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| RJ's enclosed living room and new wood stove. |
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| Hauling firewood with MAX |
Sunday was RJ's birthday, and also Nene and Jack's 68th wedding anniversary! Happy, happy to all of you!
We were fogged in most of the day on Friday and two more inches of snow fell. Another inside day. I baked banana bread, and a blueberry coffee cake for RJ's birthday cake. Cleaned, dusted, and defrosted the refrigerator and freezer, scrubbing them both out.
Not fun going to the outhouse with layers of clothing on. Almost too late by the time I get them all undone! Nene says this all brings back memories of the outhouse on the ranch. Carrying the lantern in the dark. The Sear's catalogue. . .
I certainly hope the snow melts and the road drys up before long because we haven't taken the garbage down yet. We usually do that this coming week, but I just can't see it happening this year. I think we have decided to move our date for being ready for winter from November 1 to October 1! You just never know with Mother Nature.
On Saturday the fog moved in and out. I was busy cooking a big pot of chili and cornbread for RJ's birthday dinner that night. RJ, Mike and Brian made it up Friday evening - very slowly. So at 3:00 pm, we packed up MAX and headed down to RJ's cabin, the long way. Took about 45 minutes and seemed like we were going down to celebrate Christmas instead of his October birthday. Had a great time, but only stayed a couple hours as we didn't really want to get back after dark. It had started drizzling when we left and was a complete downpour by the time we arrived home. It continued pouring for another hour, then off and on all night. Pouring rain on top of 15" of snow trying to melt. What a slushy, mucky mess!
The sun managed to shine most of the day on Sunday, so we were able to get a lot done outside. We tilted the solar panels all the way down for the winter. Got the snow blower out of the shop and the ladders in. Split two good loads of fire wood and stacked them on the north end of the porch. I finally cleaned the snow off the deck. We used MAX and our small trailer to move the wood. Thank goodness for all the hay and chippings that JB had scattered on the paths!
Slipped and slid down the driveway to get the photo card out of the game cam. 120 pictures! Turns out a branch was blowing in front of it, so only a couple shots of coyotes, Jesse and cars. Somehow it didn't get a picture of us going down or back up in MAX.
We were going to try pumping for water yesterday, but the generator just kept backfiring and turning itself off. I think it's because the last few times we used it was just for a few minutes. Since we haven't been doing laundry or pumping water, it hasn't had a chance to really run. Today we are going to shut off the propane to the generator and try to run it. That ought get all the excess fumes out.
Tuesday JB has a 9:00 am dentist appointment and I have several errands to run while he's there. We plan to drive his Jeep down and hopefully back up again. Will take the snow shoes and big boots just in case we don't make it all the way back up. The weather forecast is for warmer temperatures and rain all week long.
Thought for the day: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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