Masonry heater on its way to 180F…
On Friday morning I was up just after 5AM and got my post up. I discovered I’d forgotten to order linaria and pyrethrum as I couldn’t find them in my catalogs. So I searched online and found a company that had both, and NOW I think the orders are done.
I got the fires going well because I would be gone to exercise class for a bit of the morning. I got the kitchen cleaned up and got snow shovels ordered for my son and got the birds fed. Then I got ready to go to class.
Once home I made some lunch and waited for my helper #3 to arrive at 12:30PM. We got started on the tree and the remaining lights and soon the tree was bagged up and she carried the sections to the attic.
We moved the table and emptied the china cabinet and moved it and refilled it. Then the table went back into its usual place and now I can see the birds at the feeders instead of a wall.
Next we went into the office and she helped me collect and pack all the decorations still left in there. She got those 2 boxes upstairs too. We still had a lot of time left, so we went in and started checking the strings of bubble lights.
Larry came in to inspect the boxes at this point. We had to replace about 9 of the blue bubble lights. I was bummed out because that color is hard to find. Fortunately, none of the green ones was bad. Those are even harder.
We got them all done and packed carefully away. We sorted out the remaining spare bulbs and then she took all those boxes upstairs. With those, we could now play Tetris trying to get all the boxes back in the store room.
We got it all in and the bedroom was now ready to be a bedroom again.
We had about ½ hour left so we went down and I taught her how to package and repair the mini light strings. We only got 2 done but that was more than I expected we’d accomplish for the whole afternoon. We had to be inspected for the process, of course.
As soon as she left I got the stoves going and then pulled the shades. We were supposed to drop to -1F during the night.
Fire photo inspector
I made supper and watched more 800 Words and was in bed by 8PM.
On Saturday I will alternate between stoking stoves and packaging and repairing light strings. I have 16 200-light strings to do. The temps, with it being sunny, are not supposed to get above 11F and then drop to 3F in the night. So a sort of easy day…