I just love this lady’s artwork. She makes me smile from the inside out.
Our driveway detector went off this morning while I was sitting at the computer. It only made one sound, an indication of an animal, rather than a vehicle coming up. I grabbed my binoculars on the way to see. A white-tailed deer stood regally toward the bottom of the driveway. (Only one that I could see.) We looked at each other for a minute and then she crossed the driveway and jumped into the wooded area to that side. What a beautiful sight!
I’m having a lot of fun spending time in my art room lately, either making things to list on my Etsy site, filling orders from there, or – most recently – making some Christmas presents for my good friends. I lose track of time up there, totally engrossed in the project at hand. I listen to some of my favorite music while I work, grinning happily. Unless life gets in the way today, I’m planning to enjoy time up there this afternoon.
The only things getting us outside today is gathering our trash and driving it down for pickup tomorrow, plus getting our mail. If you’ve been reading my blog, you know our driveway is long and steep (650+feet). We had it worked on recently, both with tractor work and gravel, plus a wonderful guy who cut back trees on either side for us, so it’s about as nice as it gets. I also got some ankle boots with better soles, so I get a bit more traction when I’m trying to drag the humongous trash can from where it lives to where the truck comes to empty it, and then back again the next day. I still have to really concentrate not to slip and fall on my head, but these boots help.
The weather is really changing here the past week or so. We’ve gone from fall to a definite taste of winter. I THINK we’ve done all we can to get ready, but the forecasts are showing that we’ll not only hit freezing, but get down to single digits overnight soon. Then we’ll need to drip water in two of our bathrooms to keep pipes from freezing. (One of those is the cat’s bathroom downstairs. I’m still trying to figure out how to rearrange things in there to leave the cabinet door open under the sink – with an automatic heater in there- and leave water dripping in the sink with the cat in there. We haven’t gone through a winter with her yet, so this may be interesting.)
I hope December is starting off well for you. Things are calm here, and that’s a wonderful thing. Have a fun day.
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I don’t know if it will help or not, but we used to use a small desk lamp of sorts in our RV to keep the water line from freezing. Also, outside we wrapped our lines with heat tape.
Jet is sure pretty! I somehow think he will be smart and not get too close to a lamp or light bulb etc. Under the sink.
He’s sure found a good home with you!
And goodness yes, take care on that driveway!
I love the yosemite sam!
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Inside, we have a heater set to come on automatically under the sink when necessary. We also drip water into the sink there, and one sink upstairs. Outside, in the well house, we have an automatic electric heater, plus we have a wall unit that is propane-powered. We have faucet covers on the outside faucets. That has done the job in the past, except for the winter where we learned what we needed to do NEXT time…. Driveway is treacherous. Hubby slipped on the ice at the bottom last year and broke his collarbone. UGH.
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Oh, my! Well, you certainly are prepared, Linda. What can be done about the driveway? Do you have to hire someone to throw salt or sand down on it? Reading this makes me very glad we don’t have to go far to get our mail. Just outside the glassed in porch! But this is all new to us this year. We moved from Florida to New Hampshire last May.
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Ooh. Sounds like you may have culture shock this winter. Our driveway is 650+ feet. There is no way to salt or sand it. We just have to wait for it to melt. We stay stocked up so if we’re stuck up here, all is okay. Today it was my husband’s turn to skid and slip while trying to drag the trash can back up where it lives. He made it fine. :0)
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Well, it seems there ought to be a better way.
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A wonderful way would be for us to win the lottery. Then we could hire people to do all of this stuff for us. :0)
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That’s so true!
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