Getting ready for Winter

[teddymouse]

put summer clothes away, got winter clothes out,made shore still fit,
hung up winter curtains
cheaked windows frames and door for gaps
filled up 4 log sheds with cut seasoned logs and stick boxs.
put sevral cut up carpet inner rolls into greedy pigs winter run and covered with a thick layer of straw,started using straw in chook coop,only use wood shavings in summer.
put eletric blanket and winter quilt on my bed.
made shore pleanty of water in fish and frog ponds,so fish and frogs will go down to the bottom if it freezes and not get shuck in the frozen surface.
shut greenhouse up.
just got to get the winter feeds stocked up,at less about 6 weeks worthy,bird seeds
dog food,chook feeds,greedypigs.ho!and myself.and to anti-freeze the van.phwee

[Spreckly]

The veggie plot is now empty. Hens "playpen" on the lawn has been put away for the winter. We have a small stock of wood, branches, old front gate, odds and ends. Several bags of kindling from OH's joinery jobs in garage. Chimney been swept, CH boiler serviced, caravan was put away, but due to necessary travel in next two weeks, has had to be opened up again.

OH has to make a sort of carport for the oil tank, which started leaking (had to have serviceman out to pump water out), this needs doing ASAP.

We do need to have the coalman deliver some coal, but are trying to use all our last year's coal, and small stock of wood before ordering any more.

We did have the house re-roofed this summer, but that wasn't in preparation for the winter, it was a necessity!

[Linda Pattison]

We have a lot of scrap wood because David had been constructing coops in the barn since 2008. We've shifted our focus to our house basement which has a hearth and where a squirrel had recently gotten under a sill and chewed wires. Fire was averted and now we are tracking along the edges of each sill and sealing with pest-proof foam where needed. So we are using scrap wood to stay warm down there and installing more insulation left over from the barn reno. It's surprising how cluttered a work space can be but also what fuels you can find. It's cosy and cheap!