It is too cold for anything to function. Can we just stop trying?

This morning, while frantically trying to make it to a vet appointment with a borrowed horse trailer, I learned that zip ties do not function below -30C. I also learned that air compressor hoses become very brittle and actually snap in half below -30C.

And when I got back home, I (re-)learned that slowly dripping water faucets lead to frozen drainpipes.

I am ready to haul water+wood, go nowhere, and live in a yurt again.

@sundogplanets I love these missives from the prairie. But as an easy coast middle of nowhere farm type person, I wonder why you don't have a vet who comes to you? That's how it mostly works in the east these days.

@noplasticshower There are very few vets, and even fewer to work on large animals. I could have gotten a vet to come to the farm in 2 weeks, but not sooner. I was pretty worried about the eye infection so I got him in today. (For goats there are literally no vets at all here. I'm all on my own, it sucks).