Quiet, cold night…

I’m feeling very sleepy tonight, and I still have workout to do. It’s too cold for the middle third of November. I’ve been burning fires in the fireplace the last several nights. I pulled two heavy old wooden crates out of my crawl space and cleaned them out for wood boxes. These crates have been in the crawl space since I moved in and they’re probably 50+ years old. They make great wood boxes. I can fill them up with firewood in advance, and completely eliminate the mess I used to have when I just hauled in a few log carriers full and dumped them on a tarp for the evening. Man, I have actual wood boxes–I guess I’ve turned into a serious wood burner.

I went shopping today, and that seems to have worn me out. I never did my shopping errands on Monday, which is my usual day to take care of everything. I did the laundry, but then I had to be here for the chimney guy, and I never went out. On Tuesday I went to the transfer station, but I still didn’t want to do any shopping. It was so great to have no more big “extracurricular” projects on my plate in the immediate future. I was finally getting to backlogged e-mail and publishing work, and I didn’t want to stop. All I wanted to do was work at my computer. Then this cold snap clamped down, with sub-freezing temperatures and gusty winds, and I didn’t even want to stick my nose outside. Yesterday, the high never went above the freezing mark. But I was running out of groceries–and, I need to start Christmas shopping.

So, today, I finally went up to Nashua. I got some Christmas shopping done, and I got groceries. I needed food for a potluck dish for the Youth group on Sunday, and for Thanksgiving with my dad. I got a turkey for 48 cents a pound! I had to go to two JoAnn Fabric stores for a pattern because it was out of stock at the first one, so I drove further than I planned.

All that shopping must have worn me out, because I’ve been a vegetable since I got home. *sigh*

Cerridwen borrowed my coat. I mean, come on–could you have moved her?