Biggie Bottoms

Still waiting on Biggie. I don't know how am I going to sleep if she is still out there. This sucks.

Storm Kitty

The snow is piling up outside. Biggie went out at 6 this morning and still hasn't come home. She is usually back by 8, especially in snowy weather. It is almost 2pm now. I went out looking for her. The snow is up to my knees. I can't see her having an easy time getting back to the house in this stuff. I put on snowshoes and walked all the way to the side road, looped around to the pond, over to the pipeline, and back to the house. I saw what looked like tracks, but they led in circles and didn't look very fresh. At least my trails from the snow shoes will give her a path to get back to the house. Normally the garage door is left open a crack for them to go in there, but it didn't seem to be open enough this morning for her to have gone in. We just sent monkey out on a recognizance mission to hopefully track down bigstuff.
I need to get back to cleaning the house. I haven't done anything all day in here. I did manage to make some blueberry muffins but they didn't come out as good as they normally do.

Storms coming

They are predicting a big storm to hit tonite and tomorrow. I have heard all different predictions, some saying up to 2 feet, some saying 8-12, some say all snow, some say sleet and rain. While I really don't want any type of storm right now (except for the fact of a snow day), I espically don't want an ice storm. I enjoy having electricity thank you.

Meanwhile on the homestead, I have been working all morning, cleaning and rearraging the house. There is WAY too much crap in here for me to get what I want done. We still have piles of Earl's stuff to get rid of plus extra furniture pieces that we need to move out to the garage. I moved our computers out to the main room. The living room just doesn't get warm in the winter and we both spend a lot of time on the puters so we should be nice and cosey by the wood stove....for about 3 days or so until we run out of dry wood. We are desperately trying to track seasoned hardwood down but there has been a big demand this year and the while state is having a shortage. Super.

Still no xmas tree or wreath but i did manage to string up some lights on the spiral staircase. I will add more pictures later as once again i need to change the batteries in my camera.

cleanish side

messy side

Post

Well, Earls apartment is offically ALMOST done. I didn't take any pictures while we were there yesterday, mostly because I am so over it. I think the black footprints that got tracked on the new rug I just installed and the green stain on the new vinyl in the middle of the bathroom floor pushed me over the edge. Anyways, the new tenant is in, and believe it or not she has expressed some interest in maybe purchasing the apartment house. I certainly don't have my hopes up though. In other EXCELLENT apartment house news, it seems one of the boilers has died and the upstairs apartment is only getting heat in the front half. SUPER.

I had my doctors appointment the other day. I feel like I have been there every week for the last month. They removed more skin around a mole that had a bad biopsy. They also took a third mole off my back. The big one.

We got a lot of snow last weekend and I am already ready for it to all melt. Our wood pile is looking dismal, and my latest call to buy more dry wood turned up empty handed. I am getting worried. It has been all over the news up here that everyone is out of seasoned firewood. We only have enough to get us through a couple more weeks if we are lucky. The bunnies waterbottles are freezing up. I have to dethaw once in the morning and once at night. The chickens haven't come out of the coop all week. They have stopped laying as well so I put the light back up in the coop in hopes to get them going. I had to buy eggs at the store the other day. Something I haven't had to do in over a year. Once you have fresh eggs the grocery store eggs just seem and look so wrong. Today I get to spend cleaning house. It has been so neglected due to our weekly trips out to Bath. Its bad. Really bad.

Making Progress at Earls

Tore up bedroom rug, living rug, ripped out bathroom floor. Clean hardwood floors in bedroom and paint walls and wood work white. Touch up ceiling paint. Fill in gaps in living room floor and lay down new rug. Paint living and kitchen walls and trim. New bathroom subfloor, lay vinyl, new shower ( which we had to take a window out to get it in the building), new lights, paint walls and trim. Clean kitchen. New fridge. ......Almost done.

Chick 1 and Chick 2

The chicks are getting big. I think they will be bigger than all of our other hens. Still not sure of genders on these two, we have been guessing one hen and one rooster, but we will have to wait and see ( or hear the crow). They have not only develped blue iridescent feathers but have also gotten some pretty reddish orange feathers as well. They color will still develop for another month or so. Jezebel, the brown easter egger, has molted and her plummage grew back in quite nice but interestingly enough a lighter shade of brown than she was before. The weather has been cold and is staying cold. We are back to having to thaw out the water bowls for the chickens and bunny bottles as well.

Clorox Crack Cats

Whenever I mop the floor I use a very mild bleach and water solution. For some reason the cats have to roll around on the wet floor when i am mopping. They go nuts. Then they lick themselves. How bad is this? I try to lock them out while I am mopping but with 7 of them it is difficult. My little damaged kitties aren't too bright.

Mama doobie cheking in on her tards.

Ty's buzzed.
Bodhi trying to play it all cool. Nope, I wasn;t just doing what they are doing.
Lickin' bleach is cool.

After getting all buzzed off of the clorox-y goodness, Ty and Cy ventured into the couch crack to come down from their highs.

Orange you glad your waters clear

Our water turned super orange on Wednesday. I am talking rusty Sunkist soda orange. Thick orange. And our water pressure went caca ( is caca spelled caca or kaka?).So...... I cut a hole in the wall in our newly painted bathroom so that i could get to the water tank. Unfortuantely the way our washer and dryer are set in and the way I built that wall, this was the only means to getting to the bottom of the tank. In came the hose and after both myself and tony draining the tank a couple times, our water seems to be mostly back to normal. There was some floaty crud and sediment in out faucet filters so I am hoping that some of the stuff in the bottom of the tank just got stirred up and the problem is solved.

Sorry no pics of the water when it was nuclear orange. I was in a state of panic and didn;t think to take a pic. O, and that hole in the wall is now even bigger.

More Earl's Apartment

My blog has not been allowing me to post pics for days now. I've decided to try again though.

Here is Earl's booze collection. He did not drink a drop though, just bought a bottle everytime he went to the grocery store.

I stacked those Dalwhinnie's in the window to count them. I think there was close to 40. There are also about 40 bottles of Moet, and 40 bottles of Remy Martin. Then there are about 60 other assorted bottles.

Just SOME of Earl's papers.

We have been emptying his place of the valuables (in case anyone missed it, his wife and daughter told us to keep everything in the place) and piling them up here. We plan to sell as much as we can on ebay or anywhere else. This is what our house is looking like now since it has become a warehouse. The piles of dusty mess include, Viking cookware, emile henry ceramics, Denby ceramics. Waterford crystal, Booze, Linhof camera and equipment, Rollei camera and equipment, Rollei projector, Lintz and Zeiss binoculars, Orvis clothing (new), LLBean clothing (new), tons of books, and oh so much dust.

Earl

Sorry for the long delay in posts. Our elderly tenant at the apartment house passes away last week. Earl is one very long story and I am not going to get into all of it on here. His wife and daughter came up to look over his apartment and told us we could keep everything. EVERYTHING. And so begins my long list of our new acquisitions; most of which we will be attempting to sell off on ebay.

First, the status of the apartment. This is after removing 2 full loads. The bathroom in his place is horrendous and we are going to have to gut it. Note all of the yellow envelopes/notebooks. Those are Earls writings on chemical engineering or something like that. Each one is meticulous and numbered, they go over 2000 packets (over 15,000 pages). They are stacked everywhere in his apartment and we were told to just throw them out. I feel horrible about that.