Windy City

I think that the people of Chicago are wrong. Wrong! Delta has definitely been the windy city the past couple days. My electric meter is working over time due to the contiual spot light on all things King. What am I talking about? My motion light. It's now running about 12 hours a day. I think it's time to flip a switch. Oy.



We are losing light at rapid speed. It's hard to say when we actually reach dark. I would guess between 7:15-7:30 p.m. Though with the gray days the light seems to disappear even quicker. The mornings are harder to gauge because the towering trees that surround our house. While the sun comes up, it takes a little bit longer to make it over my trees, so I'm not actually seeing sun/gray days until about 8:30 a.m. I promise to pay better attention in the coming days and report some facts.



The temperatures have been nice. Nice enough for me to leave my coat at home, though I've regretted it a morning or two. We are having temps in the mid-40's, which to my understanding are lovely days, and abnormal? The rumor mill is churning and I've heard we're supposed to stay nice into next week, even reaching temps as high as 60. Phew! I will have to get out my sunscreen!!

Brent and Ches have been hunting the woods high and low for grouse. We have few in our freezer, and I'm sure they'll be nice and tasty when we cook them up. Brent's also been duck hunting. Much to Dad's surprise we do have ducks left here, and each morning I wake to a cacophony of shots vibrating off the shores of Clearwater Lake. It's a highly hunted area...I guess.

In his adventures through the woods he's noticing a lot of moose tracks. It's great to know that they're around, but I'm a little bummed that they haven't visited the yard more. It's also comforting to know that moose usually keep their distance when bear are present. Hopefully that means our bulkier friends have kept moving out of the buffet, er, my yard.

I'm antsy, working on new things, and scheming, er coming up with new things to occupy my time. I'd share, but I really don't want to jinx anything, so I'll fill you in if and when, those things become truth.

Hoping you are all well.

Prayers be with my Grandma Blanche as she heals from a back procedure she had done earlier this week. It sounds like everything went well and she is healing at home with her family.

Thoughts and prayers with Brent's family as they grieve the loss of Grandma Helen and lay her to rest beside Grandpa this weekend in South Dakota. We will be with you in thought and prayer.
Have a happy day!

Putting my shopping shoes on

Hello Family and Friends,

Well, well, well. We are finally finding ourselves ready to go and do a little shopping. First item on the list is a bed. B-E-D. I've been googling and mapquesting to my heart's content, and hopefully we'll find a really good deal. The second item is going to be some clothes storage. Right now we have everything in tubs and it's nearly impossible to see and choose clothing. Which leads to a very boring wardrobe.

The weather has been pretty good. Today was lovely and sunny and the wind was down again. Ches and I had a lovely afternoon walk, but I'm still a little chicken to go too far from home. My biggest thing is that I'm just not sure how Ches will react. We'll see in time, I'm sure.

Brent scheduled our first halibut fishing charter today. He booked it through Boeing and we'll be going in June. It's a long time to wait, but I'm really, really excited about it. We will travel to Anchorage and we have asked Adam and Jennifer to join us. We're just waiting to hear if Jennifer will be around.

The most exciting thing that has been happening is that I keep getting stuck in the house. That makes me sound intelligent doesn't it? Lol. It's not that I can't open the door. It's that the weather keeps making the house shift so the door wedges itself closed. Earlier in the week I broke a blood vessel in my hand, today I was smarter due to experience and managed to free myself in minutes. It's pretty frustrating though.

The days are going well. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to Granite View Sports to pick up all of Brent's cold weather gear. He picked part of it out, and it's waiting there, but he has more money to spend. I think I might pick up one or two things for the house. They have a cute little gift shop attached that Mom would love. (wink, wink)

So, after getting our first electric bill I think I need to spend more time reading and less time watching television. HOLY SMOKE! I nearly fell over. Not pretty. We might have to start using more candle light, and we're fairly conservative as it is. That will be an adjustment. In addition to charging us for electricity they charge us $.03852 per kwh for a fuel charge. Ours came to $91.00. Yep, now can you imagine what our bill is?? Uff da. Oh well.

Have a happy day!