Happy New Year! I have been out of the groove for a couple of weeks so I'm a little late saying that, but it is still the new year. We had a wonderful Christmas but we were disappointed not to see the Flakes. The weather has been crazy! The wind, combined with the snow on Christmas, cancelled church for us and I haven't seen that in awhile. We did manage to drive to the Hart house that day and had a delicious feast with good company. The cousins had a great time!
Since the Christmas storm we have had 7 car accidents in front of our house and our neighbor's. Two cars have run into our neighbor's mailbox, one ran into the fence and had to be cut out, two flipped into the big ditch across the street, one ran into our neighbor's pine tree and one ran into the telephone pole and cut our power for a bit. Use caution when driving on roads made of ice! This week has been cold, bitter, frigid. Thursday and Friday schools were cancelled because the temperature was estimated to be -23 and with the wind chill it felt like -40! We went through extensive measures to shut all animals in the barn, build up their bedding and start up a heater. They survived! This morning felt tropical when Addy and I went to feed the animals and the thermometer read 5 degrees above zero! Woohoo!
Garrett has been working extra hard on our basement project. He has decided to take it into his own hands to be our electrician because our plumber has taken a good chunk out of our budget and continues to run into more costly problems. Scott, we may be calling you if/when we run into trouble. He has installed eight can lights, a light switch, and run wiring for the outlets. He has only caused sparks a few times.
One thing our plumber discovered was water damage and leaking in our upstairs master bathroom. He said we needed to pull out the toilet, rip up the floor and replace both of those. Since the bathroom was so outdated, we decided to gut the whole thing. Garrett had demo day in our bathroom all day yesterday. He got the toilet, sink, vanity, floor and some of the panelling ripped off the walls. I can't wait to start the painting and putting back together phase!
The kids have enjoyed playing in the snow, although I told them they can only play outside when the temp is above 0 degrees. We are slowly getting back into a school routine and chore routine. It has been lovely. If anyone has temperatures in the 40's or 50's, let us know and we might run down for a visit to thaw out! If anyone would like to try their hand at some serious ice fishing, come visit us! Hope to see you all soon!
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