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It's positively tropical....
Well, temperate anyway. We've not got the fire lit!
It's been above freezing all day here, and we even had a bit of sun this morning (after the mist had cleared), although it's clouded over again now.
The snow is mostly gone from around the house, although fortunately it's not due to freeze again tonight as there are a few slush patches.
The boys even got to go in the field, albeit with plenty of hay to keep them going, after Mike went out there with a lump hammer to break the ice on the troughs:
(GB does like rolling in snow, the daft old bugger. The field's almost entirely snow-free, now.)
The ducks are *much* happier, and are having a nice rootle around in the stableyard rather than sitting, shivering, in their pond and trying to avoid the icebergs.
The outside pipes have defrosted, which is good, but not-entirely-surprisingly the last bit of copper piping has burst. On the plus side, the outside piping will be entirely plastic after we get it repaired, but I suspect that that will take a few days as there are people with rather more urgent plumbing problems even if it weren't the weekend. We got by this morning with duct tape, and I plan to have a go at sticking a g-clamp on it as well to try and get the hole better covered.
It's been above freezing all day here, and we even had a bit of sun this morning (after the mist had cleared), although it's clouded over again now.
The snow is mostly gone from around the house, although fortunately it's not due to freeze again tonight as there are a few slush patches.
The boys even got to go in the field, albeit with plenty of hay to keep them going, after Mike went out there with a lump hammer to break the ice on the troughs:
(GB does like rolling in snow, the daft old bugger. The field's almost entirely snow-free, now.)
The ducks are *much* happier, and are having a nice rootle around in the stableyard rather than sitting, shivering, in their pond and trying to avoid the icebergs.
The outside pipes have defrosted, which is good, but not-entirely-surprisingly the last bit of copper piping has burst. On the plus side, the outside piping will be entirely plastic after we get it repaired, but I suspect that that will take a few days as there are people with rather more urgent plumbing problems even if it weren't the weekend. We got by this morning with duct tape, and I plan to have a go at sticking a g-clamp on it as well to try and get the hole better covered.
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Hopefully we can find a plumber tomorrow!
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(While we don't usually have a problem with freezing pipes, living in the much cooler climes of the northern tier of the US and thus prepared for multiple weeks of below freezing temps, we do still have construction mishaps.)
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