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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