busy weekend

we had a busy enough weekend. Showed some houses yesterday afternoon and again this evening.

Today Kris took our old queen size mattress and box-spring into Jamie and Julie's. They've been using an old double bed we bought Jamie about 7 years ago. I think they'll like the newer pillow-top queen size. They moved into their 2 bedroom apartment last week - no fun for Jamie lugging stuff up 3 flights of stairs.

Although it is quite mild (for November) we saw a couple of deer around the house today. In fact, Rick walked into the living room to find one starring in through the window! We'll have to keep a camera handy!

Last week we picked up a used pellet milll - this will enable us to make our own pellets to burn in the pellet stove - the only way to go!!! I don't know if Rick will get it up and running to make many pellets before the winter, but next year we plan to make our own. Apparently one can make them out of paper, leaves, sawdust etc. Sawdust isn't too hard to come by as there are several lumber mills out here and our neighbour has a lot of it in his barn - and paper and leaves - well that's just lieing all over the place! We're hoping to make at least half or more of our own pellets next summer.

The pellet stove is working out very well - we don't have it running full time - just putting it on low in the evening to run at night - generally, we shut it down during the day - but as it gets colder, I'm sure we'll have it going all the time.

Last week was Halloween and we had about 25 - 30 trick or treaters - we're still eating left-over candy and chips! hahaha - we still decorate the house for the kids - they always look for my giant pumpkin - quite visible from the road.