I am, I’m happy to say.
Up thirty degrees inside since getting vertical. As opposed to seven degrees outside since the sun came up. Still have to go out shit-shoveling, plus I’ve got a trash-hauling errand, but I’m hoping to let the horseshit melt out of the ice first or what’s the point? As of Monday the mud still hadn’t entirely dried in Avalon’s pen. Call me overfastidious: While I don’t mind shoveling shit, I do object to chiseling it.
Ye Olde Vogelzang is rumbling cheerfully in the corner. LORD I’m happy to have finally (mostly) shaken off my chimney-fire phobia that plagued me for the past two winters…
…though the downside is that I’m plowing through my stovewood. No worries, though: There’s a most satisfying stock of pallets waiting to be cut up. A couple of brush-cutting gigs in summer left me with an oversupply of juniper, and to tell the truth I’ll be happy to see the back of it.
The past two days have been tolerably cold but intolerably windy, and yesterday was mostly spent hiding indoors. I took time out to tend chickens and break my oven, but other than that I was sitting by the fire. The wind stopped in the evening and today dawned still as death, which is good because I’ve got to move some plywood later. And the sun! Oh, the sun is back and Uncle Joel is happy to trade it for the unseasonable warmth we had through most of December. 🙂
Hope you guys are doing as well.
It’s bright and sunny here today, though cold. The snow clouds will return tomorrow and probably hang around for at least 48 hours. But then, we expect that here. 🙂
Looking at two weeks of clouds but we aren’t buried in snow, so it’s good.
It’s a balmy 44* here and with the sun out and no wind, that’s almost t-shirt weather. We’re going thru the firewood too! Glad I got a little obsessive about it last summer. Keep warm and Merry Christmas Joel and all you friendly readers!
Merry Christmas! Stay Warm!