Personal Exercise Programs

[Americano]

Mine's still on schedule. How's everyone else doing?

[Greendruid]

Where the hell is your snow man!?! We have temperatures of -15C/5F tonight, which is unusual for a maritime climate but nothing I didn't encounter back in good 'ole S. Ontario. How's that windchill up on the balcony Michael?

My wood pile was split by someone else this year. The odds and ends that I have that were too long or too fat are still awaiting the January thaw. These comprise my extra-curricular exercise programme once the bloody snow is gone and I can set my chopping block on something solid. Otherwise, everything bounces and then gets snow-wet. Then it grows mushrooms during storage.

Perhaps I should take a snapshot of my manure pile to show my regular workout programme?

[Americano]

Where the hell is your snow man!?! We have temperatures of -15C/5F tonight, which is unusual for a maritime climate but nothing I didn't encounter back in good 'ole S. Ontario. How's that windchill up on the balcony Michael?

37° today, high 20s at night. Snow was over the holidays only.

My wood pile was split by someone else this year. The odds and ends that I have that were too long or too fat are still awaiting the January thaw. These comprise my extra-curricular exercise programme once the bloody snow is gone and I can set my chopping block on something solid. Otherwise, everything bounces and then gets snow-wet. Then it grows mushrooms during storage.I've lived in serious winter weather where If firewood wasn't put up before December, one had made a serious mistake. I have split Madrone (a non-commercial, prolific hardwood and considered the best firewood here) in another area. The photo is proceeds from three dead black oaks I took down this fall. Completely dry, I use it for a quick, hot fire in the mornings to raise the heat from an overnight banking.

Perhaps I should take a snapshot of my manure pile to show my regular workout programme?You're shoveling shit in the middle of winter?

[Greendruid]

Miniature horse and miniature donkey. The snow's too high to turn them out and the floor in the barn is concrete. I have to keep a rotating bed under their feet or they'll get rot in a matter of weeks. The goats I have a deep litter system with part of their stall on litter and the other part is bare concrete. It's the bare concrete part that I like to keep dry for the same reasons as above for the horse and donkey :shrug: If it were cows or full sized horses, it'd be a whole different ball game.

[The Drunk Guy]

Miniature horse and miniature donkey. The snow's too high to turn them out and the floor in the barn is concrete. I have to keep a rotating bed under their feet or they'll get rot in a matter of weeks. The goats I have a deep litter system with part of their stall on litter and the other part is bare concrete. It's the bare concrete part that I like to keep dry for the same reasons as above for the horse and donkey :shrug: If it were cows or full sized horses, it'd be a whole different ball game.
Jesus! And I worry about my chinchilla shitting in his rolley ball! :lol:

[Greendruid]

Mind you, we are exceptionally attentive care-takers of our animals around here and probably have done more research on them than most people that have them. I don't like having an animal that can live up to 35 years die in 15 because I didn't take care of it properly and give it the best life I possibly could. We are probably the only farm that has had surgery done on a chicken because she got an impacted crop and, well, we love her.