I put the tractor in the hay barn to keep the ice storm from freezing the doors shut, but there wasn’t any electricity in the barn to plug the engine heater into. My thought was I will move it back to the power area before it got so cold it wouldn’t start. As happens many times, our assumptions and hopes don’t always work with the actual circumstances of life. We need the tractor every day to feed our cows and other animals during the winter. We unroll large half ton bales of hay out for them to eat, and for the young to have a warmer place to lay on. So this morning I sit here in the dark at the start of a new day, knowing i’ll have to head out in 15 below wind chills [in March yet!] to start a generator [that may not want to start either] so I can plug in the tractor engine heater and a battery charger, and let it all run for many hours to hopefully start the tractor. Ahhh…life and hope spring eternal! Have a great day and appreciate all you have, not what is missing. Personally, its now March and most of the winter is behind us, we still have electricity, and there is a beauty in the stillness of the very cold winter weather.
beautiful optimistic commentary! I hope it starts soon
I just talked to Paul, whose sewer disposal field is frozen.No toilet, like camping, but outhouse in zero weather is like the old pioneer days. I remember the pee-pot under my bed frozen solid. Your first days in MO were like that?
yes….i remember the water in the kitchen sink being frozen solid…..we had so many blankets on the bed that it was hard to roll over!…..the good old days….actually, they are fond memories of a distant time….