January Thaw

Last week we had ice, snow, more snow, and below freezing temperatures. So cold in fact that on the farm our pipes froze. We spent hours under the crawl space in the cellar with blow dryers and blow torches trying to thaw out our icy pipes. It was so cold that our water pump actually froze, something we had never experienced before and something we didn’t know could happen. After a few hours of heating pipes, we finally got water flowing. Right out of one of the pipes and all over the cellar. One of the smaller pipes had cracked and burst. Luckily we had defrosted the valve on the larger pipe and could shut off the water and then replace the pipe. That was all last week.

This week we have had temperatures in the high 40s and rain. So much rain that parts of our state are in a flood watch warning. So now the yard looks how it should in mid March. Not in the middle of January. There is barely any snow on the ground. You can see all the leaves from the fall. There are even parts of the lawn that are still green! I just hope my flowers don’t get confused! I have actually been enjoying this weather as I haven’t had to scrape ice off my car in almost two weeks and I have been leaving the house for work wearing a fleece zip-up instead of my below 0° rated parka along with hat, mittens and a scarf. Yesterday it was so wet outside