DAC Jonestead Update #1

A passing who applicate some pics preparedness one by an your family with this one day. That. Hello everyone out there on the internet radio land, This is Dave Jones, the NBC guy. How are you doing on this snowy, snowy Sunday. Well, I am uh gonna put you in my pocket here because oops, let me see. If see if I'm messed up. Yep, still seems to be recording. Okay, So I'm going to continue on, put you in my pocket and try and talk to you while I'm out here, give you an update on what's going on into Jonstead. So we lost power yesterday six am. Power went out and I thought to myself, you know, we always like to be first in things, so we're first than this too. Yeah, before the storm even started, we lost power at six am. And I don't know what was wrong with their callback system, but they called me back twice to tell me the power is back on, and they lied to me both times. And then and then when the power finally did come back on, and I knew because my neighbor's generator turned off. He has one of those automatic high foluting ones. Uh. I don't know if you can hear the sleek and freezing rain is what we're getting right now. We got about i'd say probably good eight inches, good eight inches. It's heavy. I'm just shoveling the deck here to be able to walk in and out without carrying a bunch of snow. And anyway, when the power came back on about four hours later, they called me and told me the power was back on, and I'm like, wow, their automatic callback system is messed up. And I thought to myself, this is before the storm hits, and they're doing this poorly. Man. But so far, so good. Let's see, it's almost two o'clock. Oh my gosh, no, twenty after two. Yeah, time flies when you don't have school, and we don't have school, Thank the Lord. They called it no school tomorrow. We probably won't have school on when or. Tuesday, because gosh, that for all the preparation, for all the time they had for everything, it's not going well. The road hasn't been plowed. They did pre treat it, but you know that only goes so far. And the eight inches of snow and sleet and freezing right on top of that, that pre treating is long gone, long gone. So I'm gonna make my way down to the to the dogs and the chickens, and I'm gonna take you guys with me. Maybe maybe we'll even have a like a little show here, huh, little little. Show, mini show. You get to hear what's going on at the jon instead. That's the dog bowls taking him in the house so Marie can cleaning him out a little. And you know, the water is froze up outside, so we'll be filling up inside the house. Gosh, I hope this is coming through good because it's kind of wearing me out talking to you guys while I'm doing all this stuff. But I'll do it. I will do it for PBN, Yes, for the radio listening audience. Here's the other. Then he got one jug that's bucky. You know, for be ten degrees out, it fields pretty warm. We got everything ready, we had, we had plenty of time. The storm, you know, they made it out to be the storm to end all storms, so people went nuts. There was fist fighting at the at the grocery store. I don't know, this is what I heard. I did not actually see it. I would not be at a grocery store. That's that's just too much right there. Yeah, Maria baked up like twelve loaves of bread and we passed them out to the neighbors and people at school. And I got some pictures today of real cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. What a nice thing to have on a snowy winter day. Okay, I'll get it. Yeah. I often wonder. Would I like it in Alaska now that I'm older, Because when I was up there, when I. Was eighteen years old, it was an adventure. It was everything was new and interesting, and I loved every minute of it. I often wonder if I went back now what I hate it? I mean, I don't mind this. What do you do about the weather? Nothing? Nothing you can do. The weather's the weather. You don't like the weather? Move? Gosh with Abigail Scamberger, I think we're gonna move. She's she's been terrible. He's talking about putting taxes on top of taxes. Alex is gonna be upset. She wants to tax uber eats. That's all he does is uber eats, And uh, what was a tax on le gas powered leaf blowers? And restrictions? You can't have a wood stove unless your property is five acres are bigger. Okay, that's just playing crazy, just playing crazy. Uh, you're gonna have to. Be certified to have a wood stove. What are you gonna do? Take your deed into the home depot or tractor supply so they can verify that your house is on a property bigger than five acres. For those of you who don't know, I live on two acres. Yeah, you might sound like I have this huge homestead. But it's not that way. We do everything we do here on two acres, and actually. It's less because up behind my house, I don't have much up there, and that's where half my property is. The house actually sits on right in between. I'm taking you out to get wood. Now, if you're wondering what you're hearing, where the rabbits were, we don't have rabbits. So we stacked all our wood in here because it's nice to try and has a roof on it. And the pens. We opened up the front of the pens. She wanted me to tear the pens out. PBN family, don't don't destroy your infrastructure. I built these pens. As a matter of fact, we even reinforced them this past year. Put new you know, because rabbit pea is very corrosive. Put new fencing material up. And she wants me. To tear the pens down. I'm like, no freaking way. These pens will be tore down by whoever moves into our house next. Not buy me, because they're so useful. If you have a even if you have an injured animal, you can put them in one of these pens. Take care of them. They're good for quail, rabbit, any any small animal. You know, chickens. You can put chickens in here until they get too big. Never tear a pen down, I'm telling you. Okay, we've got to really on a good wood stove now, super efficient. It burns everything just to fine ash. Our last one not so much. The last one did did put out more heat because it had, you know, more surface area. But boy did we go through the wood because it didn't burn it up all the way. This one right here, man, does it burn the wood. I think this this cord that we got is gonna be more than enough. Well, I'm confident. I am confident. We ain't even halfway through it. I gotta split some, yeah, I gotta split some. I like to have a little split. There we go. I'm tracking in some snow. I have made the decision not to plow because I have a tractor with a blade on it until tomorrow, tomorrow, no participation, participation, precipitation, and and I think I can. Push it. With the You know, it's pretty heavy for those of you who are shoveling. I would have been shoveling before it got this heavy. Gosh, but you see, a different situation calls for different strategy. So I'm gonna wait. And then I'm gonna plow tomorrow because if I've plowed now, most likely would be a nice sheet of ice on the driveway. And we're not going anywhere. We are not going anywhere. So that's my decision making process right there. When to plow, when to get the. Snow off the driveway. Anyway, I'm going to pause this for now and maybe i'll do a part two with you down at the animals, because I want to hear if it's even coming through. So take care and prep on