Sunday, November 27, 2005|
We leave for the bookshop, and Sunday afternoon hours, in about 10 minutes. It was a cold cold night, in the teens at most. Right now it's 11:30am and 30° F (-1° C). The house never really warmed up after we got home from the shop last night. I have all the electric baseboard heaters going but the air stays cold somehow. Started a fire late, and I suppose it kept the house from getting any colder than it did. All of us curled tight under the blankets and comforters, never warm. I can see it's time to break out the sleeping bags for toppers. Then we'll be toasty. Ran out of water around 9pm yesterday evening, and a very good thing, too: I'd forgotten about turning on the big bulb in the pumphouse; the pipes would have frozen for sure. But that meant no jugs of hot water to melt the llama trough this morning, so I boiled up two old teakettles full of creek water and carried it down with the oats and melted the iceberg on their drinking water, and on Ranger's, too. I keep slipping on patches of ice. There's no real snow cover, just a peppering of graupel, and I forget to be careful how I walk. Black ice abounds.
Oh I can't wait, can't wait to live in a regular lazy house. |
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winter heat:   11:12:13 AM  comment [] trackback []
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I didn't get the shot where the whole herd was advancing on the dogs. Darn. (And really—they've been known to kill a dog or two...)   11:09:14 AM comment [] trackback []
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Last week's greenhouse post: moonflower vine in pot with epazote going to seed:  Salvias and artemisias and a rosemary:  night-blooming cereus still in recovery from last winter's die-off extending upward near hen&chicks:  figgy still doing well (as of last Sunday... I'd better check today):  11:06:47 AM comment [] trackback []
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