It has been cold and dreary outside for the last few days. Rained again last night (three days in a row), but today is just overcast and very windy. Temperature has been hanging around 40 for the last several hours, and my space heaters are blazing without interruption. I’m still toying with the idea of getting a kerosene heater at some point this winter. I think it’d be a real help in the living room.
Christmas itself was a rather quiet day for me – and no, I’m not complaining at all. I did some more cleaning for much of the day and then started building a cathouse for my deck cats. With the rain and cold, I think they can probably use a warm, dry place; and the litter-box cover that one or two of them had been sleeping under was letting a lot of water in.
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| The newest cathouse in Duluth. |
Late on the afternoon of the 25th, I went over to Jenny’s place and had a lasagna dinner with her and her folks. Picked up several bottles of beer (Christmas and birthday presents) while there, and then came home and went to bed.
Yesterday, I finished up the cathouse and got it set up on the deck. As of this afternoon, a number of the kitties have shown interest in it, but none have actually made it a home yet. Ungrateful little bastards.
Should you be wondering, the cathouse was also a way for me to begin cleaning out the garage. I’ve got a bunch of scrap wood and other various junk lying around in there, and was able to use a lot of it to put the house together. Along with about 1/3 of the wood, I cleared out a number of garden kneeling pads – which I’ve never used – some rags, and some nylon tenting material that I’ve been hanging on to for God knows what reasons.
While building the thing, I started taking a close look at the layout of the garage and am slowly formulating an idea to put in a big workbench area along the back wall. Currently, that space is taken up by an old desk that Dad built, 4 or 5 wire shelves, and about 8 milk boxes. I’m quite certain that there’s plenty of room for me to put in a full-length bench, under either cabinets or shelves, and have a decent place to play around building things while still allowing two cars to park there.
Today has been devoted mainly to coding the GBB library page, doing some laundry, thinking about doing dishes, and wondering if I’m going to go out to play some trivia tonight. Oh yeah – I paid some bills, too.
No wonder I’ve been depressed all day.
TWD