Nov 12, 2012 Girls Rule!



Snow and fog at Rose Camp on Sunday



On Friday it snowed gently all day.  As gently as the fog wafted in and out. Our fog isn't like that on the coast which rolls.  Ours wafts.  And "wafts" is one of those words that when you say it often enough, it sounds like pure gibberish. . .

JB made a "quick" trip Down There to pick up meds that he had forgotten to order so that I could have picked them up. . ., got gas and bought a few more packages of Bob's Red Mill GF Pizza Crust mix that was on sale at Fred Meyer for 25% off.  There's a recipe on the back for cinnamon rolls that I want to make.  Don't really need it for pizza crust as JB has his own figured out. 

I had gone to gas up his car on Monday and the yellow Shell station was now a blue Exxon!  Then Wednesday I discovered that the other Shell station in East Wenatchee was also an Exxon.  We have a Shell card and have purchased it for years.  Looks like now we will buy our gas at Fred Meyer or Costco who are currently engaged in a gas war.  Last week at Coscto the price was down to $3.09.  JB gassed up at Fred Meyer and got it for $3.07.  I just love free enterprise!

While he was Down There, I worked on Christmas gifts.  Finally got going on them.  Don't have our Christmas card designed yet, although I worked on it on Saturday.

And speaking of Saturday, we woke up to 16 degrees and more snow falling.  There was almost 2" on the ground and it snowed most of the day, adding another couple inches.  So it was indoor projects, reading and a nap.  Rufus, the internet weatherman, says this snow is here for the seaason and he is usually right on.  Depending how much we get today, we may take my Jeep down the mountain for the winter.

Sunday morning we woke up to 14 degrees, but no new snow overnight.  Since we have some more water in the cistern, we tried out the new washing machine.  Unfortunately I think we have some electrical problems as the washer wouldn't start without the generator.  In mid-September my phone started going dead within 24 hours of being charged.  I got a new phone and it won't hold a charge either.  JB's still works fine, but his is a different make.  We may have a bad battery or two.  Will check for that today.  If so, I may not be blogging for a while. . .

Larry and Elsie came up to visit last night.  We played "marbles" and the tide has turned.  The girls won!

When Larry was up here last Monday helping to dig for the broken water pipe, he also helped JB with the snow thrower.  JB had used some gasoline additive in the gas he used last year and Larry thinks that's the problem.  The just kept trying to start to snow thrower, trying to work the old gas out.  Larry says he learned his lesson when he used an additive in his generator.  Took him forever to get it going again.

In our new "Home Power" magazine, Kathleen Jarschke-Shultze has written yet another great "Tales of Off-Grid Living".  This one is about three tools that she cannot do without: duct tape (Hippie Chrome), ball bungees, and zip ties.  And I completely agree with her.  We are constantly using all three of these.


Thought for the day: Politics must be the battle of the principles. . .the principle of liberty against the principle of force. Auberon Hubert  (Seems like force is winning right now. . .)