shit it's cold! part two

21 out there....... pretty chilly in here too.....about 65, and since i didn't trust bernie lighting the woodstove this morning (good thing too) i'm up, down here and stoking the stove.
today i am to go to lunch with vicky and then if we have time....shopping at peddler's village....... where i will most likely find the set of red transferware of my dreams....but not be able (again) to afford it
but as this is about the END of my birthday month.......maybe one or two wall plates can follow me home?
oh and we're to get more snow
i have to laugh because after YEARS of no snow winters, we get a normal one and even i am upset now
not hugely but a bit
in 1993/1994 we had the MOST snowy winter EVAH........so in may of 1994 we bought from troybilt, (back when they were made here BY troybilt) a snowthrower......7 year warranty ......so we used it like 2 times throughout the entire warranty.......
then in 2001, our furnace blew up (9 year old furnace...this house EATS THEM) we replaced it with a furnace that had a 5 year warranty, so winters were VERY MILD...........no snow naturally- ski resorts went bankrupt! (seriously)

then in 05 we put in the woodstove.......that had i think a five year warranty on some parts and lifetime on others
it's just the last what? two years we've had some actual winter?
i attribute that to having to get wood in and ducks out

now as to the chili i was making yesterday...... apparently i had gotten a bad bag of beans ( say that a few times fast....... oh man) and after i cooked them..... i saw that at least one of the bags had livestock in it.....i thought they were ok when i picked them over.....although i had a lot of broken ones that i tossed
i rinsed them well and looked them over again.....
boiled them and drained them....... at which point i thought that the liquid was really darker then normal.......i should have realized then
but i didn't so filled the pot up and set it to simmer
at about 3pm i decided to look at the beans......put a few in a bowl and noticed something odd....like a tiny whitish cigar sorta
after i got sick to my stomach (no i didn't eat them ........i am pretty sure the chickens will like them)
i put the beans on the side to cool enough to feed to chickens
we had hot ham and cheese sandwitches dipped in eggies and fried until the cheese melted and the sandwitches were golden
so i have no easy leftovers today
which i had planned cause i am going out with vicky.....
oye
meanwhile i am still cleaning ...... i can't stand up in one place too long or i have issues with my legs.......bad ones
so i have to putter..... (i also can't sit too long.....i have to get up and down a LOT)
i did cobwebs upstairs (used my new 'cobweb but looks like a witches' broom on them....damn that thing is heavy) washed more slats on the mini blinds bernie nailed to the window..
took care of ducks and chickens, polished silver, swept the floor, stoked the woodstove, did endless dishes, started those damn beans, cuddled calpurrnia who was very clingy yesterday, (she was so upset until she got to sit on me for a bit)

oh and btw, this list is more for me then you all....i know i did more but can't remember what.
today i have to get the ducks out as early as i can, so i can take a shower to get ready to go

i also remembered that when i was younger, i used to do almost all the stuff in the house or apartment......paint, wallpaper, refinish the furniture, make the curtains etc...
i am going to have to start to return to all that........bernie doesn't really have time to paint so it looks like i have to do it
i hope he'll do the floors though-and help me move the big furniture
i'm still in the middle of having china on the table from the china closet (which is a corner cupboard that we don't have a corner for but i love too much to get rid of)
i am trying to figure out where to put it .........
this is the time when most of all i really feel how small this place is....when i tear it apart to clean or reorganize......the 'tear it apart' part is the killer here
there isn't any room to tear it apart
oye

well i think the stove is finally serious about waking up,.......and i need some coffee
i should post pictures of something for yous
but i didn't take the picture of the amazing blue sky yesterday......totally amazing shade of blue
so you'll all have to forgive me

oye
vi