A blog by Mel Riser about LifeBoat Permaculture and Solar Villages

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Winter is here in Central Texas

Ice and sleet outside with freezing rain and the temps in the low 30's.

Tonight i plan to buy a few more propane heaters for the barn, gets some tarps for the trees, and put some wind breaks on the rabbit and chicken pens. As i expect this to be a hard winter, i believe i may go and buys some more chain saw blades and sharpeners and get ready for ice storms and wood burning stoves.

We have a fireplace, but if we had an extended outage, the propane heaters and wood stove in the basement would/should keep us alive and toasty.

Also need to make sure both my generators are working and fueled as well.

Brr... cold it is...

mel