Cold

 

 

Full moon, fog, Mr P's surgery, time spent at hospital, time spent at work, time spent at home and cold, cold temperatures.  All these happened in the span of a week's time.  A full day waiting at the hospital until surgery was over with a good outcome.  Work during the day, hospital visits in the evenings, coming home afterward to get things together for the next day and then hit the sack.  We were both tired by the time he came home on Friday and are now spending the weekend recuperating and relaxing as best we each can.  

 There has been no mention by the weatherman of a polar vortex but boy has it been cold.  Temperatures overnight and in the early mornings in the single digits and the days not getting above freezing.  Finished the second gray tube sock for OnlySonInLaw which will be mailed with the rest of his birthday goodies tomorrow.  Started another pair of socks which I will offer to Grandson #1 when they are done.  Made a batch of Toll House chocolate chip cookies yesterday.

Mr P, myself and our brotherinlaw, D,  worked like crazy before Mr P's surgery date to finish cutting and splitting as much as possble of the last big load of firewood that we had purchased some time ago.  There are fewer than 10 trees that still need cut and a fairly large pile to be split but with brotherinlaw, D's, help in warmer weather, it will be done.  No more purchasing firewood in this manner.  From now on it will be purchased cut and split and I can stack the wood.  Sometimes it takes a while to realize that things that you did for years, can no longer be done the way they were.  This is the realization for Mr P and the preparation of firewood for future use.  Don't worry, we won't freeze since the house has an oil-fired furnace which was replaced with a new energy-efficient one within the past 7 years.

Hope you are staying warm if you are having the same chilly temps that we are right now.