. . or snows.
I could have called this "trials and tribulations", or, "these things are sent to try us" - but you get the drift.
Every night when it's very cold we put a couple of heaters in the parlour to stop it freezing. Despite this, and making sure all the pipes were empty, the past two mornings it has been frozen, and there's been a lot of messing about before milking. Yesterday James bought a Propane Space Heater to give some more aggressive heat. All should have been well, but we had a power cut between three and half past this morning and the heater went off (does it need electricity as well?). Fortunately it was not as cold this morning - why? It's snowing again.
All our resources have been concentrated on keeping the parlour and dairy going and we left the house to it's own devices. Yesterday there was no water from the shower - I assume it's frozen pipes as they go up from the Back Kitchen (a very cold spot). We've now got a couple of heaters on frost setting and hope it is just frozen pipes and nothing more serious. Our bathroom is not the warmest of rooms - last week the outlet pipe from the bath froze. So we're down to a washbasin and jugs of water to wash my hair.
But all this is just moaning about things that can't be helped. Winters are cold. Pipes get frozen. Roads get a bit iffy.
What has really upset me this morning - the office computer won't come on! It went off with the power cut and while it powers on, the disk doesn't spin. I need to get an IT person to have a look at it (do I know one?).
So - no weather updates until it's sorted (it's directly linked to the weather station and uploads to the web). And we wanted to prove to you that we had fixed Strickley's Tropical Micro Climate - yes, the Stevenson/Strickley Screen is in place.
Back to work now.
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