Jan 19th - Sunrise

Sunrise Saturday morning.

The sun is just peeking over the hilltop in this photo. Our main floor level is probably about 50 feet down from the top of the hill, and at least 100 feet above the "valley" behind us. Our sunrise is about 10 minutes late while we wait for the sun to get high enough to get over the hill top.

Our weather has been mild enough that we have went through two days and two nights burning only trash wood that I found, and split, out back. Some of the stuff I've been burning is worse that the stuff I burned on the burn pile during the summer, but there is still plenty to get rid of. I've split up another 3-4 buckets full. I left it where I split it still have to move it from the back up to the boiler. (I love my tractor <grin>)

Today's high is supposed to be 58 and then the weather turns colder, down to a low of 8 forecast for Monday night. If we get into single digits it will be the coldest night of this winter. I won't be burning much trash wood that night.

Yesterday was our volunteer afternoon at the Habitat Re-Store. Nothing to exciting. We, those of us on the "loading dock" were reasonably busy, but not as busy as we had been the past two weeks. After taking some things back to the scrap metal pile, and having to walk across a section of ice covered concrete to get to the pile, I spent about an hour chipping away ice. The area is all concrete but the sun only hits the "working" side of the building briefly. There was over an inch of ice where one of the corner downspouts weeps water onto the concrete. The ice extended for about 40' away from the building. A lot of it was "rotten" and wasn't to hard to break up, some of it was still pretty solid. With the warm temps today everything should dry out until we get more precipitation. Last week the transmission went out the Habitat truck, $1,700. I saw there electric bill, for the Re-Store complex, $700 for last month (electric heat). They do have expenses to keep the place going even though almost all the labor is volunteer.

Today Kathy leaves for Lebanon. She is going back to volunteer at Teen Challenge for a week or so. They are short on staff right now so she volunteered to go there and help them out.

I plan on going to the pro 2nd Amendment rally at the capital today. Over 600 people have said they were going to attend and another 400 said they might attend. Not to bad since there has been virtually no publicity. I found out from my brother in Michigan.

Hope you all have/had a great day. May God bless you and yours.