Roof Teeth

Wholly, Tennessee icicles Batman 🦇 -

It’s colder than a moonshine popsicle in a freezer full of regret 🥶

A One! A Two! A Three, HEAVE!

This years winter is one of the coldest we've had around here in several years.

Harsh winters do a number on our roads here in New England and this time of year we're all dodging potholes galore! The salt that is put down to treat ice, the damage done by the snowplows when clearing snow, as well as the deep freezing as contribute.

We had a nice, 'warmer' day earlier this week, so took advantage and opened some windows in the house, the basement doors and my garage doors to bring some refresh air into the house.

When I opened the garage doors I noticed the below, which really shocks me!  The threshold where the driveway abuts to the garage floor, which has always been level and a seamless transition from one to the other, is now ~1.5' higher!

This is another example of the freezing conditions, causing 'frost heaves". With the ground being frozen solid, water is unable to seep\leach into the ground and instead sits, which then freezes and 'heaves'.  I've just never had this happen before, at least not to such a noticeable extent.

I'm hoping what once we thaw out, the driveway will settle back down and be fine. Even if it does, I'm worried about the potential effects it might ultimately have.

We'll see here soon enough.  Fingers crossed.

Hang'n Alone...

Here's our lone icicle.

No ice dams to worry about here.  This is the extent of it thank goodness!

Fire In The Hole...Hope Not!

Now I'm no expert on gas station fire suppression systems but I'm fairly confident that this is an issue!

Oh sure, the ice on this equipment will melt if there is a fire.  However, I suspect it will be after the damage has been done thus defeating the purpose of such a system.

Not to mention the sheet of ice hazard at the base of this which is next to the gas pumps.

Safety first!  Right OSHA?!

The Lucky Country: Australia, where else?

The warm weather we've had the last couple three days or so has allowed us to chip away at the sheet of ice, also known as our driveway. Most has been removed and what's remained looks like Australia, wouldn't you agree?!

Our driveway "Australia" -



The actual Australia -


It's bloom'n uncanny Mate, CRIKEY!!