It is too cold for anything to function. Can we just stop trying?
This morning, while frantically trying to make it to a vet appointment with a borrowed horse trailer, I learned that zip ties do not function below -30C. I also learned that air compressor hoses become very brittle and actually snap in half below -30C.
And when I got back home, I (re-)learned that slowly dripping water faucets lead to frozen drainpipes.
I am ready to haul water+wood, go nowhere, and live in a yurt again.
@sundogplanets I love these missives from the prairie. But as an easy coast middle of nowhere farm type person, I wonder why you don't have a vet who comes to you? That's how it mostly works in the east these days.
@noplasticshower There are very few vets, and even fewer to work on large animals. I could have gotten a vet to come to the farm in 2 weeks, but not sooner. I was pretty worried about the eye infection so I got him in today. (For goats there are literally no vets at all here. I'm all on my own, it sucks).
@sundogplanets I understand. You need more vets!
In virginia, goats are so cheap that the "vet" around here is .22. Obv not for pets.
@noplasticshower @sundogplanets that's what my grandpa used to refer to as the "lead pill" treatment...
