A little more than a week has passed since the beginning of December and now winter has come to our region. It has
been snowing continuously for several days.
Everything was covered with a white haze. Usually winter comes to us much later, but apparently this year was an exception.
Just yesterday I was reading notes about how other homesteaders are removing snow and now I regularly use a shovel myself for several days in a row. My driveway is quite long - about 100 meters, so I have to tinker.
I also had to modify the rafters on the roof of the porch a little. They turned out to be a little short because of the lack of material and during heavy snowfalls, the polycarbonate on the roof began to bend noticeably. To fix this, I simply increased the rafters by screwing 30 centimeter lengths of boards to them. Now nothing bends.
In addition, I continue to prepare firewood for the next year. As I said in the last post, electricians sawed a lot of trees right behind my fence. My task is to file it all for firewood, split them with an axe and store them until next winter.
That's what I'm doing.
The question of building a winter insulated chicken coop arose again, so that the chickens could feel comfortable and lay eggs all year round. But I would not like to build another temporary structure in a greenhouse, as I did in previous years. I want to build something more serious.
So on long winter evenings I'll sit and figure out how to do it with the least cost.
