Happy New Year!
Overall today hasn’t been to shabby; off to a bit of a rough start…just getting over head cold, so we did not go out on visits today. Hope that Marie is feeling better, she was under the weather as well.
Dave spent much of the day taking apart the stove we brought home. It is a well-used, enamelled, cast iron six-eye wood burning stove. The shelf behind the top, it has white glaze enamel coat. It does have the water chamber/tank with it; Dave will have to give it a cleaning, and do some repairs — for now, it has a home here.
The morning was quiet, I ate breakfast, then Dave began working on the stove. Late, I went an rested until about lunch time (the sinus medicine helped with get rid of my morning headache). When I looked at the clock from under the bed covers, I realized the over heat lights were not on; nor was the alarm clock.
Walked downstairs and saw that Dave had the battery lamp in the kitchen on.
It was nearly 1:45, and the only thing I could fix for lunch was ‘cold’ turkey sandwiches.
(The pizza from last night is still in the fridge.)
Dave said the power company had told him the power should be restored by/before 3:00pm.
He went back to the stove/project; and I went upstairs to my laptop. There were few things could do without the internet connection — I cleared some tabs (saved them), and did a bit on some genealogy stuff.
The power came back on around 2:e45.
With the lights returning, I began clearing the mound of laundry in the bathroom — the dryer had towels in it; so those got folded and put away.
By the time I had the washer loded, I heard a “bang…rattle, rattle, bump, …bang.”
I grabebed my work boots on the out the back door, and found Dave moving the covered grill. He was wanting to use the front door of the Q-hut, but the grill had to be moved first.
With the grill tucked under the cover i the back yard, Dave continue with the store work; and I went inside and began clearing the clutter of wrapping paper, scotch tape, and other tidbits from the wrapping for Christmas.
Things were quiet, until around 4:30 — feeding time for the cats.
The weather was warm today, so the tomcats (“Red” and “Boris, the Gray”) decided they needed to argue as to who was “top cat” — not something that I sallow at feeding time.
I grabbed a long stick (but they ignored me)…I saw the milk jug of water I leave for their bowls; grabbed it took the top off, and dowsed them with as much water as I could.
Neither tomcat liked that; they slinked off in opposite directions, and did not bother eating with the other cats.
Before dark fell; Dave and I moved more firewood next the backdoor; the weather is expected to be in the teens for several days — having wood close in such temps is always good.
Tonight, I hooked up my external CPU monitor to my laptop. The first time in many months that I have been able to connect more than two USB devices without the ‘other’ keyboard(s) in the ‘chain of communication’.
It is a delight to have a large screen to surf the Internet.
The set-up as it is tonight:
One external harddrive, an external keyboard, (no printer yet), a mouse, a UBS thumb-drive, and a extension cable hooked up to another USB port on the monitor.
Next addition will be the printer/scanner combo (have not moved it into the work area, wanted to be sure everything else was working properly before adding the final piece).
It things don’t work out (elbow-room and desk area); then I will have to relocate everything somewhere else…not something I feel quite up to yet.
Well, for the first day of 2012 — it has been an adventure, not to hectic/not too quiet; warm. dry weather; had a good conversation on the phone with Mom, and great dinner of ham, turnip greens and black-eyed peas.
How was your day?
– Cathy Abernathy (http://weavercat.wordpress.com)
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