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["SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lynda wrote:

> Well, it's Friday the 13th and so far no one with a hockey mask <g>
>
> Started the day early because we are sanding down the hot tub and 
> putting a new coat of spar varnish on it.  Youngest and I are doing 
> it because it is her "mini-pool," as she calls it <g>

Thou shalt not say "spar varnish".  I am sick of it.  We are varnishing
the canoe-many coats...like 9 so far..aaarrrrgggh!

 No frost yet and none on the horizon,

We are having our first freeze tonight.  I am about to head to bed to
get warm as we opted not to start a fire.  Brrr.

> DH finshed splitting a cord of wood yesterday, so today was time to 
> remove the air conditioners and the plexiglass and closing up the 
> windows.

Remove the air conditioners??  People actually do this??  We leave them
in the window year around.


> We have two more heat screens to make and then all the windows will 
> be good to go for keeping out the heat in the summer and the heat in 
> in the winter. We've already noticed the difference in our bedroom 
> and it that it works great!

What's a heat screen?
> I've got a pot of sauce on simmering, so it'll be sorta spaghetti pie
>  tonight (layers of penne, sauce and cheese in individual serving 
> dishes).

I do that too...I call it Finnish lasagna. <g>


> AND, we finally got the new oven installed Wednesday and I can 
> finally go back to making all our bread.  I do NOT know how I 
> survived two years without an oven that would do any decent baking! I
> am SOOOOOOOO happy!!!!!! Happy dance, happy dance, happy dance!!!!! 
> Wahooo!!!!!! <g>

I can relate to that.  I had a good oven, but bad stove eyes.  We got 4
new burners off freecycle and I don't know how I was cooking before.  I
basically had to relearn to cook!  Things will now boil over in a flash!


> All in all, a good Friday the 13th.
For me, too.....

Bev
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BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm   NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
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