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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, what a difference a day makes!  Yesterday it was balmy and in the low 
70s.  Today, ice cold in and raining.  Winter is here with a vengence!

We got 3.5 cords of wood in but DH likes "insurance" as he calls it and is 
putting up another cord.  We filled bins with kindling and filled the old 
weird chicken house with more kindling.  The first year here, DH thought I 
was weird with my obsession of having both cords of wood and lots of nice dry 
kindling.  Now he's a believer <g>

We have a hot tub, came with the place, and it "belongs" to the youngest.  
She sanded it down and put a couple of coats of spar varnish on it, so it is 
looking good for the winter.

Took all the vent tubes down and cleaned them out and recaulked them.  Don't 
want to have to climb on the roof in a bunch of snow because one of them was 
clogged up or leaking!

We put up some special weird looking screens to help cut down on the heat in 
the summer and discovered that they keep the heat in when it started getting 
cold.  We have two more windows to winterize this way.

Finished the thermal drapes for the living and dining rooms and new insulated 
drapes for the sliding glass door.  New door in the livingroom and 
laundry/mudroom, so no more drafts there.  New thermal blinds in the kitchen. 
 New window in youngest room.  All I need to do is finish the new drapes and 
Roman shades for our bedroom.

Happy Dance!  Got a new oven and I can bake again!  Did croissants the other 
day AND THEY TURNED OUT!  It has been TWO LONG YEARS without a good oven that 
I could bake bread or pastries in!  Pure torture!

We put a new gas stove top in and it sucks!  It is going bye-bye!  Can't 
afford the induction but have found a great electric that has a 3,000 watt 
burner that is at full power in 3 second!  It has SIX burners!  And a bridge 
for my griddle.  What more could a girl ask for <g>

Got all my herbs repotted from the raised bed and DH built a window box they 
are all sitting in.  Got the garlic in, the strawberries mulched and am 
waiting for a good frost to repot the roses.

We are about as ready as we can get for winter and have dug out our usual 
winter entertainment, seed catalogs <g>  Hope everyone else is ready!

Lynda
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>Interesting that you think AZ has more water than
>needed.

Part of Arizona's Colorado River allocation under the Colorado River
Compact is taken by California because Arizona is in fact unable to
use all of it in spite of the Central Arizona Project, that
five-billion-dollar canal system. The Water Bank is designed to
ensure that Arizona gets its allocated share.

>   Without being able to cite any particular
>source, my take is that they are using water at a rate
>that can't be continued and that even with water
>treaties are using water that maybe should belong to
>other states or to Mexico.

As usual, being downstream sucks. Seven states get Colorado River
water under the Compact signed in 1922. Mexico doesn't have the power
to take the water that rightfully should still flow to it as it did
for thousands of years. The law of prior appropriation ends at the
border. The problem was, is, and will continue to be California.