Cold Cat

Yesterday it was surpringly warm for December. Momoko said it was 60 degrees or so. Kit Kat cooked pork chops and sides for dinner, heating our house up even more. By night time, Momoko and I were hot. So I turned off the heat and opened up a window. The house cooled down a bit after an hour.

Momoko wanted me to close the window when she went to bed. No problem. I stayed up a bit longer and went to sleep myself. Today I am working from home. At lunch time I felt that my feet were very cold. That is strange. We set the heat so that I am usually comfortable. I did not give much more thought to this problem.

Later as I walked around the house, I figured something was not right. I was cold. Then I figured it out. I never turned the heat back on. It was around 60 degrees in the house. Ouch. Let's hope this thing heats back up now.

Firewood Friday

I saw an ad in the paper for oak firewood. Momoko has been trying to get me to buy some for a long time. We need heat when the power goes off. I called up the cat. He said he did not have any right now. But he would get some by April 1st.

Sure enough I got a call from the cat saying he can deliver today. I worked from home today. That is always a bad time. The office keeps calling my home phone like crazy. The calls never stop. Firewood cat was a bit a late. But he came.

They had a big box truck. It could not back into our driveway because they weight of the wood made it too low. The delivery cat rolled the logs into our container using his wheel barrel. Later he knocked on the door saying that our firewood holder was filled up, but there was more wood.

I created a makeshift riser to keep the firewood off the ground. So the rest of the wood got delivered to this riser on our back patio. Now I need to find a way to cover this wood in the back so the rain does not get to it. We are set for the winter, and then some.

Fighting the Bushes

We have 4 or 5 bushes out in front of the house. It has been years since I trimmed them. They are now more like one big bush. So I went to work on them today. First I spread out newspaper to catch all the clippings. Then I got some big shears and cut away. It was very hot today, so this took a lot out of me.

Speaking of the heat, our house is messed up. The basement is totally freezing. And the upstairs is hotter than you know what. At first I thought an HVAC guy could help. Now I am leaning toward installing window A/C units on all the bedrooms upstairs. We got to do something about this crazy heat. I am spending a lot of $$$ on the electric bill. All that is doing is keeping the basement frozen.