One Long White Week

Well in my last post I mentioned our heater wasn't working - That night it wasn't working at all - Tuesday morning when we got up it was 50 in the house - Brrrrrrrr - felt bad for the boys - their paw pads and ears were so cold - tried to keep them warm as best as I could - My husband called the HVAC company and got them to move up the appointment to noon that day.  Well around 2:30 they showed up.  You will never believe what was the cause of the heater shutting down!  It was candles!   He showed us the filter (something my husband didn't check because 3 weeks prior he had just changed the filter - a fact since he writes the date on it and knows when he did it) Anyway the filter was solid black.  The HVAC guy said "Do you smoke a lot in the house?" - No we do not smoke, and then he said "Do you burn a lot of candles", and  just this past week I have been burning a candle on a daily basis - for about 4 days in the past week I was burning this one candle I had (it smelled so good - forgot the brand but it comes in a yellowware crock).  I guess this one was particularly smokey?  Who knows - but the heater (we have all electric in the house) shut down to avoid the motor burning up since the filter was totally clogged.  Well that was a $95 lesson (cost just to have them just show up at your door).  No more burning candles for long periods of time for me.   We did ask him if we had changed the filter would he have had to come out - apparently yes, to re-set the system.  Well all I can say is we are all toasty warm now and everyone is happy again!

Here's one little guy that loves to sit in my lap while I'm hooking or on the computer so we were able to keep each other warm (Matter of fact my legs are numb right now as he's in my lap and Riley is pressed into my side taking a bath!)

The big topic of conversation this week has been the weather - We got all that snow last weekend and then got hit again Tuesday night.  Wednesday the skies were gray all day with the white stuff coming down full force most of the day and night - There was no way to keep up with the shoveling, we tried but gave up!  so on Thursday was the big dig out in the neighborhood  - I don't think anything was lost - i think everyone finally undercovered their garbage cans and their cars - The neighborhood looks funny with mountains and mountains of snow and little habi-trails for a car to get in and out!  I am just so happy we never lost power. Here's a pic of my deck  - the previous post I had a pic from the previous snow over the weekend - - well all that snow was cleared off - this is this Wednesday's snowfall - it started to fall like before but then crashed - so no cool "curving!

 Spent most of the week watching movies and hooking and cooking!  First time in a long time I made dinner every night of the week!   So also spent a lot of time doing dishes - One night we had stuffed pork chops, another Eggplant Lasagne, another Shrimp Scampi, another Grilled Chicken, and so on - at least I got out on Monday to go grocery shopping and stocked up on all fresh veggies and stuff before the storm!  

Here's some pics of some of the mats I was making - I was hoping to get all this hooked and take with me on Thursday to Grant Street to bind but of course with the weather I wasn't able to get out there! I was bummed - I wanted to go.  Anyway decided to do whatever - i have so many leftover woolie worms that I want to use up - and refuse to cut any more wool until i get these under control - so I didn't even draw anything - just sat and started hooking. 

I figured these are a good size to put on the back of toilet, or use on a window sill or whatever, and also made some mug rugs (bad pic - colors are off - Hope to have better pics after I finish (bind) them. 

Right now i have a piece of linen on my frame that I'm just doing complete hit and miss - Might use it as a bathroom mat in front of sink.  

I'll leave you with a pic of Miles - he was sitting on my lap and  pestering for my lunch yesterday (soup -he loves soup) - We always call him "the paw" - you will only see a paw come up to the table searching for something to grab!  Anyway there was a piece from the linen hanging off the frame so i grabbed it and wrapped it around his ears!  As you can tell from that mug I was getting the hairy eyeball!

Have a great weekend!