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Just the crap I've been up to - LOL
sKePTiKal:
It's COLD and it's windy too Lighter. We only got about an inch of snow yesterday. Some weather reports are calling for more today/tonight... but we'll see. New windows and doors are doing exactly what I'd hoped! I am so pleased - the gas furnace isn't running constantly today - and I'm sure there's a wind-chill out there.
So today I'm on woodstove duty - I hate emptying ashes on windy days, but it needs doing. And I MUST clean out the pile of cardboard in the downstairs garage today, because tomorrow I'm getting 10 packages of insulation for my "pantry" project. I've only been talking about that for a year now, and only now getting around it. I'm essentially covering one of the garage doors and turning 1/2 the garage into an insulated room. The plan is to not heat it - but we'll see how that goes. And I'll be insulating the floor under the kitchen/dining room. I know this isn't enough insulation to do the whole thing, but it should help.
Those long-delayed buildings get put up the end of the week.
I've had so much in my head, that I completely FORGOT that my second griddle kit for the stove came in and I need to go "over the mountain" to pick it up. I might can do that on Tuesday.
Little cabin is now listed on the MLS. I need to go back and load up/move some more stuff out, clean & spiff it up a little.
There's been some activity on the beach house too. I'm not sure (this morning) just where we are now, but I guess I'll find out in the next day or two.
I've been Christmas shopping - most of that will arrive next week too. And I've begged off a repeat of Thanksgiving for Christmas. I might try to get into Mike's D's new house one day... she's just bought what looks like a really good place for her & the kids; has a new boyfriend; and the house is older - so she's going to be thinking of projects too. Holly's birthday on the 6th, is when I'll be hosting the "big fling" of total chaos. She turns 40. Moooooouahahahaha!
I sure am getting my exercise with these wood stoves... upstairs, downstairs, down to the garage... more than once a day. When I start splitting my own wood (I have plenty of trees now, to sustainably harvest)... it'll be even more exercise. And plowing/shovelling snow...
I am certainly in no danger of becoming bored. As soon as I finish the last of the shopping, I need to start perusing seed catalogs. I still have a "stash" of seeds I've kept and tried to keep viable. But I'm starting all over in a whole new place... and I need to have a plan, so I don't "over" commit the first year. I know me; that'll backfire.
lighter:
Never.
Ever.
EVER.
Put.
Any part of yourself into the path of the log splitter EVER.
It's a rule, and there's no reason to ever ever ever ever ever break it. Only stupid people do that, and you're very bright.
::nodding seriously::..
My BIL's father crushed 3 fingers last year, and he's been splitting wood most of his life.... it just takes one tiny moment to make a very big mistake with a log splitter. Even the pros lose fingers when they get careless one time. I won't split wood with people who don't follow the rule. ::shaking head::
I think we got a foot of snow, and last year I shoveled my drive only to have the sun come out the next day to melt everything off anyway. It was the elderly man shoveling his next door that drove me to such madness. I shoveled next to him, then did my own drive. It cost my back dearly.
This time all my elderly neighbors have shoveled drives, with me being the only one NOT to clear her drive. It's sunny. My truck is warm and dry in the garage with only one pass over the drive to freeze solid so.... it should be no problem to get out today and stay parked in the dry street, need be, IMO. I refuse to put my back in jeopardy when I know the sun is going to melt everything soon enough.
Tell me if that sounds crazy, bc I fret, and fear about it. DD17 has a piano recital downtown, and I'll be on the roads, which are dry. I have to get ready to go now.
Carry on with the daily list. You're getting so much done!
Lighter
Hopalong:
I don't shovel either.
I have a short driveway and an old suv, so can drive through most piles o' snow.
If a heavy snow's coming I just stock up and snuggle down.
Doesn't take much for me to retreat to the cozy bed anyway, unfortunately.
Although I do have an excellent memory of drinking whisky with a crazy friend and making a gigantic snow-woman in another state once. The major metro paper sent a photographer because she was huge and very impressive. We added a bit of spray-paint rouge, big curves, and a bottle of bourbon tucked in her arm. (They didn't choose her picture for the montage on the cover page, I think she might've shocked the locals....)
sKePTiKal:
I am a crazy sicko I guess. I love shovelling snow. But if I don't really have to go anywhere I'm more than willing to just look at it and let it melt too. I won't do that, if it's forecast to put down more accumulation on top... because driving over it only causes ice to form. That's BAD here, because to get to the road, the very last bit of my driveway is pretty steep.
It's sunny but cold here - and my sinuses are reacting pretty violently. Or else I picked up a cold last time I was out. But I have a lot of non-physical work to do today... Christmas cards, bills, go find those links to assisted living for my mom again... (I reinstalled my browser trying to get it to function better without backing up my bookmarks - DUH)... plan Holly's birthday party. I need to talk to Matt.
So this is a good to day to be a little under the weather. I still have to clean woodstoves and light a fire later... and whenever my delivery arrives, move that inside. Tonight's weather is that lovely combo of rain/snow/sleet. Which in certain areas around here can be freezing rain. I don't go ANYWHERE in ANYTHING in that crap, if it can at all be avoided.
lighter:
Good, what a great snow woman image! I that story.
As for my drive, I broke down and salted the tire track area. Of course, everything melted the next day and now I worry about salt killing moss. Drat. I should have held my nerve, and course of non action.
Amber, sorry you lost your bookmarks. I resist all things that muff up my groove like that.
Lighter
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