Freeze Frame

It's COLD here. It got down below freezing last night, which means that it was below freezing in our house. Pretty much all day. It warmed up outside, but not in here. It's supposed to get down into the teens tonight, which means it'll be even more fun around the rat-hole tomorrow. Thing is, I think it'll actually be WARMER when we knock out the exterior walls for reframing. The other bummer is that with the time change, it gets dark even earlier. Considering we ripped out all the electrical in the dining room yesterday, we only have a couple of places to run lights from. *sigh* We're currently living in that scene in E.T. where all the plastic's up all over the place. We've plasticked off every doorway we can, with the baseboard heater running in the nook to keep our plants from freezing (the baseboard smells like burning rat turds, which is lovely, as I'm sure you can imagine).

I think we're going to just eat all our meals in the bedroom, which DOES have heat. It's a balmy 60 degrees in there! No more of this wearing a stocking cap while eating breakfast. Oy.

But enough of my whining. We made a little bit of progress this weekend. We took out the cross-beams from the "ceiling" and started to saw out the plywood over what used to probably be a sun porch. It turns out the side of our roof is resting on the plywood up there. Lovely. Oh well, we'll fix that when we reframe that wall. We also did another dump run- 700 lbs of goodness. Yay! My brother's coming over Thanksgiving, and we're trying to convince him to stay with us over his winter break. He can make many, many dump runs. Hee hee.

So the countdown is on for Thanksgiving. Will we get windows in? Walls in? Electricity? Drywall? And, dare I say it, heat? Only time will tell. We might have some pretty miserable guests.