It's coming
Nov. 3rd, 2022 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormWe're supposed to get our first real snow of the year in the next 24 hours: 20-30cm.
Shortly thereafter it's supposed to drop to -23C or lower. It's going to be very hard on the plants; the soil is still dead dry.
Last night I was out with the headlamp and then this morning out with the headlamp again.
I got the tillers under cover, got some roofing on next year's split wood (but there's still maybe 2/3 cord to split, and the splitter is still out there, and I didn't do the aspen yet).
I got all my lumber (2x4s, spare house wood, etc) under cover but not up on racks. I had to pry some of it off the ground, pretty much everything has a couple inches of gravel frozen to it at this point.
I got the garlic covered in straw.
I raked the snowblower path from the house back to get twigs etc out of the way, but I didn't get the front of the driveway done.
I got the animal carriers split, clamshelled, roughly cleaned (there was some frozen stuff I couldn't get off) and put under cover.
I got extra straw to everyone to keep them warm.
I picked up a bit more garbage and organized some things, put all the cardboard in the cardboard pile.
I got the hoses strung up on the deck, but only one got put away (I snaked it through the rafters on the goose shed, which is honestly where I should put some of the 2x4s)
I did not get the far-back straw bales re-covered for a third time after the wind blew the tarps off; my plan was to bridge between the two with some treetrunks and put some roofing over so I can get the pigs back there in the spring. I need to do that tonight, during "at snow; at times heavy".
I did not get the back side of the animal carrier A-frame reattached where it blew off.
I did not get the missing metal panel from the pigpen reattached; I need to cut several metal panels and put them up for that.
(Doing this now) I did not let the fire go out and clean the chimney, but I really should do that before the hard cold comes.
I did not test-start the snowblower or pull the garden textiles off it (they have not been stored in a bin safely).
(Did half of this) I did not get all the flower pots from my deck moved off the lawn out of the snowblower path.
I have not yet wrapped the apple trees and berry bushes to keep voles from eating the bark.
Busy times.
Shortly thereafter it's supposed to drop to -23C or lower. It's going to be very hard on the plants; the soil is still dead dry.
Last night I was out with the headlamp and then this morning out with the headlamp again.
I got the tillers under cover, got some roofing on next year's split wood (but there's still maybe 2/3 cord to split, and the splitter is still out there, and I didn't do the aspen yet).
I got all my lumber (2x4s, spare house wood, etc) under cover but not up on racks. I had to pry some of it off the ground, pretty much everything has a couple inches of gravel frozen to it at this point.
I got the garlic covered in straw.
I raked the snowblower path from the house back to get twigs etc out of the way, but I didn't get the front of the driveway done.
I got the animal carriers split, clamshelled, roughly cleaned (there was some frozen stuff I couldn't get off) and put under cover.
I got extra straw to everyone to keep them warm.
I picked up a bit more garbage and organized some things, put all the cardboard in the cardboard pile.
I got the hoses strung up on the deck, but only one got put away (I snaked it through the rafters on the goose shed, which is honestly where I should put some of the 2x4s)
I did not get the far-back straw bales re-covered for a third time after the wind blew the tarps off; my plan was to bridge between the two with some treetrunks and put some roofing over so I can get the pigs back there in the spring. I need to do that tonight, during "at snow; at times heavy".
I did not get the back side of the animal carrier A-frame reattached where it blew off.
I did not get the missing metal panel from the pigpen reattached; I need to cut several metal panels and put them up for that.
(Doing this now) I did not let the fire go out and clean the chimney, but I really should do that before the hard cold comes.
I did not test-start the snowblower or pull the garden textiles off it (they have not been stored in a bin safely).
(Did half of this) I did not get all the flower pots from my deck moved off the lawn out of the snowblower path.
I have not yet wrapped the apple trees and berry bushes to keep voles from eating the bark.
Busy times.
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Date: 2022-11-03 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-04 02:27 am (UTC)Normally there are warmer periods but they don't really melt the snow into the ground, they just compact it so there's only a couple feet of denser snow instead of several feet of fluffy snow.
Also normally, the snow falls on unfrozen ground and melts into it, and the temperature hovers some, and the bottom later melts some, and then in the spring it stays around freezing under the snow as the temp fluctuates above and below, so things can start growing even before the snow is fully gone.