Lot going on still!
There?s been a mixture of good and bad news over the weekend. We found out there?s a minor leak under the main bathroom (Likely under the bathtub basket) and there?s no flu in the wood stove insert, which means much of our heat will be flying out the chimney until we get one installed. (And the potential for a creosote fire in the chimney if it?s not clean in there.)
We got 1.5 cords of wood delivered yesterday, which should have been good news, except the roof on the wood box has all but collapsed under the weight of 10-15 gallons of water that gathered on it during the 3 days of rain we recently had. I?ll be replacing the roof of the wood box this week with a slanted design to allow the rain to run off rather than gather.
We still managed to move a cord of wood from the side yard into the wood box. Kevin and Melissa were very helpful with this and moved a few hundred pounds of wood each!
After all the work we did yesterday moving the wood, Kevin suggested that we have a lumberjack dinner. (This meant Pancakes, Eggs and Sausage.) I agreed, so we ran to the store to get supplies for our dinner and came home to prepare. Meanwhile Tracie was struggling with a horrible software implementation from a new job she?s working at home with. It took her almost an hour just to get through the almost half dozen logins required to BEGIN to work. (Trust me; I know ALL about how frustrating a bad software design can be, I work with them all the time at the Hospital, and my heart was going out to my sweetie.)
The good news was when I was almost prepared to start dumping spices and seasonings into the eggs and mixing pancake batter, Tracie threw up her hands in frustration and gave up her pursuit of success with her program and offered to come help me!
She went to work in the kitchen like some kind of cartoon octopus chef, whipping up her famous scrambled egg mix while making pancakes and sausage. Everything was going well (And I was helping as much as I could!) until I decided to add some all purpose seasoning to the scrambled egg mixture? I gave it a half dozen shakes before I noticed that it was the PANCAKE mix I was shaking the seasoning into! I let out a little yelp like a puppy that got his foot stepped on and quickly tried to think of a way to not look like I just did something stupid.
Failing that miserably I just lowered my head and said ?I put seasoning in the pancake mix?.?
I managed to get most of it out and resigned myself to pouring milk and getting the table set.
We had a great lumberjack dinner and poured our tired selves into bed. Today we?ll finish moving the other half cord of wood by the tool shed and covering it, and have the chimney specialist come give us an idea of how much it?s going to cost to get a flu put into our wood stove insert. (Cringe.)
It?s a mixture of news, but it?s actually been a great week so far.
Ralph might have done some flue work at his parent’s houses, maybe he can help to cut some costs.