Family Quest for a Simple Life: February 2014

So, as if 4 inches of snow was not enough it snowed several more times that week. I think that at one point we had from 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground. One day we were below 0 degrees and another day we stayed around 0 degrees. When the heat wave hit and we made it up to 24 degrees, we celebrated and the whole family played in the snow. We were starting to get cabin fever and at one point had not went into town for 7 days. Fortunately, we were stocked up on supplies and did not lose power or water due to frozen pipes. This winter is one of the worst on record since the 1800s. So much for global warming.

Daddy filming, mommy pushing Stevie off a cliff, Hannah playing and Stevie just having fun

Kat and kids making a snowman

Stevie named him Snowflake, Hannah named him Olaf after the movie Frozen

Stumpy's Tree Service delivered $80 worth of White Oak

Hannah is ready for any emergencies that might arise

Ready..... Aim........

FIRE!!!!!!!!!

Super model Hannah just styling around the house, she has been getting dressed by herself for a while now.

It is Feb 6th 2014 at 8pm. Stevie suggested that we cook supper on our wood stove to save electricity. Kat and I had purchased the stove to offset our heating costs and to be a backup for heating and cooking in the event of a power outage. She took Stevie up on his offer and scrambled up some egg in just a few minutes. This stove top could easily cook a whole meal. We were quite impressed with its heating and cooking potential.

Well, it is 11pm and we just put a log in the wood stove to hold us over until the morning. We had a full day yesterday working on the rental on top of the hill and will be back on it tomorrow. Kat is in the kitchen doing some late night cleaning and I am catching up the blog. We talked with mom today and everything seems to be going good down there. Each day we add things to our checklist for our trip to Florida/Europe coming up in March and we accomplish other tasks that need to be done before we leave. We will miss this place while on our once in a lifetime vacation.

It has been a while since I have had a chance to update the blog. Kat has been carrying the brunt of that while I have been doing outside chores. This entry starts on Jan. 21st, a couple of days after the last entry. We had several days of snow during this week. We had recently purchased a wood stove to help heat the house and have an emergency back up heating source in case we lost power. The heat pump that our home currently uses does not work well if the temperature goes below 35 degrees.

The first two or three days we got about 4 inches of snow.