I know what that means, and in the summer if I was having to use a wood cookstove everyday I wouldn’t like it so much. We’d be eating a lot of salads!! But this time of year, it’s so nice! With two stoves going the house gets nice and comfortable in no time at all.
View from my seat at the island.
Happily watching banana pancakes cook. It’s much faster than watching aspen trees change color! The kettle is on the next-to-hot-spot, for a pot of tea when breakfast is over. The view out the window above the stove tells the story. The peak of the garage roof is completely white.
Winter is here.
Another half inch of snow fell on the sidewalk after Dan shoveled. We now have about five inches of snow on the ground.
We moved the Polaris Ranger, with the snowplow in place, out of the garage. It is a ground hog, in that it hogs a mess of ground in the garage, and makes driving past it a little more tedious than necessary. Without it’s presence, the garage is so roomy and getting in and out is very simple. Dan plowed the driveway yesterday, the first time this winter. The snow is light and fluffy because it has been cold. Dan put a tarp over the top to keep more of the snow out of the seat. We could buy a cabin enclosure for this machine with a plastic windshield, but the cost is pretty high and a tarp with bungee cords is cheap!
Definitely a winter sky, the clouds are a flat gray which promises snow. Or threatens, I suppose. Depends on whether or not you like snow.
Can’t see very far to the west and north; it’s snowing up there or the clouds are lower, it’s hard to say which it is; probably both. Cold air is going to come down out of Canada tonight. Tonight they are forecasting below zero in Farenheit which is cold no matter what thermometer you’re using. We’ll probably have to make something else on the cookstove tomorrow morning since it will be back in service. Maybe apple pancakes just for a change of pace. And we’ll roast some vegetables in the oven. It’s such a versatile appliance, can’t imagine living without it. Except in the summer.