Good Morning!

It’s another cloudy morning here in Port Loring. We did see a touch of sunshine yesterday, but that was about it. A touch. We also had a lot of heavy rain through the day. Today will be much the same as yesterday, other than we could see a few flakes of the white stuff. I won’t mention what it is really called, as I don’t want to encourage it too much. The temperature waking up was sitting at 4.3 C | 39.74 F. It will warm up a bit, but not much as the day moves forward. Highway 522 is bare and dry this morning, which will make travelling pretty good.

On another note, we still aren’t burning any wood in our wood furnace yet. As if we did, the house would be too warm. So until it gets colder, we use our oil furnace. Speaking about heat sources. For the past five years, the Powers that Be have been trying to switch everyone over to gas and propane along with electricity. Now that they have done so, the price has almost doubled. It’s easy enough to say that they are doing this to save the environment, but that is the furthest thing from the truth as in all honesty, none of the other countries are doing anything … which cancels out anything we do. If anything, these other countries are producing more coal and things than they ever were. Unless everyone does their share, nothing will change. My opinion on the subject is we here in Canada should be looking at ways of making what we have, like gas and oil and coal, more efficient, so we can use them. There are ways, but some folks believe that their way is the only way, and work very hard at pushing it on others. We also need to be building more refineries here in Canada, so we can make our own gas and oil instead of relying on others, as we are doing now. If we did that, our country would be more self efficient, and we would be able to drop the price of our gas and oil down to half of what it is now, which would eliminate a lot of our problems we are having today. Improve what we have now, not do away with it. All that is happening by not using oil and gasoline is making other countries use more and get rich. They are laughing at us. Anyway, not sure how I got on that subject. Oh, ya, I mentioned that we haven’t turned on our wood furnace yet. Ha ha.

With that, I am off for a bowl of oatmeal with a piece of toast and then see what the day has in store. Stay safe, there is a lot of sickness going around these days. Might be more if these so-called Powers that Be keep raising the prices of things. No one will be able to eat or have a place to get out of the cold this winter. In all my years, I haven’t seen our world be in such despair.

In Closing I Would Like To Wish You Well!

Well … actually, not much is taking place in our small community these days. Overnight we had some heavy downpours, along with some high winds thrown in for good measure. Waking up, the temperature was sitting at5.8 C | 42.44 F. It won’t warm up much more than it is right now. The sun will be a lazy riser this morning, if it shows itself at all. Looking ahead we could see up to 1 inch of wet snow on Tuesday and following that on Thursday we could see another 2-4 inches of the wet white stuff. Kind of depends on what the temperature will be. Highway 522 is wet and quiet traffic wise these days. The hunters aren’t having a good year, that’s for sure. But as I said before, the critters are happy.

On another note, I decided to tackle cleaning up my woodworking shop yesterday. It took me most of the day. Least now when I get the urge I can do some work out there. I enjoy my shop when I am feeling good. I do have a few projects that I want to make through the winter for our store come spring. After I got my shop cleaned up, I took it easy for the remainder of the day.

Today I might do some more straightening of things in the shop, and maybe get to working on a coffee table that I have in mind. It will be a one of a kind project. It should keep me out of trouble for a while.
With that, I am off for some pancakes my lovely wife is preparing for me, and will then see what the day has in store. You never know what might take place. I start off in one direction and end up going in another. Keeps life interesting, to say the least.

In Closing I Would Like To Wish You Well!