Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

This winter I have had to suffer through problems with winter horse watering, which I have this winter just over the training area fencing bc my heated horse will reach.
I always take out and put on it's side OR upside down my 100 gallon steel horse water tank.
If not, ice can crack it, and that's happened to me twice in 40 years. Just Don't want to buy another one!
I also have 2 Rubbermaid 100 gallon water tanks.
I Thought that they were both leaky, then I thought that they were not,
meanwhile I have been using a 30 gallon hard plastic small waterer during the winter.
It's easy to tip over to remove ice, and, after a decade mine cracked.
DD thought to use one of the Rubbermaid tanks, but it really Was cracked, right below the drainage hole.
The other one isn't cracked but I had a hard time threading the stopper. So, She filled up the first one and it rapidly emptied out. I Filled up the other one and discovered it had also emptied out.
They are both right now upside down on the east side of the fencing for the training area, and will BOTH be used for gardening this summer.
FORTUNATELY, I know the dirty little secret: Our meter reader isn't reading our water meters this winter, so every month I have paid an estimate which is about 1/2 of my normal bill.
I have also been washing a LOT of clothes, etc, and taking advantage of this.
I bit the bullet and bought a new 30 gallon waterer. I mean, REALLY, if something lasts a decade, I can't be that upset about it.
Yesterday, I Finally did a little bit of planting. One of my seed orders came with a freebie, 3 onion sets, one red, one white, and one yellow. I planted them in an old horse rubber water bucket and surrounded them all with a rusty canning screw wide mouth lid.
HOPEFULLY, when I got out to feed ponies in a few minutes, I will be able to report back on some more planting!
Really, for a person who is 1/2 crippled (until July--hooray!!! ) I am doing Pretty good this year!!

I have had stock tanks that have leaked after many years of use. I used what is called ‘wet epoxy putty’ to weld the leak closed. It has also worked on the pump pipes that are under pressure to stop leaks. Maybe you can repurpose those older stock tanks to somethin else. A small pond for water hardy water lilies. I don’t know just throwing out ideas… Sorry …my mind wanders.
So happy your knee recovery is doing so well. Soon you’ll be dancing in you gardens.

Somebody’s enjoying an ear scratch.. my Tennessee walker ‘Yankee’.

Thanks! That's what I usually do.
I have used a leaky water tank for raising chicks before and every container gets a chance to raise plants.
I have owned several TW's. DH's favorite horse was a TW/QH cross who rode every bit a TW:
walk, running walk, lope, pace, trot AND "broken washing machine."

Yes, time to get onion seeds into the ground! You reminded me!

There ain’t nothing in this world that compares to riding a Tennessee Walker in a running walk going 25 mph , just like sitting in a lounge chair. Smooth as silk. The power feeling from that horse is exhilarating.

Seed planting outside will have to wait till End of May here.

A Mountain Horse amble compares to it, since the TW was bred from Mountain Horse (coming over from England in the colonies) stock. Just sayin'
Is there Nothing you want to grow that you can't plant until May, or are you talking about transplanting outside?

As we "March" towards Easter, here is something to keep in mind:
What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. ~ Pope St. John Paul II

Spent most of yesterday and most of this morning studying for and taking the new Notary Illinois exam.
Passed with 88%, 2nd try.
I was very disappointed with the NNA's study materials bc all of my classwork exams that were Open Book, Open Notes provided answers verbatim. Fully 40% of the test questions were crafted, very much like your county/state will word a tax increase on a ballot and use legalize to make it sound like you are getting money back, or donating to a good cause.
Anyway, I am on to getting recertified as a Notary. My commission expires 05-26-25--don't know HOW MANY TIMES I write my commission expiration date out over a period of 4 years!!
Anyway, I am good until 2029 on this and it is worth celebrating.
Off to feed ponies and I will report back on any gardening I get done today.

DH said I can have anything I want (bc I passed the test), so I ordered...make a guess???
More seeds--50% off selected varieties at St. Clare's. The stupice tomato is early, supposed to ripen in 52 days.
Shipping is Still way too expensive.
[Order #57607] (March 7, 2025)