FLASH!! My phone has not been working since Friday evening. I am in the process of changing phones and service providers. We are switching to Net10. It will save us a quite a bit of money. The down side is that it appears that their service is even worse than Verizon's. I called them Friday morning to "port" my old number over to them. Friday evening my Verizon phone quit working but my Net10 phone was still not working Saturday morning. After talking to them three times Saturday it ended up that they have to send me a new SIM card to get the phone working. It was working fine but they screwed something up when they ported the number over. I won't get the new SIM until Thursday or Friday, they wouldn't send it via overnight mail. It is kind of funny. I went years without a cell phone, in fact I didn't want one even after they were popular and reasonably inexpensive. Now I consider a huge inconvenience to be without one. (Kathy's new phone works fine, they had no trouble porting her number to her new phone.)
It is a beautiful day here today. Temperature is 50. Kathy and I are a little under the weather but we have still be out getting some fresh air. Lydia has had a cold and I think she gave it to us. We stayed home from church because we didn't want to take a chance that we would pass the cold along to others.
I split and stacked some more wood yesterday morning, for maybe 90 minutes. It started sprinkling and I was glad to quit. We didn't get any significant rain it just drizzled, on and off, for the remainder of the day.
Andy sold his Civic yesterday. Prior to the sale he was driving it into Jeff, with the potential buyer, and it quit. I towed him back home. It didn't have any spark. The guy ended up buying it anyway, at a significantly reduced price. The buyer and a friend came out late in the evening, put a different distributor on it and it started. They still put it on a tow dolly to haul it away.
This morning I stacked some of the wood I split yesterday. I also hauled enough wood from the shed out back, to the building over the boiler, to last for several days. I have enough wood by the boiler to last for at least a week but I'm trying to get the building filled back up. I restacked the wood that was in it and burned up all the crappy wood. I want to fill it back up with full lengths (22-29" long) of good wood. I'm also going through the wood in the building out back, trying to burn up all the crappy stuff first.
This afternoon I cut down a couple of small trees. They were next to the driveway and kind of in the way. Almost every piece of the smaller one bled sap from the cut ends. I can hardly believe that there is sap up in trees in mid January. They are in the wood shed now waiting to be stacked up. They will provide a few days heat next winter.
Kelsey left for Washington DC about an hour ago. She and several other Ott ladies will board a charter bus in St. Louis and then on to DC. They are going to participate in the March for Life Rally on the 21st.
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