winter in Maine
A lonely wheelbarrow with a flat tire....patiently waiting until spring for someone to fix it so that it can be useful once again!
A lonely wheelbarrow with a flat tire....patiently waiting until spring for someone to fix it so that it can be useful once again!
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Hi Bob, so good to hear from you. Stay nice and safe and warm. God bless you!
Severe beauty like some Russian princess. It’s almost impossible to not want to hibernate and just wait for spring. You’re right about the simple chore, I have to help a friend with her brakes and a simple job is so much harder in the cold.
And winter hasn’t even begun yet!!! What helps me is my garden calendar, we had two warm days mid March last year that allowed me to till and get excited about the coming planting. Makes me appreciate the settlers in New England who couldn’t run to the store. Those first greens must have been a miracle.
.....................Yes, I am always putting off things until I pay the price for having put them off. About 3 months ago, I happened to be looking at generators and was seriously considering buying one but I trusted that it would be a mild winter. Last saturday we had a storm that dumped alot of wet snow on us. The wind picked up and trees began falling everywhere. Standing in the wind you could hear the crack or the splitting of the wood as the trees swayed back and forth, violently, like they're branches were cursing the wind. Power lines came down under the weight of the ice and snow helped by many nearby trees having broke under duress and blowing transformers as they fell upon the power lines.
Lost power for 3 days and as my feet are shivering in the cold of the house, I find myself regretting not having purchased the generator I had my eyes on during early fall.
Internet was out for 4 days. Glad I am back online!
We have a wheelbarrow with a flat tire as well.
I know the agony of being without a generator. Here's to having power and internet again!
Good to know you’re doing well! Endured three days without power a few years ago here in Michigan myself and so glad I had my trusty little propane Mr. Heater “Buddy” to keep the temps in the low 50’s high 40’s until the power came back on. Your description of the cracking and falling limbs brought back those memories of concern. Great having you back my friend!
Well Bob I did buy the generator this fall.....and today I had a guy come and sink a grounding post into my yard right next to the shed where the generator will sit.....he had a 8-10foot copper coated rod and a big drill with a hammer to it that drives those things in lickety split....and within no time he had it sunk into the ground with just about and inch or two sticking out....he connected the wire I stripped off the end of and then left....I am going to move the generator a little bit inside the shed which keeps it dry....it is a cloth shed with a mud bottom....anyway I am now ready to put the oil into the generator and then put some gasoline into it.....then I can really test it to make sure it works....but if you get a generator make sure you have a full length grounding rod driven into the ground to ground that thing to.....
So pretty.... I'm glad it's there and not here though....lol.....We'll get ours eventually though.... Lovely photos Bob... Stay warm.... Big hug......xo
Hi Bob!!!
our Bobolino is back online yay - they are beautiful pics, wish we had snow like that - my snow angel fantasies could come true :)
Beautiful pictures, Bob!
For us, it's not the snow we have to worry about, but hurricanes, floods and electrical storms. We have a generator, but I'm not getting any younger, and it's become quite a hassle to drag it into position and hook everything up. It weighs around 400lbs, as it needs to power refrigeration and AC. It also burns through five gallons of gas every six or seven hours. Finally in August, we ordered a whole house generator, as we have natural gas, and it'd not only eliminate dragging the thing around and running extension cords through the house, but I'd no longer have to keep transporting gas and refilling. In most years, we're out of power for a week or two, so it seems worthwhile.
Spiritriver I know storms in tropics knock out power as I lived on Guam five years and went once a month without power and no generator. Typhoon on my island destroyed the power grids.
I’d love to see proper snow like that one day but I suspect I couldn’t take the bitter cold too well.