Finally Monday!
What a crazy busy weekend. Brent's and my weekends are busier than the weekdays. Monday is Brent's day off, so I take that for my resting day too. I think we are going to go "Christmas shopping" online today and figure out what to buy for everyone so we can spread out the expense and not buy everything the last week before Christmas and break our budget.
We went to a friend's house for dinner on Saturday. Previously we would go out for dinner with a big group of friends on Saturday night after church, and then go out with the same group on Sunday after church. So now we're making an effort to go to each other's houses instead to save us all some cash. It was a lot of fun. Next week Brent and I are hosting, and I think I will make lasagna.
Another friend told us that the canvas on his camping chair had ripped and he was going to throw it away, so I offered to sew it for him, but he said we could just keep it. Free stuff is cool.
The days are getting colder here. It has been in the mid-50s during the day and dropping to low 40s at night. There was frost on the ground the other morning. We only first turned on our heater last night and set it at 60F so it wouldn’t get too frigid. Then I turned it off in the morning. The days have been sunny, so we open the curtains on our big picture window and it lets a lot of heat in. Yesterday by the time the sun went down it was 70F in the living room - very comfortable. But when the sun finally disappeared, we could really feel the temperature drop.
Winterization Day Three
- Brought up winter clothes from the basement
- Changed our heater filter. Evidentally we should be doing this every 1-3 months - we haven't changed it the entire two years we have lived here! I had no idea that we were supposed to! The old filter was about an inch thick with dust and crap (not to mention the hole from when the cat fell down the heater vent and tried to chew his way out through the filter). It's no wonder that Brent's allergies acted up so violently when we turned the heater on.
We went to a friend's house for dinner on Saturday. Previously we would go out for dinner with a big group of friends on Saturday night after church, and then go out with the same group on Sunday after church. So now we're making an effort to go to each other's houses instead to save us all some cash. It was a lot of fun. Next week Brent and I are hosting, and I think I will make lasagna.
Another friend told us that the canvas on his camping chair had ripped and he was going to throw it away, so I offered to sew it for him, but he said we could just keep it. Free stuff is cool.
The days are getting colder here. It has been in the mid-50s during the day and dropping to low 40s at night. There was frost on the ground the other morning. We only first turned on our heater last night and set it at 60F so it wouldn’t get too frigid. Then I turned it off in the morning. The days have been sunny, so we open the curtains on our big picture window and it lets a lot of heat in. Yesterday by the time the sun went down it was 70F in the living room - very comfortable. But when the sun finally disappeared, we could really feel the temperature drop.
Winterization Day Three
- Brought up winter clothes from the basement
- Changed our heater filter. Evidentally we should be doing this every 1-3 months - we haven't changed it the entire two years we have lived here! I had no idea that we were supposed to! The old filter was about an inch thick with dust and crap (not to mention the hole from when the cat fell down the heater vent and tried to chew his way out through the filter). It's no wonder that Brent's allergies acted up so violently when we turned the heater on.
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