Does it look cold here? That's because it is! Sofia and I went out and investigated the frost on the porch windows Tuesday morning. It was pretty with the morning light shining through it; I had fun taking a few pictures.
The sparrows were huddled in the lilac bush outside the window.
Winter sunrises will be nice once we get into the new house -- look how much light we'll get in those south windows!
Sunrise through a lilac branch.
Just an artsy frost picture. The color was more impressive in person.... Dave has been working steadily on wiring. The upstairs is nearly finished; Dave just needs to wire the smoke detectors up there. I think then we're down to wiring the kitchen and bathroom, and a few other details here and there that need finishing or changing.
It's good that the wiring is nearly finished. It's starting to get seriously cold here, and every time the temperature drops into the single digits, Dave gets nervous about the above-ground pipes freezing. They are inside the house, but it's still unheated when he's not out there working in it. And even then there's nothing to stop the heat from going out the vents in the roof in the addition. Once the wiring is done, Dave can get busy putting up insulation -- which will not only help the pipe-freezing worry, but will make it much more comfortable for Dave when he's working in there.
Dave and I plotted out where the appliances in the kitchen would go with chalk on the floor last night. Everything will fit where we'd planned it, but with not a whole lot of inches to spare, and we have to get the skinnier versions of the refrigerator and the dishwasher. Oh, well -- it's probably what I would have picked, anyway. We will have a large freezer in the addition to help with food storage as well, so hopefully the 30-inch fridge will be OK, and I think the 18-inch dishwasher will be adequate.
... It really is nice to be able to go into the house and really envision where everything is going to be! It's calming, really -- even if we're standing in the midst of construction mess, it's nice to think of actually living in that space. And it's so interesting to be creating something new on the old homeplace -- outside the door the farm is just as it's always been in my memory, while inside the door is something completely new, more like the design books that I've been reading than the granary it used to be.
... I've been working on planning Sofia's birthday party on Saturday, and now it looks like it might be done in by the weather! Hmph. Well, we'll see. Sometimes weathermen are wrong.
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