The weather here in Central Missouri has been decent over the past week but if the weather guessers are right we’re headed for single digit temps later in the week along with the possibility of some snowfall.
I put round bales out last weekend and put a bundle of idiot cubes in the hay stall yesterday. I need to put a bag of corn chop in the bulk feeder later today. With those things done I’ll be as ready for bad weather as I can be, at least in terms of keeping the critters fed.
Mrs. Augie cleaned out the chicken house yesterday and tossed the poo into the raised beds out front. That should be all of the soil improvement they need to be ready for spring planting.
Follow-up appointment with my spine doc is on Thursday. Hopefully she’ll have some treatment options lined up for me. I’m really tired of being Big Chief Broken Back.
Howard is close to earning free rein in the house while we’re indoors. We have a baby gate that’s hinged like an accordion that is working well to keep him out of the kitchen. He could jump it with very little effort but so far he hasn’t shown any interest in doing that.
I sure hope you can get some relief! Pain is no fun. My ‘right lower quarter pannel’ likes to go out from time to time - there is NEVER any reason for it, which is annoying - so when that happens I am on ice and stretching exercises and deep tissue massage for a few days. Never any fun. :(
Good on Howard! Love that guy! :)
I have an old weightlifting belt that I put on when I have problems and it usually helps.
At least there won’t be any freezing rain mixed in or right before the snow. I drove to work one morning and found out there was ice under that snow. Fishtailed my way up a 4 mile county road. Stopped at the top to decide whether to continue or turn around but turning around would have meant trying to get up a steeper hill. Then a county plow/salt truck went by so I followed him to town.
I’ll be ordering tires Friday/payday for the new(to me) truck. Tires on it aren’t bald but getting close to the wear indicators. It’s 2wd so I’ll be putting some concrete blocks in the back of the bed tomorrow. Pallets to keep them to the back. Has dual tanks but the rear one leaks according to previous owner so I don’t get that 19 gallons of weight back there. New tank, full fuel pump assembly and then find out if the selector valve works. Someday. Meanwhile, I’m not touching that selector switch.
Looks like 3 inches total snow where I’m at with most of it being Saturday day and night. I might take the long way out Sunday morning and avoid that 4 mile county road since it’s towards the end of their list for plowing/salting. Too lumpy for effective plowing anyway. Long way is a few miles of gravel with no big hills and then state hwy that MODOT takes care of.
Battery is 6 years old but it cranked the engine right up on a 9 degree morning so 1 degree shouldn’t be much different. Been meaning to look at the brand/model of it.
Crawled under and fixed the exhaust yesterday. The cat and everything else had come off of the Y pipe. Open Y pipe was kinda loud. Was that way when I bought it. Had to flare the end of the cat around the bottom with some Vise Grips and file a burr off the top of the Y pipe to get them to start going together and used a chain and binder to pull them together more. Couple of screws to keep them together and will weld them up sometime when it’s not so windy. Nice tight, hole free cab, XLT Lariat, so I guess it came with plenty of sound deadening because I can hardly hear the engine now.