Halloween Has Hit My House

I finally brought all my decorations (Christmas and Halloween) to the new house and started decorating!  I love Halloween and autumn, but unfortunately the election is overshadowing it this year.  Rather than curling up on the couch with Monsterfest...I'll be knocking on doors and making phone calls this Saturday through Tuesday.  UGH!

At least I can bask in these little moments...my Halloween vignettes.  And in another month, I'll be decorating for CHRISTMAS!!  I really can't wait for that!  I'm already planning where to put the tree, how to set things up, spotting good trees to clip Christmas boughs from on my walks with Sadie across the snowmobile trail...

I've even started my shopping!  Actually, Dad is already done and Mum...well we're getting there with Mum

Pretty new doors

From a house front that had only one crappy storm door that was so off kilter that bugs and wind could come flying into the house...

to two pretty new storm doors with screens that unroll when you slide the top window down.

These doors are already nice.  Mine lets so much light into my living room! It's awesome!

Roasty Toasty

It’s difficult for me to carve out a little time every other October – my job involves campaign work every two years and almost every night is occupied for the entire month of October and into the very beginning of November.

Despite my lack quality time with my home, the pellet stove was finally installed!  It took me a day to figure out how to regulate it, so of course that night it was 65 degrees outside and 80 inside!!  I was sweating so bad, it felt like August…in Texas!  We got a mini heat wave two days later and I couldn’t use it at all, much to my dismay.  But on Sunday, I woke up to 36 degree Maine weather and frost on the roofs – I can’t tell you how quickly I loaded up the pellets and turned that baby on!  When I came back from walking the dog, it was so toasty in the house. 

After 33 years of stacking and hauling wood, loading a wood stove that took FOREVER to heat up, this pellet stove was WORTH the $1300! 

Within 5 minutes, I have heat!  And it’s a constant heat.  I like knowing that it can be turned off…completely…and it cools off within a half hour...as in cool to the touch.  None of this wet wood/dry wood, all of a sudden it catches and it’s 180 degrees in the house!   

I love it! Absolutely and completely...now I just need to trim that carpet and order up some more pellets!