Warning !! Frozen Bird Baths & Exploding Hoses

I spent some time this afternoon getting ready for a hard-freeze headed our way. The weather gurus say we are in for 2-days of hard freeze nights. Those of us in the Gainesville-Alachua County areahaven't had two consecutive nights with a hard freeze for over 5 years.

Brrrrrr, it's gonna be cold !

I don't want any more exploding hoses, so I detached all my nozzles. I can't tell you how many garden hoses I have ruined because they froze and "exploded". Remember, I grew up in Miami....I never knew a freeze until 1995.

Next on my To-DO list to prepare for the "freeze" was watering all my shurbs and plants in the beds around the house. I wanted to give then all a good drink to help them handle a freeze better.

All my orchids and potted plants also got a good drink, and they will come inside tomorrow afternoon. I have all the junky sheets piled outside next to the plants that need a blanket.

I cleaned and filled the bird-baths and put out more birdseed in all my feeders. (I love my birds). But I know those blue jays, chickadees, and blue birds will be really, REALLY mad when that birdbath is frozen over.

So tomorrow night, all my faucets will be dripping, dripping, and I will have 2008's first fire in my wonderful fireplace!! WOOHOO!

Happy New Year Everyone!! It'll be a great 2008!

Written and Posted By: Chris Bohn, GRI- ABR-ePro- Gainesville FL Real Estate Copyright © 2008
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