anymore :) I'll be OK once the snow is packed down. In a perverse way, though, I'm kind of looking forward to getting out in the middle of things. When I was younger and living in the city, I would always take a walk during a big snow storm. Even as a kid, my parents would have to rein me in during the big storms. Hell, even the little ones. I looooved walking in the snow. Maybe I just used it all up. Heh.
Anyway - busy day tomorrow, and it's way past my bedtime. Good-night, my lovelies, and stay well during the storm.
