Friday was the usual chaotic crowd. The carpenter was here, my helper friend came, and my new general helper was here. I had hoped to work with my general helper on seed inventory, but I decided to do

Ginger under lights in the living room This time of year, most of my gardening, such as it’s been this year, is with house plants inside. My helper friend and I found this ginger where it had been abandoned

On Sunday I decided to do a garden update. It had been below 0F when I got up and might make it into the 20’sF during the day. This is what the middle pasture looked like as the sun came up after the storm

On Saturday morning it was snowing when I got up. There wasn’t much, a very fine snow, blowing around a lot. By mid morning more had accumulated but it wasn’t snowing heavily. The juncos and birds were

For the last 2 weeks this has been my sickbed by the masonry heater. By late afternoon on Tuesday the 18th, I’d become dehydrated from the nausea from the headache pain and ended up in the ER, again. Too

On Sunday the 16th I worked all day getting the tree down and things packed away. I got these boxes ready to go upstairs. I wanted to have the tree down and done on my birthday on Monday. I got the tree

On Saturday, I did 2 things: start taking the ornaments and garlands off the Christmas tree and feed stoves. I started doing the latter when I got up around 3AM and had to do it for the wood stove every

On Saturday evening when I went to pull the windows shades to try to save some heat, I found this design on the north window in the upstairs hall. These are the older windows and don’t seal quite so well

On Friday I was starting to put things back where they belong when I managed to break one of my old glass lamps. So I spent a good while fixing that, I hope, with gorilla glue. My helper friend arrived

On Monday, I helped the carpenter with the tile, then started taking decorations down. My cleaning helper came and tackled the trashed floors throughout the house. I plan to leave the trees up a little

When I got up at 4:30 AM on Saturday morning, the house was still warm (70 – 71F) and it was 8F outside. So I’d gotten the stoves right, even though I’d been told it was to be 14F. I got the one in the

On Friday morning when I finally got the shades up, I saw the juncos out under the feeders. There were a couple sparrows with them. I was taking the photos through a window and a storm window, so forgive

source I woke with a sore throat on Thursday morning so I took some zinc for it. It went away, but then I started to have an upset stomach. So I ate some breakfast and it went away. Then the diarrhea started.

On Wednesday the sleet start at 7:30AM when I was getting back from the barn so no trash run to be done. By 8:30 it has started to get bad. Tom had brought his daughter to work at the horse farm on my

On Tuesday morning the house was cold when I got up. They had said 21F for night temps so I had gotten the stoves going for that. But a look at the thermometer showed it went way lower than that, to 8F.

The carpenter’s helper was here on Monday and I asked him to determine the source of the squeaking/squealing and see if he could fix it. It took all morning with me on and off the treadmill, but we got