Dull Witted Nitwit

That's me.  Somehow -25 degrees this morning has turned me into a sleepy, thoughtless bore. I couldn't think of anything to say yesterday either. Sometimes its just plain hard to write about anything of value or interest. Teapot kept busy all weekend and Daughter #1 was involved with the annual craft fair. Daughter #2 and I stayed at home. She was nursing a sore throat and I was nursing a new scarf.

I found some yarn on Friday the was a lovely variegated but somewhat coarse fibre.... it would make a good scarf for on the outside of a jacket. I also found an interesting spiral scarf pattern in a book that I took out from the public library on Knit Night... I started knitting on Friday but by Saturday afternoon I knew it sucked. So I raveled it back. Daughter #2 said it looked like genetically modified lettuce!! That just made me want to rid myself of it altogether.... then yesterday morning I got up really early and googled scarf patterns and found this one...

Mine is not going to be exactly like this but close.... My colours are not moving from one shade to the next so well, mine has a lot more green and mine will have a blue trim... but quite honestly it is looking pretty good! At least so far....

Still, I feel rather like a dull witted nitwit. And it is cold.... brrr.

Teapot got down under the house since we wanted to deal with the problem of the crawl space before the really cold temperatures come.  Teapot's intention was to add to the insulation down there and then he discovered that there is very little insulation in some places and there were spots where you could actually see day light through some pretty severe cracks. (Not concrete cracks just cracks between the boards).  I figured there was a problem with the crawl space when we had the pump freeze up last year. Teapot did his best to fix the problem then, but this year he did more. With extra insulation and a can of expanding foam, Teapot spent most of Saturday afternoon under the house filling cracks and adding insulation in areas where it needed extra. We will see if it will make a big difference.... but we hope it will. Meanwhile he has dealt with the big hole under thebtub in the downstairs bathroom. Yes, there was a big hole there because of the plumbing for the old shower that used to be in there. When the tub went in the bathroom it covered the hole but not totally. It was left so that the new plumbing could be put in for the tub....  It was never sealed like it had been when the shower was there because the tub was a different shape. With the new insulation that Teapot put there, the bathroom is not cold enough to freeze the buns off a brass monkey from cold air seeping up from the crawl space.

We are no closer to building a shelter for Dreamer now than we were last week which was our intention.  With the insulation taking a whole lot longer than we expected, it just didn't get done. Maybe next weekend if the temps don't drop to -40 degrees, we will get Dreamer's shelter built.

We have agreed that there is another job that is necessary this year. Our old black cat Midnite is getting old old old.... and he still goes out at night... with the temperatures dipping down so low we are thinking that it might be necessary to build him a little shelter too.  I wish he would go into the barn with the sheep but since there is a large door that doesn't really get closed (that way the sheep can come and go as they want) it doesn't really provide a whole lot of warmth.... just shelter. We either have to put a cat door into the workshop or we have to build him a cat house. I am not pushing Teapot to get that one done since there's so much other stuff to be finished.... I may have to keep the wee bugger in on the nights that are -25 or so...

Anyway, I am waiting for the contractor.... hopefully this morning.... he did say that he would call me and give me two days to clear the sun room before he came.... but I have realized that he has my old phone number.... I will call him today... if he doesn't show up. Teapot is gone for the day..... very reluctantly... he did say he would like to stay home and have a warm morning with me and several nice cups of tea.... I like that idea... I wish he could have stayed home with me too.... oh well, the best thing about Christmas is the fact that he will get to stay home with me.... for two whole weeks... I'm really looking forward to that.....

There's something cozy about a cold winter day with nothing to do but knit.... hope you're having a nice winter too....

I have to go check my head now.... I can't believe I said I like winter......!!!!