COLD & WARM

The weather has tested our new insulation we put in our attic. It has helped! with the temp dropping to -14 our old heater has not had to over work to keep the house at the temp we set the thermostat, 68 that is a far cry from a balmy 72 but it keeps the bills down. Misty has been keeping Mom and I busy, she is on a 2 hour schedule for going outside. This starts at about 6:30 am and runs to 10:30 pm. She has been very good and is learning very fast, now if we could stretch her schedule out some... I think that we could have picked a better season for a new addition if it had been up to us, but the Lord knows best and we think that Misty will be a blessing to us all. She was sick for about two days after going to the vet and getting her shots, during that time she has clammed the corner by our sliding glass door as hers. The cold has limited my work our in the shop too cold for glue and finishing. So I have been planning and drawing out plans for projects. Mom and I are looking forward to spring and the projects we have lined up outside. That will come sooner than you think..

New addition

No we aren't in our new addition yet but we have a new addition to our family. Misty came into our lives on December 26th at the vets. She was a lost abandoned puppy looking for a home. Mom told them "If you don't find a home for her call me" Guess what? We got the phone call on Dec. 30th and now have a bouncing puppy in our house!

Could you resist those eyes?

Winter

I think that winter has arrived. There is ice covering the pond, we made an ice mound from the fountain that was keeping oxygen in the water for the fish. That is turned off and the fish are in Gods hands, as if they were any where else. Winter and cold are here and I still have a bunch of things on my to-do list. I did find out what happens when you have a garden hose rolled up on a dispenser, and you get caught in a cold snap. When you unroll it to make sure the water is out of the hose. When you are about 75 feet away from the dispenser and the hose becomes full of frozen water you start making sausages out of the hose, about 12" long and it breaks 12" long and it breaks... Looks like a new section of hose is in the works!

End of fall

It looks like fall is about over. Leaves are falling wind is picking up and it is turning colder. The fields around us have been harvested, and the bugs relocated. We shut down the pond with just one pump putting O2 into the water and the floating ice hole maker to keep ammonia down in the pond water over winter. We have covered the pond with the net to help keep leaves out of it. Mowed the lawn for the last time(I hope). We just have a few more final jobs to do in the yard and it is ready for winter and the snows. I have a few more woodworking projects to work on in the house as well as working on it.