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helwenThree more windows winterized. I started them yesterday but a sleeping cat was under one of them and then I had to do other stuff, so finished today.
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Got in some of the ginger plants (one's blooming again, yum!), and L and I brought up all the pumpkins as there's to be a hard frost tonight. The rest of the ginger plants will probably all be harvested for food, so I should have plenty of ginger for a while.
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The stove hearth arrived a few days back and we've been getting used to it. Then today George (one of Ray's men) came over and helped L move it up the stairs, with a bit of assist on the landing from me and William. Ma came up to look it over and thinks we should remove the radiator (between the stove and the chimney) because of the pad for the stove coming out into traffic as much as it does. If we do that and also take the washing machine out, we can move the pad back a foot, which would make a big difference. Our washing machine is on the downstairs electricity, so using a machine upstairs or the one downstairs doesn't really change things money-wise; I'd just be making a few more trips up and down the stairs -- which I have to do in warm weather anyway, to hang up the laundry outside.
Anyway, it looks very nice on the hearth pad. We'll probably work out the details sometime next week. Currently the folks keep the downstairs heat at around 68F and some of the heat rises, so we haven't bothered with the heat ourselves.
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Fabric for the split riding skirt is cut out except for interfacing for the waistband, which I'll probably do tonight. Last night I did some pinning and read the directions for assembly.
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Bird Sightings:
Last week we saw the blue heron on one of our walks. L also saw it a few days ago when he came out of the sugarhouse -- it was in the brook by the building, just 15 feet away!
A few days ago we saw three ravens sit in a tree (no, really, just like the song but without the dead guy on the ground). I saw them again today, across the way from the house.
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There is a dogwood in the pasture above the double sugarhouse -- alternate leave or blue dogwood, I believe. The leaves appear to be very slightly alternate, but the branching is still opposite -- odd. Anyway, it has some lovely berries on it that the birds should enjoy.
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Got in some of the ginger plants (one's blooming again, yum!), and L and I brought up all the pumpkins as there's to be a hard frost tonight. The rest of the ginger plants will probably all be harvested for food, so I should have plenty of ginger for a while.
***
The stove hearth arrived a few days back and we've been getting used to it. Then today George (one of Ray's men) came over and helped L move it up the stairs, with a bit of assist on the landing from me and William. Ma came up to look it over and thinks we should remove the radiator (between the stove and the chimney) because of the pad for the stove coming out into traffic as much as it does. If we do that and also take the washing machine out, we can move the pad back a foot, which would make a big difference. Our washing machine is on the downstairs electricity, so using a machine upstairs or the one downstairs doesn't really change things money-wise; I'd just be making a few more trips up and down the stairs -- which I have to do in warm weather anyway, to hang up the laundry outside.
Anyway, it looks very nice on the hearth pad. We'll probably work out the details sometime next week. Currently the folks keep the downstairs heat at around 68F and some of the heat rises, so we haven't bothered with the heat ourselves.
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Fabric for the split riding skirt is cut out except for interfacing for the waistband, which I'll probably do tonight. Last night I did some pinning and read the directions for assembly.
***
Bird Sightings:
Last week we saw the blue heron on one of our walks. L also saw it a few days ago when he came out of the sugarhouse -- it was in the brook by the building, just 15 feet away!
A few days ago we saw three ravens sit in a tree (no, really, just like the song but without the dead guy on the ground). I saw them again today, across the way from the house.
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There is a dogwood in the pasture above the double sugarhouse -- alternate leave or blue dogwood, I believe. The leaves appear to be very slightly alternate, but the branching is still opposite -- odd. Anyway, it has some lovely berries on it that the birds should enjoy.
