Second snow of the season, rain/sleet/slush... first snow was gone in a day... rain in the intervening time... hard to sort out... everyone is screaming "global warming!"... certainly possible.
Heating season so far has been "easy" but Im trying to keep it "comfortable" rather than "merely tolerable"...
Feeling the impending Solstice... sun its the mountain further south every day.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Monday, May 5, 2014
Annual 2014 Obligatory
Here I am again.
Heating season is past despite the occasional freeze and a few days of cool and windy. Picked up a great load of down and dead oak from Tres Piedras at the beginning of the year. The rest of the wood was marginal as always... in size... I just hate to pay for a cord of wood that I still have to cut down more to use...
I deliberately ran the house as warm as I could easily in Nov/Dec so that come January coldest, it would not be as hard to keep it up above 65. Setting up my "desk" next to the living room woodstove helped a lot... easier to tend a fire you are directly warmed by!
I got the pond operating again yesterday, the fishes (overgrown feeder goldfish from the pet store) survived the winter, or at least a number of them did, despite my not keeping the pump recirculating the whole time. That was a relief, I am always saddened when I find orange "fish sticks" in the ice. The fish who survive a full year are always much more robust to the threats of racoon hunters. I do see snakes in the pond area but the garters just can't gulp a 3" carp, so I don't think they are having their way!
Heating season is past despite the occasional freeze and a few days of cool and windy. Picked up a great load of down and dead oak from Tres Piedras at the beginning of the year. The rest of the wood was marginal as always... in size... I just hate to pay for a cord of wood that I still have to cut down more to use...
I deliberately ran the house as warm as I could easily in Nov/Dec so that come January coldest, it would not be as hard to keep it up above 65. Setting up my "desk" next to the living room woodstove helped a lot... easier to tend a fire you are directly warmed by!
I got the pond operating again yesterday, the fishes (overgrown feeder goldfish from the pet store) survived the winter, or at least a number of them did, despite my not keeping the pump recirculating the whole time. That was a relief, I am always saddened when I find orange "fish sticks" in the ice. The fish who survive a full year are always much more robust to the threats of racoon hunters. I do see snakes in the pond area but the garters just can't gulp a 3" carp, so I don't think they are having their way!
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