Winter has arrived at the new house. Well, OK, maybe not full-on Winter, but our first freeze, ha.
When we woke up on Sunday morning, it was 59 degrees...
...and by 5:00pm it was already down to 45.
We spent the weekend putting up stuff for the freezer and kind of meal prepping, using our wonderful new kitchen since we have the space on the island. More on all that in future posts.
I did the final mow of the season last weekend so the grass is looking nice and short and after last night's freeze, it will now turn beige and be dormant for the next few more months.
We got this alert on our phones. It's not a pipe worrying freeze (though, hopefully we won't have to worry about that much more at all in this new house) but we did need to worry about the sensitive plants we have. But unlike years past, no more driving out there and setting up a heater, covering them, etc.
Instead, all we had to do was carry them a few feet and put them inside the garage. The garage temp was 55 this morning while the outside temp was 28, so no worries there! My car is still parked outside on the driveway, so it had ice on the windows this morning. I need to swap 2nd Man's car for mine, ha!
The well is protected by the shed (a couple of cool new things we ordered coming for that). The house was nice and warm, we set it at 70 and it hardly ran, so that's good news for the electric bill, ha.
Stay warm if you're in the cold snap areas!
With your new house, garage, and pump house all so well insulated, freezes aren’t going to bother you much. Having a roomy garage to move your plants into is so convenient and easy.
ReplyDeleteWe stayed a couple of degrees above freezing. Most of my fall-winter plantings are cold tolerant to about 26 so I didn’t need to cover anything. I cooked a big pot of soup yesterday so that took the chill out of the house. This morning, I built a fire in my fireplace to warm things up. My cat Tigger loves laying in my recliner watching the fire and soaking up the warmth.
I was in that freeze warning in the Brazos county. Was cold but quickly warmed up.
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