Well the weather has taken a turn for winter. Its suppose to start raining tonight and turn to snow. Suppose to get 1-2 inches. If it does snow, will put a picture on the blog for those of you that haven't seen snow in awhile. My grandaughters can't wait to see snow. Hope they do fly up in Jan. better chance of some snow then.
This has not been a fun weekend. Last night we discovered that the furnace wasn't working when it was 65 degree's in the house and the thermastate was set on 70! There is a separate unit on the wall in the dining room that we fired off last night (it doesn't heat the whole house) and our bedroom was cold. Brrrr! Luckily, we have an electric blanket on the bed. The guy came today and checked it out and said that the maker of the unit extended the warrenty from 5 to 10 years on the unit because of some part that rusts out (now the part is being made of stainless still instead of galvanized steel). Well the 10 years is up sept of next year thank God. So instead of $1,100 repair its $350! Merry Christmas! So he has to order the part which should come by Thurs. so I guess we will wear extra clothing etc. till then. We have propane heat and I don't know if this other unit will use up the propane faster than if we used the regular furnace. And to think I wanted to remove this extra unit that is attached to the wall in the dining area! Definately will stay now. Guess the former owner put this in case there was a power outage or something so they would still have heat. They do have ice storms up here. We may want to invest in a couple of electric heaters!
We are ready for Christmas but its so weird being alone at Christmas. Its always been the kids and later the grandchildren. I have been baking cookies to give to our neigbor. I had to bake extra today as Chuck was eating up the cookies! Ha! I made lemon bars, peanut butter cookies, chocolate chip and pumpkin bread. I made a batch of what was suppose to be peanut butter cookies and forgot to put in the peanut butter! Guess it was a Sr. moment! Smile! Chuck is eating them says they are like sugar cookies just have brown sugar as well as white sugar in them. Today is a good day for soup so I made a big pot of vegetable beef soup and a pot of beef stew. I can freeze whats left of the vegetable soup for another time. We will probably eat soup tomorrow as well. Its hard to get used to cooking for two after cooking for 5 or more all the time!
Summer 2017
About Us
- Kitcat
- I'm Cathy, a 67 year old retired Navy wife. Spent 24 years as a Navy wife until my husband retired after 27 years of service. We traveled all over from Washington D.C., to Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Maartin, Martinique, Japan and Korea. We re-located to this beautiful state of TN from Central FL. We live in the mountains on 5 acres with our 10 cats (5 indoor). I'm Chuck, the Other Half of the equation. I'm a 68 y/o sailor at heart. While in the Navy I was a Cryptologic Tech (Intel type). My most memorable tours of duty were in Submarines (Scorpion, Skipjack, Triton & Ray), as Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Deputy Director National Security Agency (RADM C.F. Clark), and my last tour as Operations Chief at NSGA Homestead, Fl during Hurricane Andrew. It was a good time to retire. We have been looking for this home since 1965 and thank the good Lord that we're finally here.
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