Well it was supposed to start last night, but all we got was some 50 mph winds out of the North; cold and hard and cutting. Now they're saying maybe some after midnight, tomorrow, with 4 inches tomorrow night. THAT should make the football game interesting! Although the highs are supposed to be in the fifties Friday again; the snow should be gone.
There's propane in the tank; about 16% still. We just set the thermostat for 65 degrees; so it won't get too cold in here once the fires in the woodstove burn out at night. I'm the firestarter in the family; the woman who used to build the three-day, pouring-rain fires in the yard, who started a fire in a tropical storm that dried out all the camping gear and cooked our meals, should be the one to start a healthy fire that can warm the house! LOL But this house is pretty tight; built solidly, and even after it was let go for a while we were able to get it sealed again. It's windows and doors are tighter and stronger, and walls are more solid, than the house we owned in SC - and that house was newer by about 70 years!
I've been canning still; tomatoes and green tomatoes, and dehydrating cabbage. There are tomatoes lined up in rows of five on the counter, still turning red. Raking the yard and packing leaves around the tombstones - yup, we have tombstones and the coffin in front of the house! The scarecrow from the front porch is doing double duty as a mummy, and one of my ceramic skulls is perched on top; we've run lights to it and into the skull so it looks really creepy. The trees still have golden leaves on them in the east yard, so pretty. The red twig dogwood by the lane is glowing pink, too.
I like my new job as secretary for the school and am having lots of fun doing it. It is hard not having records saved from before, though; and all of the reports that have to be filed with the state just for food service boggle the mind! But I'll be going down to the community center to help with the drama club (at 6:45 in the morning!) and that should be fun too. And Tammy's due to come out in November; I can't wait to show her around!
Still busy as I've ever been, but having lots of fun... and looking forward to the snow again!
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