What do you do, to prepare for winter

I am doing more then normal this year as my spidey sense lol, is telling me we might have a hard winter. I'm replacing the wick and igniter in my kerosene heater and filling cans. Got some lamp oil and batteries. Gonna put in some extra water and food. What, if anything do you do?

Well down here i might have to break out a long sleeve shirt sometime in january maybe. Might even have to put pants on instead of shorts.

I’m just pretty much always ready for winter, since our seasons go winter, still winter, almost not winter, kinda summer, winter again lol at least it seems that way.

top off the fuel oil tank

clean up the yard and get garden out and all tools and equipment put away

open the bins containing all my cold weather close and replace the contents with my shorts I obviously need several bins to hold winter during the summer and only one to hold the summer.

clean up truck and get anything that will freeze out and ready for hunting season

make sure while I am doing leaves anything that is going to get caught in the snow blower is away

storm windows

turn off outside water

I just cleaned the chimney last spring so no need to do that

Cut enough wood to last a couples weeks and put it inside by the furnace so I don't have to go outside to get it.
Make sure all my grass is mowed back from the driveway and all of the fence is fixed so nothing gets out.
Put the blade on the tractor and make sure the driveway is graded good before it starts to freeze.
Fill the freezer
Make sure the horses have enough feed and hay for a month and their water troughs are clean.
Pick up all of the hoses and drain them and blow out some of the lines so water doesn't freeze them.
Pick up any buckets and feed trays and anything else that will get covered with snow and hid till spring.

i'm back to wearing shoes again

Pre paid 500 gallons of propane $1.18 a gallon as wood is hard to get with the flooding we have going on now will burn what we have for wood then let the LP take over then.

During the Winter, I try to always keep a minimum of two weeks of corn and bagged feed for all my animals, on hand, but prefer to keep closer to 1 months worth of feed. I go through a few hundred pounds a day so it's a lot to store. I like to have enough hay to last until May 15th. I need to buy a whole lot of hay as soon as I can afford it. Hay will be scarce and expensive in my area this Winter.

Keith

Eat a bunch more than I should !

Pull pier, pull boat lift, till garden, rake leaves, change oil in tiller and mower, make sure snowblowers and generator work, clean gutters, winterize boat and take in boat batteries.................. Seems endless.

Here's one of my oh crap lights lol.

Haul and split some firewood.

Have been cleaning up the yard but when I got to the left over shingles from the summer roof job my back did not last. Will there is next week .

got a couple, just like that!

Sit on my butt and wait for the closing on the property is what I apparently do to prepare for winter. Fingers crossed it will happen next Thursday. Then the race is on. I am 3 month behind in my planning because people with paperwork got in the way and put the brakes on things.

Prepare for winter? We never had summer here, just a warm winter.

Check winter pasture fence that gets smashed down by deer chased by hunters. Move the livestock, put in a 7 month supply of feed for everything from us, the cats to livestock. Vehicles tuned up, garden harvested which we just spent three days doing, 1000 gallons of prepaid fuel, beer for the neighbors so they remember to help out, pick up everything that will disappear under the snow.
Sometime this next week when the snow melts, we will be planting fall trees.

You guys on that side of the state like all that snow. It is white here too. I am hoping we don't get much more.

You mean to tell us that the snow is the same color on both sides of the country ....... come on you are kidding

Just put the shovel by the door....and have plenty of Scotch...

Fetch firewood to the house, stuff the Beagle box's with straw, enjoy the hunting/trapping season to come, and still go fishing till the water gets stiff! LOL

Not ready for it yet, we live in the woods and I usually clean up leaves til the first serious snowfall.
Have to plant and mulch in garlic yet, that is on my to do list.
Wife is almost done knitting scarves for the chickens
Shoot a couple 3 deer.
Maybe clean the garage.

Zim

Am I the only one doing a little extra just in case we end up super cold and snow butt deep to a tall Indian?

You got your panties all up in a Bunch....You live in Ohio for crying out loud. Do the lakes even freeze down there ?

Disconnect the hose from the house

Blow out the lines in the camp trailer


Everything else is allready ready for when the SHTF

Split the last 4 loads of wood for the winter and load traps for opening day.

Don't be that mean girl.

LoL

Not ready for socks until I put on boots. Got my Therma Cell ready for deer box stand.