Andy has done the annual maintenance and repairs for the snow plow, and he’s stacked the branches from the trees he cut up for firewood. The piles will be burned in bonfires later in the season. He’s also gradually adding to his pile of firewood, as time and weather permits. He seems to have things in good shape for the winter that is fast approaching.
What about you? Do you have any special preparations to make?
While our winters are nothing compared to yours, we don’t need heating at all, we have had to get our woolen clothes and comforters out. Minimum temperature now is around 10 degrees C.
Tom said 10 Celsius is 50 Fahrenheit. “How do you know?” I ask. “Because Fahrenheit is 9/5ths of Celsius + 32.” I don’t use Wikipedia. I ask Tom. 🙂
We were in India in November and found the temperature pleasant. Much better than summer for us!
I winterized the camper the day before our first hard freeze by blowing out the air lines. I normally RV antifreeze in the waste tanks and the drain traps, but apparently there had been a run on RV antifreeze due to the earlier than normal cold spell. Karen was going to pick some up when she went Walmart, but the shelves were empty. So the first cold night, I set the thermostat in the camper at 42°.
It’s become more common it recent years to lose power during the winter and spring, and have to run electrical cords into the house from the camper, using the generator to power selected items with extension cords. This year, I made some modifications to our house’s electrical wiring. Now all I have to do is plug a cable from a box on the outside of the house to the generator, start the generator, and flip a switch in our utility room and we have power and lights in the kitchen and bathroom.
Good for you! I figured you would be like Andy and have more preparing to do than most of us.
Jean didn’t explain that here we burn piles of brush after snow covers the tall dried grass well. If not that brush pile would spread to the dry grass & cause another forest fire.
It’s not so critical now that we don’t have a forest to burn, but it’s still good practice. 🙂
It’s imperative to prevent forest fires. I see piles of wood everywhere I hike. Seems years go by & no one burns them.
how i love strong self reliant men.
and you have one in andy for sure!
Yes, I do! And clearly Mike is one too.
Not where I am.
That’s because you live so close to the water? The temperature doesn’t change much?
And it is coming in to Summer
Yes, I know that. I think it’s cool to be able to converse with people in the Southern Hemisphere. 🙂
it’s not about winterizing here 🙂 rather more about other sort of things, I noted my neighbour sorting out his bbq this last weekend; so that will sure to mean more outdoor noises from his family.
However, although I am done with official study this year and believe I have a pass (totted up some weighted marks at the electronic software), still need that ratified and pick up last research essay. But now I plan to do some personal study which links to the new study – things I would have studied if I had been doing the subject from word “go” – history basically, social and political…
So really, I’m my own personage. I have around 3 more night group meetings and one other end-of-year do to attend. All craft goes into Summer Recess until mid February…
Happy vacation! I love having the freedom to pick my own projects and set my own schedule.
Well, living in a city, my only preparation for winter is having enough money to pay the exorbitant cost of heating oil! And putting anti-frost screenwash in the car. We don’t bother with logfires so no need for firewood.
In our apartment down here heat is included in the rent, which is nice. We did have our propane tank up on the land refilled a month or so ago. If for some reason Andy doesn’t cut enough firewood he can just turn the thermostat up, for a goodly price, of course.