Thursday, December 29, 2011
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More Visitors and Fun!
Coit Family Christmas
Mr Miles, visits Coffee Lake Farm
Christmas decorating!
Road trip for Firewood!
Well, Smarkle and I headed over to my daughter Jennifer's home, this morning to help her and Matias clean up some dead trees in their yard.
I got over there about 10:30 am, and Smarkle got out and played with Joya, their dog and then I started cutting up the trees and Jennifer and Matias, loaded the wood into my trailer. We spent a little over an hour cutting up 4 different trees and I had a nice full trailer load of pine and popple pieces.
Jennifer prepared a sandwich for some lunch, and we had a nice visit. In the meantime the dogs began to settle down some, and were getting tired out. Thanks for the wood and help, Jennifer and Matias!
I headed back home and then proceeded to unload the pile and do some wood stove maintenance. Which included cleaning out the ashes, checking the blower fan, and cleaning out the air tube that goes into the bottom of the firebox. I also cleaned out the flues in the top of the stove to allow the best transfer of the heat to the water around them.
The woodpile looks really good again, as I have more wood now than I did two weeks ago. It helps to keep working on the woodpile, while there is no snow on the ground here. It maybe a brown Christmas in Northern Minnesota as the forecast isn't calling for any snowstorms that I know of yet!
Warm bed update!
Night one was pretty cozy, it feels like you are sleeping on a sunny warm spot, but t always stays warm.
Crystalie, ended up turning hers down some, but it felt great getting in a nice warm bed. The joys of electricity,and warmth it can bring!
300th posting
Yes, I have reached one milestone with posting on this blog, over 300 times I have typed out a message of what is going on in our busy lives.
I started on Dec 13th last year and I am closing in on the one year anniversary. I do enjoy being able to share with those who follow my blog or read it from time to time, about life on Coffee Lake Farm.
It is not that hard for me to find something to share, since we are two of the busiest people I know. In the winter things slow down some, but at the same time, we both have projects to work on and enjoy a few more live games of scrabble.
Of course the holiday season is here and it seems we will have many things going on over the next weeks, before years end!
A warm bed!
Needless to say I think we all enjoy a warm bed on a cold December night.
We have always had an electric blanket on our bed to help keep the chill off the coolness of our bedroom, which does not have a lot of heated forced air getting to it. But last night Crystalie awoke to a flashing control box, and needless to say it no longer worked.
Well, I went to Kohls today and purchased an electric heated mattress pad for our bed. They have been around for a few years, but no need to buy one until now. The packaging on these even advertise you can save money at night by turning your furnace down and still keep toasty warm in your heated bed. Good Marketing there!
This is going to be the first night and I am sure there will be a little adjustment process, but the other thing is the heat will be below our bodies not above it like the blanket was...meaning it should be toastier!
A trip to the big city!
It was a real treat to see all their hardwork, and the performance, since I never really new the full story of the Nutcracker Suite. It was very well done and they had a lot of dancing and activity in the first half of the story, and just a little bit at the very end of the second act.
They did great and the performance was well attended and they had a second performance at 4 in the afternoon.
I am sorry but we were not allowed to shoot any video or photos of the production due to copyright issues.
Good Job Girls!
The weekend is here!
Yes another weekend, and I have a project list of certain things to do this weekend.
I have been busy the last couple of evenings posting Wooden Nichols items on Etsy.com, which is a vintage, collectible and handcrafted site for selling items on. Warning...it could be come an addictive site if you like looking at all kinds of items, because it seems they have pages and pages of it!
So when you get there look for Wooden Nichols Market to see all the new listings.
I plan to fix my trailer lights, hopefully and the new part will allow my driver side lights to work on the trailer.
I also plan to haul recyclables to the collection point, cleaning out some more of my shop. After that I am off to cut up some wood at Colette's house, as she has some oak trees that fell over this fall. I also have to install a new thermostat for her, in the newly refinished basement.
So as you can see it will be a busy day, but we have no snow and the temps will be around 30 degrees and there will be lots of days in the future when it won't be so nice outside to do anything!