Oh what a nice, quiet day it has been.  My husband and daughter have spent the day away doing things for other people.  They took a truck load of firewood to my grandmother, chopped up some firewood for us, went to my mother-in-law’s house to repair/replace some frozen/busted water pipes.  I have had the house to myself and Minnie and I have been cuddling under the covers together.

Minnie

I got very clever this evening.  I had accidentally let the fire die down until is was nothing but coals.  I put some more wood on it thinking it would start back up.  It did not.  In the past when we would go camping, I would just blow on the hot coals and the fire would start back up.  Seeing as I have asthma now, I do not have the lung capacity to do that anymore.  I got the air mattress pump and pointed the nozzle towards the hot coals and pumped the handle.  The fire started right back up and there was no work involved.  Yay me!