Covid protection of my fire pit business

Brutally cold here this morning with light snow on the ground and the thermometer was reading 1 (One!) degree! Forecast is for 60 degrees by Thursday, then cold again with freezing rain. Crazy swings in conditions like I never remember seeing!

Power came on but the pressure switch sensing water line froze preventing water usage.
heater fixed that. Made it to 27F for an hour.
1F would have devastated. Life here not attuned to such.
Bet your deer were up and about Arlen. Good luck staying warm still hunting.

Thanks friend Jim!  I hunted quite a lot during our muzzleloader season Dec 24th-Jan 3rd, but failed to take a shot.  I got the new to me Dan'l Boone style black powder rifle and two evenings the deer came in just at last light and stayed in the trees where there was less light.  Every time I would draw a bead on one and close my left eye, they just all but disappeared.   I would open my eye and could see them ok, but close my eye again and the shadows just swallowed them.  In all good conscience, I  just couldn't take a risky shot like that and take a chance on just wounding one.   Had I taken my more modern inline with a scope, there would have been meat on the table, but the fun and challenge of hunting like our forefathers was a real hoot, even with no deer!

Yes, the cold has them moving a good bit.  in the 23 mile drive to the shop and back we have been seeing deer feeding at the field edges almost every trip morning and evening.  Archery season closes the Jan 15th, so I'll try to sneak in a couple of hunts before hanging it up until this September. 

Arlen enjoying the new toy. Have you a freezer full radio ?

Enjoying it very much even if no deer have been harmed.   I have one deer in the freezer from our main rifle season, but would have liked a second one.  May still happen with the crossbow

Now that you had a blast of ice on the foliage. Does it drop its leaves like other trees? or do they just bounce back up with no problems after defrosting.

The ice coating will assist pulling deciduous leaves off, they will fall during the winter regardless.
Most non-deciduous foliage will remain with no ill effects.

Worst case scenario for non-deciduous foliage is extreme cold with a frost coating. That can kill the foliage.
Orange orchards and ornamentals are sprayed with water to coat the foliage with ice to protect the foliage.
The ice actually serves as an insulator.

Florida orange orchard iced

Cold spot in Alberta: -39.8 °C-39.6 °F Rocky Lane
Cold spot in Canada: -41.3 °C-42.3 °F Rankin Inlet Airport, NU
Looked for somewhere to wash my truck yesterday. To dam cold, everything is closed . Haha!

I had to pry my car doors open yesterday due to 3/8" coating from freezing rain. Coming down at 32-33F.
Today is 15F and wife had me come outside and free wet mop frozen to concrete in seconds.
She learned not to put the wet mop outside after mopping.
Us dumb southerners.