Life in the White House

I've been busy the past couple of nights! I've had complaints that I don't post enough pictures of myself (Miss :-P). Here's one of me (can you tell I'm tired)! That's right, I have a scarf on. Unfortunately when I get home from work the house is typically around 57* (or colder), it takes a while for the wood furnace to get burning hot enough to heat the house. Yea, our wood furnace...it isn't one of those big outside jobs that you fill twice a day. Ours has to be filled every couple of hours.

This is how we heat our house during the winter: In order for it to work, one has to continually be throwing wood into it...it's constantly hungry! To feed it we have to bring food into the basement. Remember that big pile of logs and cut pieces of wood? Remember how we stacked it....guess what?! We get to move it AGAIN! That's right...all of that wood stacked outside of course has be to be brought into the house to burn.

Every night I come home from work and load the wagon full of 20-30 pieces of wood and throw it into the basement. I must say though...I love my energy bills. When we heat the house exclusively with the natural gas, our bills are typically around $500/month, that's with keeping the house set at 65 in the evenings, 55 during the day, and 55 at night. Cost of heating with the wood furnace: $600 for a load of logs, which typically lasts 1 winter. I told Matt that he's lucky to have a wife who is willing to do this work ;-)

I've been working on my Christmas wall hangings. Here's what I got so far:

I still have to stitch around all of the appliqués and make the Christmas tree and snowman block, as well as one other block. Now I'm undecided though. I was going to do one block that said "Be Merry" on it, but now I'm thinking maybe a block with an angel would be nice: Whatcha think?