Uff-da!
11/25/05 4:49 P.M.
20 F, Almost dark with clouds, W wind 4 mph.
Good evening,
It is the warmest it has been all day. Looks as though the next few days will have a slow warm up, enough to dump some rain on us Sunday. The radar shows we are getting snow, but it isn't hitting the ground. Margriet chatted with one of her brothers this afternoon and he said they have 20 cm. (about 8") of snow on the ground! Opened up the webcam from Enschede (http://www.enschede.nl/SPY/CamPage.htm) and sure enough - there is snow on the ground. Kind of cool as there were some "young" folks in the square throwing snowballs, or at least it looked like it. No snowplow has gone through yet, so really was rather pretty. Wish we had the snow here instead of there. There is a snow advisory for the southern part of the state, but I think we will miss out on most of it.
Yesterday was a very quiet day for us with a lot of food. Really good food too! The little birds were prepared perfectly and we ate too much. The idea was to eat only half a bird each, which we did, and have the leftover bird with the leftover dressing. The dressing was excellent too and we ate too much. The sweet potatoes were almost as good as the Yam-yam Lady (Brenda)made them a couple of years ago. We decided they were acceptable. We ate too much. Margriet had made some snacks to eat while everything was in the oven. They too were good and we ate too much. Did i mention that we ate too much? We ate so much that we had to have the pumpkin pie much later in the afternoon. That too was very good. We ate too much of that too!
I did manage to block and split about half of the logs I had on the bunk this afternoon. The chainsaw rain out of gas, so decided that was enough blocking for the day and turned to splitting. I have a pretty good pile of wood split and ready for stacking. Looks like I will have about a face cord stacked when finished stacking what I have split. Probably an equal amount yet to be blocked and split. One log, about 16" diameter 8' piece of ash, really made the splitter grunt a couple of times, but split it very well. The rest was a bit less strenuous for the splitter. Sure glad I have the splitter now, though I had some doubt if I should invest in it several years ago. With the kids gone, I don't think I could keep up anymore with the amount of wood needed to be split each year. Do have to get a better way of keeping the wood dry yet - someday.
When I was about half finish splitting wood for the day, the LP truck showed up. We were beginning to wonder if they had forgotten about us. This is the first time since March or April that it was refilled. It still had about 35-40% of gas yet. That figures out to be about $65.00/month for heat, hot water, and cooking. Wish that would be true the rest of the year.
The price of gasoline is down to "only" $2.219/ gallon. That is a lot down since the highest price, but still 45-50 cents/gallon higher than last year at this time. We still restrict our driving very severely.
Time to get to other things. Hope you had a thankful day too.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
20 F, Almost dark with clouds, W wind 4 mph.
Good evening,
It is the warmest it has been all day. Looks as though the next few days will have a slow warm up, enough to dump some rain on us Sunday. The radar shows we are getting snow, but it isn't hitting the ground. Margriet chatted with one of her brothers this afternoon and he said they have 20 cm. (about 8") of snow on the ground! Opened up the webcam from Enschede (http://www.enschede.nl/SPY/CamPage.htm) and sure enough - there is snow on the ground. Kind of cool as there were some "young" folks in the square throwing snowballs, or at least it looked like it. No snowplow has gone through yet, so really was rather pretty. Wish we had the snow here instead of there. There is a snow advisory for the southern part of the state, but I think we will miss out on most of it.
Yesterday was a very quiet day for us with a lot of food. Really good food too! The little birds were prepared perfectly and we ate too much. The idea was to eat only half a bird each, which we did, and have the leftover bird with the leftover dressing. The dressing was excellent too and we ate too much. The sweet potatoes were almost as good as the Yam-yam Lady (Brenda)made them a couple of years ago. We decided they were acceptable. We ate too much. Margriet had made some snacks to eat while everything was in the oven. They too were good and we ate too much. Did i mention that we ate too much? We ate so much that we had to have the pumpkin pie much later in the afternoon. That too was very good. We ate too much of that too!
I did manage to block and split about half of the logs I had on the bunk this afternoon. The chainsaw rain out of gas, so decided that was enough blocking for the day and turned to splitting. I have a pretty good pile of wood split and ready for stacking. Looks like I will have about a face cord stacked when finished stacking what I have split. Probably an equal amount yet to be blocked and split. One log, about 16" diameter 8' piece of ash, really made the splitter grunt a couple of times, but split it very well. The rest was a bit less strenuous for the splitter. Sure glad I have the splitter now, though I had some doubt if I should invest in it several years ago. With the kids gone, I don't think I could keep up anymore with the amount of wood needed to be split each year. Do have to get a better way of keeping the wood dry yet - someday.
When I was about half finish splitting wood for the day, the LP truck showed up. We were beginning to wonder if they had forgotten about us. This is the first time since March or April that it was refilled. It still had about 35-40% of gas yet. That figures out to be about $65.00/month for heat, hot water, and cooking. Wish that would be true the rest of the year.
The price of gasoline is down to "only" $2.219/ gallon. That is a lot down since the highest price, but still 45-50 cents/gallon higher than last year at this time. We still restrict our driving very severely.
Time to get to other things. Hope you had a thankful day too.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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