Ms. Fix It or Ms. Break It

There are days I feel more like Ms. Break It, rather than Ms. Fix It, or Ms. Maintenance! I noticed ice on the drain spouts. With our melt beginning, I'll have to clear them. 

I made it around the house to check on the down spout. It was frozen solid, which isn't good with possible rain on the way. (We had a bit of rain, BTW, not a lot.)

When I went back the next day to fix it, I thought my snowshoe path wouldn't require actual snowshoes. HAH! Right up to my knees. Back to fetch them and pop them on.

 The green hose has a lovely cylinder of ice in it. In summer this goes into a rain barrel, and into the goldfish pond. I took it off, and lay it on the ground. It'll melt and I can reattach.

Back on Tuesday, after it melted some, I got it reassembled.

The propane tanks had to be cleared off. Another job done. We're at 65% full, so we're good for now.

No good deed goes unpunished. Ms. Fix It Break It did it again. I repeated my action here, and the whole pipe is frozen with a cylinder of ice. It'll have to melt. 

It'll jus sway here for a bit. The snow is about half gone, in our melt, I'll get back at it later. The snow on the roof is melting, where it drips is a patio tile, and it'll be fine. We're back into colder temperatures later. Winter is still with us.

 

From there, down to the highway to clear out the pond that accumulates at the end of the driveway in a thaw. I put salt on it, to open up the drainage onto the grass. 

Back the next day, and a lot is melted. Yippee.

We were seeing 4 turkeys for weeks. In the past week, only two. We wondered if the coyotes got a couple. Not so. One does get attached to the wild critters!