It’s time to winterize ... mofo

• Belly35

  

  My 85 year old home will be getting new windows (16 total) this Friday we got some newer outside doors last year.</SPAN>
  I checker the furnace (burners, motor and ignition) general cleaning</SPAN>
  I cleaned both chimneys</SPAN>
  Checked all the vehicles (tires, oil, trans, antifreeze, battery) will replace plugs this weekend
  Need to get a few hundred pound salt for my truck </SPAN>
  Splitting more wood from a down tree last week .. should be good for all winter</SPAN>
  Checked our back up food, water and propane supplies in case of a power outage</SPAN>
  Thinking of replacing the small gas powered generator with a stronger diesel next year.
  Have the garden almost done for plastic covering
  Patio furniture still out
  Rain barrels need to be drained and removed
  Lower spouting cleaned, upper has leaf covers
  
  Have you home owner and or car owner done any winterizing yet? </SPAN>
• redrocket

  

  Something to think about, if you have natural gas forget the diesel generator and go with one that runs on natural gas. As for everything else that you listed....I was a Boy Scout and have it covered.
• vdubb96

  

  I just winterized your mom! BOOOM!!!!!!!!!! j.k. mofo!
• said_aouita

  

  Gotta xj Jeep and Subaru parked outside.
  
  I'm taunting Mother Nature.
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  I winterized the 5th Wheel. That's about it.
• LJ

  

  Had Whempy's out to clean the fireplace last Friday.
  I still need to put the glass back in the front storm door and put the screen away.
  I have the sandbags for the truck sitting in the garage. I don't like putting them in till I tag out on deer.
  Kale looks to be far enough along that it will survive winter, so we will have fresh greens all winter.
• reclegend22

  

  Winter is for poor people.
  
  Somebody was going to say it, so there it is.
• raiderbuck

  I rent, and have no car.
  
  Hope this helps.
• said_aouita

  

  raiderbuck;1519385 wrote:I rent, and have no car.
  
  Hope this helps.

  Better put chains on your bike.
  
  
• TedSheckler

  

  Yard aeration scheduled for this week, then I'll fertilize and be ready for winter.
• Sonofanump

  Not yet:
  Soon the convertible will be stored for the winter and the SUV will be in action.
  Need to convert the tractor from mower to snowblower.
  Blow the leaves out of grandpa and grandma's eves.
• friendfromlowry

  Going to buy a sweatshirt.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Got my brakes on my Trailblazer done yesterday. Need to get my 4WD fixed ASAP.
  
  The house I am moving into next month has brand new windows and doors and the furnace is ship shape, so it's good to go.
• vdubb96

  

  reclegend22;1519383 wrote:Winter is for poor people.
  
  Somebody was going to say it, so there it is.

  These people probably aren't poor.
  
• Belly35

  

  redrocket;1519351 wrote:Something to think about, if you have natural gas forget the diesel generator and go with one that runs on natural gas. As for everything else that you listed....I was a Boy Scout and have it covered.

  Back in Perrysburg we had a generator connected to the natural gas line but water got into the gas line system in the Blizzard of 1976 and everyone line froze at the meters. The generator was worthless. That the only reason I when with a secondary fuel generator.
• Belly35

  

  vdubb96;1519357 wrote:I just winterized your mom! BOOOM!!!!!!!!!! j.k. mofo!

  The fact that she's dead, she been winterized for a long time...
• Belly35

  

  LJ;1519378 wrote:Had Whempy's out to clean the fireplace last Friday.
  I still need to put the glass back in the front storm door and put the screen away.
  I have the sandbags for the truck sitting in the garage. I don't like putting them in till I tag out on deer.
  Kale looks to be far enough along that it will survive winter, so we will have fresh greens all winter.

  
  I store my butternut, acorn and spaghetti squash in large Rubbermaid containers filled with sawdust in our garage storage area (small room within the garage). Do you store any squash? How?
• Tiernan

  I'll re-stock the corn crib this weekend and boil down some molasses. The SO still needs to make more candles.
• Belly35

  

  Tiernan;1519477 wrote:I'll re-stock the corn crib this weekend and boil down some molasses. The SO still needs to make more candles.

  Wife and I did 12 quart of spaghetti sauce, 12 loafs of zucchini bread and 10 bag of shredded zucchini few weeks ago, on Sunday we did 20 pints of Blueberry jam.
• justincredible

  

  LJ;1519378 wrote:Kale looks to be far enough along that it will survive winter, so we will have fresh greens all winter.

  Go on...
  
  What should my kale look like at this point in order to survive the winter?
• LJ

  

  justincredible;1519484 wrote:Go on...
  
  What should my kale look like at this point in order to survive the winter?

  Do you have edible leaves yet?
• justincredible

  

  LJ;1519487 wrote:Do you have edible leaves yet?

  Yes. That it?
• LJ

  

  justincredible;1519488 wrote:Yes. That it?

  Yep. Some people wait too long because their tomatoes are still going. I say by the weekend after labor day you gotta have your kale seed down
• TedSheckler

  

  Belly35;1519472 wrote:The fact that she's dead, she been winterized for a long time...

  Just the way I like'em.
• friendfromlowry

  Belly35;1519472 wrote:The fact that she's dead, she been winterized for a long time...

  Prayers sent.