Winter

Ive gotta admit, i was pretty nervous about the winter here. The stress of buying firewood when we re broke, will the house be warm enough? What about the roof?
Well, the roofs not done. We got as far as throwing our rubber liner on top, and thats it. Every week or two we have to get up there and pull it back in place. The wind here has been crazy. Theres still no insulation on it either, so we re losing a lot of heat through the roof. But, with the new woodstove, it seems like it might be ok. Despite the drips every now and again. We re relatively warm and dry. Roof in the spring? Sounds reasonable to me.
I was also worried about how feasable it would be to heat the house all the time. With our old, small stove, it needed wood every three or four hours. Every time we would go out for a bit, we'd come home to a cold damp house. The fire would always go out overnight as well, and itd take forever to get it startes again in the mornings. Our new stove, however, is awesome. I can leave it on slow burn for almost twelve hours without restoking it. It heats the place perfectly, even with all the insulation. So far, at least. Weve had a minus 7 with the windchill as our coldest day so far, so we'll see what the winter brings.
Its really lovely here in the winter actually. Calm and quiet. Beautiful snowy outside, toasty inside. We've been drinking lots of tea these past few weeks. Its so much more soothing than coffee. Ive also been painting more lately, which i love. And i just bought myself a banjo, so ive been mesmerized with that. Writing is new again with a fresh instrument. I have one new song to add to my three other banjo songs. Im thinking of releasing a banjo ep. Six songs maybe.
Its nice sometimes to break your own mold. Especially when its one youve cast yourself.