The worst of the weather’s behind us, but I’m still feeling the effects – I’ve had this damn flu for quite some time now, and while it doesn’t really bother me when I’m at the computer, anything even remotely physical turns into an achey affair.
Today’s actually quite nice out, and even nicer in – the fire is finally working correctly and I installed a vent in the floor of our bedroom to allow the heat to filter up without opening the bedroom door (which leads to all kinds of canine lawlessness). We got another load of wood yesterday, and the rate we’re going we hopefully shouldn’t need more until the weekend.
But man, thursday and friday were absolutely terrible. The Suburban wouldn’t start at all and for some reason the extra battery didn’t charge correctly so I had to skip Karate. We burned a crazy amount of wood and everyone was still cold, and my lips are cracked and bleeding from the “arctic” air.
Thankfully though, nothing in the way of plumbing froze (discounting the washing machine, but it always freezes in the winter) and we didn’t run out of wood, and I’m hopeful that we’ve seen the last of that kind of weather for a while. It’s really cemented in my mind that there’s quite a few things that need done on the exterior of the house that I absolutely have to get to this summer – and not put off again for another year.
Picture related, it’s from the ice storm a couple weeks back – I mainly wrote this post to test the Flickr manager plugin. 