• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Hope this is the last ice storm for the winter.

We even had thunder last night, scared our little Daisy (Hound).
Generally the outside work starts when the ground has thawed, May sometime and till we have steady -20C temps. So about 7 months.
I try to push inside work for the winter months if the client can wait. This time of year the calls come in for booking clients. Regular clients book in the Fall as they know it is a first come first serve basis.
 
Ouch! I often long for the winters we used to have around here and in Sweden. But when I see what you have to deal with, then maybe I should just be glad it is so warm (and dry!) right now.

My Volvo has a heater you can enable from an app. It also has a heated windscreen. Does your truck have something similar? It makes a significant difference!
 
Bummer! Those are really useful to have in such conditions. Ah well, it always worked good enough the way you did before I had those too. I just am spoiled.

Drive safely with all that ice rain I read about. I imagine the roads must be really slippery right now in Canada.
 
HdV said:
Bummer! Those are really useful to have in such conditions. Ah well, it always worked good enough the way you did before I had those too. I just am spoiled.

Drive safely with all that ice rain I read about. I imagine the roads must be really slippery right now in Canada.
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Yes you’re right, came across some minor roads with that invisible ice on them once, makes a complete mockery of thinking you are in control.
Turn round and crawl home was what I decided.
 
South of us around the Orillia, Ontario area they were hit hard, hydro outages, damage everywhere. Friends of ours have both elderly parents there and Chris has been busy for two days setting them up with backup generator service.
500,000 homes etc., still without Hydro.
That invisible ice ,we call it black ice as you can't see it on the asphalt roads.
 
And there was me congratulating myself on not having snow at this time of year! I was driving a UHAUL truck with all my workshop stuff in it up North to its new home, stopped at a hotel on the way last night and awoke to an inch of really slippery slushy stuff, saw several cars off the road as I slowly inched my way to its new home. Report of shifting the heavy lump to follow.
Ian
 
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