On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 8:12:54 PM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
Pavel314 wrote:
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It's been too cold for the sheep's' water heater to keep up so I have to go out in the morning with a hatchet to break the ice and bring a pail of hot water to top it off.

don't they have heated buckets for that?

i've been sorting beans again and making selections for
planting in the spring.

just finished up the bulk beans and now switching to the
more fun sorting where i get to look at all the cross-breeds
and off varieties. now that the seeds have had some time
to mature/darken a little.

nice to have the sun out, but it is plenty cold here too.
most nights near or below 0F. don't even talk about wind
chills, i don't go outside at night anyways.

deer ran into side of car so having to deal with that.
expensive body check and it got up and ran away.


songbird

I have a 15-gallon plastic bucket which has heating coils in the bottom. It's been plugged in but when the temperature gets below about 15F, it has trouble keeping up. When the temps are in the single digits, like the last few nights, it freezes over. Tonight and tomorrow are supposed to be single-digit, then back to normal.

My wife is planting turkey gizzard beans this year. We've had them before, nice big shelly beans which are better eating than the name would imply.

Paul