Frozen

Rosie and I returned from a trip up north to visit our families, we got back Sunday night and went straight to bed. Granted it was cold when we got home (low 30's) but by the time I woke up to go to work the temp had dropped by a lot. All of our water pipes where frozen, no shower, no coffee, no good. We use a few 5 gallon buckets for watering our animals and on a normal cold morning there is about 1/2 inch of ice that has to be broken so they can drink. This morning the 5 gallon buckets where frozen solid into a 5 gallon ice cube. All the animals seemed to be fine by the early morning light but I think we will need to do a little more planning for the cold winter, more pipe insulation and a good stock of firewood.